America's Surveillance Infrastructure Is Already Here

They're building a massive surveillance state in America. It's just the reality of where we are, and it is headed full steam. There is an insane amount of money behind this. They are building a digital prison, a potential digital prison here in America. These fusion centers are what then build this national database, right? And so, in some of these searches, they discovered that, say, a small town's flock cameras were being accessed by police departments all across the nation, okay? And so, this is really the crux of the matter, right? Because if you have, say, a red light camera that is capturing, you know, if you're blowing through a red light and it captures your license plate for going through a red light and you get a ticket in the mail, you know, that information, again, I don't know the specifics of who runs these red light cameras, but I'd imagine that that kind of information is staying within a local region, right? There's no reason for the police chief in Houston to check on whether you're running a red light in some rural town in Indiana. And so, the problem, though, is that people are discovering that all this data that flock is gathering is going into this larger database that then is being accessed by police departments across the nation in addition to all kinds of other agencies, federal agencies, et cetera, that are then kind of peering into this data. And so, and this is what, I mean, one of the aggravating things with this is that I don't have the specific costs. I'm sure that kind of varies per region, but from my own research, a local police department is paying roughly $3,000 per year per camera so this is your taxpayer money that is being used to fund your local police department. And so, they're paying roughly $3,000 per camera per year to access that data to keep us safe, right? Now, look, and I've got a lot of problems with taxes in general, but however, I'm not a defund the police kind of guy. I believe if there is a constitutional sheriff and if the police in my region are following and enforcing the constitution, I believe that they should have the funds to properly do that, right? It's like if someone shows up in my front yard with a shotgun and is threatening to me and I call 911, I want the local police officers to show up and take care of that threat and I think that's a service that they offer. But if my tax dollars are then actually being paid to Flock, right, and then Flock is selling my data to the local police department, that's where I have an issue and that's actually the thing that really, really bothers me with this because when you use Google, right, or you say you have a Gmail and you use single sign-on, when you create your account, you're saying, yes, I agree to this and part of the reason why Google is free is because it's collecting data on you. Part of the reason why Gmail is free is because it's collecting data on you. It then uses that data, it sells that data to advertisers, but you're entering into that relationship contractually. But what's happening though is that you have a third-party private company that is collecting a massive amount of data on me, on you, on every person in America that is within the vicinity of these cameras. It's collecting that data on me and selling it to these police departments and other agencies that are being funded by our taxpayer dollars, okay, and then Flock is now turning, it's now an $8.5 billion company. So they've got roughly 100,000 of these cameras across the nation. And so just think about if one camera is, they're making $3,000 a year per camera, then if my math serves me correctly, I think it's somewhere like, what, $300 million? It's kind of quick math, I didn't do it. So yeah, it's roughly, yeah, 3,000 times 100,000, that's that many zeros and it's, anyway, it's a lot of money, okay? I went to art school, so don't quiz me on instant math, especially with lots of zeros. So anyway, that's one of the issues that I have. But it's not just that, it's people are then realizing, A, their privacy is being invaded, it's going to these data centers, it's having access like that, there's all that kind of nefarious stuff happening. But we're also seeing case on case on case of people that have access within police forces, people that have access to these cameras that are misusing them. And so it's like almost every day, I'm seeing a new headline about, hey, these three police officers were arrested here, these were fired over here, because they were using this flock camera data to illegally track and surveil people. So I've got a video here I'm going to show you, this is down, I think, down in Georgia, if I remember correctly, right? It says, multiple police officers are being removed from their positions across the country after they were caught using flock cameras to stalk and track their own family members. So I'll play this for you right here. This is, I think this is Atlanta, if I remember correctly. So this is a little under two minutes. I'm going to play this clip for you, though, because this is really, it highlights what's happening with the police, but it's also highlighting the movement of rejecting this technology. Yes, I did. People that I spoke to in the Fayetteville area call this very alarming, that police officers are using those flock cameras for their own purposes. They say that this raises new questions about privacy, accountability, and how the technology is monitored. For many, flock cameras are supposed to make communities safer. But after three officers allegedly abused the system for personal reasons, some residents are questioning whether the technology has enough safeguards. I don't think they should be misused for personal use or