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Broache73 · 46-50, F
“Once a Government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomesa source of terror to all its Citizensand creates a country where everyone lives in fear.” — President Harry S. Truman

Ever since Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his groundbreaking “I Have a Dream” speech during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on Aug. 28, 1963, the Deep State has been hard at work turning King’s dream into a living nightmare.


Race Wars are still being stoked by both the Right and the Left; the Military-Industrial Complex is still waging Profit-driven Warfare ALL AT TAXPAYER'S EXPENSE; the Oligarchy (you yourselves voted who said they represent your interests) is calling the shots in the seats of Government Power; and the Government is stillweaponizing Surveillancein order to muzzle anti-Government Sentiment, harass Activists, and terrorize the American Public into compliance.



Starting in the 1950s, the Government relied on COINTELPRO, its domestic Intelligence program,to neutralize Domestic Political Dissidents. Thosetargeted by the FBIunder COINTELPRO for its intimidation, surveillance and Smear Campaigns included: Martin Luther King Jr., Malcom X, the Black Panther Party, John Lennon, Billie Holiday, Emma Goldman, Aretha Franklin, Charlie Chaplin, Ernest Hemingway, Felix Frankfurter, and hundreds more.

In more recent decades, the Powers-That-Be have expanded their reach to target anyone who opposes the Police State, regardless of their Political leanings.

Advances in Technology have enabled the Government to deploy a veritable arsenal of Surveillance Weapons in order to “expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize” perceived threats to the Government’s power.

Surveillance Cameras mounted on Utility poles, Traffic lights, businesses, and homes. License Plate readers. Ring doorbells. GPS Devices. Dash Cameras. Drones. Store Security Cameras. Geofencing and Geotracking. FitBits. Alexa. Internet-connected Devices.Geofencing dragnets. Fusion Centers. Smart Devices. Behavioral threat assessments. Terror watch lists. Facial recognition. Snitch Tip Lines. Biometric Scanners. Pre-crime. DNA databases. Data Mining. Precognitive Technology. Contact Tracing Apps.

The average Person is nowMonitored, Surveilled, Spied on and Tracked in more than different waysby both Government and Corporate eyes and ears. The Government is weaponizing its 360 degree Surveillance Technologies to flag you as a threat to National Security, WHETHER OR NOT YOU ’VE DONE ANYTHING WRONG!!!

• Flagging you as a danger based on your feelings; Customs and Border Protection is reportedly using anArtificial Intelligence surveillance program that can detect “sentiment and emotion”in Social Media posts in order to identify travelers who may be “a threat to Public Safety, National Security, or lawful Trade and Travel.”

• Flagging you as a danger based on your phone and movements; Cell Phones have become de facto snitches, offering up a steady stream of digital location data on users’ movements and travels. For instance, the FBI was able to use Geofence data to identify more than 5,000 mobile devices (and their owners) in a 4-acre area around the Capitol on January 6. This latest Surveillance Tactic could land you in jail for being in the “wrong place and time.” Police are also usingcell-site simulators to carry out Mass Surveillance of protestswithout the need for a warrant. Moreover, Federal Agents can now employ a number of hacking methods in order to gain access to your computer activities and “see” whatever you’re seeing on your monitor. Malicious Hacking Software can also be used to remotely activate Cameras and Microphones, offering another means of glimpsing into the Personal Business of a target.

• Flagging you as a danger based on your DNA; DNA Technology in the hands of government officials completes our transition to a Surveillance State. If you have the misfortune to leave your DNA traces anywhere a Crime has been committed, you’ve already got a file somewhere in some state or federal database—albeit it may be a file without a name. By accessing your DNA, theGovernment will soon know everything else about you that they don’t already know: your family chart, your ancestry, what you look like, your Health History, your inclination to follow orders or chart your own course, etc. After all, a DNA print reveals everything about “who we are, where we come from, and who we will be.” It can also be used topredict the physical appearanceof potential suspects. It’s only a matter of time before the police state’s pursuit of Criminals expands intogenetic profilingand apreemptive hunt for Criminals of the future.

