self-herding sheep:

Posted on February 11, 2012 by KG

‘Technology allowing police and other authorities to identify the location of callers may become mandatory for all cellphones in New Zealand in a move to improve the 111 emergency calling system.
…The location of callers using mobile phones was not independently available at present, the review said.
“This is a significant public safety issue since calls from mobile phones comprise the majority of 111 calls and are steadily increasing.”
…..It noted the technology was costly but there was some potential to offset that through commercial applications such as advertising messages sent to shoppers’ phones as they passed particular shops….‘
Got it? What an elegant idea….tag the citizens with a tracking device, and make them pay for it themselves by selling the ability to target them with ads to the highest bidder.
And justify the whole filthy exercise by claiming it’s for their own safety.

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29 Responses to self-herding sheep:

  1. Andrei says:
    February 11, 2012 at 08:21

    “Significant safety issues” are very useful for increasing control and surveillance over the people.

    We are living in an Orwellian world where our “betters” are gathering power unto themselves for our own good you understand, “our betters” being all wise beneficent people with our best interests at heart.

    • Pascal says:
      February 11, 2012 at 18:33

      Yep. Once the authoritarians began using it and saw how easily they could get away with its use (AGWF is STILL ongoing despite all the revealed scamming and real scientific evidence), the Precautionary Principle started getting applied to every mole hill just on the outside chance it might grow into a mountain.

  2. KG says:
    February 11, 2012 at 08:28

    Yes indeed.
    On the subject of 111 calls, the incompetence of the operators has resulted in far, far more cockups than simple location problems. How about they address that problem first?
    Too hard? No money in it? Doesn’t increase State control?

    • Octagongrappler says:
      February 11, 2012 at 08:39

      Does anyone remember a movie called fortress? These robotic balls used to fly around and read people thoughts. If you thought something not approved by the state then you got punished.

      Not possible I know, but they may want to record all conversations in the future.

  3. KG says:
    February 11, 2012 at 08:44

    It’s an ever-tightening noose, and the reaction of the sheeple to it (when and if they even think about it, that is) is “I’m not breaking any laws, don’t intend to break any laws, so it doesn’t matter”.
    The problem with that, of course, is that governments and bureaucrats are writing new laws and regulations at such a rate that it’ll be impossible to go about what was once our lawful business without breaking some law or regulation. And whether we’re prosecuted or not becomes the gift of bureaucrats and the State’s minions.
    A man who is unsure of his legal position becomes infinitely malleable, a poor cowed creature creeping around hoping he won’t attract the attention of The Authorities.
    THAT IS NOT HOW FREE MEN LIVE.

  4. kowtow says:
    February 11, 2012 at 09:09

    “But it was all right,everything was all right,the struggle was finished.He had won the victory over himself.He loved Big brother.”

    These are the last 3 lines of 1984.

    • KG says:
      February 11, 2012 at 09:14

      And I’m willing to bet that not one teacher, not one student in NZ today has ever read that book, Kowtow, let alone knows who the hell George Orwell was….

  5. KG says:
    February 11, 2012 at 09:21

    The words “not independently available” are interesting too….

  6. mawm says:
    February 11, 2012 at 10:05

    So a cock-up by the police in sending a taxi to help Irena Asher, and problems with the exchange at Papatoetoe and the Telecom XT network has made the Communications Minister make these suggestions. How about fixing the source of the problems you silly bint! :evil:

    I like the bit where she wants to help people who are disorientated. :roll: What’s wrong with a map ………… or maybe she just doesn’t know how to read one? (Sound familiar? :mrgreen: )

    • KG says:
      February 11, 2012 at 10:11

      My lips are sealed… :lol:
      As for the silly bint…I suspect she is just following orders, ja?

      • Darin says:
        February 11, 2012 at 11:08

        We’ve been dealing with this for years here.It’s one time when the government should do the research and come up with a universal standard such as they did with 911,but they haven’t and today 11 years later we still do not have anything like a national system.So if you dial 911 here and you cannot tell the operator your location you may or may not be found depending on whether your particular service provider offers it or not.

        http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/dial-l-for-location

        There was another article stating that New York state had collected $260million in surcharges in just 7 years that was supposed to pay for the equipment,but instead was put into the states general fund and spend on everything else.Meanwhile people go on dying .

        • dondiego says:
          February 11, 2012 at 14:18

          I’ve worked in an industry where you had to memorise the route to work, in case it was you who had to direct the ambo’s in.
          With the possible exception of tourists, people should all know.
          As a child my mother had us rote-learn our address and phone number.
          Perhaps this common sense is now lost

          • KG says:
            February 11, 2012 at 14:35

            “Perhaps this common sense is now lost”
            Yes, it is. Killed by the welfare state and the mentality that “they” will take care of us.
            Legislate for idiots, and you will breed…idiots.

