*Written by Rob Rimes.

I like Jon Huntsman. Sure, he has had some policies that were shit but when looking at his stance on the foreign side of things, one of the most important factors in choosing who I want to select as president, he is pretty stellar. He is strongly anti-war and he truly understands our situation with China as well as other countries where we are in a similar boat. He is able to foresee that the Pacific region is the future of trade and understands how to utilize it in an effort to not only build up our economy but to establish a more symbiotic relationship with all these other major countries that most conservatives perceive as nasty competition in a battle for world domination. Huntsman knows that the issues of trade and foreign policy aren’t so black and white. He also understands the cultural revolutions that are going on in places like China and Iran, where the younger generations are begging to be free and to live in a society that closely resembles America. He knows that when the old guard dies in those countries, things will be much different, at least if we don’t take measures that’ll just make them hate us and continue with the old policies once they gain power. He knows that our countless wars are pointless and wants nothing more than to bring our troops home to work on our “core”, as he calls it. Huntsman is one of the few under the Republican banner that gets how all this works. In fact, Huntsman is very close on these issues with my personal pick for president, Congressman Ron Paul. That’s why I found it so disturbing to see him drop out of the race at the peak of his success and immediately endorse Mitt Romney, a man who is the ideological opposite of Huntsman on these incredibly important issues.

So why would Huntsman, who only a day or two before dropping out called Romney “unelectable”, go on to endorse him and call him “the best equipped to defeat Obama”, “a great man” and “terrificly talented”? It’s like Huntsman doesn’t think any of the GOPers are electable but Romney is the best of the bunch: whatever. Most critics of Huntsman’s endorsement feel that it’s “a Mormon thang”. While that may hold some weight, the truth is that this goes much deeper than most people know. This may just be a classic case of blood being thicker than water. Yes, blood.

The truth is, Jon Huntsman and Mitt Romney are cousins. Crazy, I know because the mainstream media has pretty much ignored that fact even though it is pretty well known, especially in Utah. Weirdly, it’s as if the media doesn’t want the rest of us to discover this fact. Now they have several times referred to the two men as “frenemies” but rarely, if ever, have they mentioned the fact that these two are blood related. The fact that they have been labeled “frenemies” also raises an eyebrow and makes this strange relationship even more confusing.

Their history of ideological division is pretty lengthy. In 2008, Huntsman was quick to endorse John McCain over his fellow Mormon and cousin, Mitt Romney. It’s also interesting to note that Huntsman’s father donated $130,000 to Romney’s campaign but the younger of the two Huntsmans made it a point not to support him. The odd thing about this is that Jon Huntsman came out and immediately endorsed McCain beating every other governor in the United States to the punch. He was the first governor that year to endorse anyone. Was his mind made up that early or did he just want to stick it to his cousin?

Something else that may contribute to the bad blood between the two happened in 2006, when Romney was gearing up for his first presidential run. According to a story that ran in 2006 in the Desert Morning News:

Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. said Thursday that Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney entered into “probably problematic territory” in getting Brigham Young University officials to solicit support for what is widely seen as a presidential bid.

“Using a network or using an alumni list in the case of University of Utah or University of Pennsylvania or BYU is what any candidate would do,” Huntsman told reporters after taping his monthly news conference on KUED Channel 7.

“But having someone affiliated with that institution intervene directly as if they were placing an endorsement behind someone is probably problematic territory,” he said. “That seems to constitute the question.”

It was kind of a dick move for Huntsman to point that out, as he seemingly threw his cousin under the bus, but he was also the Governor of Utah at the time and chances are, he was just acting on the “up and up” and trying to be ethical. Regardless, it had to leave a bad taste in Romney’s mouth. In the end, the issue was resolved and Mitt Romney moved on: unscathed. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who owns and operates BYU, said that they were neutral on the issue and claimed that the questionable meetings between Mitt Romney’s backers and the church officials were just “courtesy calls”.

