FIGHT FO YA RIGHTS MON: Combatting Senior Citizen Oppression

The day has finally arrived people, we have now entered into full blow oppression. In the next step toward establishing a full police state, or county in this case, Westchester County Executive Andy Spano has introduced a new mobile tracking system for missing senior citizens with Alzheimer's' disease. This new program, innocuously titled, "Project Lifesaver," will give transmitter bracelets to 100 local seniors who suffer from Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia and are prone to wandering. Should the person become lost, county police officers can locate them using a radio signal transmitted from the bracelets. The County Government offers this description of the tracking system:

"A police officer walks slowly down the street holding out a rather primitive-looking wire contraption that looks like a large TV antenna. However, the equipment, which communicates using beep tones, actually uses very advanced technology to zero in on a person wearing one of the personalized bracelets. The bracelets can be located within a one-mile radius during a ground search. If the searching device is used in a helicopter, the radius extends up to five to seven miles."

The County already uses these tracking bracelets on kids with autism and Downe Syndrome. Supporters of this program make these tactics seem harmless, and even helpful, and the program is certainly designed to seem that way. But this is just one more step in the county government's effort to gain total control over the population. "The county police will maintain a database of all Project Lifesaver clients, their frequency code and other identifying information, including the photograph."

The government has already tested these tracking devices in 1,000 trials, and can locate their target within an average of 30 minutes. Within 30 minutes, this technology allows police to locate and apprehend anyone in their sights.

Westchester officials have also announced their intentions to expand this tracking program to other sectors of the population in 2009. I see the logic behind gaining this type of control over people, that much I will concede. We need to be able to locate and recover people at risk for going missing. Right now, it's the mentally ill. But don't we have a similarly vested and compelling interest in tracking criminals? How about sex offenders! Why not very young children? Actually, considering sex offenders interest in children, we would realistically need to put trackers on only one of these groups. The point is, Westchester is turning into a police-county.

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