Snitch

According to wired.com, smartphone users can report a "suspicious person" to the West Virginia Department of Homeland Security. In a report this week, the domestic counterterrorism agency’s West Virginia branch, in association with the governor’s office, has unveiled a new mobile app called the Suspicious Activity Reporting Application. The app is available in the Apple App Store and the Android Market.

All you have to do is snap a picture and use the app to send it.  Once you click the submit button on the app, the picture and any annotation goes to the West Virginia Intelligence Fusion Center. You don’t have to affirm that you have evidence of a crime or even a suspected crime to send the information. And, this is not the first state to use such a system. Last year Kentucky launched a similar program.

Talk about 1984. This is government getting the people to spy on the people. Have you seen the television program, "Person of Interest?"  Their watching you!

Since we don’t have this in Texas - at least I don’t think we do - I can only speculate what it would be like. Just imagine a bunch of rednecks snapping pictures of their pets, farm animals, weddings and funerals. That would fuse the Fusion Center. I could spend all day at Wally World snapping shots.

Of course, I do not support this government interference into our daily lives.

Heck, everything I do is suspicious. Maybe I could get my own page where folks just do updates.

PMO
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