“Plans to install cameras on planes raise civil liberties alarms in UK” (Russia Today, YouTube.com)

Britain looks into in-flight surveillance cameras (rt.com, August 10, 2010)

“…conversations and movements monitored while they’re flying due to a European Union project going ahead.

“It is at the University of Reading that scientists are developing the new in-flight surveillance system, which won’t just consist of cameras, but will also have microphones, and a special system for monitoring “unusual behavior”…”

Dr. James Ferryman, of Systems Engineering at the University of Reading:

“…I prefer to think of it not as Big Brother watching you, but Big Brother looking after you.”

Story from 2008 about same project: In-flight surveillance could foil terrorists in the sky (www.newscientist.com, May 29, 2008)

“The European Union’s Security of Aircraft in the Future European Environment  (SAFEE) project uses a camera in every passenger’s seat, with six wide-angle cameras to survey the aisles. Software then analyses the footage to detect developing terrorist activity or “air-rage” incidents, by tracking passengers’ facial expressions.”

The propaganda refers to the system openly as “Big Brother” so that people get the point at some level while swallowing the sugar-coated justifications.

“Big Brother” is a reference to George Orwell’s 1984 which describes a society – constantly at war (like ours) – where every individual is monitored constantly for their thoughts and behavior, as well as lied to constantly (like ours), under threat of torture and imprisonment.

George Orwell (Eric Blair) was mixed up with people who were planning a totalitarian system.  More needs to be said about the Fabian Society planners such as Bertrand Russell, and others like Aldous Huxley and Julian Huxley.

Story from 2007: The tiny airline spy that spots bombers in the blink of an eye (www.dailymail.co.uk, February 12, 2007)

This system is intended to monitor every blink, twitch and whisper.

“Shami Chakrabarti, director of the human rights group Liberty, said: “Watching people constantly on aircraft and trying to work out patterns of behaviour is a difficult road to travel.

“‘I suspect that it will put people off flying because they will feel uncomfortable if their every blink and twitch is being monitored.'”

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