Freedom’s not a given, and rights are being lost – Sweet Home New Era

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freedom of speech, which is a thing terrible to traitors.

Benjamin Franklin

By Peter Ready

Americas gateway drug to its tyranny addiction has been to forget and reject what is true, submit the mind and voice to slogans and work hard to remain stupid by believing and supporting fantasy lies.

One of these lies is in the assumption that America will always be free. Yet history is a grim march of nations looted by reckless tyrannies and regimes.

The United States was the first government created with strict limits on its powers and rests on the foundation of Christian morality. Remove, discard, cancel and reject the Bible to guide Americans and their government, then all individual rights, social liberty and justice collapse.

Americas Patriot Act of 2001 removed 200-year-old vital constitutional protections that stopped government corruption and abuse of U.S. citizens. Since 2001 the government has been collecting and harvesting everything digital that is conceivable.

This 20-year 24-hour-a-day global data roundup includes all that can be collected. When the time is right (for them) those in power utilize it according to their purposes. Many today without realizing it, are building our own personal concentration camps databit by databit.

Example 1: King Zuck rules over 2.8 billion active Facebook users, plus 1.84 billion who visit the site daily.

Average users spend over 20 hours per month on the app (93 billion hours per month), freely submitting daily offerings of their likes, photos, addresses, names, friends, families, associates, dislikes, opinions, ventings, travel trip details, pets, and addresses to the entire known universe.

Looks like we have self-relinquished our Fourth-Amendment rights the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, etc.

We have pre-empted our own privacy voluntarily and published to all the world everything about us. So why should we care about the Fourth Amendment rights for people we do not like?

Example 2: Surveillance Government and Surveillance Capitalism must be identified and addressed if we are to end this dangerous era and move forward as Americans and not as un-Americans.

Surveillance Government, partnering with Surveillance Capitalism were applied massively to the Jan. 6 capitol riot crowd. This was never enlisted to police the hundreds of building-burning BLM/Antifa riots during the prior 14 months around the nation.

Americans are now in a dangerous place: we are a suspect society of digits: monitored, governed and controlled by our technology, which does not answer to usit answers to government and big-tech.

Surveillance capitalism is undermining personal autonomy and eroding democracy, while surveillance government spells tyranny, psychological control and loss of liberty under the illusion of collective anonymous empowerment.

Both government and big-tech exploit people with surveillance tools. They both use technology to see, take, sell, predict and manipulate behavior.

Individuals are now more digit than citizen in the governments massive data dragnet, and it is so in Big-Techlandia. Surveillance capitalism tunes, herds and intervenes in our behavior with subtle, subliminal cues, with rewards and punishments toward their most profitable outcomes.

BigTechs power erodes democracy from within by extracting our autonomy of thought and action; critical thinking and judgment erode. They know everything about us and we know nothing about them.

This is not an equal economy: they will keep all their knowledge and keep you in the dark. This economy has much injustice and inequality and they will not give up their superiority over you.

Their knowledge of you is far more than what you tell them. In one sense, their design is to keep us ignorant and believing we must always affirm digital technological progress.

New surveillance-based systems thrive in every economic sector and every smart product and personalized service. Surveillance capitalism and surveillance government are neither necessary nor inevitable.

In fact, they are reducing us all to digits without personhood, rights, liberties, or true freedom.

This is also the case in the political economy. It is not equal. We are suspects, semi-ciphers, who need to be re-programmed to think according to the prevailing political partys trending views.

Americans must re-orient our lives with the liberties as expressed in our founding documents, which are based on Christian values and liberties expressed in Scripture and our founding documents.

The fulfillment of the pretend smart economy is actually entrapment and you are thrilled by your own behavior, which has been studied and replicated in you by your tech-overlords in techland.

The un-Americans of today will lead the nation to further destruction and captivity.

Let us wake up to surveillance capitalism and surveillance government and return to our roots in this nation and in our Bill of Rights. We need to leave un-America and revive America.

The U.S. Constitutions Sixth Amendment grants six rights to the accused to ensure a fair trial and verdict rendering. But in the un-American techno-suspect society the burden of proof has been flipped: now, you start off guilty and must prove your innocence.

Already, faulty facial recognition tools have led to wrongful arrests. Change and reject being downgraded by surveillance capitalism and surveillance government. We must work together, since these adversaries are ubiquitous and they tend to remove all other competition.

Example 3: The COVID-19 pandemic with its lockdowns, mask mandates, surveillance, snitch lines for Americans to report fellow citizens for engaging in risky behavior, plus veiled threats of forced vaccinations are each and all markers on the road to tyranny ahead.

America is descending into a cage-keeper democracy where voters select the politicians to place them under house arrest.

Example 4: In the Soviet Union, under communism, Russian children were taught, much like USA students today, that atheist Marxism leads to a classless, brighter future with no racism or injustice towards minorities.

People were soon disillusioned by totalitarian hypocrisy among their leaders. If they objected in the slightest, they got swift, harsh iron fist reactions.

Soviet slave master-leaders punished them, put them in captivity and gulag imprisonment. Free speech was forbidden in the Soviet Union. Soviet Cancel culture resulted in a Russian communist holocaust.

Politically correct: If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.

Benjamin Franklin

Peter Ready, a longtime reader and regular letter writer, lives in Albany.

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