Little Brother Is Watching You

From time to time, the effects of immersing yourself in the news and trying to report corruption and lies can lead people into cognitive disillusionment. This is common to everyone. You either take action to find a solution or you do nothing and wait for things to happen that will change your attitude.

Everyone has had the experience of believing in something that turned out not to be true. It can be said that depending on the situation it can be psychologically traumatic to realize what you thought was the truth, turns out to be at odds with your normalcy bias.

Like it or not, our beliefs about the world are interconnected with other beliefs we have been programmed to accept. As one thing is revealed, there are more that follow and you can either lie to yourself and say that it is a form of persecution or deception or you can learn more about what the facts are.

It takes a great deal of strength in order to let go of one’s preconceived ideas and accept the new and factual data.

I wish it was easy to not compare independent sources with the mainstream narrative – but of course the network narrative is gospel to the majority of those we associate with.

Since the media guides, controls and even at times hijacks the zeitgeist, we sometimes forget that we have not defeated those who oppress us -we have simply enabled them by ignoring their nefarious activities.

In every debate that has been broadcast on the networks, not one moderator has asked the candidates a question about how they would champion the cause of maintaining privacy, stopping unlawful searches, and dismantling much of the surveillance state.

The citizens of the United States have been lulled into forgetting much of what is oppressing them. The way the system has deteriorated over time gives me a reason to be politically direct and speak of how we have established as a nation a default system in order to eliminate what we once called “normal American freedoms.” Today, the system has determined that your ability to be a normal American is based wholly on your place in the power structure.

We have created a statist system where we rank people from those who are superior to us, and to those whom we view as subhuman or worthless. The idea of survival of the fittest is eliminated through our appointed and voted upon authoritarian system. We have allowed ourselves to pretty much believe that we have appointed through the ballot box someone who is more superior than we are to dole out resources, suspend human rights, and hire an army to create a police state capable of eliminating those they tell us are subhuman and worthless.

What a tangled web of moral confusion we have woven under the satanic spell of perceived protection by Big Brother.

A quote from George Orwell’s 1984 illustrates how people can be traumatized and have their spirits crushed to the point they begin to have sympathy for those who traumatize them. O’Brien tells Winston how the trauma works in guaranteeing obedience.

“All persons who we bring to this place are washed clean, Winston. The execution of their sentences is relatively unimportant. By the time we have finished with them, there is nothing left of them but sorrow for what they have done, and love for Big Brother. It is touching to see how they love Big Brother!”

In America today, there is no shortage of heroes. That is because for some reason we think anyone who has a political agenda we agree with is a hero. Anyone else is just an opportunist, whose fringe ideas don’t resonate with our bitterness, anger and hatred for the sub-humans we have been programmed to hate.

This whole exercise is becoming an immoral excuse for destroying your own dignity and your ability to sustain life, guarantee liberty and the pursuit of monetary increase in order to provide happiness and safety for those you love and associate with.

This is why we are disillusioned. This is why many people are unhappy. They sense loss and the feel tied down and confused. We are all being scrutinized and studied. We are monitored when we use social media, watched when on the street, observed in public places and the voyeurism that comes with the surveillance is humiliating and sometimes dangerous.

We have been careless or willing to allow the grip of the surveillance state to permeate every aspect of our lives. It seems that whenever we have spiking events such as school shootings or bombings, a heightened awareness takes over and soon we begin to hear about all sorts of suspicious packages, suspicious people, and suspicious activities and it spreads like wildfire until we begin to wonder if everything that is happening around us is just plain suspicious.

Now, the hand of Big Brother is caressing your children.

We have all been programmed by the Department of Homeland security to become aware of suspicious behavior. We are told that if we see something that we should say something.

Now these protectors of freedom want to turn school children into spies.

The “Project Safe Campus” program is an anonymous cash rewards program that pays students $100.00 to spy on fellow classmates! The goal of Project Safe Campus is to increase the number of anonymous tips coming from the schools. Students who give tips that result in disciplinary action will be rewarded.

Tips can include information about weapons, drugs, thefts, bullying, vandalism, arson, fighting and concern about potential suicides.

Crime Stoppers in several states are behind the controversial program and the truth is, this program provides incentives to schools and universities to spy on students.

Schools and campuses will receive $3,000 for every actionable tip the DHS/Police receive.

The DHS student spying program goes by a few of different names across the country:

The Louisiana Safe Schools program pays students $2,500 to spy on their classmates. The Laredo, Texas’s Campus Crime Stoppers program pays students $1,000 to spy on their classmates. Michigan’s “Fast Fifty” pays students $50.00 to spy on their classmates.

This is an incredibly dangerous program, and is so far being implemented in schools and universities that have budgetary issues.

Isn’t it interesting these spy programs, are getting t their start in areas where unemployment is high and incomes are low? Why would DHS/Police target low-income areas like Louisiana, Michigan and Laredo, Texas?

It is not to far of a stretch to assume that unemployed or poor students eager to make some quick cash, now have an incentive to turn in their friends and family for a “fast fifty” or more.

This program will also be accompanied by a Restorative Practices program which claims to reduce crime, improve student behavior, and restore relationships.