    • Just Another Richard says:
      February 11, 2012 at 11:10

      mawm, I’m not sure that it’s really the government ministers who actually come up with these schemes; given the general tendency of politicians to display a moribund intellect that would hardly challenge a box of rocks, I think the ideas and details are more likely those of the faceless Sir Humphries, ever eager for greater control over the lives of other people to guard their sinecures .

      As to map reading, personal experience would suggest that the female ability to multitask, seriously deteriorates under the stress of the female’s desire to indulge in an endless stream of verbal castigation towards any male of the species within audible range, especially one trapped in the confines of a sealed box traveling at any speed , thereby making a swift exit out of the question.

      • kowtow says:
        February 11, 2012 at 11:23

        Yeah, and who feeds the idea to Sir Humphrey? A cousin or in law who can get the contract. Don’t doubt it for a second.
        Cui bono?

      • mawm says:
        February 11, 2012 at 17:56

        J A R – it’s all these social science uni graduates who have to spend their lives proving their beliefs. Someone in the Ministry must have a spouse that marks their ‘doctorate’ thesis. :roll:

  7. KG says:
    February 11, 2012 at 11:47

    Yep. Always follow the money.

  8. mara says:
    February 11, 2012 at 18:07

    What a creepy concept, the authorities knowing where I am at all times. If I had a cellphone, which I don’t because I’m not a neurosurgeon on call and like at least the illusion of freedom, I would toss it before allowing such supervision and tracking. Sometimes I get lost on the roads, but guess what, I’ve always managed to get home all by myself. The politician who suggested this should hop in a car with Just Another Richard , head for the hills and keep driving until they both reach an understanding or become homicidal, whichever comes the sooner. :evil:

    • KG says:
      February 11, 2012 at 18:18

      I’m with you, Mara. To hell with being tracked by Big Brother.
      But privacy is almost a thing of the past, isn’t it? Young shop assistants are always amazed when I buy something and then refuse to give them my name and address ‘for the warranty”. I even had one say recently that in that case, she couldn’t process the sale!
      (and no, I wasn’t buying an RPG and a couple of nukes, just a printer.)

    • Just Another Richard says:
      February 11, 2012 at 22:33

      Mara, already done the head for the hills bit, as I really didn’t wish to be a homicidal wife beater…as I said “from personal experience” :sad:

      • Just Another Richard says:
        February 11, 2012 at 22:41

        Oh, and as for the trip to the hills with the politician. If those thar hills are beyond the reach of nice mister plod, then I think your wish of my becoming homicidal might indeed have some chance. Now, just where did I leave that length of rope :smile:

  9. KG says:
    February 12, 2012 at 00:37

    People will still go along with this crap, despite the fact that it’s demonstrably an underhanded ploy to keep tabs on what are supposedly free citizens.
    Years of indoctrination and the creeping influence of increased state power has made people into what I think of as “self-subjugating drones”.

  10. Cadwallader says:
    February 12, 2012 at 05:16

    They still haven’t the power to force us to buy/carry cell-phones so they’ll need to continue on the path to chip implants at birth. Pricks.
    (Personally my cell-phone remains in my car and turned off outside working hours and on holidays. The cursed things can be a tremendous convenience but can easily slip into being intrusive and unnecessary.)
    A universal tracking system would, I expect, be the wet dream of many a bureaucrat. I recall when credit cards became common and it was apparent a bank could track one’s journeys through the payments for petrol and motels etc.. This practice is no longer questioned, so, you are right, the sheeple would likely tolerate being tracked through their cell-phones.

  11. MK says:
    February 12, 2012 at 19:49

    It’s always cleverly packaged as being – for our safety.

    Whether their motivation is sincere or nefarious, the masses out there are always looking for more ways to do less and be responsible for less.

    • KG says:
      February 12, 2012 at 20:08

      I reckon you can’t go far wrong, MK if you assume that their motives are always nefarious.
      If not today, then certainly further down the track.
      Anything which relies on the goodwill of our masters not to be enforced/exploited will, sooner or later, be enforced or exploited.
      Subjugation’s arrow points one way only….

      • Pascal says:
        February 13, 2012 at 02:16

        “Incrementalism is a method of working by adding to a project using many small (often unplanned), incremental changes instead of a few (extensively planned) large jumps…” That’s from Wikipedia. The schemers through their PR branches may own the progressive label, but you know the road to tyranny over a once free people could never have been accomplished any other way but incrementally.

        I fear that makes me an incre-mental case for having allowed it to advance for so long without my speaking out sooner and actively seeking more supporters who also saw and said little.

        • KG says:
          February 13, 2012 at 05:58

          We’ve all been guilty of that, Pascal, to varying degrees.
          There’s no such thing as a trivial infringement on our liberties, and I’ve always believed that the small things are as worthwhile going to the barricades for as are the large.

        • Kris K says:
          February 13, 2012 at 07:39

          Yep, the ol’ frog in the pot being slowly brought to the boil.

          Of course those of us who point this out to the other ‘frogs’ get labelled as scare-mongers. And no doubt in the near future will be accused of inciting civil unrest, or worse, by our Marxist ‘elite’, and will be prosecuted accordingly.