WE WERE JUST WONDERING

Watching and Tracking YOU!

The word voyeur has its origins in French and means:  “one who looks.”  According to Wikipedia (which is not a credible academic source), voyeurism is the sexual interest in or practice of spying on people engaged in intimate behaviors, such as undressing, sexual activity, or other actions usually considered to be of a private nature. Espionage or spying involves a government or individual obtaining information that is considered secret or confidential without the permission of the holder of the information. Espionage is inherently clandestine, as it is taken for granted that it is unwelcome and, in many cases, illegal and punishable by law. It is a subset of intelligence gathering - which otherwise may be conducted from public sources and using perfectly legal and ethical means.

Funny, in a way, how something so private always seems to drift back to our government; but, our government is a voyeur nonetheless, pure and simple, which in a way is sad, but also necessary as any population grows beyond one’s capability to control it.

And so, we are WATCHED and tracked . . .

The first US Census (a methodology to collect data) began in 1790 and continued until 1840 and required every home to be visited.  From 1850 until 1930 the US Census takers broadened their base of questions to include all sorts of demographic information and the data that was collected in 1940 until now was developed by a Dr. Edwards W. Deming, a PhD Statistician.

About this same time, retail stores began collecting data on customers so that they could target their marketing approaches specifically to those whom they knew in advance had a strong propensity to purchase their product.  It did not take long before all commerce was being conducted this way whether it came from a local car dealer or restaurant or realtor or non-profit, such as a Church.

Once computers were introduced into the consumer marketplace and became affordable, the ability to collect data on American skyrocketed.  Not only could we collect data legitimately and legally but we could now “hack” into most any computer system or network and retrieve pretty much any data we wanted.

The popularity of the cell phone and the smart cell phone simply magnified (almost exponentially) our ability to monitor and track each other.  While most Americans pursue their daily lives almost innocently while the less fortunate are sent off to other parts of the world to fight wars (like Afghanistan and Iraq), the technology used by our soldiers is now coming home to be used on us.  And, like boiling frogs, we simply sit in pots of luke-warm water as those around us gradually turn up the heat on the stove.

But, it is a logical and an inevitable conclusion that the general public never seems to want to address because they are all too busy thinking about what they need or want and that is:  when a population grows beyond the ability of law enforcement to control in small ratio groups; then, law enforcement has no choice but to resort to other types of crowd control measures and methodologies.

Peeping Tom or Govt?

Our govt. is perverted.