The arrival of the era of Mass Surveillance
The power of The Establishment to monitor in advance any future challenge to their authority has resulted in a permanent ruling class. In our past it was true that people could make plans to take control of the levers of power. This is no longer true, unless backed by a powerful, well-funded, highly-organised counter-surveillance apparatus. This, in addition to an alternative media megaphone of one’s own. The era of mass surveillance cemented the existing power structure in place, immune to all but the strongest of challenges.
It is no coincidence that the modern era of mass surveillance across the Western world coincides with the complete detachment of our “globalist political elite” from the wants and desires of the public in each of the nations. The traitorous ruling class can now run at full speed toward their goals, secure in the knowledge that all genuine, competent opposition is surveilled and disrupted and censored into the ground.
The moment you get a corrupt and ruthless cartel in control of the instruments of mass surveillance, willing to act to maintain their power, the interests of the masses become irrelevant, and the cartel’s power becomes permanent.
The Eye in the Sky
Since the early 2000’s, the institutions of control can zoom in on everyday life from the sky, then rewind and fast-forward at will.
In 2004, when casualties in Iraq were rising due to roadside bombs, Ross McNutt and his team came up with an idea. With a small plane and a 44 mega-pixel camera, they figured out how to watch an entire city all at once, all day long. Whenever a bomb detonated, they could zoom onto that spot and then, because this eye in the sky had been there all along, they could scroll back in time and see – literally see – who planted it. After the war, Ross McNutt retired from the Air Force, and brought this technology back home with him.
Shortly after, Police Departments began signing contracts with this new firm. Now, it is unlikely any major city—or even any modern country—is without such surveillance. The eye in the sky went from tracking enemy combatants in our war zones to monitoring us in our own neighbourhoods.
Listen to the podcast:
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/update-eye-sky
1980s Romania: Half a million government informants watching 22 million citizens
2.3% of the Romanian population were later revealed to be informants working with the Securitate, the Romanian secret police.
Operation TIPS: American Citizen Spies and Neighborhood Surveillance
As reported in the Sydney Morning Herald, 2002:
The Bush Administration aims to recruit millions of United States citizens as domestic informants … The Terrorism Information and Prevention System, or TIPS, means the US will have a higher percentage of citizen informants than the former East Germany through the infamous Stasi secret police. The program would use a minimum of 4 per cent of Americans to report “suspicious activity”.
“Highlighting the scope of the surveillance network, TIPS volunteers are being recruited primarily from among those whose work provides access to homes, businesses or transport systems. Letter carriers, utility employees, truck drivers, and train conductors” as well as “other well positioned private citizens” are among those named as targeted recruits, as “extra eyes and ears for law enforcement.”
“A pilot program .. is scheduled to start next month in 10 cities, with 1 million informants participating in the first stage.”
Sydney Morning Herald, 2002, ‘US planning to recruit one in 24 Americans as citizen spies’,
https://archive.is/pfE51
Mother Jones, 2002, ‘The Furor Over TIPS’,
https://archive.is/w1ZRH
The New Yorker, 2002, ‘CITIZEN SPIES’,
http://archive.is/W3Dhf
We know this from Plato and others who chronicle democracy. Late stage democracy always relies on herding its people, having arisen from herding behavior, so that it can control the herd to do what is convenient for its leaders, namely seize power and steal.
If we can accept that corporations act only to profit, shareholders desire only increase stock value, and ordinary people given power will turn abusive, we can accept also that bureaucrats will do whatever is necessary to advance the bureaucracy, running it like organized crime as a political machine.
Zersetzung: Soviet Stasi Abusive Harassment Surveillance
Author Jürgen Fuchs was a victim of Zersetzung and wrote about his experience, describing the Stasi’s actions as “psychosocial crime”, and “an assault on the human soul”.
…the Stasi often used a method which was really diabolic. It was called Zersetzung, and it’s described in another guideline. The word is difficult to translate because it means originally “biodegradation.” But actually, it’s a quite accurate description. The goal was to destroy secretly the self-confidence of people, for example by damaging their reputation, by organizing failures in their work, and by destroying their personal relationships. Considering this, East Germany was a very modern dictatorship. The Stasi didn’t try to arrest every dissident. It preferred to paralyze them, and it could do so because it had access to so much personal information and to so many institutions.
Operations were designed to intimidate and destabilise targets by subjecting them to repeated disappointment, and to socially alienate them by interfering with and disrupting their relationships with others, as in social undermining. The aim was to induce personal crises in victims, leaving them too unnerved and psychologically distressed to have the time and energy for anti-government activism.
In the name of the target, the Stasi made little announcements, ordered products, and made emergency calls, to terrorize them. To threaten or intimidate or cause psychoses the Stasi would break in to their homes and leave visible traces of its presence, by adding, removing, and modifying objects such as the socks in one’s drawer, or by changing the time on an alarm clock, or replacing tea bags with different types of tea.
Moreover, methods of Zersetzung included espionage, overt, hidden, and feigned; opening letters and listening to telephone calls; manipulation of vehicles; and even poisoning food and using false medications.
The Stasi manipulated relations of friendship, love, marriage, and family by anonymous letters, telegrams and telephone calls as well as compromising photos, often altered. In this manner, parents and children were supposed to systematically become strangers to one another. To provoke conflicts and extramarital relations the Stasi put in place targeted seductions by Romeo agents.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zersetzung
The following were some of the tried and tested forms of Zersetzung:
“a systematic degradation of reputation, image, and prestige on the basis of true, verifiable and discrediting information together with untrue, credible, irrefutable, and thus also discrediting information; a systematic engineering of social and professional failures to undermine the self-confidence of individuals; … engendering of doubts regarding future prospects; engendering of mistrust and mutual suspicion within groups …; interrupting respectively impeding the mutual relations within a group in space or time …, for example by … assigning geographically distant workplaces.”
Is it still going on today?
Prominent Anti-Vaccine campaigner Brandy Vaughan, who was recently found dead after stating she would never commit suicide, had previously published this video detailing the harassment surveillance she was subjected to:
San Diego mom has evidence she’s the victim of Community Stalking:
Bonus: Community Stalking caught on camera:
Surveillance Detection and Counter-Surveillance
The official Anonymous Conservative ground-surveillance detection series is available here in 8 parts:
https://www.anonymousconservative.com/blog/surveillance
Follow along through Google Streetview, with expert commentary telling you what there is to see.