A major difference between the two is that they have very different levels of involvement with the Mormon church. Romney, as he has said, has gone to the same church for decades and very closely follows and proudly promotes his religion. Romney isn’t afraid to wear his Mormonism on his sleeve and in certain ways, it’s respectable, whether you agree with his faith or not. Jon Huntsman however, hasn’t been shy about how much he’s distanced himself from his religion. Now he hasn’t abandoned Mormonism but he has admitted that he looks at and appreciates the philosophies of other religions and ideologies and trusts in the wisdom he finds in other cultures, not just his own. Huntsman, unlike Romney, doesn’t strictly follow traditional Mormon protocol but he is also much more of a well-seasoned world traveler.

Their paths to the top are also very different. Romney has taken the traditional path, being the son of a governor and auto industry executive, he followed in his father’s footsteps. Romney went to BYU, became a leader in his church, went on religious missions overseas, became a powerful executive that lead Bain Capital to the top and also became a governor himself. Huntsman dropped out of school, traveled with his rock band, lived in Asia for some time and eventually became a governor as well. Their very contrasting origins led them to a similar place but the roads getting there went in very different directions.

Looking at their deep family ties, USA Today recently published a detailed article about it; here’s an excerpt:

Parley Pratt, an early Mormon missionary, is Romney’s great-great-grandfather and Huntsman’s great-great-great-grandfather. That’s how the two GOP candidates are related.

Huntsman’s mother, Karen, lived with Romney’s sister, Jane, while they attended the University of Utah.

Huntsman’s maternal grandfather, David Haight, was best friends with Romney’s father, George. (They grew up together in Oakley, Idaho, and would go swimming in a canal near their homes, Haight recalled in 1998 when Brigham Young University renamed its Institute of Public Management after George Romney.)

Huntsman’s uncle, Bruce, once dated Romney’s sister, Lynn.

Utah is too small of a place for all these Mormon elites to live and not cross paths. Whether the families are still close today or not is their business but the truth is, these families have a deep past together and they all come from the same source. So with the seemingly love/hate relationship between Jon Huntsman and Mitt Romney, one has to ask what the angle is.

Maybe Huntsman really feels that Mitt is the best chance the country has at beating Obama. Maybe he feels bad for supporting McCain in 2008. Maybe he is just trying to support his cousin. Or, maybe Huntsman and Romney had this planned out all along because if there are two Mormons in the race, it makes Mitt’s religion seem a lot less obscure. I mean, in 2008, evangelical Christians had a huge issue with Romney being a Mormon. Today, the Mormon issue seems moot. One could argue that it is because of Huntsman also being in the race that the issue has kind of been forgotten. Then again, the Mormon thing was so four years ago and maybe people just don’t care anymore. It could also be possible that people just dislike Barack Obama so much that a candidates religious affiliation is a secondary concern.

In the end, no one will know how these two really feel about each other besides the men themselves. I just thought it was important to touch base on these issues, as the mainstream media doesn’t always get to the bottom of the story. These men are cousins with a history of being “frenemies” but regardless of that, Mitt Romney is the frontrunner of the GOP, whether anyone likes that or hates it, and now his cousin and fellow Mormon, Jon Huntsman, is in his corner.

Personally, I wish Huntsman would’ve sided with the man who shares a lot of his foreign policy points, that being Ron Paul. I guess he decided to support someone in his bloodline who is ideologically at odds with him. Whatever Huntsman’s reasoning was, doesn’t really matter. This is his cross to bear but maybe by helping the man who shares his blood, Huntsman will have a future at Romney’s side. That is, if Romney can pull this thing off. Truthfully, I just don’t think he can.

*Written by Rob Rimes.

