Blinding Prying Eyes: Tactics Useful For Defeating The New Technology Of Seeing

Into Private Homes.

by Corcceigh Green

Touted as a boon to law enforcement, Gene Greneker, the principal designer of the radar flashlight, demonstrates a flashlight sized device that allows law enforcement officers to detect the presence and position of anyone inside of a home. The device, using microwave energy focused into a narrow beam of sixteen degrees, measures the energy reflected back to it after penetrating the walls of a structure. The device is very sensitive to motion, therefore must beheld very steady through the use of an attachment which steadies it against the side of the wall through which it's user wishes to peer. Claiming that such devices would help police avoid deadly ambushes and gain them valuable intelligence in hostage and barricade situations, designers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute demonstrated the efficiency of the device as it detected it's targeted person breathing ten feet beyond two concrete walls.

Components of the radar flashflight.

The radar flashlight, as it has been labeled, was developed with funding from the Justice Department's Office of Science and Technology as just one of the tools the Justice Department says it wishes to develop to aid in law enforcement. Another device being developed by physicist Norbert Wild of Jaycor Corp. works by emitting sound waves and will be effective at peering through walls from thirty feet away. The radar flashlight must be positioned on the wall through which it is meant to peer; however; the brief case sized sound device can be utilized from a greater distance and more hidden from view.

Such tools being used in their touted purpose of hostage rescue or victim recovery after building collapse gives no cause for alarm from among Independent Americans; however; we have no illusions as to the roll which these tools will also play. As demonstrated at the Mt. Carmel Church in Waco, Texas and the Weaver home of Ruby Ridge, Idaho, the Justice Department has had no conscientious problems over murdering innocent Citizens using advanced technology, like helicopters equipped with infrared sensors, which the Justice Department later lied about in a cover-up about the mass murder of the church members of Mt. Carmel.

Recent incidents like the mysterious James Beck incident in Southern California shows that the Justice Department has not abandoned it's reckless, bloody behavior as an entire neighborhood was riddled with bullets fired from BATF agents' machine guns, which were fired into the occupied houses of several innocent residential home owners. Apparently, arriving BATF agents were unable to distinguish the suspect residence being fired upon and other residences being fired upon. That incident ended with the burning of James Beck's home and James Beck's death during the "stand-off".

Though no shots were fired in the raid on the Indiana Baptist Temple, the Justice Department under John Ashcroft has shown it's conviction toward carrying on such actions despite Ashcroft's claim of being Christian and the Bush administration's claim that constitutional rights will be honored.

It should be obvious to all Independent Americans, at this time, that it is Americans' rights, freedom and way of life that has been the focus of attacks such as these from the Justice Department. How can Americans expect anything else from the use of these new tools now being deployed and developed? With this in mind, let's look at some ways in which these technologies for peering into your home can be defeated.

The first barrier to these devices that should be addressed is the construction of your home. Because the radar flashlight utilizes energy in the electro-magnetic spectrum in the micro-wave frequency, it is unable to see through materials that are electrical conductors, such as water or any type of metal. A house incorporating metal siding like aluminum or steel already has the advantage of defeating the radar flashlight. It is the same principal as wrapping a potato in aluminum foil before placing it inside a micro-wave oven. The micro-wave energy is unable to penetrate the metal and leaves the potato uncooked. Don't try this at home; however; as it will damage your micro-wave oven.

Don't despair; however; if your home does not have metal siding. Selected rooms, closets, bath and utility rooms can be easily fitted with metal walls to be used for hiding family members, yourself, pets, equipment or neighbors in. If you are in a hurry and need to construct such a room quickly, aluminum foil or metalized, emergency survival blankets can be nailed, glued or taped to the walls of the selected room. Make certain that the pieces of metal material overlaps each other, so as to give the flashlight's micro-wave beam no gaps through which to enter. Don't forget to sheath the ceiling in the same manner as the walls. This will prevent prying eyes from peering at you from your roof or angling the flashlight downward from above the walls of your room when snoops discover that they cannot see straightway into your sanctuary. If your room is above the ground floor, like on the second story, likewise sheath the floor of your room for the same reason.

If your home includes a full bath with a porcelain bathtub, I would recommend selecting this room as your radar safe room. The bathtub can be filled with water for drinking or in case of fire, (certain agencies have a reputation for leaving burned out property in the wake of their attacks). Also, the porcelain bathtub will offer some small protection from gunfire.

Your best strategy is to remain hidden. Preparations for gunfire and pyrotechnics should be employed only as a last ditch measure.

Also useful for quickly and expediently hiding people, pets and equipment is a non-working freezer or refrigerator unit that can be opened from the inside. These units have metal outside construction through which the radar flashlight cannot see.

The above describes an expedient method by which the radar flashlight can be defeated. For those who have the means, time and skill to remodel one or more rooms of their homes, radar safe rooms can be constructed by removing the drywall on walls, the plywood floors and removing ceilings. Replace the drywall, floor board and ceiling with thin, galvanized sheet metal, screwed into place. Make certain the ceiling and floor sheet metal is overlapped by the sheet metal of the wall and screwed tightly into place. Now replace your drywall, flooring and ceiling. Add a metal door to the room. Paint the rooms interior or wallpaper as you like. The room or rooms are now radar flashlight and micro-wave safe.

