Big Brother Brain Scanners To Detect Pre-Crime Watching, Listening, Shouting, Firing
X-Rays and scanning your brain for thought crime
Steve Watson Infowars.net
Friday, February 9, 2007
You think this headline is alarmist? Fine, don't read anymore of
this article, click
here for the same story from today's front page of the London
Guardian which debates whether a 'Minority Report' era, where judgments
are handed down before the law is broken on the strength of an incriminating
brain scan, is ethical or not.
The technology is no longer science fiction. A team
of neuroscientists has developed technology that allows them to
look deep inside a person's brain and read their intentions before
they act.
During tests, researchers were able to successfully
predict the intentions of multiple subjects with 70% accuracy by
scanning their brains using a technique called functional magnetic
imaging resonance.
The study revealed signatures of activity in a small part of the
brain called the medial prefrontal cortex that changed when a person
took a choice to do something before carrying out the action.
The researchers are already devising ways of deducing what patterns
are associated with different thoughts.
According to the Guardian report, Professor Colin Blakemore, a
neuroscientist and director of the Medical Research Council, said:
"We shouldn't go overboard about the power of these techniques
at the moment, but what you can be absolutely sure of is that these
will continue to roll out and we will have more and more ability
to probe people's intentions, minds, background thoughts, hopes
and emotions.
So what happens when this becomes the next generation
of CCTV? And more to the point, what happens if it stays at only
70% accuracy? Or worse still, what if certain emotions, such as
depression or anger, lead a person to be categorized as a risk?
And what will be the punishment for pre-crime? With
moves to "chemically castrate" sex offenders by eliminating
their sexual desires, seriously
being considered now, how far fetched is it to imagine a future
thought criminal's brain being "corrected" by eliminating
the relevant desires or emotions picked up by a brain scan?
The use of this technology for crime prevention and
social control is worse than anything Orwell or even Huxley predicted,
and is directly out of Phillip K Dick's Minority Report. See below:
Is this the kind of society we want to live in? Clearly
not. Why is there even a debate about that?
"We see the danger that this might become compulsory
one day, but we have to be aware that if we prohibit it, we are
also denying people who aren't going to commit any crime the possibility
of proving their innocence." Professor Haynes at the Max Planck
Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Germany told
the Guardian.
This is total Orwellian doublethink on the grandest
of scales. The Professor is essentially saying this should not be
ruled out as a crime fighting tool because people should be given
the chance to prove they are not criminals.
People already have the chance to prove they are not
criminals by not committing any crimes! Whatever happened to innocent
until proven guilty?
But once again those detached from any kind of moral
reality will say "If you've got nothing to hide then what is
the problem with having your brain scanned for pre-crime? If it
keeps us all safe from terrorists I'm all for it".
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The British government has previously
debated introducing pre-crime laws in the name of fighting terrorism.
The idea was that suspects would be put on trial using MI5 or MI6
intelligence of an expected terror attack. This would be enough
to convict if found to be true "on the balance of probabilities",
rather than "beyond reasonable doubt".
So get it straight, you are helping the terrorists
by resisting having your brain scanned. Plus, if you have anti-big
brother government feelings you may be with the terrorists.
Last month we brought you a
report on leaked government policy review documents that debated
implanting anyone considered mentally unstable with a microchip.
Will this new brain scanning technology be used in this field also,
perhaps to check for suicidal thoughts?
Already, under the new mental health act, you can
be sectioned for mild depression. Take the recent case of Anna
McHugh, who visited her GP after a failed intensive cycle of
IVF treatment. She admitted that she was a little depressed and
needed some help.
Four hours later she found herself admitted to St Pancras Hospital.
Then, having admitted to the attending doctor that she had contemplated
suicide, she was sectioned under Section 5.2 of the Mental Health
Act and detained in a lock-down ward. When her husband tried to
rescue her, she was held in a headlock while a doctor discussed
her case with him.
It is not beyond reason to expect this technology to be implemented
without debate. Can anyone remember a real meaningful debate occurring
concerning surveillance cameras before they went up everywhere in
London?
Last month we also reported on documents
leaked from the Home Office in London revealing that the government
is looking into using X-ray technology cameras by concealing them
in lamp posts to "trap terror suspects".
The cameras, currently used in security check points at airports,
can see through clothes and produce a naked image of anyone within
their range.
Within that report I asked "How many more big brother functions
can be gotten out of a camera?" Now, just over a week later
we have an answer - brain scanners, is it a step too far to imagine
them in the lamp posts with the shouting CCTV and the X-ray machines?
This shows what our governments think of us now. Everyone is a
suspect.
Imagine the scenario, lamp post is triggered by technology to spot
you walking strangely, begins recording your conversation, scans
your face to match your details in the national database, X-rays
you to check for weapons, shouts "stand still citizen"
and scans your brain to check whether you intend to commit a crime,
sees you're a bit depressed, sections you under mental health act,
cops pick you up, hand you in to doctors who lock you up and microchip
you.
Let's have a moral debate about that scenario. No, lets not.
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