A new project being developed by Barack Obama’s Defense Department may allow federal agents to monitor you, without your knowledge, and determine whether you have committed thoughtcrime.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), a division of the Defense Department, has launched a program entitled “Narrative Networks,” which seeks to measure how beliefs and propaganda affect the human mind and motivate people to oppose the U.S. government’s interests. The Pentagon hopes this will allow the feds to identify those who have accepted enemy propaganda, then target them with opposing messages. At present, the target is those who live in other countries, but it holds great potential dangers if or when it is applied to American citizens.
The Narrative Networks undertaking will first examine how certain kinds of stories affect the brain’s neurochemistry, then attempt to “detect narrative influence.” Social scientists are tasked with a goal to “take narratives and make them quantitatively analyzable.” For instance, how do civilians react to the news (true or false) that U.S. soldiers bombed a village of civilians? Are terrorist recruits more likely to be swayed by hearing American troops are infidels? Once they measure how a believing, pro-terrorist’s brain works, they seek to determine who has fallen victim to these anti-American narratives — and prepare for action.
Once the project’s researchers discover how “narratives” affect the mind and how to determine those who have accepted such memes, the second phase of the project will create “prototype technologies” to detect a person’s inner beliefs by measuring such physical stimuli as eye dilation, pulse rate, or MRI signals — without the subject ever knowing (s)he was being monitored. “Efforts that rely solely on standoff/non-invasive/non-detectable sensors are highly encouraged,” DARPA notes.
According to the project, analysis by properly trained social scientists will lead to the “prevention of negative behavioral outcomes…and generation of positive behavioral outcomes, such as building trust.”
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has been busily exploring this theme, holding a workshop in April entitled “Neurobiology of Narratives.” Wired magazine reports DARPA neuroscientists continue to research “how convincing narratives impact identity-related judgments, such as recognizing and trusting the storyteller as part of your cultural or ‘in’ group.” In other words, how can they convince foreigners on the battlefield the Americans are “one of them” and on their side?
The idea of detecting those guilty of thoughtcrime in enemy countries may or may not be worthwhile. But what will happen when the program is turned on American citizens? After all, they, too, are potential terrorists.
A researcher familiar with the experiment said, “The government is already trying to control the message, so why not have the science to do it in a systematic way?”
Why would a reasonable person object to the government employing “non-detectable sensors” to detect a person’s inner beliefs? Why would anyone balk at the Obama administration labeling some of its own citizens, perhaps erroneously, as likely terrorists and targeting them for corrective action, which sounds remarkably like reeduction?
The program’s implementation abroad gives little room for hope. The Pentagon’s attempt to utilize this information on the ground against our enemies — the Human Terrain System, which embeds social scientists in combat units — has been marked by allegations of incompetence. “Thirty to 40 percent of the people were not qualified,” according to its leader for four years, Col. Steve Fondacaro (Ret.). That means hundreds of people paid by your tax dollars.
In the hands of the Obama administration, the technology sounds positively chilling. This administration is obsessed with “conspiracy theories,” building on Regulatory Czar Cass Sunstein‘s oddball proposals to tax or prohibit the dissemination of theories of which the government disapproves. Once scientists are able to determine which sectors of the brain signal belief in such theories, the government’s efforts to “cognitively infiltrate” its opposition takes on a more biologically ominous meaning.
Such undetectable software would be an ideal tool for the TSA (motto: “Dominate. Intimidate. Control.”). Its mobile Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response (VIPR) units could unleash its use at bus stations or public events. Tennessee Department of Safety & Homeland Security Commissioner Bill Gibbons justified establishing seven VIPR stations across the Volunteer State by saying, “Where is a terrorist more apt to be found? Not these days on an airplane, more likely on the interstate.”
But according to the Department of Homeland Security, domestic terrorists are most apt to be found in churches, pro-life groups, and VA hospitals.
How long will it be before the federal government decides vigilance against terrorism requires it to monitor its citizens for potential cognitive treason? How long before schoolchildren are monitored to see if they have been exposed to unapproved “narratives” in their homes? How will the government steer its message toward such people?
The potential answers are chilling.
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The research itself is unconstitutional and an invasion of privacy!!! When will it end and where?? Enslavement of the masses or anialation??? Something has got to be done and soon!! It may all ready be to late!!! I pray that it is not!! GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!
