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Airport Security Cameras Are Only Part of a Growing Spy Web For The Surveillance State.

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In September 2008, Dallas/Ft. Worth airport awarded a $4.98 million contract to gradually add 1,975 airport security cameras.

1,590 were already in place prior to the that time so the total will reach approximately 3,500 cameras.

Prior to September 11, 2001 that airport had only 250 surveillance cameras installed.

It is not only at Dallas/Ft. Worth that airport surveillance has mushroomed and it is not only in quantity that the camera networks have evolved.

Many of these systems are wired for offsight monitoring via the internet.

That is to say they are or will soon be directly linked to the computer databanks of the Homeland Security domestic spy network run by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

While this may sound like a joke it is very real.

”The bureau is expected to announce in coming days the awarding of a $1 billion, 10-year contract to help create the database that will compile an array of biometric information — from palm prints to eye scans.”

–CNN.com, February 4, 2008.

In the summer of 2008, then President George W. Bush issued a National Security Directive ordering federal agencies to begin pooling all biometric data stored and to continue the collection for this federal database that could serve as the spy-nal column for an Orwellian-like surveillance system throughout the country.

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US and UK Rank with China as Top Surveillance States

Growing airport security cameras and the increased surveillance society is a blue chip business around the globe.

Great Britain has 4.2 million cameras installed in its territory. That is 1 for every 14 inhabitants. The average Lodoner is photographed as many as 300 times per day.

Together with Russia, the US and China, the UK is ranked among the largest surveillance states in the world according to the London-based Privacy International.

But the UK’s cameras have not resulted in the stopping of a single terrorist. So why then is this same system being slowly but surely constructed in the US as well?

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Spy Web Extending

Airport security cameras and cameras being installed on streets in US cities that can use face recognition to rapidly identify individuals goes hand in hand with other technology that can make the surveillance web constant.

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology, placed in passports and slated for being contained in a national identification system, tags the holder with codes that can quickly be compared with databases or can contain biometric data such as fingerprints as well as other data on the holder.

Unlike cameras this technology can be read without a line of sight with radio wave readers of the data.

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Constitutional Rights on Hold

Airport security cameras and other border security measures are undeniably necessary.

However it has already reached an extreme in a country where current laws eliminate Constitutional protections.

The State, and in particular all agencies operating under the President, are endowed with powers similar to martial law.

Americans willingly sacrificed their freedoms after 9/11. That was almost a decade ago and freedoms have only been further contracted.

Will Americans now sit idly by while the surveillance state consolidates to permanently strip them of their rights?

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