Posted on 07/13/2023 6:41:37 AM PDT by MtnClimber
We’re all being targeted now.
We’re all guilty until proven innocent now.
And thanks to the 24/7 surveillance being carried out by the government’s spy network of fusion centers, we are all now sitting ducks, just waiting to be tagged, flagged, targeted, monitored, manipulated, investigated, interrogated, heckled and generally harassed by agents of the American police state.
Although these precrime programs are popping up all across the country, in small towns and big cities, they are not making us any safer but they are endangering individual freedoms.
Nationwide, there are upwards of 123 real-time crime centers (a.k.a. fusion centers), which allow local police agencies to upload and share massive amounts of surveillance data and intelligence with state and federal agencies culled from surveillance cameras, facial recognition technology, gunshot sensors, social media monitoring, drones and body cameras, and artificial intelligence-driven predictive policing algorithms.
These data fusion centers, which effectively create an electronic prison—a digital police state—from which there is no escape, are being built in partnership with big tech companies such as Microsoft, Google and Amazon, which helped to fuel the rise of police militarization and domestic surveillance.
While these latest expansions of the surveillance state are part of the Biden Administration’s efforts to combat domestic extremism through the creation of a “precrime” crime prevention agency, they have long been a pivotal part of the government’s plans for total control and dominion.
Yet this crime prevention campaign is not so much about making America safer as it is about ensuring that the government has the wherewithal to muzzle anti-government discontent, penalize anyone expressing anti-government sentiments, and preemptively nip in the bud any attempts by the populace to challenge the government’s authority or question its propaganda.
As J.D. Tuccille writes for Reason, “[A]t a time when government officials rage against ‘misinformation’ and ‘disinformation’ that is often just disagreement with whatever opinions are currently popular among the political class, fusion centers frequently scrutinize peaceful dissenting speech.”
Indeed, while the Biden Administration was recently dealt a legal blow over its attempts to urge social media companies to do more to combat so-called dis- and mis-information, these fusion centers are the unacknowledged powerhouses behind the government’s campaign to censors and retaliate against those who vocalize their disagreement and discontent with government policies.
FBI Director Christopher Wray admitted that the nation’s principal federal law enforcement agency regularly obtains innocent Americans’ personal data from companies with the intent of potentially charging them with crimes. - The Federalist
Bkmk
Minority Report
America is fading into the rear view mirror.
“Nationwide, there are upwards of 123 real-time crime centers (a.k.a. fusion centers),
These have been around since 9/11.
Why the sudden outrage? Most of the people on this site supported the genesis, the Patriot Act, when it was passed.
Though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.—St. Paul
“If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear, Citizen.”
Atlas Shrugged Ping
this article aside, hope this morning finds you well FRiend,
Tatt
“If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear, UNLESS we say you do Citizen”
Fixed it.
Unless the people stop this, it is going to get real. Don’t think one person can do this alone without sacrifices from the many.
“Did you really think we want those laws observed?” said Dr. Ferris. “We want them to be broken. You’d better get it straight that it’s not a bunch of boy scouts you’re up against... We’re after power and we mean it... There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that’s the system, Mr. Reardon, that’s the game, and once you understand it, you’ll be much easier to deal with.”
Aren’t these things a natural outgrowth of technology: cameras everywhere and the internet where videos and all sorts of other data is collected and made available to government.
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It worked pretty well in Germany, it aught to work here. The remaining WWII vets must be insane with sorrow.
I have nothing to hide but that won't stop them from framing me if they want to target me on some bogus charges.
“Yet this crime prevention campaign is not so much about making America safer as it is about ensuring that the government has the wherewithal to muzzle anti-government discontent, penalize anyone expressing anti-government sentiments, and preemptively nip in the bud any attempts by the populace to challenge the government’s authority or question its propaganda.”
Which might work fine if a few pockets of discontent arise. But it will fail miserably if there is a general strike, uprising, mass civil disobedience, etc.
Remember, no matter how much they want to crack down, no matter how many systems they put in place ahead of time, we will always outnumber the government stooges. We are the ones with the real power, not them, we just have to decide to use it, damn the consequences.
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