Senators Warn Trump Administration Is Developing Secret Watchlist of Americans
cross-posted from: https://ibbit.at/post/79747
The Trump administration is drawing up “secret lists of terrorist groups inside the United States,” Senator Elissa Slotkin said on the floor of Congress yesterday — the first such reference to the effects of National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7). The directive, as I’ve reported, lays out Donald Trump’s policies with regard to equating “anti-Christian” and “anti-capitalist”…
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“The Trump administration define[s] domestic terrorism incredibly broadly,” Slotkin said. “It suggests that any group that talks about anti-Christian values, views they don’t like on migration or race, differing views on the role of the family, religion, or morality could all be grounds for labelling an organization as domestic terrorists.”
https://truthout.org/articles/senators-warn-trump-administration-is-developing-secret-watchlist-of-americans/Open linkView original on lemmy.ca
There's already a list of people we need to watch out for. Let's see it.
Meanwhile, I see idiotic Confederate dumbasses posting stuff about how Republicans are "standing up for American freedoms".
Bull-fucking-shit they are. I didn't see Democrats step on one freedom of any Confederate dipshit. I see Republicans positively gleeful about stealing away freedom from MILLIONS.
They do realize that about 38% of Americans are not xtian, right? What the fuck does "anti-Christian" even mean? Is it "anti-Christian" to not want any affiliation with your little book club?
What you’ve got to realize here is the freedom they’re talking about is their freedom to oppress “the others.”
Oh yes. They use the Southern notion of "liberty", vs. the Northern notion. They really do think that if they are not privileged and set up to rule over others as "less than", that they don't have "freedom".
Wrong.
They "realize" that 100.0000% of Americans are Christian, because all non-Christians are not Americans regardless of citizenship.
Anti-Christ = Anti-Cannabis, if you know what Kaneh Bosm is. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=kaneh+bosm
Are you talking about the "freedom" to spread disease?
Palantir was built to do this, and does so instantly, nothing to develop - the tech is built.
Isn't Ellison promising to spy on everyone, too?
I think he wants to get into the thought manipulation game.
Yes. He said it will keep everyone on their best behavior. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/omnipresent-ai-cameras-will-ensure-good-behavior-says-larry-ellison/
Who's watching Larry?
Satan
Social media as a whole is the infrastructure of authoritarianism. It only needs someone to put it use.
That's a paraphrase from some talking head I heard a while back. The world has been feeding this machine for about 15 years. It's filled with everyone's personal data.
In a sense this is the Skynet doomsday. It's already in place. All it takes right now is a flip of a switch. Like the Doomsday Clock. We are on the verge of it. Midnight strikes soon.
I have no doubt ICE is already using this to know how and where to pluck people off the street. If I'm a person that could be targeted in America right now. I'd be 100% off the grid. Ditch every electronic device. Go completely dark. Disappear myself to another location before they disappear me.
Bold of him to call it secret. It's just unpublished.
Welp, I'm surely on it
“Senators warn…” Do something!
Yeah you're the most powerful piece of the government. Lay it all out and impeach
Impeach? Like they already did twice? They are warning us because they know the mechanisms of accountability are not within their reach.
"Trump back handed by senators, diplomatically"
Soon they will be marching us to death camps. Get ready the Nazi are in-charge.
Some go to the "Sanctuary District", some just get zapped to trigger the poisonous tech in the jabs, some get zapped from the sky...
Orrrrrr, we mend this. Change the ride, to a better world. We've so much headroom without the crooks' ploys. No cull necessary.
"First they came for the immigrants, and I was like 'yeah, ok, cool,' and signed legislation increasing their powers to detain people (arc), but now they're coming for James Comey and I'm like 'yo wtf'" - Elissa Slotkin (probably)
what exactly about this is NEW news?
fuck they probably have me on a watchlist and I'm not even american
Perhaps a problem is that nobody is surprised anymore.
If you dont jump when a loud noise goes off anymore, you might not get out of the way of what makes it.
Maybe fake it til you make it. Act shocked about it and tell coworkers that you're terrified.
