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MACDONALD: Exponentially Worse Than Watergate

October 13, 2025October 13, 2025 Steve MacDonald

The recent revelation that Uncle Joe Biden’s Administration, which is to say whoever was running the Biden Administration, was spying on Republicans in Congress should not surprise. It might be a big deal, but it isn’t a new one. Joe’s mentor, Barry Obama, spied on members of Congress, the Media, our supposed allies, and, of … Read more

ADAM DICK: The People Score Two Victories Against Automated License Plate Readers

September 11, 2025 Adam Dick

Eleven years back, John W. Whitehead warned in his weekly column about the danger from government’s proliferating use of automated license plate readers across America. Whitehead included these devices among the tools being employed in the construction of what he termed an “electronic concentration camp.” This “electronic concentration camp,” wrote Whitehead, “as I have dubbed the surveillance … Read more

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The Bidenistas Massive Domestic Spying Scheme Exposed

April 22, 2025 Steve MacDonald

Spying on Americans was never in doubt, but the Obama Administration weaponized the government and numerous intelligence agencies to do so domestically. Obama spied on everyone. Our allies, Congress, the Press that loved him, and you and I. This expanded into the censorship industrial complex, which employed spying to selectively locate and silence opinions the … Read more

2024 and the Erosion of Liberty

January 5, 2025 John W. and Nisha Whitehead

We have become a nation adrift in a sea of government overreach, abuse and corruption. The following is a sobering account of the challenges we faced in 2024, which were marked by the government’s never-ending power grabs and relentless assaults on our civil liberties. 2024 saw a continued rise in government overreach and abuse of … Read more

The Surveillance State Is Making a List, and You’re On It

December 7, 2024 John W. and Nisha Whitehead

You’d better watch out—you’d better not pout—you’d better not cry—‘cos I’m telling you why: this Christmas, it’s the Surveillance State that’s making a list and checking it twice, and it won’t matter whether you’ve been bad or good. You’ll be on this list whether you like it or not. Mass surveillance is the Deep State’s version of … Read more

New Hampshire’s Covered Bridges and the Expanding Surveillance State

February 18, 2024 Steve MacDonald

There are only 60 covered bridges left in the State of New Hampshire. I can’t say how many we used to have or what happened to them, but someone has proposed creating a loophole in the state’s existing prohibitions against video surveillance. Why? ”

CDC Expands Pathogen Surveillance …

November 8, 2023November 8, 2023 Steve MacDonald

If you want to keep disease out of your country or to keep track of it when it arrives, then checking the health of those arriving at the door to your country makes sense, especially from places where unpleasant transmissible diseases are common.

No, the Government Should Not Be Allowed to Use Warrantless Drone Surveillance to Snoop on Citizens at Home or Spy on Private Property

September 27, 2023 Op-Ed

The Rutherford Institute is pushing back against efforts by government officials to use warrantless aerial drone surveillance to snoop on citizens at home and spy on their private property.

What Is a Matrix Attack and How To Stop It

September 19, 2023 Kensley Vitoria

What is a ‘matrix attack’?

If you have had the courage to investigate some of the more outspoken critics of the contemporary power structure today, you might have seen their references to a matrix that exists, which attacks any speaking out.m against a specific narrative and the clique that it stands to benefit.

“How Coffee Shops Track Customers and Employees

August 23, 2023 Skip

There are times when I wander around some non-political sites just to see if I can find anything interesting to use here. Most of the time, actually the vast majority of the time, it’s a resounding “No!”.

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We’re All Suspects Under the Government’s Precrime Program

July 20, 2023 Op-Ed

We’re all being targeted now. We’re all guilty until proven innocent now. And thanks to the 24/7 surveillance being carried out by the government’s spy network of fusion centers, we are all now sitting ducks, just waiting to be tagged, flagged, targeted, monitored, manipulated, investigated, interrogated, heckled and generally harassed by agents of the American police state. … Read more

From the Emperor’s New Clothes to The Mark Zuckerberg’s New ‘Threads’

July 16, 2023 Steve MacDonald

I feel certain that the FBI, CIA, CDC, WHO, and others, have been encouraging Marxist meat puppet Mark Zuckerberg-er Meister Berger to replace Twitter with something they can control ever since Elon bought Twitter—a suitable propaganda tool of equal measure.

So Kids, What Did We Learn From This Week’s House Session (05/04/23)?

May 5, 2023 Judy Aron

We learned that Senate and House Democrats are fixated on supplying menstrual products in every public bathroom at public expense—this time, they want it provided in state and county correctional facilities at taxpayer expense with SB209. A similar bill, HB421, has already passed in the House, which is now awaiting its fate in the Senate.

Surveillance State: How The Deep State Used Gab, Telegram, Parler, and Gettr…

February 2, 2025March 23, 2023 Steve MacDonald

You could tell that platforms like Facebook and Twitter were grist for the government disinformation mill. Flagged, tagged, or canceled, the gig was fixed. The Twitter Files have revealed just how bad things were. But alternatives like Gab, Telegram, Signal, and Getter were not immune.

America’s Liberty, Our Future, Hangs by a Vote

October 23, 2022 Op-Ed

Summer 2016 The FBI had in its possession an unverified dossier outlining many salacious accusations against candidate Donald Trump. They knew the dossier was, through a convoluted process, the product of Hillary Clinton’s campaign’s opposition research. Surveillance of the Trump campaign was an FBI imperative and to make it happen a FISA warrant needed to … Read more

Say NO To National Data System

March 16, 2022 Ann Marie Banfield

SAY NO TO NATIONAL “DATA SYSTEM”! #PLEASE Tell our Congressperson to vote no on CTA. #SHARE

Apple to Surveil Your iPhone … “Just” for Child Porn

August 7, 2021 Ed Mosca

This: Only people who support child porn and child abuse would oppose this, right? And then they will use the same justification to surveil for “COVID-misinformation” or “election-disinformation” … and from there to whatever speech and thought they disagree with and want to suppress … until they get to the point where they will no … Read more

What the Impeachment Charade Was Really All About

February 18, 2021February 18, 2021 Ian Underwood

Why is it Leftists tell each other they need surveillance, isolation and censorship of people like me? Yes, we are people who vote for candidates who run in opposition to Party rule. Let me posit to you: it is not we that are the danger; it is thee.

Stasi: Zersetzung is American Cancel Culture

February 13, 2021 Rick Olson

When Zersetzung is upon you or your spouse, is suddenly beset by serial misfortune. Perhaps you are being cancelled.

Stasi: The East German Secret Police: An Overview, written on January 30^th summarized how the “Ministerium für Staatssicherheit,” (MfS) operated from 1950 to 1989. Colloquially known as the, “Stasi,” this was one of the most effective and repressive secret police agencies ever to have existed.

Zersetzung: Biodegradation

From the 2007 Movie, “The Lives of Others.”

The fifties and sixties in the GDR brought secret arrests, repression, physical torture and imprisonment. German civil law required warrants for detention and surveillance. Despite that, the Stasi regularly surveilled its citizens, arrested them surreptitiously and held them without charge or cause.

The 1970’s saw monumental concern from the Party apparatchik of the GDR over its international image on the world stage. Consequently, the Stasi sought to retool their operations to be more subtle with their repression. The birth of, “Zersetzung,” sought to provide the East German State with a more positive face in the international community.

Don’t You Just Love Show Trials … Get Out The Popcorn

January 30, 2021January 30, 2021
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The show trial of President Trump. This is just the opening act to the Great Purge. There will be follow on trials and a domestic terrorism crackdown. Anyone who ever retweeted the wrong meme is toast.