Transcript for 6/4/24: IMAGO DEI

The older I get, the more I find air travel to be more work than it needs to be. My legs are now becoming intolerant of long walks through airports and so now I need assistance and special care while traveling. The security theater at the airports is becoming problematic -- as people have to practically disrobe and open their suitcases to get on the plane.

You took all that time before the trip to pack your suitcase, and then you have to repack it because the electric razor in your luggage looks like a bomb.

I know this is all about safety-- but it is also about job security and surveillance. The surveillance apparatus in this country is about to become more draconian as the world dragnet is being established -- for the Great Reset.

The world of surveillance has gone total and, of greater concern, become totalizing. From your health status to political attitudes, everything goes into your file. 

Everyone has one now --easily pulled up when they decide to be unruly or misbehave.

When Ron and I were at the airport getting ready to leave for California -- a TSA guard looked over my I.D. and then gave me a look of concern-- he said, "You realize that you have until May of next year to get your card Updated to be a real I.D. Or you won't be able to fly from state to state anymore."

I said yes --and he handed me a notice to put in my wallet to remind me -- that in 2025 there will be some changes happening that will require this new type of fascist surveillance.

A moment in the future when agents will call you at random and say -- "Your paper's please."

The Department of Homeland Security has threatened to start illegally denying passage through Transportation Security Administration checkpoints at airports to would-be travelers without ID it deems sufficiently “compliant” with the REAL-ID Act of 2004, the DHS has launched a new campaign of advertisements, press releases, and signs in airports to publicize its threat to start restricting the right to fly without REAL ID.

"Starting May 7, 2025, you need a REAL-ID* to board domestic flights,” the TSA says, with a footnote in much smaller print, “or acceptable alternative”.

This threat has been happening for some time and I wonder if they are going to make good on it next year. Again, we are being told that we need to do this "or else" -- it is like being coerced into getting an unwanted vaccine.

When things are being called "mandatory" I often wonder why, and I just don't accept the answer that it is for the betterment of society -- these coercions have agendas -- and I often feel that when someone demands too much -- they are overselling something for some nefarious reason.

The May 7, 2025 date is entirely arbitrary, not fixed by law, has been extended time and time again for years, and can and likely will be extended again. Therefore, this is a threat -- and not a deadline.

The threat of being denied boarding without a compliant license is hollow…. Under any likely scenario, the political costs of turning Americans away at airports in May 2025 will be too high.

They may have to roll back the deadline again -- or they could be very draconian about it.. they don't want us to leave our places, to begin with -- they want every excuse they can find to keep us happy in our rented properties and 15-minute cities. 

Requiring to have, carry, or show ID to travel by common carrier– even if that were Constitutional, which we don’t think it would be — would require new legislation and/or regulations.

The TSA has twice in 2016 and again in 2020 given notice that it intended to propose new procedures to require air travelers to show ID. But it never actually submitted those proposals, much less obtained the required regulatory approvals. Numerous procedural steps would be required before any such plan could go into effect.

Travelers can and should say “No” to these DHS/TSA attempts to intimidate us into surrendering our rights.

States should prepare to litigate to defend their residents’ right to travel. Congress should put an end to this endless shakedown by repealing the REAL-ID Act in its entirety. It was a bad idea when it was enacted in a post-9/11 panic, and it’s still a bad idea today.

But of course, there is always more to the story -- and as I had a week of enlightenment I began to learn over and over again what we are all being reduced to.

We are being reduced to data. 

After attending the Contact in the Desert conference, you would think that I walked away with more information about what is happening in the world of UFOs and aliens. However, my experience was a whole new education on what is important for those who wish to control the narrative. The bottom line is that the whole answer to everything is data. 

Databases, record keeping , coding, and a massive surveillance state. The whole intriguing case of alien disclosure will be based on data-- every stone overturned, every random and repeated event, will be analyzed and studied. 

From the patents of spacecraft, to DNA proof, to all kinds of other "small stuff" that cannot be overlooked. It is now being rendered for intensive research studies. This is serious business not only for the auspices of those that wish to see disclosure, but data sets are now being created about you, your family, neighbors, and friends -- now mind you, this is unrelated to aliens UFOs, or any other supernatural event.

Data is the new gold. The data rush is on for the so-called betterment of health and safety.

We teeter on the cusp of a cultural, technological, and societal revolution the likes of which have never been seen before. The truth is unraveling in the form of data --and he who has the most data is going to win-- and control everything we see.

Full spectrum control is the goal.

