Welcome to the new visitors to this site. As I’ve said before, this is a stripped-down news aggregation site with short commentary by someone with credentials that don’t stretch much beyond ‘concerned citizen’. New content will be added throughout every day, along with short commentary. The main focus will be the rise of the Surveillance State, with an aim to killing it while its still wobbling about with the shell still on its head, before it realizes its potential. We are rapidly approaching a point in time when it will no longer be possible to end total surveillance, when the interests of so many powerful groups are aligned in its favor that peaceful revolt will be impossible.
My previous writing has been scattered to the digital winds, and covered a range of subjects. All of my writing will now be confined to this space, and focused almost exclusively on raising awareness of a rapidly expanding complex of total surveillance of every citizen by our own government. It’s not conspiracy, it is fact. On a daily basis, headlines proclaim the advance of the latest form of surveillance. We must resist this normalization of the destruction of our privacy.
The fundamental motive for our resistance to total surveillance is one of mere survival. During the 20th century, governments of the world murdered 262 million unarmed, unresisting civilians. R.J. Rummel, the researcher who estimated this number, dubbed this hideous phenomenon “democide” and said that this total is 6 times the number of people killed in combat in every single war combined during that century. This fact alone should be enough to convince most people to be “anti-government”.
We resist total surveillance because we resist the expansion of power of the most murderous institution devised by the human race: government itself. While we need some method of enforcement of our laws and protection of our liberty, it should be recognized that once we place the monopoly on the use of violence within one institution, we have created the single greatest threat to our survival as a species. This thing, once created, must be kept chained down. But all of history has shown that every attempt to keep this institution shackled has failed. It immediately surrounds itself with a religious aura, with symbols that must be worshipped. And not to get too melodramatic, but this institution like no other demands reverence, hands over hearts, and sacrifices, whether in the form of a portion of our paychecks or a mortgage on the lives of our children and grandchildren.
I recently attended Oklahoma’s legislative session, and came away with several insights I hadn’t thought of before. One: the State worships itself. Specifically, there was a very long prayer recited before the bills were voted on. While it was ostensibly directed at the Christian god, it was obvious to what institution this orison was directed. Whatever was circling the air and infecting the minds and hearts of those in attendance was not a god of justice or mercy. Heads were bowed and eyes closed in fealty and reverence to the granter of riches, to the man-made god of organized and institutionalized aggression. Then came the hideous Pledge of Allegiance, progeny of State-worshipping Francis Bellamy’s sick mind, who also thought up what has been dubbed the ‘Bellamy Salute’, or a hand outstretched to the flag. This is what we resist.
For the sake of the survival of the human race, we must retain the ability to hide from the State. This is why we oppose total surveillance. Once our every action, every movement, is catalogued, assessed, scrutinized, we stand completely vulnerable under the ancient, unblinking eye of the executioner of entire populations.
And so ends this caffeine-fuel screed.
