Posted on 03/26/2021 2:34:41 AM PDT by gattaca
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is now getting ready to hire public companies, individual contractors outside government, to scour public data and social media in order to provide information for the new “domestic terror watch lists.” From the description it appears DHS is going to pay “big tech” (Google, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, SnapChat, Twitter, etc.), via contracts, to hire and organize internal monitoring teams to assist the government by sending information on citizens they deem “dangerous.”
Gee, what could possibly go wrong with this?…
NBC is reporting on these new developments as the U.S. intelligence apparatus is preparing to go live with the assembly of lists of Americans who “could be” potential threats to the government; and need to be watched.
However, even NBC is beginning to realize the consequences: “DHS planning to expand relationships with companies that scour public data for intelligence and to better harness the vast trove of data it already collects on Americans. The department is also contemplating changes to its terrorist watch listing process.”
Here’s the article:
WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security, created after the 9/11 attacks to protect the country from international terrorism, is moving toward a sweeping set of policy changes aimed at detecting and stopping what intelligence officials say is now a top threat to the homeland: domestic violent extremism.
Two senior Biden administration officials told NBC News that DHS, whose intelligence division did not publish a warning of potential violence before the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, is seeking to improve its ability to collect and analyze data about domestic terrorism — including the sorts of public social media posts that threatened a potential attack on the Capitol, but were not deemed “actionable” by the FBI and other law enforcement agencies.
DHS is planning to expand its relationships with companies that scour public data for intelligence, one of the senior officials said, and also to better harness the vast trove of data it already collects on Americans, including travel and commercial data through Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Coast Guard, the Secret Service and other DHS components. (read more)
Expand your thinking to what was initiated with the COVID model for “contact tracing” and you can quickly see how physical proximity to a rogue dissident, a person with wrong thoughts – aka a domestic extremist, can result in you being labeled along with that dissident…. and you are on the list. Then overlay the efforts of Big Tech to assist the administrative state with an electronic trail of your habits, contacts, phone calls, text messages and internet patterns…. and you are on the list.
Remind yourself what FBI “contractors’ with access to the NSA database already did in their quest for political opposition research and surveillance {Go Deep}. Then overlay all of the above and you get an alarming picture that is not something to dispatch.
“The Department of Homeland Security, created after the 9/11 attacks to protect the country from international terrorism”
...by bringing in international terrorists, or groups of foreigners who grow up to be jihadis.
As an excuse to create a surveillance state here in the U.S.
Instead of closing the borders, getting immigration under control, and kicking out real threats after 9/11, the government left our doors wide open and then essentially said “well, we’ll just have to spy on both foreign terrorist suspects here in the homeland and American citizens alike since we have imported so many Islamists. Our gross incompetence made this necessary.”
“We had to create an authoritarian state to protect you.”
This forum is considered social media.
Do you still have it?
I checked my ‘links’ page and it is gone. I cleaned that up a few times over the years.
It was a caution about using ‘salty’ language, but even searching the archives nothing comes back.
Regarding salty talk aimed at the president (or other officials) vs visits from the SS
March 5, 2009 | Jim Robinson
Posted on Thursday, March 05, 2009 3:43:09 PM by Jim Robinson
Unfortunately, we are saddled with a communist sympathizer in the White House. I don’t know whether or not he’s an actual card carrying commie, but he’s definitely an America-hating, anti-capitalist Marxist leftist who thinks communism is the way to go. Now I remember when America used to fight against communism. It wasn’t that long ago. Many of us on FR are veterans of wars against communism and some of us believe that American citizens who are communists are the enemy within, ie, the domestic enemy we’ve sworn to defend against. American citizen? hmmmm... that may be a loophole for Obama.
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So now comes the problem. If you feel it’s your duty to call Obama a traitor and use salty language in your proposed resolution, ie, suggest the commie be keelhauled, walked off the plank, run up the yardarm, tarred and feathered and run out of Dodge, etc, etc, etc, you may be facing a visit from your friendly Secret Service. And even though your visiting agent may agree politically, and may take his oath to the constitution seriously, he’s still sworn to protect the officeholder and it’s his duty to take all threats seriously. And that may include serving me with a subpoena to turn over your IP address. Now I’m duty bound to protect your privacy to the best of my ability, but I cannot defend against stupidity.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2200093/posts
You are correct. Thnx for pointing that out to me. Funny how one doesn't think before opening up their mouth before morning coffee.
Eventually we will have “Internal Passports”, like in the former Soviet Union, that you will need to cross State lines.
Oh, and my apologies for all those on FR that I referred to as fools.
Thank you!
Book mark.
Apology accepted.
Yes,CC G (CCP), that the correct answer to the question: “What are you going to me that is going to make me need to use my weapon against you?”
Well..not quite yet. But they are going to do everything they can to provoke this.
Who needs a Super Patriot Act when you have the American Committee for State Security at the ready?
PING!
https://www.teepublic.com/sticker/11452512-byedon-not-my-president
If you believe this, you are on the list
An idea from onetime consultant Markus Wolf?
The beginning of the Secret Police State/'Geheime Staatspolizei'.
Offend your neighbor, and find yourself on some list for being 'dangerous', or offensive.
The Muslim Syrian in Colorado was right under their noses...
So much for COMPETENCE
Appears all we can do is sit back and watch it happen...
Communist Thought Police Have Joined The Communist Purge & Nothing Is Being Done About Any Of It!
They consider ALL of us patriots/freedom fighters on this web site and George Washington, etc. as supposed “domestic terrorists”!!
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