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As I typed, the words on my
screen started to disappear. Delete
delete delete, the words I'd just typed back-spaced back to a
blank screen in front of my eyes; my hands were in the air not touching anything. So I
hit Save over and over to save at least some of the last hours’ work, but all
my computer would do was backspace and delete delete delete and soon the entire
Word file was gone, no sign of it in “recent places” or recycle bin, no history
of the doc anywhere in Word, the whole file was just Gone.
I looked up and light from Lancaster's new LEAPS aircraft beamed like a UFO in the sky right at me through my window.
It was around 2 AM. I was copy
and pasting letters to the editor from the local newspaper website into a Word
file. When I moved there months earlier, I discovered, in the daily paper,, letter writers from this Mojave Desert
area repeating everything Fox News said word for word, and the Antelope Valley Press was publishing them, often from same writer several times a week. When I realized what was happening, I jumped into the fray
in my own letters to the editor, then get bombarded with replies to me, more repetition
of Fox News lies.
That night I was in a kind of panic and rage after reading letters on the AV Press editorial pages: lies and schemes about Barack Obama who was President at the time, racist and other misreadings of history, such as calling young black men shot down by police thugs who deserved to be shot a day after the story breaks on the other side of the country, opinions and slander that astonished me.
As a one-time Editorial Page Editor, it shocked me that these letters were being published, one after another.
*
This blog post is a segment of Chapter 3 of "USA sided with pedophile priests, and soon after, the nation fell" a series I'm posting online as I write it.
*
After living in the AV less
than a year, I’d become a controversial figure on the editorial page for
pointing out, for example, that Barack Obama actually was born in Hawaii which is
a state and that Rush Limbaugh was not good for the radio industry.
That night I was copy and pasting their letters into a Word file I called “AV Press
Weirdness” to get quotes for later.
My desk was in front of a
window that looked out over the vast blue-black Mojave Desert sky. A bright
light shined directly into my window from the East Lancaster sky.
I'm pretty sure it was Lancaster’s
“Eye in the Sky” aircraft the city had recently launched to assist law
enforcement that beamed into my apartment and hacked my laptop so it could destroy
the Word file where I was copying evidence of the weird misinformation being
published in the local paper.
I had called it information warfare
several times. I had said, look at the camera angle on Fox News, they point right
up the female’s skirt where she sits on the couch and got harangued with replies
that hell yeah that's what we like. Honest.
That night I learned the LEAPS
aircraft optics were capable of more than fighting crime in Lancaster. They
hacked my computer and deleted my work. A few weeks later I lived in South Lake
Tahoe where I’m hidden in the trees.
Having a Word file deleted right
in front of my eyes as the “Eye” beams straight at me from the sky tells me, LEAPS
was being used for more than crime fighting. There's not much about LEAPS online***
or in the Antelope Valley news since that period 2012 when it was launched.
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| LEAPS aircraft |
I first
heard of “weaponized disinformation” when Hillary Clinton said those words in
2012, while I was sitting and writing at that same desk; finally I knew how to describe what
Fox News was doing.
***
NOTE TO SELF: I have to remember to stick to
the original theme, as I write this “USA Sided w Pedophile Priests” series, that
the reaction people had to my blog about pedophile priests ran right alongside
the rise of the right, especially the hate and misinformation of MAGA Qanon et
al. There were so many similarities it made me write this entire project.
Because whatever USA Catholics and supporters did wrong by siding with the
pedophile priests and rejecting the victims as liars who were only after money,
it set off a kind of energy on the world, or it just set an example for the
world, and here we are now with Trump taking over America along with whoever is
behind him.
***
I’d just returned to L.A. from
Chicago but only place I could afford to rent was way out on the end of the
Metro line so here I was, in Lancaster CA, encountering America’s emerging right wing political
class, a phenomenon I now call Fox News zombies: low-income people totally dependent on
government benefits who support Trump; they were just finding each other and becoming a movement in
2012, pre Elon Musk and X.