As mentioned before, the radar flashlight is only one device under development which allows law enforcement agents to peer into your privacy. Another device similar to the radar flashlight utilizes a broader band electro-magnetic spectrum to penetrate walls. It is possible that the above metal shielding alone may not be enough to defeat the broader spectrum device; however; by grounding your home's metal siding to a metal pipe driven three feet into the ground, all electro-magnetic energy will be conducted away from the interior of your home and whatever may be inside.

To afford the same protection for your home without metal siding, build your radar safe room as above. Drill a hole into the anterior wall of your home into your radar safe room, stopping at the sheet metal. Using sheathed electrical wiring for housing projects and an electronics flat screw connector, fasten the screw connector to the sheathed wiring, then screw the wiring to the sheet metal. Caulk the hole in the side of your home to prevent moisture and cold from getting into your walls. Next, drill a hole in your ground pipe near the top, by the pipe's mouth. Now place the other end of the wire through the hole you just drilled in the pipe, bringing the wire's end up through the mouth and twisting the wire in place in a loop fashion. Be certain that the wire is very firmly connected to the pipe.

Cut slots in the drywall of the interior of your room a few inches from your metal door to the room. Two on each side of the door, one near the door's top and one toward the door's bottom.

Screw wire into the sheet metal as you have done with the ground wire outside of your home. Now, place a patch of metal screen material that is as long as your door and approximately seven inches wide over your metal door's hinges with some of the metal screen overlapping the wall and some of the metal screen overlapping the door. Screw the screen into the door and twist the wires on the wall's side into the metal screen.

Now, open your door to a width that you are able to comfortably slide your arm through up to your shoulder. Measure the distance from one inch to the edge of your door to the wire slots on the open side of the door. Add one inch for good measure and cut a width of screen to that measurement. Again, screw one side of the screen to the door. On the other side of the screen, securely hook, but do not permanently attach the wires. This will allow you to open the door wide enough to unhook the wires, enter the room and re-attach the wires. This room will now defeat all types of electro-magnetic intrusion, including EMP and will also serve as a safe area for electronic equipment.

To afford protection against the broadband flashlight in an expedient situation, Tape, glue or nail aluminum foil or metalized emergency blankets to your wall, floor, door and ceiling. Tape, very securely, to your metal interior, a ground wire. You may attempt to ground this wire to your copper water pipes. This may be efficient in defeating the broadband flashlight. If you are able to, run your wire out of the room, perhaps by window, and ground to your ground pipe. This will defeat all electro-magnetic devices and EMP.

To use your non-working freezer or refrigerator unit to defeat the broadband flashlight, tape or glue aluminum foil over the rubber gaskets and to the metal exterior on both sides of the unit's door all the way around where any rubber exists. Screw your ground wire into the unit's back side, (where it won't show as much), and ground the unit, hopefully to your outside ground pipe. This will defeat all electro-magnetic intrusion, including EMP.

As mentioned before, devices using electro-magnetic energy are not the only devices being developed. A device using sound waves similar to sonar is also under development and is expected to be functional this year. This device must be defeated utilizing the same technology on which it depends. You will need a white noise broadcasting device. These devices are already on the market and are used to defeat laser listening devices that capture sound waves which vibrate windows, allows the user to hear the conversation taking place inside. Placing these devices on walls, floors and ceilings will confuse sound waves being reflected through the room and render information reaching the intruding device useless. Running electric razors along walls will also have a smaller effect. You will probably want your devices to be battery operated, in case your electricity is cut.

The geographical geometry of your property can also be put to use in guarding against these devises. Suppose your house is built upon the top of a rise or hill on your property with the rest of your property being significantly down grade. If users of these devices do not wish to alert you that you are being observed, they will attempt to operate these devices away from your home; however; if they are significantly downgrade of your home, they will have to angle the device upward, which will cause it to miss a significant portion of the interior of your home. Also, raised earthen berms or banks ringing your home will defeat the use of these devices in a straight line, including the soundwave device if it must pass through more than one berm.

Placement of earthen berms around your home will block soundwave devices from peering inside. They also help against small arms fire.

Confusion can also be a useful tactic employed against these devices. These devises are geared primarily to detecting motion. When objects, such as metal cut outs or water buckets are placed on toy trains or rope drawn skate boards and caused to move across a room, this delivers false information to those gathering intelligence. (A great idea that I stole from the Home Alone movies.)

It is, indeed, unfortunate that Americans must be educated as to the operation of devices that are to be employed against them by a government which does not have their best interests in it's intentions. This is the case; however; which makes this article necessary. Please take this article as it was intended; to keep American Citizens safe and unharmed and to give the the knowledge necessary to keep their freedoms in the face of growing tyranny.

Sources:

Daily University Science News

U.S. GOV INFO/RESOURCES

USA Today

c copyright 2002 Corcceigh Green/ The Independent American