Rob Kall: Then
there is the new announcement that the FBI is spending a billion dollars on a" ubiquitous
Universal facial recognition System that's going to enable to them to keep
track of where everybody is all the time.
Paul Craig Roberts: Right
Rob Kall: So"
so.
Paul Craig Roberts: You
have it. You see the" it's worse than George Orwell could imagine, because of
the technological differences between his time and ours. And even though
that book he wrote, "1984', is still frightening if you read it" it's
frightening. But the power of the Government today to control far exceeds what
"Big Brother' had in Orwell's imagination. So" and of course then we see the
Homeland Security, which has already now announced, I think it was two years
ago, they no longer are primarily focused on terrorism, they're focused on
domestic extremists. And that's more protestors and people who disagree with
the Government like radical environmentalists, and" and we saw two recently
that they had placed an order for somewhere between one and two billion rounds
of ammunition, much of which was hollow point bullets.
And this is ammunition designed for killing people. And so what does Homeland
Security need enough ammunition to shoot everybody in the country five times
for. Homeland Security is supposed to be some kind of overarching bureau in which
the information from the CIA and the FBI and the National Security Council could
be coordinated, so that you wouldn't have them operating separately and
withholding information from one another. And having 9/11, or something like
that happen, because one bureau knew one piece, another bureau knew another
piece, but they didn't know enough individually to know what it meant but if they
had put it together they would have had the whole picture. That's what it was
suppose to do. It was suppose to do that, and it was suppose to provide this
transportation safety administration to harass us at airports. But it doesn't
anywhere say that they're supposed to be some kind of an internal "Ministry of Police' that needs billions of rounds of
ammunition. And this should scare people to death! And" and yet very little
attention was paid to this. Umh it's an amazing development to simply have
happened without any" no hearings. Congress didn't say, "hey, what do you need
all this for? What you're going to do with this ammunition?'
Rob Kall: Well,
I have to say that OpEdNews did report on it. And it got a lot of visibility,
and it was one of our most read articles in the last couple of weeks. Then a
lot of people challenged it. They questioned it, and we" before we published it
we, we" one of our senior editors edited it. Yeah. It's a solid story, and it's
a very scary one. [aside: I just need to
do a Station ID]
[Paul Craig
Roberts is my guest tonight. And if you're just listening in, you can catch the
beginning of it by going to Opednews.com/ podcasts with an "s' on the end. Or go
to iTunes and look for my name, Rob Kall]
Paul Craig Roberts is a former Assistant Secretary of
the US Treasury. A former Associate
Editor of the Wall Street Journal. He's
been a columnist with Business Week and Scripps Howard has been a
Professor at Stanford, at Georgetown. And in the last couple of years, he's
been a writer of really hard hitting editorials that" I'll bet you you couldn't
probably" Paul, you probably couldn't get those old "syndicators' to carry
", could you?
Paul Craig Roberts: I
think "Creative Syndicate' would take them, but that would be the only one.
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