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.”
If a list is of virtually everyone it stops being a useful list.
Geogia Guidestones. Do the maths.
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