DARPA Technology Could Aid Oppression of America
Electronic eyes keep enemies, citizens well-behaved
WHIT PISTOL
One of these in every town square.
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Fascists everywhere were delighted when news of the Pentagon’s DARPA technology sailed predictably beneath the radar when announced to the news media Wednesday. America, believed to be fully absorbed in the release of Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde and the death of screen legend Katherine Hepburn, hit the snooze alarm on the report, unconcerned what it could mean for antiquated notions such as privacy and government boundaries.
DARPA, the geekish acronym for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, proudly announced the creation of urban surveillance technology this Wednesday purported necessary in the defense of the country. The defensive surveillance equipment will protect our country by being placed in other countries, where U.S. troops will be found. Pentagon defense plans project the U.S. being completely defendable by 2020, when U.S. troops will be stationed in every country throughout the world except the U.S.
The key component of the surveillance technology, built for urban battlegrounds, lies in the computer software so complex it can identify vehicles by size, shape, color, and license plate number, and can even identify vehicle passengers’ faces. Add-ons to the program are being designed to identify the titles of books in vehicles and the contents of passenger wallets, should the need ever suddenly pop up.
“Privacy nuts,” previously referred to as “Americans” prior to 2001, challenge the necessity of such equipment and worry the domestic implications are extremely dangerous.
“It’s all fine and good to say this technology is only going to be used on foreigners,” said privacy watchdog and University of South Hampton, Cambridge custodian Rutherford Mays, “but it only takes another big movie weekend for the government to sneak this technology into major cities and start using it for ‘our own safety.’ It is not enough that rights to search and seizure have been unconstitutionally bypassed in the name of this War on Terror, or that our computers are being turned into high-tech tagging tools. Now they’re developing laser eyes than can pierce your walls and read the dirty magazines under your mattress. And that really pisses me off, because I didn’t pay all that money to share those magazines with government laser eye technology.”
According to Pentagon spokesperson Col. Gary Gawain, the issue has already been addressed in previous memos concerning the production of the technology from no less a source than former Central Command Gen. Tommy “Frankie” Franks. In short? Frankie says relax.
“All of this fuss over a ‘what if’ situation is pretty silly,” said Gawain, straightening a pipe in his mouth and adjusting a smoking jacket he inexplicably wore to the press meeting. “Technically, a bomb could go off tomorrow and kill everyone in the country and the technology would never be set up—wouldn’t you feel like quite the ass then? What you’re looking for is a definitive declaration that the surveillance equipment developed by DARPA will never be used against American citizens for political reasons or personal vendettas, and I think it’s safe to assure you completely this technology will never be set up domestically before 2004. Possibly even later, the designs are a little sketchy. Now don’t you feel befuddled?”
Gawain could not respond to further questions, as he was cackling loudly as he disappeared down a trap door leading who knows where.
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