They want all this because they can never be sure who will emerge as a threat to the system, and want to be able to create a compete dossier on anybody (including a complete list of associates) on zero notice.
“a threat to the system”
The system of what? All this nonsense neither protects nor defends *anything*. It is totalitarian masturbation.
I used to think Bangladesh was tragically stupid, because with some of the best farmland in the world, all they grow is the worthless fiber jute. Their government was paid millions to only grow jute by other countries that knew if they grew anything else they would dominate agriculture throughout the region. They could have a standard of living as high as Switzerland, but they only grow jute.
Then their government wasted their money on a giant government, with per capita more bureaucrats than the US. Their largest government agency was the Department of Jute.
Both tragic and stupid beyond belief.
But the USG has convinced me that they are striving for a veritable Moon landing of tragic and stupid. Democrats who create multi-trillion dollar debts with nothing to show for it, and Republicans obsessed with creating the ultimate police state to supposedly protect us from 4th Century barbarians on the other side of the planet, by inflicting the police state on us, not them.
And the Republicans can’t stop the Democrats from doing what they do, and the Democrats won’t, or more likely don’t want to, stop the Republicans from doing what they do.
Leaving us, the American people, caught between a rock and a stupid place. Economic catastrophe, and a police state so rigid that it wants to implant chips into our bodies and tattoo our foreheads while our nation collapses around us.
Because of “a threat to the system”.
Guys... Forest and trees. Learn the difference. Don’t destroy America to save it, because that is FAIL.