Only time I had seen Fox News
in Spring 2012 was when Mikey in Chicago started watching it, Mikey, who I
wrote about previously in this chapter, who turned before my eyes from an adoring friend to a
hostile Fox News mesmerized person who shouted "fucking liberal” at me as
I left Chicago for L.A.
Now I was in a wonderful apartment in Lancaster with a big picture window overlooking the sheriffs station then East Lancaster and
beyond.
Except when their newly created spyware in the sky was used by Someone to hack my computer and scare the bejeebus out of me. .
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The low income senior building was infested with Fox News
brainwashed neighbors, way back then in 2012; same thing I'm finding in Tahoe in 2025, people who are brainwashed, to me, into being Republicans while on welfare, repeating Fox News sound bytes
word for word, not realizing that they're cheering on their own demise.
In Lancaster at a barbecue for the building,
I mentioned I wrote a blog about pedophile priest crimes and had a group of people holler at me, “That never happened!”
In Antelope Valley, the national brainwashing we live with today was also going on in the daily newspaper as far back as 2012.
***
Written by Kay Ebeling
This blog post is a segment of
USA sided with pedophile priests, and soon after, the nation fell, the book/
series I am writing online. This episode is in “Ch3 Track the rise of hate in
USA in reactions to my blog about pedophile priests 2011 to present,” the series
I hope will someday be produced for online streaming. Find it under “Lancaster and
Makeshift Christians” here: https://cityofangelslady.blogspot.com/2024/09/ch3-track-rise-of-hate-in-usa-in-way.html
***This story is not over:
Here is best coverage of Eye
in the Sky, from Antelope Valley Times which is now out of business but has
left its articles up. I'm copy pasting
it here along with the letters to the editor about the LEAPS project that kind
of stay with the theme of this story also
https://theavtimes.com/2012/08/23/eye-in-the-sky-takes-off/
LANCASTER – The Law
Enforcement Aerial Platform System (LEAPS) is up and running in the skies over
Lancaster, city officials announced Thursday. This means the city is now
under constant surveillance by the sheriff’s department, who has a bird’s eye
view of activities happening anywhere in the city.
“As of tomorrow (Aug.
24), every day of the week we’ll be capturing video,” said Lancaster Station
Captain Bob Jonsen.
“This program, for a
miniscule amount of money, is going to save a lot of lives,” said Lancaster
Mayor R. Rex Parris.
Jonsen and Parris joined
city officials at a press conference Thursday to unveil the new airborne crime
fighting-tool and provide details on how it will function.
Deputy
Pat Griffin demonstrates how the software works at a press conference Thursday.
For at least 10 hours
every day, the piloted Cessna 172, fitted with high-tech optical equipment,
will surveil the entire city and record imagery at altitudes ranging from 1,000
to 3,000 feet above ground level.
“It has a central track
on the outside of the city, and it continually goes around that track,” said
Jonsen.
Only assigned LASD
personnel will be privy to the information and video transmitted from the
aircraft, which will be encrypted and fed directly to the sheriff’s station.
“The operators are going
to be audited,” said Parris. “There isn’t going to be anybody looking in their
girlfriend’s backyard, because there’s a record of it.”
When not responding to
an incident, the system will be in surveillance mode, with the designated
officer directing the pilot via an Ipad in the cockpit.
If a call comes in about
a crime in progress, the operating officer will enter the location into the
system. And within seconds, the officer will be able to zoom in and record
images from the location while relaying the information to responding deputies,
Jonsen said.
The
system can lock in and follow a criminal target from up to three miles away.
The system can also lock
in and follow a criminal target from up to three miles away.
“You can see what
they’re wearing, what color their shoes are, whether they’re carrying an
object,” Jonsen said. “We can get this information to responding units and
dramatically increase our effectiveness.”
LEAPS is also effective
at night because of its infrared capabilities, Jonsen said.
The system allows the
sheriff’s department to access up to two years of video data. So if a crime
goes unreported, then is later discovered, authorities will be able to access
case-relevant activity footage based on date and geographic location.
