COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN INVESTMENTWATCH
The Deep State’s
Christmas Present to America: Surveillance That Never Ends
Absolutely, and I believe there is no going back.
The not-too-far future for Americans is to be wired into
government information-collection systems in virtually everything they do.
It will include everything from data from all advanced household
electronic appliances, ticket agencies, grocery stores, airlines, railroads, all
state and local governments - all with a system of facial recognition cameras
positioned at every important transportation node.
I doubt that anyone, and certainly not a coward like Trump,
can stop this now from becoming reality.
It's what the people with real power want. So, unless, they
were somehow magically to be changed, it is what you will get. Of course, we’re
already a good way along.
Americans will become effectively a herd of cattle with
machine-readable tags stapled to their ears.
The entire phony War on Terror with its outrages in the
Middle East, launched by Neocons for their own purposes, working with a bought-and-paid-for
Congress, provides the driving force.
There are no effective checks and balances worth talking
about in America. And one may easily speculate darkly about the somewhat more
distant future. Already America has police forces with an international
reputation for violence, but in future they will be equipped as never before.
And with the CIA running a huge computerized extrajudicial
killing operation abroad, how long can it be before the same practice slips
into becoming part of life in the good old USA?
It’s all self-induced and could have been avoided, but it
may well be too late now. I don’t see the least bit of meaningful opposition in
the “land of the free,” close to everyone being heavily conditioned now to
accept the psycho-babble about “international terror” and “them and us.”
The harmless little squib fired off against the Deep State
by Trump in his campaign has been silenced. He proved an extremely unchallenging
opponent and in fairly short order. Indeed, he has become part of the problem.
Remember Dwight Eisenhower’s eloquent warning in his
farewell address about the risks of the “military-industrial complex?” His
words were often talked about but effectively ignored. Now, the threat is
immensely greater and growing daily. It includes gigantic intelligence
agencies, powerful and secretive lobbies, and monopolistic, entrenched media of
every kind. It is an advanced metastasized cancer in the body-politic of
America.
