Manufacturing Consent: The Border Fiasco and the ‘Smart Wall’ — Whitney Webb
NOTICE: Icke is referring to the X-embedded video above. That short snippet is from a longer video from seven years ago when Trump was speaking about a system for controlling foreign visa holders and illegals.
All of that being said and understood, consider also that it is irrational to believe anyone can stop the advance of technology, including surveillance technology. It is equally irrational to presume that we the people can stop the application of this technology or that we live in a system designed to ever consider our well-being, let alone the will of a small minority who can see what is happening with surveillance technology. Please read my comments on Webb’s piece here for more on this.
At the risk of exploding people’s heads, I am gonna say this: there are conceivable advantages to more surveillance, particularly in greatly reducing street crime (assuming police are charged with following up and courts apply the law). Yes, of course, there are terrible things to be concerned about but there is no way to stop the tech, just as there is no way to successfully ‘outlaw’ bioweapons or space weapons or violating treaties that pretend they are doing that. We live in a world controlled by elites who are fighting savagely among themselves. The best we can realistically hope for is that the best elites (for us) win. Right now, Trump, Musk, Carlson and others look much better to me that Biden, Zuckerberg, Maddow and their ilk. I am 100% in favor of Webb and Icke and others writing as they do, but let’s not allow their dark visions to keep us from seeing the even deeper reality—elites always rule, some elites are better than others. ABN
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