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07/01/2003 Archived Entry: "'This is really creepy.'"
'This is really creepy.'
A Blah3 reader, under condition of anonymity, responded to the post about DARPA's future weapons plans. Creepy, indeed.
I have a link you should check out on the DARPA website regarding your post on the bombs that can be dropped from space. I just got a BAA (Broad Agency Announcement) from DARPA forwarded to me by my project manager at work about three weeks ago, regarding another area that is most likely related to the one on your blog. We (my company) already produces GPS guided bomb kits, so keep this in mind as you read the paragraph of what they're looking for. Here's the URL.It hit me after I saw your post that what they're really looking for is a global system of taking out terrorists. Combine those micro-GPS tags with a space smart bomb, and boom! instant assassination machine. Just like the one in the movie, Real Genius, but without the high-powered chemical particle beam. The low-duty factor combined with the burst transmission capabilities and low-power means that they are looking to develop what amounts to invisible tracking tags. Put one of those devices in someone's car, or on their clothes, or personal effects, with the proffered scenario being a suspected terrorist, and now you can track his movements without the suspect detecting it. Combined with a satellite smart bombs that you posted, and you can take him/her out anytime, regardless of location. That might be okay, but with the governments mission creep of any tactic or device in their arsenal, this amounts to an Orwellian scenario with the possibility of those tags on all of us. Have you ever see the Phillip K. Dick movie Impostor, with Gary Sinise, and Madeline Stowe? They had similar devices. This is really creepy. I just had to say something to you about it.
Mind you, this guy works for a company that already deals in stuff along these lines, and it's creeping him out. If you ain't scared yet, you're paying too much attention to Laci Peterson.
Thanks to the reader who sent this information. I appreciate it.
Replies: 3 people speak up
Good God. This can't be America anymore. It's like some movie about a crazy alternate reality America.
Thanks for the heads up on this story.
Posted by Jason @ 07/01/2003 06:33 PM NY
Holy Jeebus H. Christos. What the hell is going on in this world? I WAS going to have an alcohol-free day.....
Posted by Vicki @ 07/02/2003 10:25 AM NY
Another weapon to employ against the American citizen. Go to the Smirking Chimp and read the article on another DARPA project to track your movements by tracking your vehicle. These guys have been looking at where Stalin and Hitler failed and filling the tech holes before they completely pull the rug out from under us, because those tags will never get on the terrorists. Hell we can't find them now (Anyone checked the Lincoln bedroom lately to see if Osama is there?) so you can't tag what you can't find.
Posted by Alumbrados @ 07/02/2003 11:29 PM NY