This sounds like a Nazi scheme!!!
And here I thought only God could moniter my thoughts!!!!
They can monitor your thoughts, they can manipulate your behavior. when these news come out, that means it’s been declassified, and is being used already in US.
The answer to 1984 is 1776…. Vote Ron Paul!
Sounds like something the Anti-Christ would use.
All of these tactics are setting up for a monitoring of the people. It will have all the “people” in place, when the larger purpose is unveiled when the “frog in the water” has reached the right temperature and will not jump out of the pot. This has been in the works in other countries for years and, although expressed differently in each country, the principles of One World Government are being laid. Even Mr Obama’s seeming inability to handle properly any crisis is part of the plan. Keeping hidden all his information that all other presidents have given the public access to is the case in point. He is a public figure, put there by the majority of the people. They have a right to know. If he has nothing to hide then why all the secrecy. Now he wants to know about all of us what he will not reveal about himself. It is time to do all that can be legally done to depose the dictator before he cancels elections by a created crisis. Or is that what the wall street protestors are all about.
Ones thoughts are like dreams Jumbled. NOT RELIABLE , AS PART MAYBE OF A STORY A PERSON WANTS TO WRITE, PART MAY BE A POEM WITH POETIC LICENSE , SORT OF LIKE VOID OF SOMETHING, JUST A JUMBLED PILE OF WORDS, TO BECOME THE POEM OR SONG. PERHAPS THE THOUGHTS FROM MANY BOOKS ONE HAS READ, AND IT IS UNJUST, THE THOUGHT OF IT HAPPENING TO ANYONE, CAUSES ME TO FEEL SICK ALL OVER. AND I BELIEV IT WOULD BE AGAINST THE LAW. RON PAUL 2012. Save America. Please !!!!!
When fantasy turns to reality then the end of freedom is near…and the end of civilization as we know it,,,this is right out of a movie that was made a while ago..cant remember the name…They would arrest people becasue they thought about doing a crime…..orweellean reality…..next will be total dictatoralship and we all become slaves to the gov….just one mans opinion
Their reasons for engaging in this are several. If our government were to launch this in the U.S., it could be for the purpose of targeting anyone opposing them in the political arena. Another reason would be so that they could declare Law Abiding Citizens incompetent enough to own and possess firearms, therefore making it illegal for such ownership and in turn, reduce the number against them like what they have been doing to our troops coming home after being wounded either physically or mentally, and more than likely-Both. They could wind up placing us in prisons, work camps or death camps if they find that we think differently than them. They don’t want anyone opposing them for any reason which means they want a complete dictatorship in America.
This is going to come to a head one day, I fear, that will kick off another armed confrontation, another Revolution to retake our rights and freedoms. There will be, in turn, massive loss of life because both sides will never be willing to compromise on any issues the other side has. One wants full and complete power over the population where the other side wants total freedom. Total freedom is the right choice and we have everything to lose if we don’t succeed in wining our quest to remain free.
We are a proud and honorable nation, at least we used to be but there are still millions of us who want to see our country returned to its original reason for being. We were never designed to live in bondage the way our current administration would like to place us into.
We must prevail or we will NOT have a future nor will our children or grandchildren. We wouldn’t be around to keep them free or at least help them get a foothold in life.
We are Americans dam it, we have to do what we have to do to keep us safe from the tyranny that keeps coming around and getting in our faces. We don’t have to put up with an out of control government, especially a person declaring himself to be president of our country. He has and is committing more crimes against us and no one is doing anything about it.
I have tried my best to get our U.S. Senators to act on those crimes and they just turn their heads and pretend that nothing is wrong. They are all weak cowards who would rather bury their heads in the sand instead of tackling the problems we face.
Those morons who are participating in Occupy Wall Street, if they would refocus their attention on the real problems, we could join them and get our current admin. brought up on charges then reverse everything he has done.
But, until that time happens, things will continue as usual and continue to get worse. We are headed for complete destruction of everything we have ever worked for. Our country is being raped and pillaged by our current admin and we are letting him get away with it.
It looks like the chilling schenario you paint is here.
There are no “government interests” beyond those of WE THE PEOPLE.
I WILL defend my life, freedom, property, and God-Given Rights against any and all, thought it cost me my life – it will cost theirs too.