Or just read one of the forefathers' diaries, see if they managed to articulate the tipping point that began the slope towards revolution and attempt to replicate it?
(I'm speaking generally about this situation, I'm not an american either)
How can I get on it?
I assume keeping my phone on while protesting at the next No Kings priest will help, as will posting "fuck you, rapist pedophile corrupt asshole felon Trump" here...
But how can I be sure? 👀
I'm ready to fight but don't really know where to direct my anger
Starting violence is exactly what they want you to do. I'm not saying it's never the right call but ultimately a civil war will be bad for everyone
Yeah that's fair. I've been through the ACLU de-escalation training and stuff and won't actively start violence at a peaceful protest or anything, but if I get targeted because of said protesting and end up being targeted by ice (I'm a green card holder, not a citizen) then I'll go down fighting for sure
Yeah, that's absolutely fair. Stay safe
I've been party to a few of these exchanges recently, and between open citizen violence and letting things go on as they are, I think I am now rooting for our society to just collapse under its own weight. And with enough mismanagement, it certainly will (already is). While that will produce a great deal of suffering, at least it could provide a chance to fix some things.
maybe a chance things will be fixed, or will they just get worse? I think the latter is more likely
Get involved with your local General Strike discord. Good people.
Organizing on discord sounds like a great way to end up on the list.
If you are an American that registered as a democrat or voted in a democratic primary, you're already on it.
Like the entire voter registry of democrats?
What good is a "watchlist" if its 80+ million names long?
It's fine, they'll start crossing off names until it is a manageable.
They already have the camps and a secret police. All they need now is the Zyklon B to start really crossing off names.
Slotkin is an AIPAC ghoul that the Dems have been trying to push lately as the "hot new star" as a replacement for Kamala. Would t be surprised is she runs in 2028.
wasnt she the one voted with the gop recently on some bill.
If anyone needs a Slotkin primer, here you go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFrEJTFbSTc
It's not secret that it's happening. Palintir is well known to have the contract to built the list. The secret is who's been flagged as scheduled for termination or deportation out whatever.
Centrists realizing they're getting swept in with the lefties.
Just like the middle class learning the uber rich lump them in with the poor
https://politicalcompass.org/ may help you get out of the mono-linear conflation they abuse us with.
Freedom first.
I don't think you have to warn anyone about that one
About the only useful thing about the American government at this point is for them to tell you information that everyone already knows about.
Your echo chamber has been hiding, those who do need warned, from you.
If there are protestors or critics that is even more reason a good president should be listening to their concerns, even if he doesn't agree with them. Not trying to make enemies out of them.
Jesus said that if someone asks for your coat, you should give your cloak to them also. IDK guys, that sounds pretty anti-capitalist to me.
Oh my, is that Senator Elissa Slotkin, "former" CIA Agent, from this famously disastrous interview? Well I'm sure a "former" CIA Agent would know a thing or two about compiling dossiers on American Citizens.
That interview reminded me of Ritchie Torres on Adam Friesland's show: starts out saying some reasonable-sounding things, but becomes completely paralyzed when questioned about Israel and can only trot out the vaguest, most noncommittal verbiage while ducking the main point every time. It's a very bad look.
Indeed it is, but fear not, for it's only because they're very bad powerful people defending a very bad evil society. Oh, perhaps some fear is warranted then...
She is such a massive disappointment.
Disappointment is such a kind understatement for what she is.
I wrote an angry text to one of my MAGA senators while really high. I fully expect to be on a list.
I assume no one in the Trump admin knows wtf Lemmy is, so we're safe here maybe.
Once again the Senate is a day late and a dollar short.
Not much of a secret...
I had just assumed that the NSA and FBI were already doing that, or will Trump's list be a different, more incompetent one?
Well I'm sure most of us are on that list
If the worst people in society are making a list of enemies it should be considered a moral failure to not make the list.
If a list is of virtually everyone it stops being a useful list.
It starts being an excuse to disappear anyone you don't like.
This is the problem. A list you can’t see, a list that contains assumed infractions you can’t defend against, in a system of masked police that will never give you a chance at due process.