any other use in such as plus it's for a legal reason. According to the Fayetteville Police Department, the officers improperly used the license plate reader technology to look for relatives and acquaintances. Actions, the department says, fell outside of the scope of their duties. Now, some residents are calling for stronger oversight. They should be for that specific purpose. If they're able to use it for all these other reasons, like tracking people, either they need a new company that has protections on the gear to where you can't do all that stuff, or there needs to be some checks and balances on it. Atlanta News first reached out to Flock Safety. The company's CEO says while the allegations are disappointing, it also demonstrates that agencies can detect misuse. It's a disappointing story when I see it, but I also go, look, this is working. This is showing that if you use a tool like Flock or other tools, you should be held accountable, regardless of whether you have a badge or you don't. This all comes as Flock cameras continue to face scrutiny across Metro Atlanta. In some communities, opponents have even vandalized or removed the cameras. Fayetteville resident Willie Wells says the latest incident only reinforces his concerns. They're unconstitutional and they have to pay us for our data. We're becoming a police state. We've got to stop it. We've got to stop it. I mean, kudos to that guy. He says we're becoming a police state and we've got to stop it. And so, again, you are seeing this resistance happening. Now, this is a post from six months ago or so. This is from Jason Bassler over on X. He's saying these are the cities that have said no to surveillance contracts. So there are a lot of cities that are rejecting these surveillance contracts. And you're also seeing there's a lot of departments that are canceling their contracts. LAPD, they're not renewing their contracts. I believe that they're not going to be using anymore. The cameras are still going to be in place. But similar to the data centers, you're seeing that the mass resistance to this is taking an effect. And that's really, really important. However, I want to highlight though that, as I mentioned before, FLOC is just one layer. FLOC is just one spoke on the wheel of this technocratic surveillance state. And so, I'm going to pull something up now. It's a great little post here. This is from this guy, William Murphy, over on Twitter. He says, FLOC is just one layer. The surveillance economy combines ALPR, which is a license plate reading technology, facial recognition, AI analytics, data brokers, and police cloud systems. The issue isn't one camera. It's building a permanent behavioral database where movement, identity, and associations become searchable. A lot of places are canceling FLOC contracts, but they're just replacing them with Axon contracts. So they're completely just pulling a stunt and saying, oh, okay, so we're not going to point a gun at you, or we're not going to point a rifle at you. It's like, oh, thank you, Scott. That's great. We're going to point a pistol at you instead. It's like, well, hold on. Both have the same thing. They're both going to potentially shoot me. And that's exactly what's happening. And so, this is something to be aware of. And this is why I said, it's important to focus on FLOC, but don't get stuck in the weeds with FLOC. Don't think that if you can stop FLOC from coming into your own city council and selling them on it and getting cameras all over your area, don't think it's this huge win if you just get rid of FLOC. Because if the FLOC disappears, we're seeing a lot of areas are just replacing them with Axon. Now, the good thing with these, similar to FLOC, is that you can spot them. You can see them. A, you can find them on the FLOC map. But also, if you're driving, you know what this looks like. You'll see this big black pole. You'll see a little solar panel on top of it. And you have a camera mounted on there. It's like, okay, hey, that's a security camera. That's a FLOC. Or it's an Axon. But here's where it gets scary, is that Axon also has this other thing. Okay? Let's see. Let me scroll down. Called Axon Lightpost. So the Axon Lightpost, I'm sure if you can see it there. So what this is, is this is a little camera. Let's see if I can zoom in for you. Yep, there you go. So Axon Lightpost is basically just retrofitting one of their exact cameras. So the same FLOC camera you would see, the same technology, everything. Instead of putting it on a pole where you can spot it, these are built to just attach to lightposts. And so you might be driving around somewhere and you might see no FLOC cameras, but these things are sitting up on the lightposts. And this is a concern because that's a lot easier to hide. Okay? And so now then, so he says, you know, Axon's new works with Axon program means that these cameras can work with multiple agencies and multiple, you know, kind of third-party cameras can plug in and they have their platform that brings it all, say, Axon FUSIS, which connects every stream into one operational view so that agencies can search, respond, and build cases faster from a single platform. Okay? So now Axon, this company here, again, just keep an eye out for Axon. And so there's a lot of people that, I'm not sure, I'm not going to bring us into politics. I think that politics, by this point in my life, I think that politics is a complete scam. However, there's a lot of people that think, oh, well, Trump is going to save us from this. And you know, Trump is, you know, the white hats are, you know, they're protecting us and everything. I can show you this, though. So Trump's account, right? They bought up to $5 million in Axon two weeks before ICE sought a $220 million