U.S.A. Huge Prison Camp. Permission In or Out.

"Please sir, I want permission to visit Canada."

webcam U.S. Mexican border at Tijuana-San Ysidro.

http://www.mexicanautoservices.com/border-cam.htm

Border Crossing Peace Arch to Blaine Wash.(Seen from the free (Canada) side of the border.)

http://www3.telus.net/bcpl8s/border.htm

Today we’re all prisoners in the USA

Papers, Please! June 2, 2009

As of June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government’s permission. We are now forbidden by Federal regulations from leaving or entering the USA, anywhere, by any means — by air, by sea, or by land, to or from any other country or international waters or airspace — unless the government chooses to issue us a passport,passport card, or “enhanced” drivers license (any of which “travel documents” are now issued only with secretly and remotely-readable uniquely-numbered radio tracking beacons in the form of RFID transponder chips), or unless the Department of Homeland Security chooses to to exercise its standardless “discretion” to decide — in secret, with no way for us to know who is making the decision or on what basis — to issue a (one-time case-by-case) “waiver” of the new travel document requirements.
If you’re in the USA without such documents — even if you were born here, or are a foreigner who entered the USA legally without such documents (a Canadian, for example, who entered the USA by land yesterday when no such documents were yet required), or your document(s) have expired or have been lost or stolen — you are forbidden to leave the country unless and until you procure such a document, or unless and until the DHS gives you an exit permit in the form of a discretionary one-time waiver to leave the country — but not necessarily to come home, unless they again exercise their discretion to “grant” you another waiver.
If you are a U.S. citizen abroad without such a document (for example, if you entered Canada legally without it yesterday by land, when it wasn’t required, or again if your document(s) are expired, lost, or stolen) you are forbidden to come home unless and until you can procure a new document acceptable to the DHS, or unless and until the DHS gives you permission to come home in the form of a discretionary one-time waiver.
The DHS admits, at the top of its GetYouHome.gov propapganda website, that it might take “several weeks” to obtain such a document if you don’t have one already or if it expires or is lost or stolen. A temporary paper drivers license without a photo, or even a standard photo licnese or state ID, won’t suffice — only an extra-fee EDL with an RFID chip, which also takes several weeks to obtain in those few states that issue them at all. Backlogs for even “rush” passport issuance can be even longer, as we pointed out in our comments to the DHS. It doesn’t matter if your next-of-kin is dying in Canada or Mexico. (Suppose a relative gets sick or injured, and needs you there to make medical decisons or escort them home, but you were’t going on the trip with them, and don’t have a passport.) You can’t go unless the U.S. government approves your papers or approves a standardless discretionary “waiver” for you to leave the U.S. — which won’t guarantee that they’ll let you come back.
This is the final stage, effective June 1, 2009, of implementation of the so-called “Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative” (WHTI).
You don’t need us to tell you what’s wrong with this picture. But if you want it spelled out, you can read the comments here and here that we submitted to the DHS when they proposed the WHTI regulations imposing these ID and exit and entry permit requirments, first for airports and seaports and then for land border crossings.
We shouldn’t have needed to point out to the DHS that the WHTI travel document requirements are in flagrant violation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), one of the most important human rights treaties which the U.S. has signed and ratified. Article 12 of the ICCPR guarantees that, “Everyone shall be free to leave any country, including his own,” and “No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of the right to enter his own country.”
This article of the ICCPR has been interpreted by the U.N. Human Rights Committee (and by the U.S. when it has criticized other countries such as Cuba for their exit restrictions on their citizens) as making those rights near-absolute. The WHTI document rules are also in violation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the NAFTA Implemdentation Act, by imposing a barrier to Canadians and Mexicans wishing to come to the U.S. to compete for business — the requirement for a passport or enhanced drivers license (EDL) — that doesn’t apply to U.S. citizens doing business within the U.S.
And that’s not to mention the incompatibility with the U.S. Constitution of these restrictions on travel, movement, and assembly.
DHS APIS regulations already require airlines to obtain individualized prior permission from the DHS before they allow anyone (even a U.S. citizen) to enter, leave or transit the U.S. by air, and the the Secure Flight scheme will require the same for domestic flights as soon as the travel industry can build the elaborate and expensive infrastructure needed for such a real-time travel surveillance and control program. Meanwhile, the DHS is exapnding their assertion of similar and increasingly intrusive powers of search, seizure, interrogation, and above all surveillance (monitoring and logging) and control of travel and movement within the U.S. through warrantless, suspicionless checkpoints on roads that don’t cross any border and are up to 100 miles from coasts or borders, and at airports for passengers on domestic flights.
Previous court decisions upholding government discretion in whether or not to issue passoports has been premised on the assumption that passports were useful to facitlitate travel, but were not required for travel or for the exercise of any other rights. Those decisions will, obviously, need to be revisited in light of the fact that government-issued documents are now explicitly required as a condition of the exercise of those aspects of the right to travel — the right of anyone to leave the U.S., and the right of U.S. citizens to return to our own country — that are most explicitly guaranteed by international treaties to which the U.S. is a part, and which under the U.S. Constitution are “the supreme law of the land”. The DHS is cleverly saying that at first they will only issue warnings and waivers, in most cases, to U.S. citizens seeking to enter or leave the U.S. without the newly-required travel documents. Presumably, they hope that the new ID and permission-based travel control regime will become a well-established fait accompli before anyone is able to bring a court challenge of a DHS decision to bar someone from leaving the U.S., or barring a U.S. citizen from entering the country.
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/camps.htm
Driver's License to be the Next Debit Card (Slashdot; May 18, 2007) Story: Health-care chips could get under your skin (PhysOrg; June 12, 2006) Story: Computer chips get under skin of US enthusiasts (Reuters; Jan. 5, 2006) Story: Under-the-skin ID chips move toward U.S. hospitals (CNet; July 27, 2004) Story: ATM chip implant available [back-up] (MSMBC; Nov. 25, 2003) Story: Chips to be Implanted in Humans (LATimes, May 10, 2002) Story: They're standing in line to get their chips now (Wired News. Feb. 6, 2002) Story: Meet the Chipsons (Time, Mar. 11, 2002, pp.56,57) Story: I, chip (ABC News, Feb. 25, 2002)