Exactly. Americans are all now Palestinians.
"A little-discussed detail in the Lavender AI article is that Israel is killing people based on being in the same Whatsapp group [1] as a suspected militant [2]. Where are they getting this data? Is WhatsApp sharing it?
Lavender is Israel's system of "pre-crime" [3] - they use AI to guess who to kill in Gaza, and then bomb them when they're at home, along with their entire family. (Obscenely, they call this program "Where's Daddy")." source
Of course WhatsApp is sharing it. Everyone should move to truly secure—or even just more secure, like signal—means of communication. WhatsApp is Facebook. They will do whatever helps their bottom line
They are also full of ex-IDF spies and hackers.
Geogia Guidestones. Do the maths.
This has existed for decades but i guess they are expanding the criteria for who makes it onto the list.
Rich out of touch corporate democrat that will issue blank checks to a nation committing a genocide says something we already know in an attempt at some relevancy. Fuck Slotkin.
Hey news, can you stop being so depressing? How about a news about a dog...who...defies all odda to...IDK...reunite with the young kid with cancer he loved. IDK, make something up...this shit is getting too bleak.
That dog is now on the watch list.
Oh shit, here comes Kristi Noem...
I really hope that all this bullshit shows just how bad many 'anti-terrorism' laws were and see them all be repealed.
Oh no! The Nazis are doing Nazi things. How shocking.
It is shocking though.
Why not just pick people at random? The list is obviously useless.
No one cares, especially the USA citizens. If they really cared Trump would be out yesterday.
They might be shocked to learn that there is a list of government officials/employees that the Citizens are watching.
I used to be on a list. I'm on a list now, but I also used to be too.
Secret?
I have lists of lists. We have the best lists there are!
Secretly, Americans have been developing a watch on trump.
Watch dez nuts bitches.
So the user list from just about every social media site?
Lmao if you think this is new, you haven't read much US history
This "presidency" is reading like a comic book storyline. Maybe I should re-watch Camptain America: Winter Soldier.
See Dick drink. Drink, Dick, drink!
Like the government hasn’t had that since at least Sept 11,2001?
That was actually about terrorism. This is just people who won't pretend to like Trump.
They've had lists, and overly inclusive ones, but never this broad:
He's just saying the quiet part out loud. I don't believe for a fucking second that previous administrations weren't making lists of political enemies.
The new bit is how broad the criteria are for getting on the list.
So it was fine when only radicals and minorities were on the list?
All Trump has done is expand the repression to normal people. It's your problem too, now.
I don't know where you get the idea anyone thinks it was fine. We've known it was terrible ever since the early 2000s. It just got a bit worse.
The people warning us about Trump's list were silent about the other lists. Do you think Elissa Slotkin cared if Biden kept lists of anti-Zionists protesting the genocide? There are definitely some people who have been concerned about the lists of targets the government keeps no matter who the President is, but Senators don't give a shit unless their people are on the list.
Right, yes, it's typical privileged centrist liberal stuff. Much closer to the fascists than they like to think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSPRouBvgFE <-
None of us will be on this list.
oh is this different from the enemies list they openly talk about? i don't need democrats warning me about things, they walked us into this fucking mess
Hells Angels seem to be right-wing affiliated. I'd agree that every right wing domestic terrorist group should be on there, but given that Taco pardoned the J6 terrorists, they probably are not.
HAMC is a wild take out of left field. I broke my first bone at a HAMC party and grew up with their kids. I also grew up with the kids of Pagans. I may have a preference towards Pagans and all, but there are chapters and their values differ. HAMC in the Northeast is not the same as HAMC in the South. They are assholes...but for different reasons.
Racist? To track right wing terrorist groups that are mostly motivated by racism is racist?
Also, terrorist groups like the Proud Boys, the Oath keepers, etc....doesn't really have any corresponding leftist groups, unless you count vegan potluck meetings. Apparently, the W administration did count vegan potluck meetings.
Right wing white supremisist gangs are not on the list they’re in the in club that will commit the atrocities on the people on the list