Students all over the country will soon be programmed by our governments’ Office of Special Education program called “Positive Behavior Intervention.” This is also known as School Climate Transformation and grants will be given to schools that utilize their guidelines and propaganda.

According to the U.S. Department of Education:

“The purpose of the Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports Implementation Blueprint is to guide leadership teams in the assessment, development, and execution of action plans.”

What they don’t explain is that every student in the program will be issued a threat assessment. This will be determined by the police and school administrators.

They are listed into three categories – “Troubling, Disruptive and Threatening.” These criteria are used in the Virginia Student Threat Assessment Guidelines.

The Virginia Student Threat Assessment Guidelines or V-STAG is a school-based blueprint designed to help school administrators, mental health staff, and law enforcement officers assess and respond to threat incidents involving students in kindergarten through 12th grade and prevent student violence.”

Wow, even kindergartners get a threat assessment.

V-STAG was developed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. Secret Service, and the U.S. Department of Education.

“The Safe School Initiative” was implemented through the Secret Service’s National Threat Assessment Center and the Department of Education’s Safe and Drug-Free Schools Program.

Now keep in mind that every student K-12 is being profiled and given a risk assessment rating, according to the Secret Services article titled “Evaluating Risk For Targeted Violence In Schools: Comparing Risk Assessment, Threat Assessment and Other Approaches.”

V-STAG is also designed to provide students involved in threat incidents with appropriate mental health counseling services, with parental involvement, and reduce the numbers of long-term school suspensions or expulsions and alternative school setting placements.

Imagine having on your child’s record that he or she needed mental health counseling in order to satisfy the Secret Service, FBI, and Department of Education. This sounds like it is an integral part of the school-to-prison pipeline.

The “school-to-prison pipeline” refers to the policies and practices that push our nation’s school children, especially our most at-risk children, out of classrooms and into the juvenile and criminal justice systems. This pipeline reflects the prioritization of incarceration over education.

Children are now going to schools that literally seem like they are more like penitentiaries than schools. Children are now being subjected to searches with metal detectors and drug tests for aspirin, police profiling of students with no records, arbitrary expulsions, armed teachers, increased policing, and all-seeing electronic surveillance.

Students are constantly being programmed into being obsequious due to the permitted climate of fear that provides the imposition of unprecedented restrictions on young people’s rights, dignity, and educational freedoms.

It is now evident that schools are being given incentives to push out low-performing students into the Juvenile Detention system. We have seen how schools are responding to a handful of highly-publicized school shootings.

Their draconian zero -tolerance policies have been used to impose severe punishment regardless of circumstances. Under these policies, students have been expelled for bringing nail clippers or scissors to school. We have heard of horror stories where kids have drawn pictures of guns, or point their fingers in the shape of a gun, or, even eating a pop tart until it looks like a gun, suspended and given a police record.

Rates of suspension have increased dramatically in recent years —from 1.7 million in 1974 to 3.1 million in 2000 and have been most dramatic for minority students.

Suspended and expelled children are often left unsupervised and without constructive activities; they also can easily fall behind in their coursework, leading to a greater likelihood of disengagement and drop-outs.

The Arizona Education Department has spent $36 million to create a new student assessment program called AzEDS.

AzEDS collects data relevant to allocating about $6 billion in funding for school districts and charters, including attendance, special services and transportation records. In 2017, the department hopes to launch the second phase of the system, which would also track student demographics.

They also have the profiling capabilities of creating threat assessment bias based on where the student lives.

We have been told by Homeland Security that “if we see something to say something.” This, of course, is being encouraged as a preventative method of stopping criminal activity in progress.

However, obeying the law does not protect anyone from an informant that wishes to lie in order to destroy someone. Informants have frequently been known to set people up, tricking them into breaking the law.

A destitute child who may want to frame another child for revenge or some other reason could use circumstantial evidence to get 100 dollars in his wallet.

Do we really want to be living in a society of informants that can be paid or get special treatment by the government?

Do you really want your child to be taught to send their fellow students to Juvenile Detention, be harangued, suspended, and judged because of an out of control information society?

Many people are now comfortable with the idea that their personal information is now available with a keystroke that opens your file that is linked to a massive system of computer databases maintained and monitored by government agencies, law enforcement officials, for-profit businesses and private intelligence networks.

All the information about your medical, psychiatric, drug intake, TV viewing, credit and banking are all cross-referenced to companies that will go out of their way to prevent you from getting a place to live, a car to drive, a gun for protection, drugs for pain, and even food to eat because of some “flag” or “glitch” that tells them you are a risk and not worth dealing with.

How many of us have wanted so badly to get back on our feet only to be told “sorry” because of some computer entry saying you are unworthy to proceed because of a credit misunderstanding or a time in your life when you were down on your luck or made bad decisions?

The irony is that many of the same people tell you “sorry” are doing so because they have the power to do it, and also the power to report you if you try too many times to better yourself and they too have been told “sorry” as well.

Now we are all seeing this being passed down to our progeny. A hand-me down surveillance state where not only do we see Big Brother watching you, but little brother as well.

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