William Henry Harrison is a president that most people don’t even know about because he was only the POTUS for 32 days. He was the 9th president, wedged between Martin Van Buren and John Tyler, his vice pres. He was the oldest president ever until Ronald Reagan came along and stole his thunder. However, as popular and fondly remembered as that “actor” president was, he could never hold a candle to the awesomeness and manliness of William Henry Harrison a.k.a. Double-U Double-H a.k.a. Double Double a.k.a. Dub-Dub a.k.a. Dubz.

Dubz was born on February 9th, 1773 in Charles City County, Virginia to Benjamin Harrison V and Elizabeth Bassett. He had six siblings but he was the youngest. Dubz was the last president to be born as a British subject. His family was heavily involved in politics. His father was a delegate to the Continental Congress that signed the Declaration of Independence which led to freeing our asses. His father was also the governor of Virginia during the Revolutionary War. His older brother, Carter Bassett Harrison not only has the coolest fucking name ever but also held it down serving as a congressman for Virginia in the United States House of Representatives. All of this set the stage for what would be an amazing life. Dubz had massive shoes to fill but he knew that he would surpass the greatness of his family members and one day hold the highest fucking office in the free world!

At 14, Dubz attended Presbyterian Hampden-Sydney College. Over three years he mastered French and Latin however due to his father’s religious preferences, he was pulled out of that school and sent to an academy in Southampton County. While at the school he joined up with an antislavery movement spearheaded by Quakers and Methodists; this angered his proslavery father.

His pissy daddy pulled him out of that school and put him under the care of Robert Morris, a Pennsylvania senator. During this time, Dubz attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied medicine under Dr. Benjamin Rush, a Founding Father who not only helped the founding of America but also founded Dickinson College. Not to long after this, Dubz’s dad died and he was stuck with no one to fund his education. He was left in the guardianship of Robert Morris.

Not particularly enjoying the study of medicine, 18 year-old Dubz joined the Army after some persuasion by his father’s friend Henry Lee, the governor of Virginia at the time. Dubz was immediately sent to Cincinnati where the Northwest Indian War was taking place.

When he arrived, he was put under the command of General “Mad Anthony” Wayne a.k.a. Mad Ant. Dubz quickly took to Mad Ant and followed him into the pits of Hell battling against the violent tribes. Mad Ant had come in as a replacement for General Arthur St. Claire who led a disastrous defeat against the savages. Mad Ant, swearing to defeat the Indians and claim Ohio, took a liking to Dubz and promoted him to lieutenant. Dubz stayed close to Mad Ant and watched him lead the Army against their crafty and deadly enemy. It was under Mad Ant that Dubz learned how to lead men into battle successfully. Dubz mastered the art of leadership with his own men and had the respect of his enemy as well.

During this time, there was a major battle that changed Dubz’s life. Somehow the tribes had called upon a great ancient power. This power mystically created exploding pillars of fire on the battle field. Being struck by one of these pillars, Dubz didn’t not immediately die like the rest of his men. In fact, the pillar energized him. His entire body was engulfed in flames but he felt no pain. Instinctually, he started blasting fire from his hands, which caused his targets to explode into ash! The Indians surrounding Dubz dropped their weapons and ran like little bitches, only one Indian remained on the battlefield. Dubz, not feeling threatened by the sole Indian, approached him.

The Indian, dressed like a wise old healer, introduced himself as Old Chuck. He put down his staff and extended a hand towards Dubz, which Dubz shook albeit cautiously. Old Chuck told Dubz that he was the reincarnation of the Pueblo sun god, Bitsis Lizin. He said that he was destined for greatness and that the pillars of fire transformed him into what he was destined to be: a great leader of all men. He also told him that his power would be seen by all native peoples of America but their reactions could range from acceptance and worship to hostility and denial. He warned that many tribes would see a white man posing as the sun god and that they would see it as blasphemy and the work of white demons.

