It's a crisp, fall, late afternoon and as you turn onto your street, you can see your family playing and raking leaves on your front lawn down the block.
Suddenly you hear a thunk as your door locks engage. Your car starts to accelerate wildly and your brakes are unresponsive as you mash your foot down on the pedal. Your car begins to weave all over the road as you fight the steering wheel. Panic looms as your house closes in through the windshield. Your family looks up confused and then frightened just moments before your vehicle plows over the curb, across your driveway and smashes into your wife and children.
In shock you try to crawl out of the car to comfort the bloody and broken bodies strewn about the yard, but the seat belt will not disengage. You scramble to retrieve your cell phone and dial 911, but the police are already on the way - notified of the accident before it actually happened - to arrest you for the intentional murder of your family.
This is the nightmare scenario suggested by Mike Adams, editor of Natural News, in his article about the mandatory black boxes being installed in all vehicles in America.
One item not specifically mentioned by Mr. Adams' is that 96% of all new cars already have the black boxes, and by the year 2015, that number will increase to 100%. Also, Mr. Adams makes no note of airplane black boxes that record voice transmissions and cockpit conversations, and that such capabilities could easily be built into the black boxes being installed in private vehicles.
In typical government doublespeak, the bill that would make the black boxes law is called the "Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act." A controversial provision of the bill would tie in biometric face-recognition, iris scan, and transdermal sensor technology (already used to prevent an inebriated person from driving by disabling the automobile) to search IRS and law enforcement databases for unpaid taxes, parking tickets, and outstanding warrants before the onboard computer would allow the car to start.
Other concerns of potential abuse are voiced by Doug McKelway at Fox News as he points out that "an insurer [could] examine a customer’s pattern of speeding to withdraw coverage or increase premiums, or worse, manipulate speed data to evade an accident pay-out."
With rumors and conspiracy theories swirling in the aftermath of alternative news investigative journalist Michael Hastings' fiery demise, concerns are justified.
Of course, the public has been prepared for accepting the new devices through such systems as General Motors' OnStar services.
In the story dated Sunday, October 27, 2013, Mike Adams reports the following:
The federal government is working on a plan that would mandate black box tracking devices be installed in every vehicle, with real-time uploading of vehicle location, speed and mileage to government authorities. This Orwellian technology is already technically feasible and will be promoted as a way to increase "highway safety" while boosting government revenues from mileage taxation.
"The devices, which track every mile a motorist drives and transmit that information to bureaucrats, are at the center of a controversial attempt in Washington and state planning offices to overhaul the outdated system for funding America's major roads," reports the LA Times.
"[Congress is] exploring how, over the next decade, they can move to a system in which drivers pay per mile of road they roll over. Thousands of motorists have already taken the black boxes, some of which have GPS monitoring, for a test drive."
There are three hugely important realizations to glean from all this:
#1) The government will be able to track your vehicle in real-time. This would of course allow the government to track and map all your driving trips, know when you are home or away from home, establish patterns of your activity such as when you pick up kids from school or go grocery shopping, know if you attend political rallies, activist meetings, gun ranges or other destinations the government characterizes as being linked to "domestic terrorism."
The government could then use this information to target you for punitive tax audits, surprise armed raids, government shakedowns or other nefarious schemes that have now been revealed as routine extortion activities carried out by a criminal government.
#2) The Government can turn EVERY road into a toll road. Both state and federal governments absolutely love the idea of taxing you for every mile you drive.
Of course, governments already indirectly tax driving by taxing fuel. If you wanted to tax driving, taxing fuel is actually a very efficient way to do it. But the rise of electric vehicles is starting to freak out governments because they don't have a way to tax the actual road mileage of vehicles that don't burn gasoline or diesel.
Because governments inherently believe that all your money already belongs to them, they perceive electric vehicles as a source of "lost revenues." These lost revenues diminish the power and wealth of government while also limiting the amount of money that can be awarded to wealthy donors via no-bid contracts.
As a result, governments are drooling over the idea of using vehicle black boxes to tax you for every mile you drive, effectively turning every road into a toll road. Watch for this to start out as a very small tax to be more easily embraced by the public (maybe a penny per mile) and then get ratcheted up to $1, $2, or even $5 per mile in some areas.
#3) Black boxes don't have to be only one-way communication devices. They can also receive commands from government authorities such as commands to:
• Shut down your vehicle and disengage the starter, effectively stranding you with no way to drive.
• Lock you inside your own vehicle, trapping you until "authorities" arrive.
• Cause your car to drive off a cliff as a method of assassinating political enemies, then blaming it on their "bad driving."
• Cause your vehicle to run over pedestrians, thereby earning you a prison sentence for "vehicular manslaughter." (Yet another way to dispatch political enemies.)
• Through two-way black boxes, the government can even use coordinated vehicle control to do things like build a highway roadblock from 10 cars, cause a massive 50-car accident, or even drive a stream of heavy trucks through the walls of a family residence in an effort to kill a journalist.
It's no joke that two-way black boxes allow the government to turn your vehicle into a weapon while simultaneously compromising your freedom of movement. Through black boxes, governments can transform your car -- once a symbol of freedom -- into a rolling prison cage which may be used to imprison you, harm you or harm others.
Imagine, too, what happens when hackers seize control of the government's vehicle control system. They could then turn cars against each other and, with all the drivers trapped inside, turn America's roadways into a deadly demolition derby....
[One final note: Law enforcement officials refuse to confirm whether the black box from Michael Hastings' car was recovered .]
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