As with all nefarious and/or clandestine things in life, they go on for some time before becoming known by the public … if they are ever uncovered in the first place. Hell, the ‘Operation Northwoods‘ document revealed that the United States government had deployable drone technology all the way back in 1963 … and only God knows how long before that.
The point is, when it comes to the government and their disclosures concerning the technology they posses or the things they are doing with said tech, one can be sure that they are lying to you.
I think we can all see what lies at the bottom of this slippery slope … warrants issued for those who speak out or even search for material critical of the ruling regime. It’s not hard to image given what we now know to be true …
Yahoo reported:
The U.S. government is reportedly secretly issuing warrants for Google to provide user data on anyone typing in certain search terms, raising fears that innocent online users could get caught up in serious crime investigations at a greater frequency than previously thought.
In an attempt to track down criminals, federal investigators have started using new “keyword warrants” and used them to ask Google to provide them information on anyone who searched a victim’s name or their address during a particular year, an accidentally unsealed court document that Forbes found shows.
Google has to respond to thousands of warrant orders each year, but the keyword warrants are a relatively new strategy used by the government and are controversial.
“Trawling through Google’s search history database enables police to identify people merely based on what they might have been thinking about, for whatever reason, at some point in the past,” Jennifer Granick, surveillance and cybersecurity counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union, told Forbes.
“This never-before-possible technique threatens First Amendment interests and will inevitably sweep up innocent people, especially if the keyword terms are not unique and the time frame not precise. To make matters worse, police are currently doing this in secret, which insulates the practice from public debate and regulation,” she added.
The government said that the scope of the warrants is limited to avoid implicating innocent people who happen to search for certain terms, but it’s not publicly disclosed how many users’ data are sent to the government and what the extent of the warrant requests are.”
Jim Hoft, the founder of The Gateway Pundit added:
‘But [the Feds] assure the American public that they can be trusted. Just like the federal government assured Americans they would not abuse the secret FISA courts to spy on innocent Americans
We now know that crooked feds were spying on Donald Trump, his family, his campaign and his presidency using the secret courts to obtain warrants.
This is your brave new world. Get used to it.’
While I have the utmost report for Mr. Hoft, what he has built and the influence he has had on America’s political landscape, I have to disagree with one sentence from above: ‘Get used to it.’
Forget that! A man facing a firing squad has two options. He can either accept his fate, or push against his restraints. May I suggest that we do the latter? Churchill touched on this in on of his most famous quotes of all time:
‘Never give in, never give in, never, never, never-in nothing, great or small, large or petty.
Never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.’
