- The Last Enemy Part 2 of 5 I hope everyone got the opportunity to see this tonight or will get the opportunity to see this soon. However, I do have some comments to make re surveillance technology and dramatisation.
1. The Last Enemy Part 2 of 5. This second part of this portrayal of the surveillance society about to succumb officially to "T.I.A" or Total Information Awareness reveals that T.I.A will interlock all databases to track a person second-by-second throughout life and analyse the potential for future behaviour. Although the drama was sustained by old stuff surveillance technology, it did provide some useful tense moments, instant brutality and threat that reflected the miscreant character of those involved.
The Last Enemy Part 2 of 5
Sunday 24 February
9:00pm - 10:00pm
BBC1 London & South East
In the Radio Times online entry for The Last Enemy Alison Graham complains and quite accurately states: "I have no idea what's going on, but I suspect it's something Spooks would dispense with in a third of the time, and with a lot more style." This is a fascinating statement when set against the current reality of surveillance. It has both a truth and a fallacy in it.
The programme itself shows the protagonist, a mathematician (Numb3rs?) who is in a world that he does not understand, leading trackers by means of a tracking device evidently put in the heel of a shoe. It seems that he checks into a hotel after the murder of a microbiologist and receptionist where he is left unconscious. His fear keeps him away from home as does his former girlfriend now a minister pushing T.I.A who is currently debating and defending its merits in Parliament. No sooner does he arrive in his hotel than room service shows up to turn down his bed and take his shoes for shining. He refuses each but gets them anyway. The room service guy looks like a heavy out of central casting.
Does anyone remember the days when shoes could be left outside one's hotel room door only to find them all polished and actually there in the morning? I came close to this experience once while stationed in Trabzon, Turkey, in 1964 where we paid $1 per month each for such a service that included cleaning the rooms, halls and latrines as well as a laundry service.
Our communications intelligence services around-the-clock were too valuable to have us distracted by this routine military activity. Anyway, I lived in a five-man room designed for three with everyone working a different shift. There was always someone going to work, going to sleep, staying awake, sleeping or on a three-day break. There was enough distraction as it was, and we had to concentrate on the job. It was nice to have these chores done for us.
Yes, this was the USAF Security Service where there were Turks employed by us who shined our shoes during the day if we left them outside our doors in the morning. They cleaned the rooms and everything else as well as doing our laundry. I only lost five shirts once after I refused to buy aspirin for one of the guys in the laundry. I didn't want to deal in the Black Market and paid the penalty: five shirts went missing. The laundry officer couldn't find my shirts anywhere as anticipated. No aspirin, no shirtee, you get it GI?
I do not believe that in today's world one could expect to find one's shoes ever again after putting them outside the hotel room door at night unless one were staying in an Mafia run hotel where they protected guests from petty crime only to fleece them in bigger ways. Sure enough, after the protagonist spent the night elsewhere involuntarily and barefoot, he returned finding his shoes outside his door all shined and ready to go. Anybody with any savvy in today's world would have looked immediately for a device of some sort planted in the heel of a shoe, but not this intrepid mathematician.
He went on to lead the other trackers to every where he went until he was captured again, stripped and forced to put on other clothes while all his clothes and shoes were dumped leaving the trackers to watch a stationary blip. At least one begins to understand that there are two tracking groups at work in this potentially T.I.A world. In the real world, today's world, they would have used brainwave monitoring and feedback surveillance technology to track and monitor all his activity. There would be no need for a GPS device in the heel of his shoe which squished on the sound track as he first walked away with his clean shoes. Dead give away that.
He would have been completely tracked and monitored without ever knowing it. When they dumped his clothes, he would still have been tracked. Those using this brainwave monitoring surveillance would have been able to see through this eyes and hear through his ears to know exactly who picked him up and what they were doing as well as where they were going. You see why sacks are used on captives heads these days? They would have even been able to know what he was thinking. This is the real world for today's surveillance technology tracking which has been used like this against me for the past seven years 24/7.