The government and its corporate partners, aided by rapidly advancing technology, are reshaping the world into one in which we will not recognize. 

We are being set up to comply to a whole litany of new procedures that will certainly violate our rights and require us to outsource our sovereignty to Artificial Intelligence -- this is now underway and before you know it you will be grandfathered into a system that will keep you in line.. you will be investigated and punished for things you once thought you had a right to do.

We have not even begun to register the fallout from the tsunami bearing down upon us in the form of artificial intelligence surveillance, and yet it is already re-orienting our world into one in which freedom is almost unrecognizable.

AI surveillance harnesses the power of artificial intelligence and widespread surveillance technology to do what the police state lacks the manpower and resources to do efficiently or effectively: be everywhere, watch everyone and everything, monitor, identify, catalogue, cross-check, cross-reference, and collude.

Everything that was once private is now up for grabs to the right buyer.

Governments and corporations alike have heedlessly adopted AI surveillance technologies without any care or concern for their long-term impact on the rights of the citizenry. 

They all do it: corporations, regimes, authorities. They all have the same reasons: efficiency, serviceability, and profitability, all under the umbrella term of “security”. Call it surveillance, or call it monitoring the global citizenry; it all comes down to the same thing. You are being watched for your own good, and such instances should be regarded as a norm.

Given the weaknesses of international law and the general hiccupping that accompanies efforts to formulate a global right to privacy, few such restrictions, or problems, preoccupy those in surveillance. The entire business is burgeoning, a viral complex that does not risk any abatement.

The New World Normal has developed a mission for sustainability, and wishes to carry it out in a fascist and manipulative way --and thus needs an integrated system that incorporates information acquisition objectives, logical reasoning principles, and self-correction capacities.

What they have is a system that has no real barriers, a system that is already being abused for the sake of destroying private lives and making criminals out of political enemies.

As we now have learned the United States is now adopting a political persecution and jailing of the opposition -- or for those with dissident voices.

This has resulted in the conviction of a former President and the shutting down of a very controversial Talk show host. This is only the beginning -- the possession of data and a flaw that can be exploited will be employed against anyone the elite see as an enemy to their agendas.. it is time to stop following like sheep and start asking questions while you are still able to.

A.I. surveillance will become the final word in the future. Forty of the world’s top fifty military spending countries (based on cumulative military expenditures are using AI surveillance technology. Across 176 countries, data gathered since 2017 shows that AI surveillance technologies are not merely good domestic fare but a thriving export business.

We have been told time and time again by the current administration that the threat to democracy comes from the other political party -- and they have the means to play a most illegal game of catch and release -- the assassination of the character of their adversaries. Liberal democracies are noted as major users, with 51 percent of “advanced democracies” doing so. 

The corporation-state nexus is indispensable to global surveillance, a symbiotic relationship that resists regulation and principle. This has the added effect of destroying any credible distinction between a state supposedly more compliant with human rights standards, and those that are not. 

The Deep state is entirely responsible for establishing a beast system that is the Artificial intelligence facsimile of God in the machine.

Imago Dei.

It is a digital counterfeit of God’s omniscience fallen to earth.

Technology, viewed as emancipating and rewarding, can actually introduce different chains and shackles, becoming repellent and self-defeating.

One of the most significant political developments in recent US history has been the virtually unchallenged rise of the police state. 

Despite the vast expansion of the police powers of the Executive Branch of government, the extraordinary growth of an entire panoply of repressive agencies, with hundreds of thousands of personnel, and enormous public and secret budgets, and the vast scope of police state surveillance, including the acknowledged monitoring of over 40 million US citizens and residents, no mass pro-democracy movement has emerged to confront the powers and prerogatives or even protest the investigations of the police state.

Out of all of the things we get angry about and are divided over -- we never seem to acknowledge that panopticon that they are creating -- and that we are certainly being kept in a prison state where we are free to move and do anything -- to a point -- otherwise you are restricted by law and handicapped if you do not have the right kind of identification, or political affiliation.

The scope and depth of arbitrary police state measures taken include arbitrary detention and interrogations, entrapment, and the blacklisting of hundreds of thousands of US citizens. Presidential fiats have established the framework for the assassination of US citizens and residents, military tribunals, detention camps, and the seizure of private property.

Now we are seeing Presidential Candidates, being thrown into the courts with highly reported crimes that were once misdemeanors now being felonies, controversial talk show hosts and journalists being gutted financially, and I am sure many other political prisoners are jailed, without any publicity --who speaks for them?

