Posted on 05/18/2021 2:44:35 PM PDT by Mount Athos
The Pentagon is planning to 'continuously' trawl the social media accounts of military personnel for 'extremist behavior and views' - and will use a private security company to shield itself from concerns that it's violating First Amendment rights.
The pilot program, which is being created as part of the Biden administration's plan to crack down on domestic extremism, will result in the ongoing monitoring of military personnel for 'concerning behaviors', according to sources and internal documents obtained by The Intercept.
The program is being spearheaded by Bishop Garrison, a senior adviser to President Biden's Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, who has previously said Trump and his supporters are racist and is an advocate for Critical Race Theory and the 1619 Project, which teaches that America is an inherently racist nation founded on slavery.
Garrison, a former foreign policy adviser on Hillary Clinton's unsuccessful presidential campaign, is a director of Human Rights First, a nonprofit that wants to 'demilitarize and promote racial justice' in law-enforcement agencies and pushes for refugee protection and asylum, among other things.
Babel Street, a private company in Washington DC that sells social media monitoring software, is the front runner to carry out the surveillance, according to Pentagon officials.
That company has previously been criticized for buying cellular location data and selling it off to the Secret Service and other federal agencies, including Border Patrol and ICE.
Garrison, who is a West Point military graduate, has previously suggested that anyone who supported President Trump was a racist.
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I’m ready when you folks are.
So will these folks who’ll soon be ousted be on the right side of the inevitable ugliness to come?
“iT’s A pRiVaTe CoMpAnY, tHeY cAn dO wHaT tHeY lIkE!”
If a private company acts on behalf and in coordination with the government, does THAT constitute a violation of the First Amendment?
You know the pot is now boiling fiercely. Last chance to jump out.
using a private company does not shield them from violating the First Amendment
Here, Here!!!!
The Chinese are going to kick our asses.
The Woke are the fascist. The Woke are scum.
“If a private company acts on behalf and in coordination with the government, does THAT constitute a violation of the First Amendment?”
Well, depending on the circumstances, it could very well be a clear example of fascism.
In the USSR, they were called political commissars...
Well...I looked at his photo.
He’s risen to such heights and yet accuses the USA of being racist. He’s sort of an oxymoron.
When this finally gets around to every citizen being monitored those of us who don’t do FB, Twit, etc. will be labeled as antisocial and be treated accordingly.
I’m a Vietnam era vet. I’m enrolled in the VA medical system, service connected disabled. I do not trust the Government AT ALL! If I were a soldier, airman, or seaman today, I would not trust anything that the Democrat run government told me to do. I’d do my duty, but I keep in the back of my mind and judgement, that we are not obliged to commit acts that violate our sense of right and
wrong(Mi Lai massacre).
Democrats better remember that.
your social credit score will be like mine. less than zero.
and the private company will be a Soros company
The Chinese are going to kick our asses.
Yup, it won’t even be close. Been saying that for a while now.
It’s totalitarian. Problem is...many of these “private” companies get government subsidies. Then with that hook..they’re controllable. And many want it...so it seems.
Posted last night: Photo of a group of SF types in a semicircle, holding their weapons.
Caption: "Just remember, All these highly trained guys you purged are now civilians."
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