• Flagging you as a danger based on your face;Facial recognition software aims to create a Society in which every individual who steps out into public is tracked and recorded as they go about their daily business. Coupled with Surveillance cameras that blanket the country, Facial recognition Technology allows the Government and its Corporate Partners to identify and track someone’s movements in real-time. One particularly controversial Software Program created by Clearview AI has beenused by police, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security to collect photos on Social Media sitesfor inclusion in a massive Facial Recognition Database. Similarly, Biometric Software, which relies on one’s unique identifiers (fingerprints, irises, voice prints), is becoming thestandard for navigating Security lines, as well as bypassing Digital locks and gaining access to Phones, Computers, office buildings, etc. In fact, greater numbers of travelers are opting into programs that rely on their Biometrics in order to avoid long waits at Airport Security. Scientists are also developing lasers that canidentify and surveil individuals based on their heartbeats, scent and microbiome.

• Flagging you as a danger based on your behavior; Rapid advances inbehavioral Surveillanceare not only making it possible for individuals to be monitored and tracked based on their patterns of movement or behavior, including gait recognition (the way one walks), but have given rise to wholeindustries that revolve around predicting one’s behaviorbased on Data and Surveillance patterns and are also shaping the behaviors of whole populations. One smart “anti-riot” surveillance system purports topredict mass riots and unauthorized public eventsby using artificial intelligence to analyze Social Media, News sources, surveillance video feeds and Public Transportation data.

• Flagging you as a danger based on your spending and consumer activities; With every Smartphone we buy, every GPS device we install, every Twitter, Facebook, and Google account we open, every frequent buyer card we use for purchases—whether at the grocer’s, the yogurt shop, the Airlines or the Department Store—and every credit and debit card we use to pay for our transactions, we’re helping Corporate America build a dossier for its Government counterparts on who we know, what we think, how we spend our money, and how we spend our time. Consumer surveillance, by which your activities and data in the physical and online realms are tracked and shared with advertisers, has becomea $300 Billion industry that routinely harvests your data for profit. Corporations such as Target have not only been tracking and assessing the behavior of their customers, particularly their purchasing patterns, for years, but the retailer has also funded major Surveillance in Cities across the country and developed behavioral surveillancealgorithms that can determine whether someone’s mannerisms might fit the profile of a thief.

• Flagging you as a danger based on your public activities; Private Corporations in conjunction with Police Agencies throughout the country have createda web of Surveillance that encompasses all Major Citiesin order to monitor large groups of people seamlessly, as in the case of protests and rallies. They are also engaging in extensive Online Surveillance, looking for any hints of “large public events, social unrest, gang communications, and criminally predicated individuals.” Defense contractors have been at the forefront of thislucrative market. Fusion Centers,$330 million-a-year, information-sharing hubsfor Federal, State and Law Enforcement agencies,monitor and report such “suspicious” behavior as people buying pallets of bottled water, photographing Government buildings, and applying for a pilot’s license as “suspicious activity.”

• Flagging you as a danger based on your social media activities; Every move you make, especially on Social Media, is monitored, mined for data, crunched, and tabulated in order to form a picture of who you are, what makes you tick, and how best to control you when and if it becomes necessary to bring you in line. AsThe Interceptreported, the FBI, CIA, NSA and other Government Agencies are increasingly investing in and relying on Corporate Surveillance Technologies that can mine constitutionally protected speech on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram in order to identify potential extremists and predict who might engage in future acts of Anti-Government behavior. This obsession with Social Media as a form of Surveillance will have somefrightening consequences in coming years.

As Helen A.S. Popkin, writing forNBC News, observed, “We may very well face a future wherealgorithms bust people en masse for referencing illegal ‘Game of Thrones’ downloads… the new software has the potential to roll, Terminator-style, targeting every Social Media user with a shameful confession or questionable sense of humor.”