“We’ll be able to attach
these videos to these cases, so in front of a jury, you’re going to have some
pretty substantial evidence…” Jonsen said. “It’s going to make public
defenders’ jobs a little more difficult.”
Jonsen said the system
will not zoom in and record private property without good reason.
“I don’t foresee a
reason to be on private property unless we’re investigating a crime,” he said.
“We’re not going to be just randomly recording someone’s back yard.”
In acknowledging the
privacy concerns of some residents, Parris said critics needed to educate
themselves on the new system.
“Most of what people are
afraid of doesn’t exist in this particular system…” Parris said. “I would wish
that people would educate themselves before they decide whether it’s good or
bad, because the criticism so far is from people who have no idea what the
capacity of the system is.”
LEAPS was created by
Aero View LLC and engineered and developed by Spiral Technology Inc. The city
paid $1.3 million to Aero View to acquire the aircraft, avionics, and other
equipment required to develop and deploy LEAPS. The aircraft is fueled, maintained
and hangared at William J. Fox Field Airfield in Lancaster. The first 12 months
of service and operations are at no cost to the city as part of the management
agreement between Aero View and Lancaster. Read more on the agreement here.
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- arrrggg says
August 30, 2012 at 9:12 am
“Those
who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety,
deserve neither liberty nor safety”-Ben Franklin
nuff
said
- Rob says
August 27, 2012 at 6:45 pm
I
would much prefer these resources be utilized on the ground and aircraft be
used only in response to a crime in process. What a waste to fly an aircraft
for 10 hours a day for the sake of taking video to store with the hopes of
recording a crime to view later. We would rather have more patrol cars and
sheriffs please Rex!
- Michelle Egberts says
August 26, 2012 at 6:54 am
Here
is our “Eye In The Sky” aircraft report http://report.myairplane.com/index.php
- Michelle Egberts says
August 26, 2012 at 6:50 am
http://www.aeroviewllc.com/pdf/leapsbrochure.pdf
- Michelle Egberts says
August 26, 2012 at 6:43 am
http://www.aeroviewllc.com/ PILOTS
WANTED… PLEASE APPLY… WE MUST HAVE AN EYE IN THE SKY!!!
- Rob says
August 25, 2012 at 7:19 pm
I
would much prefer these resources be utilized on the ground and aircraft be
used only in response to a crime in process. What a waste to fly an aircraft
for 10 hours a day for the sake of taking video to store with the hopes of
recording a crime to view later. We would rather have more squad cars and
sheriffs please Rex!
August 26, 2012 at 1:45 pm
William – The difference is, once they set off their alarm,
or call the police.. the camera can be immediately turned to the property, and
possibly see the suspects leaving, long before patrol cars even show up. That’s
the benefit people don’t grasp yet.
Background on LEAPS:
LANCASTER – The Law Enforcement Aerial
Platform System (LEAPS) is up and running in the skies over Lancaster, city
officials announced Thursday. This means the city is now under constant
surveillance by the sheriff’s department, who has a bird’s eye view of
activities happening anywhere in the city.
Lancaster,
Calif., Approves Aerial Surveillance System
GovTech
https://www.govtech.com ›
public-safety › Lancaster-Ca...
Nov 9, 2011 — Created
by Aero View and developed by Spiral
Technology, LEAPS uses both visible and infrared imagery for tracking. City
officials said that at ...
Aero View
LLC_NR_11-04-11 - Lancaster
Spiral Technology, Inc
http://www.spiraltechinc.com › news › 2011-11-04_...
Nov 4, 2011 — Employee- and
veteran-owned Aero View LLC has created a Law
Enforcement Aerial Platform System (LEAPS) which
will help law enforcement agencies ...
“From a public safety perspective, LEAPS can follow a
criminal target via visual movement at altitudes ranging from 1,000 to 3,000
feet above ground level, while using both visible and infrared images for
tracking,” said Jonsen. “It is an effective and economical resource offering
superior surveillance, patrol and investigative capabilities.”
***
They sell it to us as crime fighting and can use it to spy on us.
Onward -ke
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