Shortly after this, the tribes fell to the U.S. Army at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794. Following the war, Dubz became a signatory of the Treaty of Greenville. That treaty won and opened up the majority of Ohio to be settled by the rapidly growing American population. During this time his mother died and he inherited his family’s estate which sat on thousands of acres. Due to his busy schedule and new job as a sun deity, Dubz sold the estate to one of his brothers. Following the Northwest Indian War and his mother’s death, Dubz met and married Anna Symmes, the daughter of a prominent judge. Together they would go on to have 10 children.

After resigning from the Army in 1797, Dubz decided to run for public office. In 1799 he was elected to the United States House of Representatives after being inspired to fight against the rising cost of land across the frontier. Having been a real solid leader at war and having founded a successful horse-breeding enterprise, Dubz was able to throw down in Congress with the best of them. As a congressman, Dubz created the Harrison Land Act, which made it easier for new settlers to buy land in the Northwest Territory.

Due to his awesomeness as a congressman, President John Adams appointed Dubz as Governor of the Indiana Territory, without even telling him about it. At that time the Indiana Territory included the future states of Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and the eastern half of Minnesota. Dubz accepted the position after he had assurance from the Jeffersonians that they wouldn’t step on his toes or replace him if they beat Adams in the presidential election of 1800. Trusting the Jeffersonians would come to bite Dubz in the ass.

Dubz moved to Vincennes, which was the capital of the territory and built a large plantation style home that he named Grouseland for the many birds that inhabited the area. Grouseland was the political center of the territory but had many secrets. Many underground chambers and areas were built where Dubz could take quiet refuge and study all the information he was trying to collect on the subject of Native American folklore. Dubz spent a lot of time underneath Grouseland trying to truly understand what he was.

Dubz used his influence as the reincarnation of Bitsis Lizin to expand the territory as the success of it played a big role in the success of his personal finances. Dubz also wanted to provide more land to all the settlers who were expanding west from the original colonies. In short time, he was able to obtain a lot of Native American land. His negotiating skills with the Indians prompted President Thomas Jefferson to grant Dubz the power to negotiate and work out treaties with the Native Americans. Through this new power, Dubz acquired 60,00,000 acres of Indian land and developed thirteen new treaties!

Switching from his antislavery stance earlier in life, Dubz became proslavery when he realized that a territory that permitted slavery would be more appealing to new settlers and thus, fatten his wallet. Dubz ran into problems when the Abolitionist Party came into power and combated him on the issue. Thomas Jefferson then stepped in, with help from antislavery advocate James Lemen, and defeated Dubz’s attempt to bring slavery to the territory. Ultimately, the Jeffersonian contingent brought about the demise of Dubz’s tenure as governor.

Shortly after this, a resistance movement against expansion started growing on the frontier. Many Indians were pissed at the white man’s tendency to multiply and build stuff that wasn’t made out of sticks, twine and pelts. This movement was led by Shawnee brothers Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa. The latter was known as “The Prophet” and he predicted that if the native tribes attacked the white settlers that they would be protected by the Great Spirit. Not fearing Dubz and his power as the sun god Bitsis Lizin, the Prophet and his brother Tecumseh decided that the coalition of indian nations must move swiftly. This started the conflict that is known as Tecumseh’s War.

The Prophet told his people to abandoned the ways of the white man that they had learned over the years. The Indians gave up their guns, their whiskey and settler-styled clothing. Tecumseh then led an army of 400 Indians to Grouseland where they confronted Dubz. Tecumseh declared that the Fort Wayne Treaty was illegitimate and that the tribes would not honor it. Dubz rejected Tecumseh’s claim: infuriating the Indian leader. Tecumseh called for war and his warriors drew their weapons. Dubz’s men pulled their pistols and the Indians backed down claiming that they would get help from the British.

In 1811, Dubz was authorized by Secretary of War William Eustis to march against Tecumseh as a show of force. Dubz and 1,000 men marched into Shawnee territory to confront Tecumseh and persuade him to make peace. Dubz’s army was attacked by surprise however.