• Flagging you as a danger based on your social network; Not content to merely spy on individuals through their online activity, Government Agencies are now usingSurveillance Technology to track one’s Social Network, the people you might connect with by Phone, Text Message, Email, or through Social Message, in order to ferret out possible Criminals. An FBI document obtained byRolling Stonespeaks to the ease with which agents areable to access address book data from Facebook’s WhatsApp and Apple’s iMessage servicesfrom the accounts of targeted individualsandindividuals not under investigation who might have a targeted individual within their network. What this creates is a “guilt by association” society in which we are all as guilty as the most culpable person in our address book.

• Flagging you as a danger based on your car; License Plate Readers are mass surveillance tools that can photograph over 1,800 license tag numbers per minute, take a picture of every passing license tag number and store the tag number and the date, time, and location of the picture in a searchable database, then share the data with law enforcement, fusion centers and private companies to track the movements of persons in their cars. With tens of thousands of these License Plate Readers now in operation throughout the country, affixed to overpasses, cop cars and throughout business sectors and residential neighborhoods, it allows police to track vehicles and run the plates through law enforcement databases for abducted children, stolen cars, missing people and wanted fugitives. Of course, the technology is not infallible: there have been numerous incidents in whichPolice have mistakenly relied on license plate datato capture out suspects only to end up detaining innocent people at gunpoint.

• Flagging you as a danger based on your political views;The Church Committee, the Senate task force charged with investigating COINTELPRO abuses in 1975, concluded that the government had carried out “Secret Surveillance of citizens on the basis of Political beliefs, even when those beliefs posed no threat of Violence or illegal acts on behalf of a hostile Foreign Power.” The report continued: “Groups and individuals have been harassed and disrupted because of their Political views and their lifestyles… Intelligence agencies have served the Political and Personal objectives of presidents and other high Officials.” Nothing has changed since then.

• Flagging you as a danger based on your correspondence; Just about every Branch of the Government —from the Postal Service to the Treasury Department and every agency in between—now has its own Surveillance sector, authorized to spy on the American Public. For instance, the U.S. Postal Service has been photographing the exterior of every piece of paper Mailfor the past 20 years, also spying on Americans’ Texts, Emails, and Social Media. Headed up by the Postal Service’s Law Enforcement Division, theInternet Covert Operations Program(iCOP) is reportedlyusing facial recognition technology, combined with fake online identities, to ferret out potential troublemakers with “inflammatory” posts. The Agency claims the Online Surveillance, which falls outside its conventional job scope of processing and delivering paper Mail, is necessary to help Postal workers avoid “potentially volatile situations.”



The Government wants us to believe that we have nothing to fear from these Mass Spying programs as long as we’ve done nothing wrong.

Are you foolish enough to believe that?!

Matthew Feeney warned in theNew York Times, “In the past, Communists, Civil rights Leaders, Feminists, Quakers, folk singers, war protesters and others have been on the receiving end of Law Enforcement Surveillance.No one knows who the next target will be!”

The Government ’s definition of a “bad” guy is extraordinarily broad, and it results in the Warrantless Surveillance of innocent, law-abiding American Taxpayers and Consumers on a staggering scale.

Moreover, there is a repressive, suppressive effect to Surveillance that not only acts as a potentially small deterrent on Crimes but serves to monitor and chill lawful First Amendment activity, and that is the whole point. Weaponized surveillance is re-engineering a society structured around the aesthetic of fear.

As made perfectly clear inBattlefield America: The War on the American People, the Police State wants us silent, servile and compliant.

They definitely do not want us to engage in First Amendment activities that challenge the Government's power, reveal the Government's corruption, expose the Government's lies, and encourage the Citizenry to push back against the Government's many injustices which I certainly encourage ALWAYS.

They certainly do not want us to remember that we have Rights, let alone attempting to exercise those Rights peaceably and lawfully, whether it’s protesting Police Brutality and Racism, challenging appallingly ignorant COVID-19 Mandates, questioning Election outcomes, or listening to alternate viewpoints—even conspiratorial ones—in order to form our own opinions about the true nature of Government...

