Authored by John Wilder,
“That was a Beria operation in Stalin’s time. It was deactivated twenty years ago.”
– The Living Daylights
How did KGB agents commit suicide? Two shots to the back of the head. (all photo content as-found)
Remember Lavrentiy Beria’s cheerful advice: “Show me the man, and I will find the crime”? Back in the Soviet Union they had so many laws on the books that everybody broke at least one before lunch, I mean, when lunch was available. And if they didn’t, they could make up something. Beria just needed enough spies and informants to spot the right violation.
Beria would have loved modern America. We’ve upgraded his whole operation with better cameras, faster computers, and added actual profit margins.
Let’s start with Flock™ cameras.
Flock Safety© cameras now line roads from coast to coast. More than 100,000 of the little snitches sit on poles in ditches scanning license plates 24/7 and however many metric hours in a metric day and metric days in a metric week. The cameras rolled out one quiet law enforcement contract at a time until the whole country is now blanketed.
Not everyone who comes into your life is your friend. Some are just surveillance cameras. (btw, she was innocent, but the police didn’t apologize)
Maps of the cameras exist online, but those rely on humans, and it shows only three of the eigh