Dubz became incredibly angry as the ambush made him look foolish in front of his men. His body immediately became engulfed in flames and he incinerated the countryside and every hostile with it. The Indians were no match for the second coming of Bitsis Lizin and the 1,000 man army! Tecumseh was defeated but he would live on to confront Dubz one more time.

During the War of 1812, President James Madison gave Dubz control of the Army in the Old Northwest, as the Indians were still a major threat even with the main enemy of the war being the British. Where Andrew Jackson was the bad ass fighting in New Orleans and the southern portion of America, Dubz was the bad ass fighting in the northern parts.

Dubz was beaten back by the British and their Indian allies as he was greatly outnumbered and his Army was made of mostly fresh recruits. It wasn’t until 1813, when reinforcements arrived that Dubz was able to take it to the Brits and Indians hard. Dubz wiped the British out on a path of destruction throughout the territory! He reclaimed Indiana and Ohio and also reclaimed the City of Detroit after incinerating the British and the Native Americans at their tiniest molecular level.

Marching into Canada, Dubz was once again faced with having to battle the vengeful Tecumseh and his army of natives and British. This battle was dubbed the Battle of Thames and it was a decisive victory for America during the War of 1812. In fact, it destroyed the coalition of tribal forces, crushed the British and was the last day that Tecumseh walked the Earth. According to history, the battle waged on and was hard fought but realistically, Dubz channeled the sun god powers that churned in his core and torched the opposition. Tecumseh, defiant till the end, never stood a chance against the solar powered tribal deity.

After the Battle of Thames, Dubz resigned after a bitter falling out with Secretary of War John Armstrong. Congress investigated the incidents around Dubz’s resignation and came to the realization that he was severely mistreated by Armstrong. They gave Dubz a gold medal for his service and declared him a hero as the Battle of Thames was the biggest victory of the war, following Andrew Jackson’s medieval smackdown known as the Battle of New Orleans.

After his military service, Dubz ran for president a few times and finally won in the Election of 1840. He was sworn in on March 4th, 1841 and didn’t have time to really do a damn thing, apart from giving the longest inaugural address in American history, as he died on April 4th, 1841: only serving a month in office!

Dubz died of a cold which was ironic as he was the sun god. Many believe that it was caused by a curse surrounding the angry ghost of Tecumseh. That is just a theory however as it was never able to be proven. Maybe the fire just burnt out, who knows? What is known however is that even though Dubz couldn’t truly bring his warrior spirit to the highest office in the land, he did live a life full of swashbuckling bad assery! William Henry Harrison was literally a god amongst men that crushed every challenge that he ever faced. Well, except for the common cold.

Often times, I find myself in arguments with liberal peons and sometimes with blind hardcore conservative nuts. As far as the conservatives go, I pretty much disregard any “fact” (based on faith) that the religious contingent tries to throw my way. As far as the liberals go, I find myself having a hard time just accepting the “facts” that they use as the foundation of their arguments. The reason for my disregarding liberal “facts” is because more often than not, they come from their favorite go-to website, FactCheck.org. That’s cool and all but who the fuck are they? Who has made them the authority? Who the fuck funds them? And most importantly, who the fuck is checking their facts? It’s a fucking website, you may as well just take everything you read on Wikipedia as gospel. Hell, maybe every tweet you read is a short psalm of fact based liberal logic. Maybe every status update on Facebook is an agenda-less piece of liberal law as widely regarded and factual as anything that comes out of the mouths of liberal deities Al Gore and Barack Obama.

On several occasions, I have double checked FactCheck.org after their “facts” have been blindly used by liberals in debates I’ve been a part of. Many of them that I have double checked have been skewed, misrepresented or completely false. Keith Olbermann, probably the biggest douchebag on the planet, has often times referenced information from FactCheck.org and has been found to be wrong. Of course, he’ll deny that and say it’s anti-liberal smear and attack squads that are singling him out and discrediting “facts” because if you don’t agree with his widely distorted and fucked up views, than you are an idiot and a horrible person. Well, not only is Olbermann sucking the FactCheck cock, but so is MSNBC as a whole, well except for Rachel Maddow: she doesn’t like cock (she is a lesbian if you didn’t know, which you probably didn’t because her show gets such shitty ratings).