Broache73 · 46-50, F
https://youtu.be/OEI1LyoNv6g?si=FTdzyvEOXdSjw3Ov

Yet again, Whatever we tolerate now—whatever we turn a blind eye to—whatever we rationalize when it is inflicted on others, whether in the name of securing Racial Justice or defending Democracy or combatting Fascism, will eventually come back to imprison us all.

The point of the matter; You don’t have to like or agree with anyone who has been muzzled or made to disappear online because of their views, but to ignore the long-term ramifications of such censorship is dangerously naïve, because whatever powers you allow the Government and its Corporate paymasters to claim now will eventually be used against you by TYRANTS OF YOUR OWN MAKING!
eli1601 · 70-79, M
Since we no longer have an independent justice dept and judiciary, yes.
PatKirby · M
@eli1601

^Bingo^ This has disrupted the balance of powers between the major branches of government.
These douche bags called “ the administration” and their puppet Joe Biden ( mentally wrecked) are certainly giving it their best shot.
Richard65 · M
You'd have to ask yourself if the government has been cruel to you and most everyone else? Do you feel oppressed? Do you walk the streets in fear of arrest, just for writing this post? Does the government use unreasonable and arbitrary powers against you?

In my opinion, anyone who thinks the US government is tyrannical has little idea of life under a truly tyrannical regime.
Virgo79 · 61-69, M
Mildly yes, but it will escalate, slowly sneaking it right in
i like how they open leases that are so unsustainable $$$ under current regulations, nobody will take them on.
then they claim its a lie they shut down energy independence.... myth i tells you.. c'mon man...
cerealguy · 26-30, M
Pretty much

An oligarchical tyranny where the majority of people are scared to really do anything about it because they have been demoralized and ideologically subjugated
akindheart · 61-69, F
We are living under idiocy
PatKirby · M
@akindheart

Putting it nicely.
SW-User
In about a decade we're going to see a massive revival in the mon genre because of all the based on true story movies that's going to be coming out about the Chinese Mafia and their American politician ties. It goes a lot deeper than it ever did with the Italians
calicuz · 51-55, M
First, what is Tyranny?

Merriam-Webster's Dictionary:

tyranny
noun
tyr·an·ny
Synonyms of tyranny
1
: oppressive power
every form of tyranny over the mind of man
—Thomas Jefferson
especially : oppressive power exerted by government
the tyranny of a police state
2
a
: a government in which absolute power is vested in a single ruler
especially : one characteristic of an ancient Greek city-state
b
: the office, authority, and administration of a tyrant
3
: a rigorous condition imposed by some outside agency or force
living under the tyranny of the clock
—Dixon Wecter
4
: an oppressive, harsh, or unjust act : a tyrannical act
workers who had suffered tyrannies


So I ask: Is the Constitution of the United States being circumvented, manipulated, or out right violated?
royalblue1193 · 31-35, M
we'll see after 2024
zonavar68 · 51-55, M
It was under Mr Trump, hence why that has to be prevented from repeating.
AthrillatheHunt · 51-55, M
@zonavar68 it’s hard to believe we all lived through the tyranny of the Trump presidency . We are all survivors of tyranny. Hahahahahaha
@calicuz We're anticipating tyranny. That's for sure. 👌 🇺🇲
SW-User
@calicuz you should thank Reagan for keep you out on the streets free to roam
4meAndyou · F
This morning a friend sent me an article which stated that Biden is now requiring ALL government employees to drive electric vehicles. But the real tyranny was when he began his presidency by ruling that no new oil fields were allowed to go into production, sent our strategic oil supply to China, and shut down big coal.
@4meAndyou Joe is an ass hole. It won’t work, and he’ll be long dead before he sees this panacea of climate change and EVs come to fruition.
AthrillatheHunt · 51-55, M
We have it better than most . For the time being at least . lol
Nitedoc · 51-55, M
The United States has been under tyranny since the civil war of the mid 19th century.

 
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