government contract. So not only is that insider trading, but Trump's own account is investing in Axon, okay? Which, again, I wouldn't be surprised, you know, you might see this happen. Oftentimes, you know, it's like within a war, they will send out an enemy first that's going to draw fire, that's going to, you know, kind of deplete the resources of whoever they're fighting against. They might know that that thing is going to die first, only to be replaced by the other thing quietly. And so just be aware of this is that we might see, I mean, look, maybe there's so much backlash against Flock that maybe the company goes under in a year or two, right? And it's like this huge thing, okay, hey, David took down Goliath. However, you might see companies like Axon that are just quietly replacing and quietly putting the exact technology in, but maybe this time they got smart and they're saying, hey, it's actually too obvious if you have these poles everywhere, so we're going to attach these to lights, okay? And so just be aware that Trump is invested in this company and I'm not sure, you know, they bought, let's see if the article shows, okay? So it says that a federal ethics filing shows an account in Trump's name, bought between $1 and $5 million of Axon shares, Axon stock, and 14 days later, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE, posted a notice seeking a five-year, $220 million contract for stun guns, okay? So let's see, does it say how much they made? No, it doesn't give any indication. I'm guessing though that that stock completely surged after that. So now look, maybe it was just a little bit insider trading, hey, let's make some money, whatever, but he's investing in this infrastructure, okay? So think of it what you might. Now, again, if we're looking at the investment and the money behind these things, you've also got Palantir. As I mentioned, Palantir is sitting in the middle of all of this, right? And again, I got to say, you know, Palantir under Trump has become insanely linked with our government, right? You know, when Elon Musk was coming in and Doge, it was like, hey, it was really exciting, we're exposing all this, you know, corruption and waste, but what's also happening is that you're seeing all of these big tech companies getting really cozy with the federal government, with Palantir being one of the central ones. And say, okay, well, what's Palantir have to do with Flock? Well, Flock right here, back in 2025, so a little over a year ago, they secured almost a quarter billion dollars in funding. So right here, accelerating innovation, Flock secures $275 million to advance crime-solving technology. Oh yeah, great. And this is the other thing too, is that we mean crime-solving technology, I think it was Lennon, I think it was Lennon who said something to the effect of basically give me the man and I'll find his crimes, okay? Like they can find crimes if they want to. And so crime-solving technology, now we know what Flock is really about. However, if you look at who's financing this, okay, so we have Andreessen Horowitz, so Mark Andreessen is a guy who runs Substack, so just be aware of that. But right here, you've also got the Founders Fund, right? So Founders Fund is basically Peter Thiel, some other wealthy people as well, but so Peter Thiel is an investor in Flock. And this is what you see, is that as you get move up and up and you see this industrial complex of surveillance and data gathering and AI and everything, it's a very small club. And there's a very small amount of people, all things considered, that are funding and owning a significant amount of this technology. It's very centralized. And so if you look at Palantir, it's really important that when you're looking at companies like Palantir or Peter Thiel, that you understand the relationship, even looking at Flock. So what's happened is that the government is bound by the Constitution. So the government itself can't come in and put these Flock cameras everywhere. It has to be done by a private company. And same thing with Palantir, right? So the government can't have this database and all this stuff for analyzing all this data to be used against people to be monitoring its citizens because it's violating the Fourth Amendment. However, these private companies can. And this is a, I'm not going to get too heavy into this theme, but it's something that's very, very important to understand, is that from my own understanding and my own research, a lot of Silicon Valley is just a front for the military industrial complex. It's like Facebook. It's like, oh, Facebook, yeah, this genius Mark Zuckerberg and his garage built this company. No, Facebook was basically DARPA's lifelog rebranded. So a lot of the big companies that we see, especially getting into social media, which can be a really good tool for social engineering, all the data, stuff we're seeing with Palantir, Oracle, et cetera, these companies have their origin in the United States government. Even SpaceX, a lot of what's backed Elon, has been big DoD contracts. And so if you're looking at Palantir specifically, I'll give you an example and just apply this to a lot of these other companies. So look here, this is a, I'm going to play a short video here. I'll play about a, maybe a minute or two of it. This is Whitney Webb, who I've been trying to interview for a long time. So if you know Whitney, then please say, hey, you should go on Seth's show because I really want to interview Whitney Webb, but listen to her giving a little bit of the history of Palantir. Like I said, I'll play about a minute or two of this because she's brilliant and she can talk about a lot of stuff. Anyway, let's just take a look at, this is the formula for how the government can violate the constitution is because the government just creates these companies. It turns them into private companies that have these massive government contracts. And basically the government is then bypassing the constitution through private companies. It's really kind of the same thing of how the government can go assassinate world leaders and everything because they're not doing it. They're paying some private black ops company, some private contractor to go do it for them. 