So what’s the real story behind FactCheck and it’s liberal bias? Who owns it? Well, the answer to that question is the now liberal group, the Annenberg Foundation. The Annenberg Foundation was founded by Walter H. Annenberg, who was at one point a loyal Reagan conservative and diehard Republican. However, Old Walter’s family have changed their tune. Now, the family has close ties to Barack Obama, Bill Ayers and the liberal front in general.

For those who don’t know who Bill Ayers is, do a google search. However, in a nutshell, he led a group of extreme leftists called the Weather Underground (or Weathermen) during the Vietnam War era. His group took credit for bombing the Pentagon, the Capital Building, and the New York City Metro Police Department, as well as over thirty other bombings. Basically, he’s a leftist nutcase psycho fucksack and he’s not in prison.

So how is Obama tied to Ayers and tied to the Annenbergs and thus FactCheck.org?

To start, Ayers was the key founder of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, which was a Chicago public school reform project from 1995 to 2001. Upon its start in 1995, Obama was appointed Board Chairman and President of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Geesh, that alone connects all three. Well, it branches out even more from there.

Ayers co-chaired the organization’s Collaborative, which set the education policies of the Challenge. Oddly enough, Obama was the one who was authorized to delegate to the Collaborative in regards to its programs and projects. In addition to that, Obama often times had to seek advice and assistance from the Ayer’s led Collaborative in regards to the programmatic aspects of grant proposals. Ayers even sat on the same board as Obama as an “ex officio member”. They both also sat together on the board of the CAC’s Governance Committee. Obama and Ayers were two parts of a group of four who were instructed to draft the bylaws that would govern the CAC. Keep in mind that the “A” in CAC is for Annenberg, the owners of FactCheck.org. The funding for Ayer’s projects and those of his cronies was approved by Board Chair, Barack Obama. Together, Ayers and Obama guided money to ACORN. Everyone in America should be familiar with the ACORN bullshit, well unless you’re on Olbermann’s cock or you’re off titty-fucking Chris Matthews.

When analyzing the source of FactCheck.org, one has to also take into account that the Annenberg owned site is ran through the Annenberg School for Communication which is a part of the University of Pennsylvania. UPenn, which I am calling it for abbreviation sake, is a liberally biased institution that has had its fair share of controversies in the past. In recent years, they have had several free speech issues, even though they were awarded the highest possible free speech rating by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.

So, doesn’t all this make FactCheck.org, the Annenberg owned company, at least a little bit biased towards the left? When the issue of Obama’s birth certificate came up, FactCheck.org nipped it in the bud before it had the chance to truly become a scandal. They denied that the birth certificate was even an issue and Obama turned to them to “prove” that his birth certificate was legitimate. Clueless Americans and biased media outlets accepted the “proof” because, well.. it came from a website that no one knows much about. I’ve heard of faith in God, faith in man, faith in one’s self but never have I heard of faith in a mysterious website. I guess people just need something to believe in and Kool-Aid is tasty.

Now I am not a so-called “birther” but I do not trust FactCheck.org’s findings and facts to be authentic. The birth certificate issue is just the tip of the iceberg. Their bias towards the left and especially Obama is obvious to anyone with half a brain cell. They demonize Republican politicians much more so than the Democratic ones. Every questionable thing Obama does is seemingly justified and logical if you reference FactCheck. While the often times common sense approach of libertarians and some in the GOP is stripped down and made to look like pipe dreams and idiotic wishful and naive thinking.