Microchip Implants

	Digital Angel VeriChip™ Miniaturized, Implantable Identification Technology With Multiple Medical, Security and Emergency Applications. Yahoo! > Identification Systems > Verichip - directory listing Company to Sell ID-Only Computer Chip Implant (AP) - FDA Approves VeriChip so long as medical data is not included. April 4, 2002 911 Provides Green Light for Chip Implant Go-Ahead[back-up copy](LA Times) - "Other potential applications would put the chips in the role of an ultimate ID, capable of performing many of the roles that are performed by keys and ATM cards." (Dec. 19, 2001) Meet the Chipsons (Time) - "In the next few years, it wants to add sensors that will read your vital signs . . . and a satellite receiver that can track where you are." (March 11, 2002, pp. 56,57) [back-up copy] U.S. to Weigh Computer Chip Implant (AP News, Excite.com) - A Florida technology company is poised to ask the government to market a first-ever computer ID chip that could be embedded beneath a person's skin. (Feb. 26, 2002)[also at Yahoo! News] [also at Salt Lake Tribune] DigitalAngel.net - Presenting a microchip that can be either implanted in or closely bonded to the body. $200 billion market expected. Digital Angel Unveiled Nov. 1, 2000 (WND) "...will be a connection from yourself to the electronic world. It will be your guardian, protector." "[Humans] will be a hybrid of electronic intelligence and our own soul." Digital Angels Beta Testing on Humans (WND) - beginning June 14, 2001 Digital Angel Abandons Under Skin Human Implants(WND) - public wariness spurs backtrack (June 16, 2001) Digital Angel's Latest Press Releases
	Implanted Electronic Tag Can Track Terrorist Suspects (AFP) - A tiny chip, implanted under the skin, that can track the location of terrorist suspects; "Big Brother" device raises serious questions for civil liberties, as governments could use it to track innocent people. (9/21/01)
	British Army to be Microchipped (Soldier Magazine, April, 2001) - test phase underway.
	Will Terrorism Spawn the Mark of the Beast? (RaiderNews)
	Denunciation of Technology and Beastly Ramifications - by Chip's Primary Inventor, Carl W. Sanders
	PALM - Technology to Place Chip in Hand - reported on the Bloomberg report on WLS radio in Chicago, 4:30 AM, Jan. 12, 2001.
	Humor > BBspot - Latest Executive Craze: Palm Pilot Implants(BBspot)
	Spoof (Hoax) > IDChip.com claims to offer $250 to give you an implant and set up your computer for you. (confession of spoof |funny?)
	PC Computing Article about Human Implants in Use
	Researchers develop 'bionic chip' for human use
	4mm x 4mm chips for tracking pets, vehicles, children, VIPs - Sky-Eye, Gen-Etics
	Microchips of the Rich and Famous! - Computer chip surgery for 'kidnapping targets'
	e-purse in European Transit
	Palm Pilot to Integrate e-Wallet Features (CNET) Jan. 7, 2001
	Related WorldNetDaily articles Big Brother gets under your skin Meet the 'Digital Angel' -- from Hell Revelation about 'Digital Angels' Microchips Required for Adopted Animals - L.A. requires electronic implants for pets leaving shelters (8/7/00)
	Retinal implants to record a person's life's experiences (UK Telegraph, July 18, 1996) - "Soul Catcher 2025"

Tracking Devices

	WhereWare - Summary of existing location pin-pointing technologies in use as well as those under development. (MIT's Technology Review; Sept. 2003)
	Spy Technology for the Layman - 'SAME' enables users to see any place on the planet in real time. York University Prof. Vincent Tao has developed groundbreaking satellite mapping technology that enables users to visually zoom in on - or fly over - any place on the planet in real time. Called SAME (an acronym for 'See Anywhere - Map Everywhere'), it is an Internet-based technology that provides 3-D imagery with ground resolution of a half-metre to one metre - close enough to identify automobile makes, for example, but not the human face. (PhysOrg; Nov. 30, 2004)
	RFID tags: Big Brother in small packages - Could we be constantly tracked through our clothes, shoes or even our cash in the future? (1/13/03)

New Device Tracks Kids - child locator watch/bracelet is linked to GPS satellites, incorporates pager and 911 calling; locked and unlocked by code held by parents. Wherify Website GPS Vehicle Locator - also by Wherify. BIG BROTHER HAS COMPLETE CONTROL. (And you thought you lived "in the land of the free." (Ric)