In the aftermath of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI's) unprecedented August 8, 2022, raid1
on former president Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home in Florida, many are
starting to question the FBI's actions, not just in this case, but in a
more general sense.
What's become clear through this raid is that the FBI has been
weaponized to hunt down and neutralize political opposition. On the
surface, Republicans appear to be the target, but more specifically, the
target is really anyone who disagrees with and wants to stop what we
now know is a global coup by an unelected technocrat elite.
The raid on the former president shows that no one is safe from
government overreach (or more precisely, the overreach of a government
captured by the globalist cabal). This is made all the more disturbing
by the fact that the FBI has been surveilling millions of American
citizens — without warrants or proper cause.
Public assurances aside, the agency has repeatedly been caught acting
lawlessly (the FBI-infiltrated kidnapping plot of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer
being just one of the more recent examples2),
and that lawless behavior is a piece of evidence that suggests it's
been captured by powers that do not have the welfare of American
citizens at heart.
FBI Illegally Spies on Millions of Americans
According to the American Civil Liberties Union, the FBI is violating
Americans' privacy "on an enormous scale." As reported by Bloomberg,3
the 2022 annual transparency report by the Office of the Director of
National Intelligence (ODNI) reveals the FBI, between December 2020 and
November 2021, scoured private emails, texts and other electronic
communications of some 3.4 million U.S. residents, without obtaining a
single warrant.
Between December 2019 and November
2020, just under 1.3 million Americans were surveilled in this manner.
The report also notes there's been a sharp uptick in the number of times
government officials asked for the identity of individuals surveilled
to be revealed, a practice known as "unmasking."
Supposedly, FBI agents were looking for signs of potential terrorist
activity and sought to prevent hacking attacks. But in so doing, they
violated the constitutional privacy rights of millions, and considering
the hacking attacks that have occurred anyway, this mass surveillance
doesn't seem to be achieving its stated aim.
Privacy Rights Help Prevent Tyrannical Overreaches
While some say you have nothing to worry about if you're not doing
anything wrong, that old adage has long since worn out because, again,
we're dealing with an agency whose job it is to take out political
opponents. You don't need to do anything illegal or criminal to be
targeted for neutralization.
"Wrong-think" is now a "crime" in and of itself, so you better
believe that privacy matters. You do not want the FBI to rifle through
your personal correspondence. They will find something, some sentence,
some idea, some opinion, with which to hang you, figuratively speaking.
Just look at Dr. Simone Gold. She's now serving a prison sentence
over what amounts to medical opinion. She didn't do anything criminal or
illegal. She's a political prisoner.
But by "political prisoner," I'm not exclusively referring to
opponents of the Democrat Party. The true political opposition parties
in this day and age are the technocratic Great Reset insiders (who have
infiltrated all political parties) on one side, and the rest of us, who
see the playbook and don't want to submit to their planned slave system,
on the other.
Congress Must Protect Americans' Fourth Amendment Rights
In response to the ODNI's report, Ashley Gorski, a senior attorney with the ACLU's National Security Project stated:4
"Today's report sheds light on the extent of these
unconstitutional 'backdoor searches,' and underscores the urgency of the
problem. It's past time for Congress to step in to protect Americans'
Fourth Amendment rights."
According to Bloomberg,5
the "authority" used to surveil Americans by the millions was Section
702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). It's set to
expire at the end of 2023, unless Congress renews it. Clearly, they
shouldn't, as it's being grossly misused.
"Show me the man and I'll show you the crime," Lavrentiy Beria, Joseph Stalin's secret police chief, once said.6
Beria oversaw the expansion of Stalin's gulags for political
dissidents, and bragged he could prove criminal conduct by anyone,
anywhere. Framing innocent people is nothing new. It's not even all that
difficult, especially if you have access to everything a person has
ever said, thought or done.
CIA Sued Over Fourth Amendment Rights Violations
The Central Intelligence Agency is also making headlines, and for the same disturbing reason. As reported by Newsweek,7
the CIA illegally surveilled and recorded Julian Assange's
conversations with American attorneys, journalists, doctors, celebrities
and at least one U.S. Congressman while holed up in the Ecuadorian
Embassy in London to avoid extradition.
The CIA also obtained copies of visitors' passports, photographs of
the IMEI and SIM card numbers in their cell phones (which allows devices
to be identified on any network and are essential for surveillance
targeting), as well as copies of the private data from their phones and
other electronic devices brought into the embassy.
Passports and electronic devices had to be handed over to security
guards and could not be brought inside. Unbeknownst to visitors,
everything was then meticulously photographed and copied in their
absence.
Four Americans who visited Assange are now suing then-CIA director
Mike Pompeo in Spanish High Court, seeking damages for violation of
their Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable search and seizure.
The agency as a whole is also listed as a defendant, for the purpose of
forcing them to expunge all collected records.
Plaintiffs include two New York attorneys on Assange's legal team,
and two American journalists who interviewed him. Lead plaintiff,
attorney Margaret Kunstler, told Newsweek:8
"As a criminal attorney, I don't think that there's
anything worse than your opposition listening in on what your plans are,
what you intend to do, on your conversations. It's a terrible thing.
