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Simon Jenkins, writing in the Sunday Times, about Britain’s latest moves to protect against terrorism describes the country as “not a police state, but a nation with police state tendencies.”
This is the key issue that Kat Polinski has to tackle in The History Book. In one of the latest reviews, Jim Randolph, from the Up Against the Wall magazine, writes.
The London of the novel, where most of the action takes place, isn’t as bleak as modern Iraq, but it is carved up into security zones complete with Draconian checkpoints and surveillance.. This is a fantastically entertaining, complex and well-plotted adventure yarn combining the best of the straight-out revenge tale with frighteningly plausible greed-fueled geopolitical machinations.
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November 25th, 2007 at 1:02 am
Simon Jenkins is just flat wrong. It never ceases to amaze me that there is so much apparent ignorance from those in significant positions who make public statements like this despite many years of evidence to the contrary. His comment is worse than propaganda of the most despicable kind when we all need the truth to be publicly known. London is very much a police state and has been in my direct experience 24/7 as a target of continuous totally invasive and abusive surveillance technology for over nine years.
I’ve just finished reading The History Book and found it a fascinating and thoroughly enjoyable read. Those carrying out the surveillance read it right along with me as they do with every single thing I do no matter where I am located. Over four decades ago I worked in communications intelligence (Comint) for several years (1961 – 1964). At that time no one had a clue about NSA (No Such Agency), GCHQ, etc and the complete global coverage of military activity by the USSR and others. If I had tried to say anything at that time (which I would have never done), no one would have believed me. What was happening was super secret and totally unknown until the late 1970s.
If I tell you what is going on today and has been going on for years in London including prior to 9/11, you will not believe me, but just like with Sigint (Comint and Elint) you will eventually learn at some point. Since I am a target of extreme abuse from surveillance technology, I have no legal constraints about reporting what is being done to me. The real question is how is it that I know all this information? It’s in the character and abuse of the surveillance technology exposed by the personality deficiencies of those using it. Having been an intelligence analyst even though over four decades ago helps too.
The essence of The History Book for me is the psychology of what is being done reflected in the actions of the various characters on all sides. The disposition to behave in certain ways by various character types reflects the reality of our era. The technology and counter technology utilisation was fascinating in the book along with the vehicle tracking and identification including the security zones and efforts to totally monitor human activity.
It’s all quite real today along with the assassination and imprisonment of people who are deemed objectionable to corporate or government power interests. The use of the US Marines in a police capacity is quite revealing. All of this totally ignores human and civil rights and the democratic rule of law. Democratic institutions simply do not exist. There is no sovereignty in any nation state.
This is what The History Book “reveals” in fiction for me based upon reality. Let me take that a step further and describe what actually exists: brain wave monitoring and tracking including feedback. There is no more privacy for human thoughts and behaviour. No one can hide. Just like autos can be tracked by satellite, every person can be likewise tracked by means of their brainwave electromagnetic radiation halo surrounding the head. This is the real biometric identity tool which will be used in the future I believe.
This can be decoded to monitor all the senses (eyesight, hearing, feeling, muscle movement, smells, thoughts (images and words). I haven’t verified taste as yet. The reverse can be accomplished for feedback purposes with regard to hearing, feeling (pain), muscle movement and thoughts (images and words). Surreptitious medication can be administered as well to incapacitate and debilitate. All of these have been done to me second-by-second 24/7 for the past six and one-half years.
All of this can be used to imprison, carry out torture interrogation and track a person wherever they are located carrying out all the activities described above through the use of brainwave surveillance technology. Thoughts can be read in response to interrogation. Once mapped a person can be so identified and tracked by satellite by anyone located anywhere in this world who can sit in a room and know all that a person is doing while also using that person as a surveillance instrument with respect to all the other people encountered.
This started against me in February 2001 shortly after the inauguration of George Bush for the first time and seven months before 9/11. Two US Marines whom I believe to be retired, Colonel Vine and Lt Harry Bird, arrived and started in with with their electronically transmitted verbiage early one morning while I was in the bath.
Although intended to spook me, it did not since I was already used to 2.5 years of 24/7 surveillance technology abuse using the more well known methods of surveillance (radar imaging, ultra sound photography, Tempest, microphone and camera) which were superseded. I knew there had to be a logical and physical explanation for what was happening. As I had already been doing, I just kept patiently taking copious notes about all that was happening.
I soon had it all verified after about six months of continuous verbal abuse which gave away and confirmed for me what was being done and how it was being done. I was also acquainted with an effort to kidnap me with reference to another kidnapping all of which was eventually revealed as rendition. After 9/11 and the successful invasion of Afghanistan, Colonel Vine went there to carry out this kind of work.
Later at the time of the Tsunami, he went to Sri Lanki in the same capacity. In fact, he was often globe trotting while Lt Harry Bird remained here 24/7 with his surveillance technology including the locals who used it with him. These included Metropolitan Special Branch Police Officers (Paul Winston and Mike) and local members of the general public the most significant of whom was the mother of the abused children whom I had reported for child abuse in May 1998.
In reality the US Marines acting as either US government agents/contractors perform a role far beyond that of armed police and strong arm types. They have actually carried out all of the activities in a most sadistic and abusive manner. As I read The History Book, I couldn’t help thinking about what would Kat do to guard her private thoughts. The security zones are no longer necessary when every human being can be tracked from a satellite like GPS in an auto.
Humphrey Hawksley is absolutely on the right track in the direction he’s leading the world with this fiction that’s not really fiction. He just has to go a little further. The great problem with the reality of this surveillance technology is that it’s purpose is to control which can stop anything anyone might want to do. Terrorism will cause this to be rolled out on a mass basis I believe. I’m just a non consenting human guinea pig for R&D and medical experimentation.
It’s going to be interesting to see how writers deal with this reality in their fiction in the future, but for now there is most definitely a police state in operation in London which has been carrying out totally invasive surveillance technology abuse 24/7 since mid-August 1998 in my direct experience against a completely innocent person for control purposes and research development. This experience has been reported by others in the world for a long time. The age of implants is long gone. It’s time to wake up to the reality of what is actually happening before it is too late.