The Federal Government is Funding Public School Surveillance Cameras

My daughter's high school was just equipped with Surveillance Cameras (woops, I think they're calling them "security cameras") through a grant called "Secure Our Schools Grant" from the United States Department of Justice.

And just when I thought THAT was bad enough, there is YET ANOTHER Federal grant that has students wearing frequency identification (RFID) tags around their necks throughout the school day!


http://newstandardnews.net/content/?action=show_item&itemid=2632

Feds to Fund Controversial School Surveillance
by Catherine Komp

In what some allege is a thinly veiled attempt to normalize surveillance, a federal agency is pumping more money into Big Brother programs that track students despite declining needs for school security.


Nov 29 - As debate over government surveillance rages in adult society, the US Department of Justice is quietly enticing school districts to implement controversial technologies that monitor and track students. Critics fear these efforts will normalize electronic surveillance at an early age, conditioning young people to accept privacy violations while creating a market for companies that develop and sell surveillance systems.

A few of the nation’s schools are already running pilot programs to monitor students’ movements using radio frequency identification (RFID). The highly controversial programs, implemented in the name of student protection, see pupils wearing tags around their necks and submitting themselves to electronic scanning as they enter and leave school property. Now, a new federal grant could lure more districts into using these or similar technologies.

Don't have to worry about THOSE students attacking the twin towers, now. Don't these DAs know that this death-of-a-thousand-cuts trashing of America is going to, eventually, create a revolutionary backlash?

my son's middle school last summer. My son is PISSED!

Just one question:

They will think this is normal by the time they get out into the real world. Maybe even cameras in the home, you know in case a burgler or someone breaks in.

I wish I were joking.

it's conditioning

Remember the scene at the shopping center? :scared: