Private Contractor Which Owns and Runs "Real ID" Pushed by Trump Also Built China's Police Surveillance System; Real ID Act Allows Same Abuses

[CrusaderFrank]

ain't jack shit I can do. I want an end to fraud and that hasn't been cleaned up yet. I believe folks like you and I are so rare that we have no ability to create a majority to shut these fkrs up and make em go the fk away. I'm dumbfounded by the vile fkrs and how successful they are.

I’ll go torches and pitchforks to DC

 

[munkle]

I’ll go torches and pitchforks to DC

Investment banker and former Bush Sr. administration official Catherine Austin Fitts

 

[jc456]

I’ll go torches and pitchforks to DC

Judicial system isn’t in our favor

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Judicial system isn’t in our favor

It’s the entire government, with the exception of a small handful of Representatives, that’s been bleeding the country dry for a Century.

 

[jc456]

It’s the entire government, with the exception of a small handful of Representatives, that’s been bleeding the country dry for a Century.

That’s what we need to work out

 

[d0gbreath]

Whatever I can't have for the lack of a real ID, I recon I didn't need that.

 

[munkle]

Whatever I can't have for the lack of a real ID, I recon I didn't need that.

Like food?

 

[munkle]

Whatever I can't have for the lack of a real ID, I recon I didn't need that.

wait until your heat goes out because you couldn't pay your bill without Real ID.

 

[d0gbreath]

wait until your heat goes out because you couldn't pay your bill without Real ID.

I doubt that I'll live that long, but I get your point. There are probably several methods that can be used to coerce me into getting that which I do not want. Peon blues.

 

[munkle]

I doubt that I'll live that long, but I get your point. There are probably several methods that can be used to coerce me into getting that which I do not want. Peon blues.

Bill Gates will be saying bend over just try to enjoy it.

 

[georgephillip]

Chris Hedges is one of the strongest voices on the left warning about the perils of the corporate-state alliance, and he's been walking the walk for decades.

These are some of his thoughts on Real ID and similar power grabs per GoogleAI Overview:

• "Surveillance and Control: Hedges views the REAL ID Act as a tool for the state to expand its surveillance capabilities. He argues that by mandating standardized digital identification, the government moves closer to creating a 'biometric national ID' that can be used to track and monitor citizens more effectively.
• Marginalization of Vulnerable Groups: He has pointed out that restrictive ID laws often serve to disenfranchise marginalized communities, including the poor and minorities, by creating bureaucratic hurdles that impede their ability to participate in civil society or vote.
• "Corporate-State Alliance: Within his broader critique of 'inverted totalitarianism,' Hedges suggests that such identification systems are part of a larger techno-capitalist framework where corporate and state powers merge to manage and control the population."

 

[munkle]

Chris Hedges is one of the strongest voices on the left warning about the perils of the corporate-state alliance, and he's been walking the walk for decades.

These are some of his thoughts on Real ID and similar power grabs per GoogleAI Overview:

• "Surveillance and Control: Hedges views the REAL ID Act as a tool for the state to expand its surveillance capabilities. He argues that by mandating standardized digital identification, the government moves closer to creating a 'biometric national ID' that can be used to track and monitor citizens more effectively.
• Marginalization of Vulnerable Groups: He has pointed out that restrictive ID laws often serve to disenfranchise marginalized communities, including the poor and minorities, by creating bureaucratic hurdles that impede their ability to participate in civil society or vote.
• "Corporate-State Alliance: Within his broader critique of 'inverted totalitarianism,' Hedges suggests that such identification systems are part of a larger techno-capitalist framework where corporate and state powers merge to manage and control the population."

Chris Hedges is the real deal. So is investment banker and former Bush Sr. administration official Catherine Austin Fitts. She says Trump was brought in to install the control grid under the noses of conservatives who would normally be against it.

 

[georgephillip]

Chris Hedges is the real deal. So is investment banker and former Bush Sr. administration official Catherine Austin Fitts. She says Trump was brought in to install the control grid under the noses of conservatives who would normally be against it.

Catherin Austin Fitts has the keenest insights into the nexus between organized crime and those who control "the best government money can buy" that I've come across.

Her scenario about the 1947 exploits of Sam and Dave and their "boat loads of white agricultural substances" reveals in stark detail how the profit margins of those who sell illegal substances buys fifty to 100 times the political influence as those selling legal white powders:

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0202/S00061/the-real-deal-sam-dave-do-white-substances.htm

"Two (identical) boats pull into the docks.

"The first boat is full of a white agricultural product grown in Latin America called sugar.

"The owner of the cargo, lets call him Sam, sells his boat load of white agricultural substance to the sugar wholesaler on the docks for how much money?

"Ok, so let's say that Sam sells his entire boatload of sugar to the sugar wholesaler on the docks for X dollars..."

"Back on the docks, the second boat---an exact replica of the boat carrying Sam's sugar---is a boat carrying Dave's white agricultural product called drugs.

"In those days (1947) this was more likely to be heroin, these days more likely to be cocaine.

"Whatever the precise species, the planting, harvesting and production of this white agricultural substance, Dave's drugs, are remarkably like Sam's sugar.

"Ok, so if Sam the sugar man sold his sugar to the sugar wholesaler for X dollars, how much will Dave the drug man sell his drugs to the drug wholesaler for?

"Well, where Sam is getting pennies, Dave is getting bills.

"If Sam had sales of X dollars, let say that Dave had sales of 50-100 times X.

"Dave may carry the same amount of white stuff in a boat but from a financial point of view, Dave the drug man has a lot more 'sales per boat' than Sam the sugar man."

Who will donate more money to political campaigns, Sam or Dave?

Who is going to buy the other's company first, Sam or Dave?

Whose son or grandson has a better chance of getting into Harvard, Sam or Dave?

 

[Anathema]

Good. Excellent. Considering the actions and words of Americans over recent years we need more, deeper and faster surveillance of EVERY single person in the country. We have relieved ourselves of the right to our privacy.

You can’t constantly make the WRONG choices in life and expect the responsible people to not do everything in their power to make sure you stop making the wrong choices, or at least face the consequences of doing so.

 

[munkle]

Good. Excellent. Considering the actions and words of Americans over recent years we need more, deeper and faster surveillance of EVERY single person in the country. We have relieved ourselves of the right to our privacy.

You can’t constantly make the WRONG choices in life and expect the responsible people to not do everything in their power to make sure you stop making the wrong choices, or at least face the consequences of doing so.

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