by John & Nisha Whitehead

December 4, 2024 - You’d better watch out - you’d better not pout - you’d better not cry - ‘cos I’m telling you why: this Christmas, it’s the Surveillance State that’s making a list and checking it twice, and it won’t matter whether you’ve been bad or good.

You’ll be on this list whether you like it or not. Mass surveillance is the Deep State’s version of a “gift” that keeps on giving… back to the Deep State.

Geofencing dragnets. Fusion centers. Smart devices. Behavioral threat assessments. Terror watch lists. Facial recognition. Snitch tip lines. Biometric scanners. Pre-crime. DNA databases. Data mining. Precognitive technology. Drones. Contact tracing apps. License plate readers. Social media vetting. Surveillance towers.

What these add up to is a world in which, on any given day, the average person is now monitored, surveiled, spied on and tracked in more than 20 different ways by both government and corporate eyes and ears. Big Tech wedded to Big Government has become Big Brother. Every second of every day, the Amerikan people are being spied on by a vast network of digital Peeping Toms, electronic eavesdroppers and robotic snoops.

This creepy new era of government/corporate spying - in which we’re being listened to, watched, tracked, followed, mapped, bought, sold and targeted - has been made possible by a global army of techno-tyrants, fusion centers and Peeping Toms.

Consider just a small sampling of the tools being used to track our movements, monitor our spending, and sniff out all the ways in which our thoughts, actions and social circles might land us on the government’s naughty list, whether or not you’ve done anything wrong.

Tracking you based on your phone and movements. Cell phones have become de facto snitches, offering up a steady stream of digital location data on users’ movements and travels.

Tracking you based on your DNA. DNA technology in the hands of government officials completes our transition to a Surveillance State.

Tracking you based on your face. Facial recognition software aims to create a society in which every individual who steps out into public is tracked and recorded as he or she goes about his or her daily business. Coupled with surveillance cameras that blanket the country, facial recognition technology allows the government and its corporate partners to identify and track someone’s movements in real-time.

Tracking you based on your behavior. Rapid advances in behavioral surveillance are not only making it possible for individuals to be monitored and tracked based on their patterns of movement or behavior, including gait recognition (the way one walks), but have given rise to whole industries that revolve around predicting one’s behavior based on data and surveillance patterns and are also shaping the behaviors of whole populations.

Tracking you based on your spending and consumer activities. With every smartphone we buy, every GPS device we install, every X/Twitter, Facebook and Google account we open, every frequent buyer card we use for purchases and every credit and debit card we use to pay for our transactions, we’re helping Corporate Amerika build a dossier for its government counterparts on who we know, what we think, how we spend our money and how we spend our time.

Tracking you based on your public activities. Private corporations in conjunction with terrorist pig thug cop agencies throughout the country have created a web of surveillance that encompasses all major cities in order to monitor large groups of people seamlessly, as in the case of protests and rallies.

Tracking you based on your social media activities. Every move you make, especially on social media, is monitored, mined for data, crunched and tabulated in order to form a picture of who you are, what makes you tick, and how best to control you when and if it becomes necessary to bring you in line.

Tracking you based on your social network. Not content to merely spy on individuals through their online activity, government agencies are now using surveillance technology to track one’s social network, the people you might connect with by phone, text message, email or through social message, in order to ferret out possible criminals.

Tracking you based on your car. License plate readers are mass surveillance tools that can photograph over 1,800 license tag numbers per minute, take a picture of every passing license tag number and store the tag number and the date, time and location of the picture in a searchable database, then share the data with terrorist pig thug cops, fusion centers and private companies to track the movements of persons in their cars.

Tracking you based on your mail. Just about every branch of the government - from the Postal Service to the Treasury Department and every agency in between - now has its own surveillance sector, authorized to spy on the Amerikan people.

The government wants us to believe that we have nothing to fear from these mass spying programs as long as we’ve done nothing wrong. Don’t believe it.

The government’s definition of a “bad” guy is extraordinarily broad, and it results in the warrantless surveillance of innocent, law-abiding Amerikans on a staggering scale.

Indeed, Amerika will never be safe as long as the Fascist Police States of Amerika government is allowed to shred the Constitution.