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Smartphones act as voluntary, all-encompassing surveillance devices that collect intimate 24-7 data, making them vastly more dangerous to civil liberties than stationary traffic or license plate readers. And this is the tricky part is, and I struggle with this because I do a lot of my work from my phone. I have a smartphone and I have been on the fence for quite some time now, and my wife as well, in thinking, should we just go back to a dumb phone? And I think that I probably will, right? It's the same reason why probably sometime in late summer or fall, I'm going to sell one. We have a couple, two vehicles and they're both newer vehicles. We're going to sell one of them and I'm going to get an old 80s Bronco. That's probably what I'm going to be leaning towards, but I don't want a smart car. I want a car that is a dumb car. I want to be able to turn my air conditioning on with a knob and a little manual dial instead of some fancy touchscreen. There's a lot of reasons for that too. However, it's the same thing with cell phones, right? It's like, as much as we are resistant to the surveillance state, do we resist it enough that we can get rid of the convenience of this smartphone? And that's tough, right? It really is difficult. But I'm aware though, the fact that these smartphones, these are the center of this. Now, someone had asked on last week's show about whether the flock cameras are tracking phones. And so this is a video I'm going to play for you. And this is a guy showing, literally showing that as he approaches this flock camera, that the flock camera is pinging a Bluetooth back and forth to his phone. And this is what's really, really important is that, you know, flock has said, Oh no, look, we're just reading license plate information. We're just doing this very simple task of analyzing the cars and everything. Yet, if that's the case, why is this flock camera pinging these Bluetooth signals back and forth from this phone? And this is where it gets even more dystopian. So I'll play this video and I'll play the whole thing in a minute or so, but you can see exactly what's happening here. And he does a good job narrating it. So we are getting this flock camera. It's emitting this Kinect 36295 Bluetooth signal. It will randomly emit that. You can see it right there. We observed it 32 seconds ago. I can start this back up and you'll see, we'll observe it consistently. This specific unit is obviously set off by human motion. Whether that's taking a picture of me is questionable, but the IR element definitely is set off from human motion. As you can see, no cards are coming. There's that Kinect signal. It's a Bluetooth signal. You can see at the top there, it's coming from the back of this battery pack. I believe it's coming from that white battery module emitting a Bluetooth signal. This looks to be a standard Falcon ALPR unit, so it's not going to be the AI video powered condo unit. The easiest way to tell is the camera. The IR unit is more towards the top of the camera, as opposed to the condor where they're on the middle. You'll be able to see this triggered by the cars. It's taking six to eight images of each vehicle as it goes by, make, model, color, decals, damage, and then it's uploading that basically via LTE to FlockOS, where it becomes searchable, indexable, and they can refer to it later. Very extensive system. Again, we're picking up that Kinect 36295 signal coming from what I believe is the BLE battery pack, or the battery pack on the back of here giving off a BLE. So you can see right there that that Flock camera, for whatever reason, is pinging his phone. I'm assuming it's collecting location data on that. Now, this is where it gets even more frightening. So there's a technology called SignalTrace. Now, I was not able to confirm whether Flock is using SignalTrace technology. Actually, I don't have the window open, but I'm going to pull up... Let me see if I can find it real quick. SignalTrace. Let me see here. Okay. This company called Leonardo, they have this technology called SignalTrace. Now, what SignalTrace does, it says... Okay. Here's this little video. It says, okay, think about... Okay. I'll turn the music off. I'll narrate this for you because people that are listening on the podcast, they can follow along because this little video they have, it's a little bit over a minute long. There's no words. It just has some cheesy music. But it says, think of all the electronic devices that people travel with. Smartphones, watches, earphones, fitness trackers, infotainment systems in your car. Okay. It says, what if law enforcement could identify suspects by the electronic devices they use? They can. Okay. So, SignalTrace captures the unique signals emitted from each device and creates a digital fingerprint for devices that routinely travel together. So, when used along with Leonardo's license plate readers, SignalTrace correlates each digital fingerprint with a plate. So, okay. Basically, what this is saying, let's just say... So, this SignalTrace technology, as you can see in the picture here, it shows it, right? It's just this couple of these white boxes that can be mounted on a pole. Now, no one's talking about this ----. Everyone's focused on Flock. But