The surveillance state is an outcropping of the Fourth Branch of Government, which is, essentially, the unelected intelligence community in control of our government.
The surveillance state comes from the creation of the Dept of Homeland Security (DHS) which is an entirely inward-looking agency. Prior to the Patriot Act, the surveillance sweep searching for terror threats focused outward, looking outside the U.S borders. The Patriot Act took the surveillance sweep a full 360 degrees and looked inside the Homeland for terror threats. Hence, DHS was created.
The office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) was also created by the Patriot Act, and was specifically created as the pivot point to combine the surveillance sweeps. The Pentagon and CIA intel agencies sweeping outside the U.S. and the DHS sweeping inside the U.S.
It was the creation of The Dept of Homeland Security (DHS) that destroyed what remained of privacy protections within the constitution (4th amendment). Americans are no longer secure in their ‘papers and effects’, nor protected by the ‘probable cause’ need for warrants. The erosion of the 4th amendment was absolutely connected to the creation of DHS; there is zero doubt about this cause and effect.
With the ODNI and DHS created, the sub-silos of the surveillance state then began. The Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) is one agency within the Dept of Homeland Security that was an outcome. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) also gained massive tools within this new system.
The key point behind all of this context is what I refer to as the ‘Surveillance State.’ American citizens have lost all privacy protections within this new system of surveillance, that has extended far beyond even what most people fathom.
When you understand the root origin of the Surveillance State, then the discussion turns to what we have accepted within its creation, and what is the current status of American Liberty as an outcome of it.
The fact that this system was weaponized by Barack Obama and Joe Biden to target their political opposition is only one aspect of this dynamic. Yes, it is a big issue, and yes what they did was horrific, corrupt and in my opinion unlawful. However, their ability to weaponize this system only existed because the domestic surveillance state was created and authorized by the legislative branch of government.
Now we are left arguing about who controls a system that should never have been authorized…
People say “the Holocaust is one of the most well documented events in history,”
…. But it’s really not documented at all. In fact when you actually dig into the documents you realize how the evidence points into the other direction. Evidence like
-Hitler never ordered the extermination of the Jews
-the allies never spotted any “killing camps” when doing reconnaissance missions
-the allies broke the German codes and were listening to their messages, and heard nothing about death camps.
-all the “death camps” were only on the Soviet side. How did the allies manage to not find any? Why do we believe the Soviet communist?
-there is no physical evidence that Jews were gassed to death
-the worldwide Jewish population numbers did not decrease.
– the entire holocaust narrative is based on ludicrous constantly changing eye witness testimony
Besides all the many reasons to not believe the official story, since it is illegal to doubt this bit of history, I believe we the plebs are morally obligated to doubt it and research those doubts to our own satisfaction. The linked article provides a few of the major areas of doubt, if not total contradiction. ABN
Thirty years ago when I was working in Japan, a bunch of Japanese friends brought up David Duke. I hit the roof about what a racist POS he was and how people like that should be ostracized and paid no attention to. My friends were all visibly taken aback. ‘But he’s on your side. He’s trying to help your people.’ I went on yada yada with the normal programming, but I also never forgot their very sincere reactions. Years later I read a little bit of Duke and watched a few of his videos. I just checked and see that I posted two items on Duke on ABN. I even told the story above eight years ago using many of the same words. We have so much more information today than ever before, the deep mind-control slurs on people like Duke don’t work anymore. Once you see the slurs for what they are, you peel away another level of mind-control programming like the one I displayed in Japan 30 years ago. ABN
A far-right Danish-Swedish politician has been sentenced to prison on charges of incitement against an ethnic group for burning copies of the Qur’an and making offensive statements about Muslims.
Rasmus Paludan was the first person to go on trial in Sweden – and is now the first to be sentenced – for burning the Qur’an during an organised demonstration.
The leader of the Danish political party Stram Kurs (Hard Line) was on Tuesday sentenced to four months in prison at Malmö district court for two cases of incitement against an ethnic group and one case of insult in 2022. He was also ordered to pay damages and fees of 80,800 kroner (£5,822).
After Paludan’s trial last month, the chair of the court, Nicklas Söderberg, said: “It is permitted to publicly make critical statements about, for example, Islam and also about Muslims, but the disrespect of a group of people must not clearly cross the line for a factual and valid discussion.
“In these cases, there was no question of any such discussion. The statements instead only amounted to insulting and smearing Muslims.”
Paludan was sentenced to prison because he had been previously convicted of similar crimes by a Danish court, the Swedish court said.
The judgment said: “Rasmus Paludan has expressed disrespect for a people group or other such group of people with allusions to creed, national origin or ethnic origin by putting bacon in and around a Qur’an and then setting fire to, kicking and spitting on the Qur’an.”
Europe has slid down the slippery slope of ‘hate’ speech, ‘offensive’ speech, pejoratively calling people ‘far-right’ much further than USA. I hope and believe Trump will keep his word on protecting American free-speech. Besides wooly-headed leftists and dim-witted Eurocrats, most serious thinkers can clearly see that speech restrictions for any reason should not be written into law. Those who do want speech proscriptions written into law invariably have something to hide, no matter how they couch their arguments. Buddhists will recall that there is a long tradition in Buddhism of denying the scaredness of even the Dharma itself, the teachings of the Buddha. There are multiple stories of monks spitting on statues of the Buddha to illustrate that nothing is so holy we cannot stand our own ground before it. The Buddha himself said once you have used the raft to cross the stream, you do not need the raft anymore and should abandon it. So from an American point of view and also a Buddhist point of view, I disagree strongly with all laws designed to control speech or define what is ‘hateful’ or ‘offensive’. Legally, logically, rationally and Buddhistically, it is a spiritual and civilizational dead end to punish speech, including ‘defaming’ so-called ‘sacred’ materials. ABN
I am pinning this to the top of the page. This speech is so good I fear it may be AI. The speech is definitely real and is no longer pinned to the top of the page. Free speech is the lifeblood of American civilization. Never trust or believe anyone who wants to take it away from you. ABN
Besides the brainwashing, two other factors are at play: 1) the nations closer to the radical left Soviet Union are less likely to vote for the left today; Poland and the Baltics had been dominated by Russia for two centuries before the SU invaded, so that explains their leaning left (away from Russia) today. And 2) uninformed or brainwashed fear of Trump tariffs and/or his threat to dismantle NATO, which would be good.
I agree that X has become a force for the good through much better free speech than any other platform. It matters a lot that we the plebs are able to report and comment on news as we see it. I also am certain the EU and all other totalitarian entities in the West will do everything they can to destroy or stifle X. You will be able to reliably identify their deep evil motives by how they talk about and treat X and Musk. ABN
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