More on the Secret Police State

An interesting tidbit here:

The Department of Homeland Security has operated a program to monitor ordinary Americans’ social media discussions about the agency’s policy directives, even though it had in place another policy prohibiting agents from checking visa applicants’ social media accounts for possible signs of terrorist leanings.

The agency’s policy against vetting visa applicants was revealed on Monday by John Cohen, a former DHS under-secretary for intelligence and analysis.

Now an intelligence analyst at ABC News, Cohen says that last year, DHS Sec. Jeh Johnson resisted changing the agency’s policy against viewing visa applicants’ social media accounts as part of the screening process to let them into the U.S.

Having such a policy in place may have prevented San Bernardino terrorist Tashfeen Malik from entering the country on a fiancee visa last year, Cohen asserted.

Have no illusions, in today’s modern surveillance state they are checking the social media of Islamists. They are complaining that they can’t access every single text message sent from one phone to another right now because of encryption. They are illegally inserting covert back doors in professional security software. The idea that they are ignoring public social media postings by terrorists is laughable.

So if it is happening, why does DHS ban it officially? This is a sign of the growing divergence between the increasingly de-fanged public face of Law Enforcement, and the Secret Police State that is building to take over Law Enforcement duties behind the scenes using the tools of espionage. The Secret Police State doesn’t want some by-the-book keyboard monkey in the DHS main office seeing a radicalized facebook post and then jumping all over it to get the person deported. Maybe that person is a CI bolstering their cred among a group the Secret Police are trying to infiltrate. Maybe the Secret Police’s surveillance is all over a cell about to bomb someplace, and they have one day before they catch everyone in the act, and they don’t want some desk jockey in DC having local PD pull everyone in to the station house for questioning.

In LE Intel’s ideal world, the non-shadow, public LE looks inept, does nothing, covers for the Secret Police when they do get caught in the act, and then waits around for Secret Police to give them an order and tell them what to do.

The problem is that as we develop this flexible, rule-breaking, above-the-law-and-beyond-scrutiny Secret Police State, hidden behind a façade of public bureaucratic ineptitude and hopeless political correctness, you know the psychologies it will attract. First it will get the warriors who are happy to break rules to get the bad guys. But then one SJW will get in and soon the warriors will gradually be supplanted with an army of SJW’s, as well as Stalin’s and Mao’s who just see the power – and want it for themselves.

Some might say it’s self-perpetuating structure is an initial indicator of this. Now Public DHS is barred from stopping terrorists from entering the country, so the Secret Police State may operate more freely in the shadows, without risk of overt Law Enforcement operations happening across its path. But would the Secret Police State even be necessary if DHS was fully empowered to secure the borders as fully as possible, using open, transparent investigative tactics? Would the public be more inclined to stop Muslim immigration if all of the plots which were stopped were made public, and if the Secret Police State were not holding the savages at bay behind the scenes?

Already it could be alleged that the Secret Police State is creating business for itself by disempowering the official, transparent security state that is supposed to protect us. Is this done so the increased threat can be used to both justify the Secret Police State’s existence, and lobby for giving it more power and authority? It is impossible to know, given how much is kept in the shadows.

More troubling is how in a supposedly transparent society, the transition to a rule-less Secret Police State is being made without any consideration of the public’s desires. Indeed, if anyone like Snowden attempts to inform the public that their representative republic is being replaced with an unelected Secret Police State existing beyond all legal strictures, they are treated as if some enemy of the nation.

What would the public decide, if you gave them a choice between ending Muslim immigration completely and not having a Secret Police force existing beyond the law, or allowing increased Muslim refugee immigration while enlarging the Secret Police State and giving it total power over everyone’s lives and privacy, to keep us safe? That is why you see all of these nonsensical public policies today, which so erode our security, betray our nation, and make everyone less safe. The Secret Police State is getting everyone out of their way, as they make more business for themselves.

Already we even see allegations that some attacks may have been allowed to happen by political players, to move political needles in directions they want them to go:

In a January 5th 1996 teletype to select FBI field offices, FBI Director Louis Freeh revealed that the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the far-left group founded by civil rights lawyer Morris Dees, had an informant living in Elohim City, a white supremacist compound whose inhabitants have been closely linked to the Oklahoma City bombing.

The Freeh teletype also revealed that Tim McVeigh, executed in 2001 for the murder of 168 people in Oklahoma City, had telephoned Elohim City asking that German national Andreas Strassmeir provide more assistance in completing the bomb which devastated the Alfred P. Murrah building. The call took place on April 17 of 1995, 2 days before the bombing.

The teletype makes it clear that the FBI had prior knowledge of the bombing plot and the SPLC had at least one informant on the inside. This individual has never been publicly identified. Neither is it known whether he reported to the FBI, to SPLC founder Morris Dees or to both.

As the natural political progression you see everywhere takes hold in the Secret Police State, and the power hungry rabbits supplant any patriotic leadership in it, it will be a matter of time before attacks are allowed to happen, or even manufactured, to build support for even more control by these shadowy entities who at present we are not even capable of naming. We have seen this movie before in other nations, and it does not end well.

The Secret Police State is yet one more mile-marker along the decline of America. It is noted here for those who come after to take note of. We saw it, we knew it was there, we just had such ease and comfort that our amygdalae lacked the motivational force to make overcoming the resistance of the establishment and getting rid of it a priority. Freedom just wasn’t worth the hassle to us at this point. For that, we will deserve all that comes after. Hopefully God will be merciful.

Apocalypse cometh™