What is Schengen (What does it mean for a country
to accept & enter the Shengen agreement)
These days as Bulgaria and Romania are the newest members of the
European Union, there is a lot of discussions and talks which talks
about the next stage of assimilation of EU of a new country
member.
These next stage the entry of
Schengen free border zone
gives a countries member more rights throughout the free movement
of goods and especially the movement of people within the European
Union borders.
But is really the full entrance of the European Union is an
innocent thing?
Many people nowdays and especially the media, almost always talks
positive about the European Union, the European Parliament and of
course Schengen.
These of course is a public farse, since people are being diluted
to belief that the European Union is a great union with only
positive influence on the member countries economy.
Is it really the case? As Schengen is a major thing discussed
nowdays in Bulgaria I spend some time in a quick research what in
reality is schengen?
Publicly it's being announced that in order to enter Schengen the
member country has to match certain anti-corruption criterias, only
then it can enter the Schengen contract agreement.
Yes entering schengen is actually the acceptance of the EU country
members's agreement to share information freely in between.
This includes information about the citizens, information from
CCTV -
the Collective Circuit Television as well as
information between country states police stations.
The way schengen is explained in the news however defers a bit,
most of the people know about schengen as something that will let a
member country to remove it's border police and thus give more
freedom to the people.
But is that really true? Of course not. The question comes how will
then criminals be tracked if there are free borders passing by,
like it is currently in 25 of the member countries from 27.
It's very simple
CCTV comes at hand, for those who doesn't
know what is CCTV let me give you a brief explanation. CCTV is a
centralized network of cameras for surveilence, throughout Europian
Union.
It's primary goal is to track criminals, bank robberies,
anti-social behaviour you name it.
On the upper layer this sounds very tempting, since it will help us
find corruption and therefore reduce level of corruption, that's
right and I have to admit from that angle the CCTV is a great tool
to strengthen security.
Nevertheless it's important now to see over CCTV from a bit of
other perspective, what if CCTV is used for massive espionage
(company, government, people) spy?
What if somebody insane like Hitler one day heads up the peaceful
democracy order of the European Parliament?
The control over people and the break in personal life is
constantly growing with an excuse of doing good for improving
security, that is clear for sure.
As with everything new only the positive sides of technology
helping us grow is being presented, the negative consequences are
always hidden away as it was from the beginning of civillization I
believe.
Now let me go back to the topic what is Schengen?
Apparantly there is a technological side which makes Schengen a
success, so what it is is?
Is there a certain EU administrative body which takes advantage of
Schengen?
The answer is yes there is and it's called
Europol or
European Union Police, remember the famous Interpol? Can you think
about some similarity, I believe it's quite similar as an
idea.
This of course in a long term is a scary thing, having a
centralized police is quite a dangerous thing especially if it's
ruled by a specific malicious people, let's say similar to Hitler,
Stalin or their governments.
To become a reality
Schengen has been made official through
two agreements.
1. The first agreement, the Agreement on the gradual abolition of
checks at the common borders, was signed in 1985 and was above all
a declaration of intent by the five governments.
- The agreement provided for a number of short-term and long-term
measures to be taken in order to guarantee free movement across of
internal borders. 2. The second agreement, the Convention
implementing the Schengen Agreement, was also signed in the town of
Schengen on 19 June 1990 and provided for a number of
countervailing measures which were meant to prevent that the
abolition of border controls would lead to criminal impunity.
To make this agreements work out an information system was built
called:
Schengen Information System or as shortly referred
SIS
The Schengen Information System contains alerts of wanted
individuals and objects from all participating countries. Using
this common database, the countries’ authorities can gain access to
alerts from other participating countries, along with information
about the action that has to be taken against the wanted individual
or object
According to public information the following information about
ihnabitants of all 25 member countries is stored in Schengen
information system:
* First and last names; middle initial
* Possible objective and permanent physical characteristics
* Date of birth
* Birthplace
* Sex
* Nationality
* Any aliases they may be using
* Whether the person in question was armed and/or violent
* Reason for the alert
* Action to be taken if person encountered
* Lost, stolen, or misappropriated firearms alert
* Lost, stolen, or misappropriated identity documents alert
* Lost, stolen, or misappropriated blank identity documents
alert
* Lost, stolen, or misappropriated motor vehicles alert
* Lost, stolen, or misappropriated banknotes
alert
As it can be seen from the list, mass profiling of individuals who
live in the bborders of the European Union and part of Schengen is
at hand.
