Enhance Surveillance: How African American's are being tracked across the U.S. under FISA (Foreigned Intelligence Surveillance Act)

By Jaime Stanton

This book was not intended to be written; however, after completing research in the area of enhanced surveillance, I became more aware of the importance of telling this story. After leaving Wichita, Kansas, and crisscrossing the United States, I became aware that I was continually being profiled by law enforcement officers and agencies across the country.

The forms of this racial profiling and harassment were by local police officers in the city or town where I had stopped for food or gas. Literally, within minutes of my stopping, a police cruiser of one form or another would magically materialize.

At other times, it was a deputy sheriff or a helicopter or even a plane that has been used in this ongoing surveillance. I've included the locations and the various places of these particular forms of enhanced surveillance of African Americans and other minorities throughout this book.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.
• Release date: Feb 10, 2023
• ISBN: 9798885054355

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Enhance Surveillance

How African American'sA are being tracked across the U.S. under FISA (ForeignedA Intelligence Surveillance Act)

Jaime Stanton

Copyright © 2022 Jaime Stanton

All rights reserved

First Edition

Fulton Books

Meadville, PA

Published by Fulton Books 2022

ISBN 979-8-88505-434-8 (paperback)

ISBN 979-8-88505-435-5 (digital)

Printed in the United States of America

For those of you that have had the opportunity to read my first novel In Search of Justice , I would like to take this time to thank you. As a first novel, it's a bit of a daunting task. You have no reference point, where to start, or even how to start it. Nothing to guide you along the way along the journey to its conclusion.

This book was not on the horizon until shortly after completing the first book. I was pointing my attention totally in a different direction for my next book. However, life being life, sometimes you just got to make that lemonade out of the lemons that life brings along.

With that being said, here we go!

After the completion of the first novel, I was on a bit of a high! Not a drug high but an emotional high for getting that book done—completed! It was a very personal book to write, and my emotions were as up and down with the flow of that particular book. Writing about something so personal, an experience so fresh, so new, and so raw brings on an added layer of heightened emotions, heightened emotions, heightened of every sensing and feeling and of every emotion.

As I was sitting around after submitting this book, I knew that I was going to be moving afterward because I was done emotionally with the city of Wichita, Kansas, and the police department there as well as with the law enforcement there in general. So I packed up and put everything that I was not traveling within storage, and I left. The problem was I didn't have any particular place in mine specifically.

This provided me with the opportunity to wander in my travels. A turn here, a turn there, thus I skirted down south of Kansas to the Oklahoma border and headed toward Tulsa, Oklahoma. In the course of my travels, I noticed, like all African Americans, the location and position of any and all law enforcement patrol cars whenever I came upon them.

After I arrived at the Arkansas border, I, for the first time, really noticed a police cruiser pulling up into the gas station within seconds of my arrival.

There were a couple of other cruisers that came upon me on the highway as well. I paid none of them any mind. What was different about this cruiser stopping to get gas was not just their presence but how fast they turned into the gas station, and the rate of speed that they were traveling brought my attention to this car.

Most cities, townships, and communities have their own municipal supply station/depot for all of their city's vehicles. It does not mean that this cruiser could not get gas at a regular gas station, but it seemed odd! The next thing that caught my attention was the manner of behavior of the officer if you work for the city or county, and you are filling up at a public gas station. You better bet your ass that you are going to need to get a receipt. These guys just filled up and sat in the car. I'm watching their behavior now because all kinds of bells and whistles are going off!

I continue to gas up and, afterward, get a copy of my receipt, and this police cruiser just sits there, so I do what I normally do when I feel law enforcement is tracking me. I get out my phone and start taking pictures of the cruiser and try to get the license plate number as well. This gets their attention, and they pull off! Like a thief, they take off at a high rate of speed, but I have the photo that I wanted of their presence.

This act by these police officers made me to have a thought that I had not even thought to consider. What if my experience in Wichita, Kansas, was only a small part of a bigger scheme by law enforcement? That is, what if the leaving—the withdrawal from Wichita, Kansas, and all the bullshit that I endured and encountered there, had other parts to it, and these other parts encompassed a nationwide tracking system by law enforcement. What if? So what could this be? What was it? Everything I had read and learned about the law stipulated the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments of the Constitution to be the law of the land.

If something was in violation of these constitutional amendments, surely it would be stricken down, right? One can't just travel from one state to another in the United States and continue to be tracked by law enforcement in a town or city in which you have no record; a town in which you have no previous issues even with law enforcement, can you?

Surely, in order for a new state's law enforcement to track you, you have to have some outstanding warrant or warrants or a wanted or person of interest poster, right? I'm sad to inform you that this is not the case in today's world, the twenty-first century of law enforcement.

These encounters throughout my travels over the course of the summer of 2021 were the input for and of this book! These encounters continued across the Midwest in my travels from Kansas through Oklahoma; Arkansas; Memphis, Tennessee; Mississippi; and Alabama.

Now I am curious as to what this is. I have relatives in the South, so I go on a visit, and during the day, I go up to the University of Alabama School of Law. Luckily for me, the school year for the law school there actually starts in the summer and not the fall. Or maybe they were getting caught up or wanting to catch up or starting early. I never asked because I was too grateful for the law school to be there, but to be there and to be open exactly when I needed them to be were more than one could have ever hoped for!

The University of Alabama law school sits on the edge of campus at 101 Paul W Bryant Dr. The University of Alabama law library sits adjacent to the law school; it's really attached to it. I don't think they want the law students to have to walk to find the research material that they may need. On the basement level of the law school, there's a student research center (room) as well, specifically for the law students.

Upon arriving at the law school and entering the law library, I will tell you, I never, for a second, felt like I was treated like a second-class citizen. The law library staff and students were terrific!

This is the same school during the '60s that fought integration, and the national guard had to be called out all over the state to allow African Americans to be able to attend schools there, including the University of Alabama.

This very same school in 2021 did everything humanly possible to help me find whatever I might need in order to find some of the answers to my question for this book. I informed the staff that I was a citizen from out of state and that I was seeking to review case law, books, and reference materials related to the police and law enforcement and tracking. The staff took it from there. They pulled down volumes of books and showed me where the other volumes could be found and went on a basement treasure hunt for even more books and volumes. It was a daunting task with no known specific reference point other than this, and they worked miracles, all for a nonstudent, out-of-town African American! I am still in awe of that school but even more so of the staff that they have assembled there! Sometimes things cannot only change but do change for the better! Studs Terkel interviewing James Baldwin, WFMT radio station, Chicago (1961):

Terkel. What do you mean by a sense of tragedy?

Baldwin. People think that a sense of tragedy is a kind of embroidery, something irrelevant that you can take or leave. But in fact, it is a necessity. That's what the blues and spirituals are all about. It is the ability to look a ton of things as they