to me, this is almost worse than Flock because what it does is that when you use... Let's just say you have some AirPods, you have a phone, you have a Bluetooth system in your car, and you're wearing some sort of Apple watch or Fitbit, all of those devices are emitting wireless signals. Okay. And so, what SignalTrace does, as I say, it captures the unique signals emitted from each device and creates a digital fingerprint for devices that routinely travel together. And so, let's just say that you've got those devices. Those devices, each with their own individual identifying IMEs or whatever the specific numbers are identified by, those create a digital fingerprint. And so, let's just say that... It kind of highlights here too. Say you're then riding with a friend of yours in their car, that SignalTrace would potentially know that you're riding in the car, even in someone else's car, because it would have your digital fingerprint of, that's Bill Johnson wearing this particular Apple watch, he has this pair of Apple headphones, and he has this phone with him. And so, it creates a fingerprint of that. And so, this is where it gets, in my opinion, this is where it gets even scarier. And so, the NRA recently published an article, this is back on July 13th, warning about this. It says, gun owners may be joining the anti-flock movement. So here, it does a good job of describing it. It says, you drive past a pole-mounted camera on your way to the range, your plate gets logged. Old news. But your phone, your smartwatch, the RFID tag still tucked inside that new holster box, those might get logged too. Leonardo's ELSAG, SignalTrace represents a significant expansion in law enforcement surveillance, and the NRA is flagging it as a direct threat to firearm owner privacy. Okay? So here, so it says, when flock cameras read your plate, SignalTrace, or so it's where flock cameras read your plate in your car, to create the fingerprint of your car, your vehicle, SignalTrace maps what's riding inside. Leonardo markets the system as a signal intelligence layer for existing ALPR infrastructure. It collects electronic communication patterns from consumer devices and builds what the company calls an electronic fingerprint, a profile of devices that routinely travel together according to Leonardo's own product description. So the confirmed capabilities break it down like this. Phones, smartwatches, fitness trackers, RFID tags, even tire pressure sensors are among the signals the system can detect. SignalTrace links device clusters to vehicle movement records, creating layered identity profiles. Data may be archived for future queries, unlike some flock systems that claim to delete the records after a set window. And so it says critics argue that this could map recurring trips to gun stores, ranges, or FFL dealers, though Leonardo does not explicitly advertise this use case. They say that the data retention detail matters. It's one thing to photograph a plate, it's another to build a persistent digital shadow of everyone riding inside the car. So this is again, what we're looking at here is the entire ecosystem. Yes, you have the flock cameras, you have the different license plate reading cameras, you have the Axon, the light mounted ones, you now have SignalTrace, which may or may not be attached to a flock camera, their technology can be kind of joined together with these license plate reading cameras, or it could just be sitting on a light pole somewhere. But this is all collecting information on you. And so this is the concern. And this is the sober reality of where we're at as a nation, is that our government, through the guise of private corporations, universities, public utilities, public services, they're building a massive surveillance state in America. It's just the reality of where we are. And it is headed full steam. There is an insane amount of money behind this. They are building a digital prison, a potential digital prison here in America. Now, let's just say that you trust the government, which I'm not sure what planet you're from, but maybe you do. Maybe you actually trust the government. And you're thinking that, hey, you know what, it's worth it because we're going to cut down on crime and life's going to be a lot better. Which again, I haven't seen any reduction in crime with all this new technology. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places, but America doesn't feel that much safer now than it did 10, 20 years ago. Actually, I feel like it's kind of the opposite. The sober reality is that this system is being built. And so even if you trust the current administration, you trust the current government. What happens when the next guy gets in? And this is the real issue here, is what happens when the next administration takes over and they say, you know what, our country needs to be even more safe. What happens if there's another terrorist attack like 9-11? Which you could argue the government was heavily involved in that. It's not really an argument anymore. It's almost obvious if you look into it, just spend a little time researching it. You can see these false flag events create the atmosphere of fear. It creates the atmosphere of the average American saying, please protect me. I'm willing to give up a little bit of my privacy, a little bit of my freedom as long as you'll keep me safe. What we're seeing is that we are on the doorstep of a tyrannical technocratic rulership. It's so close to coming here to America. It's already here. Look, we saw under Joe Biden, we saw that people were being considered terrorists for just being pro-America, for being patriotic, for questioning whether the election was rigged or not. And so this system they're building, it could so easily be turned against