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I know the flock cameras have been mentioned in another thread, but it's so much more than that, so I wanted to start a new thread. Back when W was president I bought but never used a bumper sticker that read: "One Nation Under Surveillance" but it's so much worse now. It's so Orwellian. "It's so Big Brother is watching you" Anyway, I'm going to share an article about more surveillance by the felon's administration and ask anyone else who knows more instances to add them. The article linked is quite long but it has a lot of info in it regarding surveillance on innocent people or groups. :mad:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/...e_code=1.51A.84wo.UG89nJpEKqAd&smid=url-share

The government conducted expansive surveillance, infiltrated group chats and obtained financial records of organizations never accused of crimes.
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Four days after Alex Pretti was fatally shot while filming officers taking part in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota, the Homeland Security Department quietly opened an investigation at its office in St. Paul.

The target was not the Border Patrol agents who had killed Mr. Pretti, a 37-year-old government nurse, in late January. Instead, it was several left-leaning political organizations — labor unions, a climate change group, socialist collectives — that investigators believed had provided help and money to what they described as the “violent opportunists and agitators” on the street, according to newly released government documents.

As part of their inquiry, the documents show, homeland security officials used an array of invasive tactics during the first half of this year to gather information on many groups and individuals who were never accused of crimes, crossing the line that has traditionally stood between investigating criminal activity and political dissent.

In one instance, officials used administrative subpoenas to obtain more than three years of financial records from the Sunrise Movement, an environmental action group, and a labor union, the Communications Workers of America. That time frame went well beyond the civil unrest in Minnesota, which was prompted by the deployment of thousands of immigration agents to the state during the winter.
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In another, investigators scrutinized three years’ worth of wire transfers made by the nation’s biggest health care workers union, the Service Employees International Union, in what they referred to as an inquiry into “domestic terrorist financing.”

The documents further detailed an expansive covert surveillance operation in which undercover agents spied on protesters and organizers at meetings held online, as well as in libraries, parks and churches, taking down not only what they said, but also their names and sometimes license plate numbers. The undercover agents also infiltrated group chats on Signal, listening as activists discussed coming demonstrations and their political opinions.

So far, none of the organizations targeted by the homeland security inquiry, conducted with the U.S. attorney’s office in Minnesota, have faced charges. And yet, as the investigation moved forward, prosecutors showed grand jurors a PowerPoint slide asserting that 18 groups — including the A.F.L.-C.I.O., the country’s largest federation of labor unions — were part of a conspiracy to impede the work of immigration officers in Minnesota.

Ultimately, that supposed conspiracy led in June to the indictment of 15 people accused of interfering with law enforcement agents as members of the far-left movement known as antifa.

The Homeland Security Department did not respond to a message seeking comment. A spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office in Minnesota declined to answer questions about the investigative tactics.
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Jacob Soboroff went over this subject this morning on MSNow. An agent infiltrated one group meeting and tried to instigate them into violence.
 
Back even before the covid outbreak I was riding one of the high speed trains in China to another city. And the train station was filled with wall to wall people qued up like in Disneyland. Walking through the train gate instantly pulled up and showed individual license ID information on a very public and very large display in order to get into the train. Instant facial recognition. Usually holding up a line is not something I would feel good about. But I remember feeling so good by being an exception and not being recognized by their program. Since I was a foreigner, and actually having to show my passport and paper ticket to a real person.

The west in on the same trajectory and there is no stopping any of this either.
 
RVonse said:
Back even before the covid outbreak I was riding one of the high speed trains in China to another city. And the train station was filled with wall to wall people qued up like in Disneyland. Walking through the train gate instantly pulled up and showed individual license ID information on a very public and very large display in order to get into the train. Instant facial recognition. Usually holding up a line is not something I would feel good about. But I remember feeling so good by being an exception and not being recognized by their program. Since I was a foreigner, and actually having to show my passport and paper ticket to a real person.

The west in on the same trajectory and there is no stopping any of this either.
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Yes, it can, it is called passing fucking laws about fucking things that people fucking care about. IE, passing a digital civil rights bill.

Instead, we get people running on data centers, immigration, and transgenders.
 
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