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@PapyrusBrigade@mstdn.ca  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

Today I learned that police can use GM's OnStar to remotely control a vehicle they are tracking.

From the Ontario Special Investigations Unit (SIU) report on shooting a man chased in a 2 day manhunt in Temagami in Oct 2025: "OPP communications coordinated with OnStar to track a pick-up truck, receiving intermittent GPS updates indicating the vehicle was moving and later stationary near Highway 11. OPP crews attended and set up a containment site at Roosevelt Road and Highway 11. The Complainant’s vehicle was sighted approaching the containment and then reversing away. Authorization was provided to OnStar to initiate a gradual slowdown of his vehicle."

The SIU report (case #25-PFI-401):
https://siu.on.ca/en/directors_report_details.php?drid=4923

Many articles online about how US CBP/ICE and FBI have been making use of this.

#OnStar #Surveillance #ACAB #SIU #OPP #Temagami #Policing #GPS #Ontario

Special Investigations Unit -- Director's Report Details, Case Number: 25-PFI-401

This is the [...] page of the SIU website.
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PapyrusBrigade
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@PapyrusBrigade@mstdn.ca replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

But also ...

The subject of the October 2025 Temagami manhunt was being chased because he said he was "a perpetrator of genocide and a threat to civilization" after having purchased a semi-automatic and 180 rounds of ammunition. After capture, he was deemed to be suffering from paranoid psychosis and held under the Mental Health Act. He was former Canadian military.

Apparently unrelated, 4 young men, also former military, have been charged with terrorism after an apparent plot to forcibly seize cottages and land near Quebec City, in preparation for the zombie apocalypse.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/former-members-of-military-facing-terrorism-charges-informant-9.7068700

I see that zombie apocalypse was a right-wing QAnon conspiracy related to Covid vaccines.
https://slate.com/technology/2023/10/5g-zombies-apocalypse-emergency-alert-system-conspiracy-theory.html

Destructive conspiracy theories spilling out into real life.

#ConspiracyTheories #AntiVax

Slate Magazine

The Evolution of a 5G Zombie Apocalypse Conspiracy Theory

The deeper story of this zombie apocalypse began years ago.
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