I know this because Lt Harry Bird, Colonel Vine, BS and others tell me all about their activity by abusing me continuously. They are such sadistic brutes that they want me to know all that is happening, so they torture me continuously with verbal abuse informing me about everything. For this I thank them ever so much, otherwise I wouldn't have learned about this surveillance technology.
Being able to hear one's trackers electronically is the another option available to such a person subject to brainwave monitoring and tracking. The target can hear what those who are tracking him say when that part of the surveillance technology is turned on. When they note I am hearing what they do not want me to hear, someone will say "Turn that thing off." In the case of just tracking and monitoring the target wouldn't have a clue. This would change the dramatic consequences of such a television show somewhat and eliminate all the changes and evasions which take place to heighten tension and anticipation about what might occur.
Ms Graham is quite right in stating that if this involved real Spooks, it would be taken care of rapidly. Whether or not anyone would detect the style of such dispatch remains to be "seen." The television programme Spooks itself came close to this activity with a hearing implant in one of its agents during a hostage siege. This is old stuff too. Implants have long been outdated. They are not needed.
Which brings me to the current situation which has been going on for seven years after the initial 2.5 years of 24/7 surveillance technology abuse. BS as been at it from the start in mid-August 1998 as the mother of the abused children whom I reported for this abuse. Lt Harry Bird, Colonel Vine and their ilk came along in February 2001 with their brain wave monitoring and feedback surveillance technology. All of them have continue for the past seven years. These people are obviously not real spooks.
If Ms Graham thinks the fictionalised drama in The Last Enemy is drawn out, she ought to get a look at this reality where the surveillance technology is in the hands of completely untrained, unvetted and inexperienced (as well as uneducated) people including local criminals. In this light it's easy to understand why this has lasted 9.5 years 24/7. This is not a surveillance technology investigation. It's surveillance technology R&D and fabrication along with medical experimentation. The objective is to keep it going as long as possible while not reaching a conclusion.
All of this can be done by electro magnetic radiation intercept (similar to what I used to do in the USAF Security Service with the more ordinary radio communications) and communication feedback using just the brainwave halo surrounding the head or penetrating the brain with high frequency microwave transmissions (14.5 MHz?) that are pulsed at the very slow brain activity rate somewhere between zero and 500 Hertz (cycles per second). Now you can see what TEMPEST developed in the 1950s has given the world decades later.
If you can read someone's thoughts and totally track all their activity and associations, predicting behaviour becomes rather more accurate doesn't it? I hope you tune in next Sunday night to watch The Last Enemy unfold its dramatic conflicts and associations between competing ideologies at war with each other over surveillance and control by means of database integration. It's primitive, but then what would happen to drama if it accurately portrayed today's surveillance technology? Think of the database which can be created using NSA's worldwide Echelon system scanning everyone's brain and human activity by means of satellites.
This is the reality being carried out now for many years that will be the future. So far, it hasn't even gotten a mentioned anywhere in the general media whether fictional drama or not-so-fictional news.
2. 'Nation of suspects' fear on DNA. I disagree with Shadow Home Secretary David Davis who tries to mischaracterise the benefits of a national DNA database as creating suspects rather than exonerating the innocent while identifying the guilty. I believe that the one thing which could advance law enforcement in a significant way for the benefit of all is such a DNA database.
The problems with respect to a DNA database are much reduced when compared to a personal database of information about all aspects of people and their lives. Essentially, DNA means identification. There is a problem from genetic analysis as knowledge grows with respect to characteristics and general dispositions based upon genes. This can be controlled although I suspect that there will be a great effort to massage such a DNA database in every way possible as a source of information. It's not going to give away anything except genetic information which is quite valuable but nothing like all the personal details of people which form all aspects of their daily lives.
BBC News Sunday, 24 February 2008, 11:42 GMT
Nation of suspects' fear on DNA
 Mr Davis said a universal register could damage civil liberties |
A DNA database containing details on all people in the UK would create a "nation of suspects", the Tories say.
Shadow home secretary David Davis said allowing the state to hold profiles would be "incredibly intrusive" and called for an "effective" debate.
A senior police officer has suggested a universal register, after two killers were convicted using DNA evidence.
The Home Office has ruled this out, saying it would raise "significant practical and ethical issues".