Automated Authoritarianism
May 26, 2012 7:41:34 GMT -5
Post by Michael Downing on May 26, 2012 7:41:34 GMT -5
Sent out to my contacts this morning with the following link after receiving it overnight via email from Global Guerrillas.
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From "2001: A Space Odyssey" to "Terminator" to "Matrix" we have been presented with computers/machines that take over. What could be possibly worse than an authoritarian tyrannical government that uses technology to collect information on citizens and then hunt down those that they even slightly suspect could be threats to their control? What about the same government world wide that creates an automated system that collects all the electronic information be that emails, tweets, texts, phone calls, computer searches, online and credit/debit purchases on every citizen that then correlates and cross references that information to determine who is a "terrorist".
What if they the system then dispatches the police or government agents to pick up the "terrorist" and those he/she have been in contact with and they are not charged but simply disappear possibly to a reeducation facility or perhaps gone forever. What if the system based on the information collected determines the threat level of the "suspect" is of a level high enough that a terrorist attack is probable so instead of the agents being dispatched an armed drone that is already in use collecting data is simply rerouted and sent to dispatch the "suspect" and anyone else within the strike zone.
Once this would have been the stuff of science fiction novels or the whacked out ramblings of some conspiracy theorist but today it is very possibly the Orwellian world that we or at least our children and certainly our grandchildren could live with. Big Brother is definitely watching and yet almost no one seems to care. How can that possibly be? Conditioning. For generations the people have been conditioned to believe that government has their best interest at heart. Yes they do not always get it right but they want see that we are secure and that we are taken care of. In the words of C S Lewis, “Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.”
So now the majority has been conditioned to accept acts of tyranny as a means to protect us from those who would do us harm. How else would we accept the TSA groping children at airports or even the government telling us what we can and cannot eat or drink. Happy Meals for kids to raw milk to herbal remedies used for centuries have to be banned or at least controlled.
So we get more restrictions, regulations and laws to keep us safe. We get a new NSA data collection center in the desert of Utah that will collect and cross reference and store indefinitely everyone's electronic signature. We get drones released to kill foreign terrorists, their henchmen and yes their families and children and innocent people who happen to be in the kill zone. We have laws that allow the powers that be to pick you up and make you just disappear and quite possibly to just no longer exist. "1984", the "Brave New World" and "Matrix"are no longer simply science fiction. They are shadows of what is and what may yet come. You are the enemy.
What can you do? Can you simply disappear and go off the grid and get away from it all? Possibly yes for at least a short while you will be ignored as they continue to condition those that are left to the new reality. That is until they decide that you and all those who went off the grid are a potential threat to the "new world order" and then you will be hunted down and simply eliminated.
If this makes you think I have my aluminum lined ball cap pulled down too tight then so be it and I wish you will. But if any part of this has even the slightest glimmer of truth in it then you have work to do. If you cannot run and you cannot hide what then? You prepare and you fight. You fight for your freedom and more importantly for the Liberty of your children and grandchildren and their children and their grandchildren. If it does not begin with us and begin right now then there is no hope. It may already be too late. Only time will tell if we can win but we cannot win if we do not fight. I am not calling anyone to arms and yet some day it may come to that. So what do we do then?
Thomas Jefferson said, “Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.” So you must Resist. At every opportunity just say no. Once you accept this fact a world of possibilities opens up to you. Network and get to know those locally who also resist. You will need them and they will need you.
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From "2001: A Space Odyssey" to "Terminator" to "Matrix" we have been presented with computers/machines that take over. What could be possibly worse than an authoritarian tyrannical government that uses technology to collect information on citizens and then hunt down those that they even slightly suspect could be threats to their control? What about the same government world wide that creates an automated system that collects all the electronic information be that emails, tweets, texts, phone calls, computer searches, online and credit/debit purchases on every citizen that then correlates and cross references that information to determine who is a "terrorist".
What if they the system then dispatches the police or government agents to pick up the "terrorist" and those he/she have been in contact with and they are not charged but simply disappear possibly to a reeducation facility or perhaps gone forever. What if the system based on the information collected determines the threat level of the "suspect" is of a level high enough that a terrorist attack is probable so instead of the agents being dispatched an armed drone that is already in use collecting data is simply rerouted and sent to dispatch the "suspect" and anyone else within the strike zone.
Once this would have been the stuff of science fiction novels or the whacked out ramblings of some conspiracy theorist but today it is very possibly the Orwellian world that we or at least our children and certainly our grandchildren could live with. Big Brother is definitely watching and yet almost no one seems to care. How can that possibly be? Conditioning. For generations the people have been conditioned to believe that government has their best interest at heart. Yes they do not always get it right but they want see that we are secure and that we are taken care of. In the words of C S Lewis, “Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.”
So now the majority has been conditioned to accept acts of tyranny as a means to protect us from those who would do us harm. How else would we accept the TSA groping children at airports or even the government telling us what we can and cannot eat or drink. Happy Meals for kids to raw milk to herbal remedies used for centuries have to be banned or at least controlled.
So we get more restrictions, regulations and laws to keep us safe. We get a new NSA data collection center in the desert of Utah that will collect and cross reference and store indefinitely everyone's electronic signature. We get drones released to kill foreign terrorists, their henchmen and yes their families and children and innocent people who happen to be in the kill zone. We have laws that allow the powers that be to pick you up and make you just disappear and quite possibly to just no longer exist. "1984", the "Brave New World" and "Matrix"are no longer simply science fiction. They are shadows of what is and what may yet come. You are the enemy.
What can you do? Can you simply disappear and go off the grid and get away from it all? Possibly yes for at least a short while you will be ignored as they continue to condition those that are left to the new reality. That is until they decide that you and all those who went off the grid are a potential threat to the "new world order" and then you will be hunted down and simply eliminated.
If this makes you think I have my aluminum lined ball cap pulled down too tight then so be it and I wish you will. But if any part of this has even the slightest glimmer of truth in it then you have work to do. If you cannot run and you cannot hide what then? You prepare and you fight. You fight for your freedom and more importantly for the Liberty of your children and grandchildren and their children and their grandchildren. If it does not begin with us and begin right now then there is no hope. It may already be too late. Only time will tell if we can win but we cannot win if we do not fight. I am not calling anyone to arms and yet some day it may come to that. So what do we do then?
Thomas Jefferson said, “Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.” So you must Resist. At every opportunity just say no. Once you accept this fact a world of possibilities opens up to you. Network and get to know those locally who also resist. You will need them and they will need you.