Yet as these gross violations of the constitutional order have taken place and as each police state agency has further eroded our democratic freedoms, there have been no massive anti-Homeland Security movements, no campus, and no Free Speech movements. 

Nothing -- and now look at what is happening -- these times in this country -- make us look as if we learned nothing about what went on in East Berlin during the Cold War.

Or the Dirty War in South America -- where people disappeared for having differences of opinion about political ideas.

If the police state is now the dominant reality of US political life, why isn’t it at the center of citizen concern? Why are there no pro-democracy popular movements? How has the police state been so successful in fending off the activists from the vast majority of US citizens? After all, other countries at other times have faced even more repressive regimes, and yet the citizens rebelled.

There is no simple, single explanation for the passivity of the US citizens faced with a rising omnipotent police state. Their motives are complex and changing and it is best to examine them in some detail.

One explanation for passivity is that precisely the power and pervasiveness of the police state have created deep fear, especially among people with family obligations, vulnerable employment, and with moderate commitments to basic freedoms. 

People would rather watch someone be taken away and shut down defending freedom than doing it themselves because they see what happens to people like Alex Jones, Julian Assange, or even former President Trump.

Their practical behavior speaks to the notion that since I am not directly affected it must not exist. Embedded in everyday life, making a living, enjoying leisure time, entertainment, sports, family, neighborhoods, and concerned only about household budgets. This mass is so embedded in their personal micro-world that it considers the macro-economic and political issues raised by the police state as distant outside of their experience or interest: I don’t have time, ‘I don’t know enough, It’s all politics . The widespread apoliticism of the US public plays into its ignoring the monster that has grown in its midst.

Some people are now paying the price for speaking up and are being made into examples. 

They may go down in history as freedom fighters for one side. but they often feel alone --in the end and can only pray that someone supports them and props them up again.

It is always nice to have a champion -- but today champions are being taken down with data, and money-- and militaristic punishment that sometimes leads to assassination.

Historical experience teaches us that a successful struggle against an emerging police state depends on the linking of the socio-economic struggles that engage the attention of the masses of citizens with the pro-democracy, pro-civil liberty, free speech’ movements of the middle classes.

The hope is that mass economic pain will ignite mass activity, which, in turn, will make people aware of the dangerous growth of the police state. A mass understanding of this link will be essential to any advance in the movement for the republic.

We have to recommit to protecting the rights in the constitution -- and make sure that those in power are violating rights every day --and it is not just one political ideology doing all of the damage.

When a liberal tells you that MAGA and their candidate are going to ignore the Constitution -- be sure to remind them that the so-called progressives are engaged in a massive betrayal of all they profess to believe in. 

We now see that the approach the Biden and his followers believe in is a helicopter parenting approach to politics, an infantile disorder that produces little because it does not allow issues to be attacked one at a time. 

It only allows for adversaries to be harassed, arrested, and attacked in the media -- it is becoming exhausting if not embarrassing to see this country fall to the status of a banana republic.

We are now hearing that no one is above the law... well how many people truly know what laws they are breaking?--and when laws are being changed on a whim you cannot expect this to be stamped justice when it is simply a miscarriage of all we have fought for.

Political figures are ever ready to capitalize from the bully pulpit in the hope of getting constituents on their side. 

But shouldn't we be a bit suspicious of the bully who stands at the pulpit casting stones when he knows full well that he is also full of the sins that his counterpart is being accused of?

This is what the American people have been experiencing in this election cycle-- things that we have never witnessed in a nation -- things that would kindle enough anger for a possible civil war. 

No one knows exactly how far the supporters of Donald Trump will go in their response to what happened to the former president in court on Friday .

What is clear is that conservatives have no patience for President Biden’s argument that justice was served in Manhattan, that “the American principle that no one is above the law was reaffirmed.” 

They see the conviction instead as unprecedented “lawfare” meant to interfere with the coming election and, some say, an unprecedented response is now in order.

However, these activities for sure are now being analyzed and so-called domestic terrorists are already being flagged as the surveillance state already has an idea of who they need to get to before they begin anything that would attempt a scorched earth policy. 

The amount of information being collected and shared in all aspects of our daily lives has expanded and is being stored in massive databases. 

Sweeping new surveillance powers targeting terrorists and other criminals are being increasingly turned against those who are critical of government policy. There is a concerted effort to demonize political opponents, activists, protesters, and other peaceful groups. We are witnessing the criminalization of dissent where those who oppose the government’s agenda are being labeled as terrorists and a threat to security.

Challenge the establishment, and it will go all out to destroy you.