So when it comes down to it, FactCheck.org’s power and legitimacy comes from “We the People”. Perception is king and if you perceive their “facts” to be facts, well then, in you’re mind, they are facts. Unfortunately, the internet has made people lazy. People no longer question things and look for the answers and the facts for themselves. They just do a google search and take either the first thing that pops up or they take the version that best suits their needs or what they already believe or perceive. But anyway, who the fuck am I? This could all be complete bullshit. You’ll never know though unless you look into it for yourself. In the end, depending upon where you stand, the truth could be anything or it could be nothing. I just tell myself that it’s all lies.

So who is fact checking FactCheck.org?

*Taken from InfoWars. Written by Steve Watson.

Law enforcement agencies in Washington D.C. have begun to use technology that they say can predict when crimes will be committed and who will commit them, before they actually happen.

The Minority Report like pre-crime software has been developed by Richard Berk, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

Previous incarnations of the software, already being used in Baltimore and Philadelphia were limited to predictions of murders by and among parolees and offenders on probation.

According to a report by ABC News, however, the latest version, to be implemented in Washington D.C., can predict other future crimes as well.

“When a person goes on probation or parole they are supervised by an officer. The question that officer has to answer is ‘what level of supervision do you provide?’” Berk told ABC News, intimating that the program could have a bearing on the length of sentences and/or bail amounts.

The technology sifts through a database of thousands of crimes and uses algorithms and different variables, such as geographical location, criminal records and ages of previous offenders, to come up with predictions of where, when, and how a crime could possibly be committed and by who.

The program operates without any direct evidence that a crime will be committed, it simply takes datasets and computes possibilities.

“People assume that if someone murdered then they will murder in the future,” Berk also states, “But what really matters is what that person did as a young individual. If they committed armed robbery at age 14 that’s a good predictor. If they committed the same crime at age 30, that doesn’t predict very much.”

Critics have urged that the program encourages categorizing individuals on a risk scale via computer mathematics, rather than on real life, and that monitoring those people based on such a premise is antithetic to a justice system founded on the premise of the presumption of innocence.

Other police departments and law agencies across the country have begun to look into and use similar predictive technologies. The Memphis Police Department, for example uses a program called Operation Blue CRUSH, which uses predictive analytics developed by IBM.

Other forms of pre-crime technology in use or under development include surveillance cameras that can predict when a crime is about to occur and alert police, and even neurological brain scanners that can read people’s intentions before they act, thus detecting whether or not a person has “hostile intent”.

It is not too far fetched to imagine all these forms of the technology being used together in the future by law enforcement bodies.

The British government has previously debated introducing pre-crime laws in the name of fighting terrorism. The idea was that suspects would be put on trial using MI5 or MI6 intelligence of an expected terror attack. This would be enough to convict if found to be true “on the balance of probabilities”, rather than “beyond reasonable doubt”.

The government even has plans to collect lifelong records on all residents starting at the age of five, in order to screen for those who might be more likely to commit crimes in the future.

Another disturbing possibility for such technology comes in the form of a financial alliance of sorts between Internet search engine giant Google and the investment arm of the CIA and the wider U.S. intelligence network.

Google and In-Q-Tel have recently injected a sum of up to $10 million each into a company called Recorded Future, which uses analytics to scour Twitter accounts, blogs and websites for all sorts of information, which is used to “assemble actual real-time dossiers on people.”

The company describes its analytics as “the ultimate tool for open-source intelligence” and says it can also “predict the future”.

Recorded Future takes in vast amounts of personal information such as employment changes, personal education and family relations. Promotional material also shows categories covering pretty much everything else, including entertainment, music and movie releases, as well as other innocuous things like patent filings and product recalls.

Those detached from any kind of moral reality will say “If you’ve got nothing to hide then what is the problem with being scanned for pre-crime? If it keeps us all safe from murderers, rapists and terrorists I’m all for it”.

How far towards a literal technological big brother police state will we slip before people wake up to the fact?