[Lady Justice 08] - Lady Justice and the Watchers by Robert Thornhill

Author:Robert Thornhill [Thornhill, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 1475174098
Amazon: B007SOWFE0
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2012-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

That evening, I stopped by the Professor’s apartment before heading upstairs to Maggie. I was anxious to share the day’s events with him.

“Walt, to what do I owe the pleasure of this visit?”

I told him about apprehending the Frankowitz purse-snatchers with the aid of the credit card chip.

“Ahhh, yes, another giant leap forward for law enforcement and another giant step back for personal privacy.”

“Care to explain?”

“Once again, it’s not the fact that the technology is there. You saw today how it could be used for a good cause.

“It all boils down to the fact that our government has the power to monitor virtually everything in our lives without even telling us.

“Not only does your department use the information, but so does the Federal Government.

“Law enforcement agencies can subpoena records from both the credit card issuer and the merchant to find out the time, date and place of a credit card purchase -- information that may be helpful in determining the last known location of a crime victim or suspect. The Department of Homeland Security also tracks terrorist activities by monitoring certain purchases.

“The act itself is called ‘Hotwatch’ and in a nutshell means that the government can watch in real time, the activity of credit card transactions, airline and hotel reservations, debit card transactions, cell phone calls and rental car activities of its own citizens.

“The Feds don’t have to have a warrant. In fact, the preferred way to execute a ‘Hotwatch’ is to bypass the protections of the Fourth Amendment and instead use a subpoena to order credit card issuers and other retailers to provide detailed, real time information about the financial moves of the person being watched. A judge will then issue a non-disclosure order, which insures that the target will never know they’re being watched.”

“Holy cow!”

“Indeed!”

Then I remembered Doris Frankowitzs’ comment about the ‘Mark of the Beast’.

I told the Professor what she had said.

“So do you know anything about that?”

“I can tell you what I know from the secular point of view, but you might want to talk to a man of the cloth to get the religious interpretation.”

“Well then, let’s start with the secular.”

“In the last few days we’ve been talking about all the ways the government has to keep track of each of us, OnStar in our cars, GPS chips in our phones, electronic chips in our credit cards, sophisticated data mining systems filtering our emails, faxes and phone calls and so forth.”

I nodded, “It’s a pretty extensive list all right.”

“That’s just the tip of the ice burg. We haven’t even mentioned biochips yet.”

“Bio what?”

“They are devices that are quietly being implanted into humans. For instance, at least six million medical devices such as artificial body parts, breast implants, chin implants and so forth are being implanted in people each year.

“Most of these medical devices are carrying a hidden guest --- a biochip.

“In 1993, the Food and Drug Administration passed the Safe Medical Devices Registration Act, requiring that all artificial body implants have ‘implanted’ identification --- the biochip.

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