"The welfare of humanity has always been the alibi of tyrants."

Christine Anderson MEP

I reported on my Substack recently about a citizen backlash in San Diego over that city’s plans to embed mass-surveillance technology along highways, at intersections, light poles, etc.

Substack -

https://leohohmann.substack.com/p/residents-push-back-against-smart

Edit -

I reported on June 28 on how the Atlanta airport in cooperation with Delta Airlines is offering specialized “hands free” and “card free” services to air passengers who agree to take a biometric digital ID driver’s license containing a facial scan. But I also discovered that American citizens are having their faces scanned by facial-recognition software, often without their permission, before they board international flights leaving not just Atlanta but many other U.S. airports.

https://leohohmann.com/2023/06/28/atlanta-airport-goes-full-dystopian-using-digital-facial-recognition-ids-fulfilling-klaus-schwabs-prophecy-that-humans-will-be-digitized-and-many-nations-will-adopt-chinas-very-attractive-mode/

From article -

These technology hubs will ultimately serve as the “brain” for individual smart cities and the broader smart-grid network linking cities and states together.

At its root, the TMCs are an intelligence-gathering operation implemented under the guise of traffic management.

The purpose is not to save lives but to control behavior and effectively cripple Americans’ longstanding freedom of movement.

The long-term plan is to entirely automate all transportation, using driverless cars, kill switches and social-credit scoring systems to define and limit the extent to which individuals are allowed to travel.

Essentially, all transportation will be public transportation.

If you own your car but some outside entity has the ability to disable it with a kill switch, do you really own it? No. You may hold the deed to the vehicle but you no longer have access to private transportation. Your freedom of mobility is now exercised at the pleasure of the state and its corporate (fascist) partners.

In fact, the Biden administration was able to include a clause in the 2021 infrastructure bill passed by Congress that requires all auto manufacturers to include a remote kill switch in every new vehicle that rolls off assembly lines starting in 2025.

Americans were told this bill was about restoring America’s roads and bridges, which is what most of us think about when we hear the word “infrastructure.” But this bill would have more accurately been called the “Digital Infrastructure Bill” because it had little to do with improving transportation and everything to do with installing and upgrading the smart-grid network.

All intersections, state and federal highways, bike paths, crosswalks, offices and office parks, walking paths, recreational parks, the workplace, even the home will become monitored territory.