This according to me is a breach of privacy and thus restricting
human's basic right of freedom behind people's back.
This of course right now is just a first step that the EU makes as
an attempt for a global data mining about the inhabitants of it's
mega-state.
Further on I've found out by europol's website the following
information about SIS's information about individuals
storage:
These are the categories of people that can be described in the
SIS: individuals wanted for extradition;
third-country nationals declared
ineligible to enter national territory;
individuals who have disappeared and who are wanted;
individuals who are being traced
as part of legal procedures;
individuals who must be monitored
discreetly or controlled specifically by the police.
Besides individuals, the following objects can also be listed in
the SIS:
vehicles to be controlled and to be confiscated;
firearms;
identity documents;
issued or blank travel documents;
banknotes.
As you can see the list of things stored in the Schengen
Information System is really huge, and the possibilities it's just
an entry door to know about people within the European Union under
the excuse that it's all about business's good.
In the most modern Western Countries, situation is even worsers as
I've learned from a friend of mine,
the Mobile Phones in Switzerland are being tap lined and recorded
as well as semantic analysis of the speech is being applied, by IT
equipment
For instance if you use some keynote words like drugs
Marijuana , Heroin etc. too often you might be
suspected easily that you're a drug dealer and the police can come
and knock on your home's door quite quickly.
If this was the only appliance of these technology it would be
fine, but we never know what the further appliance will be.
It's interesting to mention here also what is a SIRENE
Office .
SIRENE Office's explanation I will directly include here
from police-eu2010.eu's website:
The Belgian SIRENE office is part of the federal police
directorate of operational police information. The SIRENE office is
charged with the input and follow-up of the Belgian alerts which
are entered into the SIS. The office also stays in touch 24/7 with
the other SIRENE offices in order to exchange information on wanted
individuals and objects.
This means that there are a server points where all the data about
country inhabitants is stored and transferred to a central location
Belgium !
I would like to ask why all the data from Schengen containing all
information concerning European Union citizens is being transferred
to a central location in Belgium?
What if a hacker hacks into this location and obtains all the
information about ALL PEOPLE IN EUROPE from that system and uses it
for EVIL purposes?
Information is power in our century and many people especially the
people in the highest positions of society knows it very
well.
Further on what if the central SIRENE Office local for a member
country is being hacked and the data concening a country's
ihnabitans is being stolen by a hacker?
This data can be used for instance to steal money from possible
bank accounts, make a fake identities, lie to authorities in many
forms, the list is endless ...
What is even worser is that currently a SIS2 has been
developed to replace the old SIS - Schengen Information
System
These new system's primary goal is to allow more information and
different type of objects of information to be integrated with the
information from SIS this means even more data mining for EU
inhabitants will happen in the future.
These of course is the publicly presented information about
Schengen's information system in reality there could be even more
precise ways that aims the SIS system to track people and
capitals's movement.
Therefore having in consideration all of the above information I
believe it's not beneficial for Bulgaria and Romania to enter the
Schengen agreement.
Moreover as it's seen by many countries who have accepted the Euro
and exchanged their own country currency the Euro has destabilized
the country's economies and had made the rich countries living
standard to lower down.
I hope more people and posts like mine will emerge in an attempt to
warn people about the fallacies of integration of tracking of
people and capital via information systems.
To close up all this post, I'll just mention about the rule in
mathematics which claims that the more complex one system is the
higher the probability for a failure is present.
This comes because of the increased of points of failures.
Today world as we build shows us in practice the consequences of
this ruled explained, even the economic crisis which is so-severe
for quite a time is caused pratly because of this rule.
We people have build up systems to guarantee honesty, but on
individual levels many of us has acted dishonest and found a way to
get around the system.
It will be always like that and the curve of sin that humanity
commits will be in exponential growth, with the increase of
external phisycal rules & regulations and systems we as humans
adopt.
The only way to really stop corruption is to stop lying and doing
it, individually, then the corruption will be gone and the need for
systems to prevent corruption will be obsolete.