It's gross misconduct. I don't understand how the CIA ... could think
that they could do this. It's so outrageous that it's beyond my
comprehension."
Attorneys aren't the only ones bound by confidentiality. Doctors and
journalists also rely on confidential relationships with patients and
sources, so the arbitrary copying of everything on their private devices
is a gross privacy violation against any number of individuals they may
have had interactions with.
CIA Crossed Lines That Shouldn't Be Crossed
The four plaintiffs are also seeking damages against UnderCover
Global, a Spanish security firm that provided embassy protection. The
lawsuit was launched after whistleblowers from the firm came forward,
admitting they illegally spied on Assange's visitors, copied their
passports and electronic devices, and then passed everything on to the
CIA.
UnderCover Global CEO David Morales allegedly was being paid
"substantial sums of money to share surveillance data with the CIA."
According to Newsweek:9
"Legal experts, including a former senior
intelligence official, told Newsweek that the allegations in the
lawsuit, if proven, show the CIA crossed lines drawn to protect American
citizens from surveillance by overzealous intelligence agencies."
According to Tim Edgar, professor at Brown University and former
deputy privacy and civil liberties officer for the ODNI, the copying of
visitors' cell phone data is particularly difficult to defend.
"That seems to me like a very excessive amount of collection," he told Newsweek. "What's
the expected intelligence value from that? It's a high bar to justify.
If it's just everyone who visited Assange, then it's not like you have a
specific reason to look at a particular phone."
During one visit, actress Pamela Anderson wrote down her email and
Apple ID passwords to get help with technical security from Assange. A
photograph of the slip of paper with her passwords and PIN numbers was
given to the CIA.
This hardly seems justifiable from a national security standpoint. It
smacks of perversion, really, and one wonders how many CIA agents have
sifted through Anderson's private messages for no other reason than pure
titillating entertainment.
Seizure of Privileged Material Makes Fair Trial Impossible
But getting back to more serious matters, the CIA's blanket data
collection "may make it impossible for Assange to get a fair trial,"
attorney Richard Roth, another plaintiff in the lawsuit, told Newsweek.
Making matters even worse, when Assange was arrested by British police
in April 2019, the embassy turned over all of Assange's legal papers and
computers to the U.S. Department of Justice. As noted by Roth:10
"When a federal prosecutor comes after a lawyer with a
search warrant and seizes their devices, there are multiple layers of
review and protection for privileged lawyer-client communications. None
of that happened here. They just grabbed everything."
When done in accordance to law, a court will typically appoint a
special master, someone who is independent from the prosecuting
government, to make sure privileged communications, such as
lawyer-client communication, are segregated from the communication
handed over to the prosecution.
Alphabet-Soup Agencies and The Great Reset
Since the beginning of the COVID pandemic, we've seen ever more
egregious overreaches by government. Intelligence agencies have gone so
far as to slap a "domestic terrorist" label on anyone who expresses an
opinion that counters the narrative directed by the globalist cabal.
This is why privacy rights must be protected at all costs.
In August 2021, former assistant secretary for Homeland Security Juliette Kayyem proposed putting all unvaccinated Americans on a no-fly list. Doctors who speak out against the medical tyranny that is COVID standard of care are being stripped of their medical licenses.
Global organizations such as the International Grand Committee on
Disinformation (IGCD), which consists of "an international array of
legislators, policy advisers, and other experts," are working together
to end free speech worldwide, and every click, comment and online search can and will be used against you.
The digital identity they want to roll out depends on the same kind
of intrusive mass surveillance the FBI and CIA have been caught doing,
but covering every person on the planet, and without any legal barriers
impinging on the kind of information they can gather about you.
In the end, if the technocratic cabal gets their way, you won't even
be able to use a public toilet without a compliance passport giving you
the green-light.11 That's already the case in China, as you can see in the video below.
Tell Congress to Rein in Out-of-Control Surveillance Powers
Surveillance powers have always been sold to us as something that
will protect us. It's high time to realize we've been sold a lie. All
the surveillance acts are, in fact, being used against us, and for all
we know, that's what they were intended for all along.
After all, The Great Reset didn't emerge out of nothing, overnight.
It's a plan that's been in the works for decades, and the digital
surveillance network required for it to function as an "open-air prison"
has been built up around us for just as long.
We were fooled into thinking it was for our own good, for our
protection, but it's not. It's to ensure we won't have the ability to
rebel when the final pieces of the Great Reset plan are put into place.
As suggested by Gorski with the ACLU, we need to urge members of
Congress to step in and revoke or severely restrict government
surveillance powers, and reaffirm the absolute supremacy of the U.S.
Bill of Rights. These are rights that cannot be taken from us, come hell
or high water — or deep state billionaires with egos the size of Mount
Everest.
The way things look, many government agencies — including the FBI and
CIA — also need to be dismantled, and only put back together if
absolutely necessary, and if so, in new, more limited forms with greater
public oversight and more checks and balances.
Make no mistake, this is the highest-stakes game in human history.
We're facing nothing short of the enslavement of all of humankind, and
our intelligence agencies are proving — through their questionable,
biased and often lawless actions — which side they're really on.