Everyone has something, everyone has broken some law, everyone has had some transgression somehow, someplace, somewhere.
Giving the Government legal carte blanche to comb over your personal, travel, financial, posting, surfing, sexual, educational, professional, employment, entertainment, or any other history with a fine tooth comb and compare it every law in the Federal Register to look for violations (something I am certain they can do with AI now or in the near future) and prosecute at their pleasure.
Beria, the head of Stalin's State Security is famous for having said "Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime."
That is not only exactly what this is for, this is where we are headed. And believe me, this will be far more encompassing, invasive, and tyrannical than anything Stalin, Beria, Mao, Castro, or Xi could possibly dream of. And all of them, most of all Xi, can dream of a lot.
Technology, cheap storage, high speed networks have been things most people in the last 40 years have clamored for, and those things have indeed improved our lives in countless ways. But that said, those wonderful things, when paired with ubiquitous cameras and surveillance equipment, access to all that information mentioned above regarding your current and historical information, brought together by people who have amply demonstrated they are no different than the East German Statsi circa 1981, is a chilling and frightening prospect indeed.
Over the last decade or two, I have often thought of Winston Churchill's famous passage in his "Finest Hour" speech:
"...But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science..."
It is that "lights of perverted science" that has really been eating at me
When you have a country like Communist China (being promoted as something America should emulate by many Americans including many high in our government in this administration) who, by 2022-2023 is expected to have one state operated video surveillance camera for every two citizens, partnering with Google, which shapes and forms the "facts" meted out to billions of people every single day, that should give us serious pause.
Those "lights of perverted science" were not even a faint future gleam in June of 1940.
Today, those "lights of perverted science" are not only are they a reality, we are currently being crushed by them, and this is only the beginning.
Our Founding Fathers knew all too well that human behavior was inherently and unavoidably flawed, and innocently placing trust and power into the hands of people who promised to handle that power benevolently was not only a pipe dream, but it was something the entire American Revolution was based on fighting, and the Constitution was exquisitely constructed to prevent: The power of an overbearing government being concentrated in the hands of people and giving them the ability to tyrannize people.
And these people have clearly shown, through the abuse of the PATRIOT Act, the persecution of Trump, Flynn, and many of the 1/6/2021 protesters, that selectively prosecuted law is a great way to tyrannize opposition to their plans.
Did you write this? If so, very good post, and very true. the Bible speaks about the great delusion that the whole world falls for in the end times, and that de,usion may very well be that people beleive that big totalitarian government is what we should have.
There is a,push by the gov right now to paint conservatives as dangerous, as domestic terrorists, and I. The end times, the peol,pool, will be clamoring for their governments to clamp down on the ‘radicals’ who resist, and we are seeing th3 government, iteral divide people by getting the vaxed to despise the unvaxed. (It’s so bad that some are now demanding that they be allowed a “booster shot” now before its even been reviewed. They are so afraid and angry at the unvaxed that they are willing 5o risk their own health to comply with the government and be In Their good graces before the crap hits the fan)
We are In a very very bad place in this country right now- tettering on the edge of communism/marxism. And sadly many sheep are clamoring for us to go over the edge stright into the hell of marxism. Far too many people want to be dominated by overlords. It reminds me of Israel begging God to be ruled by kings ‘like all the other nations around them were. God reluctantly allowed them their wish, and they suffered terribly for it most of the time.
What is the solution to the bank issue? One not so good answer might be to take money out and buy gift cards to purchase with online, but I thi k those onl6 go up to $500 per card? If I could purchase several that had 1000’s in it I’d take all my money but $599 out of the bank, and just use gift cards where possible.
I dunno, sadly 5he world is demanding to be ruled by kings again.a I’d that will be the demise of our sovereignty
That's it. They aren't going to prosecute many or even most - just the ones who are or threaten to become politically inconvenient.
I suspect they already are doing this today at a higher level. Threats of Tom Delay/Steve Stockman-style malicious prosecutions are what has turned 90% of the GOP into RINO milquetoasts.
You know Pelosi would impeach Donald Trump a 3rd time over any transgression as she sees it.
GREAT post, RL!
That’s a very well-written and thought out post.
While things look bleak, and for perfectly sensible reasons,
There’s an angle nobody has considered.
Real America saves the world because the Can-Do People... can-do.
Something so shocking, that kings will shut their mouths...