the average American. And unfortunately, the people that this kind of system would be turning against are the people that want their freedoms. The system's not going to be worried about the people that are already on welfare, that are already lining up for their next booster shot, that are just in complete compliance with the government. Those are the ones that aren't really worried about. The ones that are worried about are the people like you and me, the people that have Second Amendment kind of taken care of, the ones that are questioning the government, the ones that are trying to get more outside the system, the ones that see the writing on the wall. These are the people that a government like this would go after. Because if you look at history, if you look at the examples of when a free society has been turned into a tyrannical society, one of the earlier stages of that is eliminating the dissenters. So in China, there was a campaign under Mao, it's called the Hundred Flowers Blossoming Campaign, where they invited all the intellectuals, all the people that had a better idea of how to run a government. This is actually when they're under communism, and there's a lot of better ways to run the government than communism. They invited all these people to come out and to voice their opinions and to say, hey, how can we do better as a government? And so towards the end of that campaign, all the people that came forward that were obviously people that were thinking and analyzing and thinking to themselves, hey, this communism is not working. This is bad. Most of those people were either killed, put into labor camps, disappeared. And so that's what happens. And so the people that are freedom-minded, the people that are concerned about tyranny rising and taking over the nation, those are the first people that a tyrannical government will silence and eliminate. And we've seen it over and over and over again, even going back to 2020. Anybody who questioned COVID, anybody who questioned the election, these people were deplatformed. Places like the UK, the same people are being arrested for inciting racism or hatred, for questioning whether mass immigration was leading to mass rape, which we now know has been proven. And this is the concern because if you look at what life is like in communist China, the technology that is being built in this country has the potential to turn life in America into life in communist China. And you can't get around that point. And actually, I'll play now. I have a little video here. It's maybe two minutes long. This is what it looks like in China. So I'll pull this up for you. This is life in China. So imagine this could be America. The infrastructure for this is being built. That's the reality of this. The infrastructure for what we're seeing in China is being built here in America. So we're going to make this full screen for you. I think that works, right? Sorry for the kind of odd crop on this, but I'll play this for you. Okay. Today in China, there are some 600 million surveillance cameras, one for every two citizens, able to track people's movements down to the minute. Every street corner, there's facial recognition, there's digital recognition, there's the social credit system. The social credit system is the sort of highest aspiration of the Chinese Communist Party to have everything every human being does go into a computer system. And with AI and all sorts of other sophisticated programming, you can know exactly where a person is because he'll have bought something with a credit card or a digital payment system. His car will have gone down a highway. Every kilometer, there's a camera taking pictures of your license plate. They will know everything about everybody real time. This creates a kind of a techno-autocratic system that's unprecedented and with which we've had no experience. So that right there, and that's just a small little snippet of it, but that's what life in China is like. There's a lot of zones where you can't enter into a certain zone of Beijing, for instance, unless you scan your face first. And when they scan you, they're running you through this national database where they're tracking your social credit score, they're monitoring everything that you're doing. And so if you're a political dissident in China, if you're the, say, man in America version in China where you're questioning the government, oh, good luck, they're going to come after you. And we've seen it over and over again. So they're using this technology to arrest house Christians. So people that, if you don't practice the official Chinese Communist Party version of Christianity with their version of the Bible, they will arrest you and put you into a black prison, which means that you're either doing forced labor or maybe they're even harvesting your organs. Very, very common. Look at what they did to the Falun Gong over there. It's this big meditation group. There's close to 100 million people doing this in the late 90s. In 99, Jiang Zemin came in and he was like, hey, this is bad. There's all these people that believe in principles higher than communism. And it's this huge movement of people over there, literally the government estimates between 70 and 100 million people. And they said, we're going to get rid of it. And so they had a huge crackdown and it still continues to this day. But what's happening now is that they're using this same system. They're using this AI technology, this surveillance grid to track these political dissidents. So whether it's underground Christians or Falun Gong or Uyghur Muslims, they're arresting them. They're harvesting their organs. They're doing all kinds of terrible things. And it's so many people, we have this cognitive dissonance, this normalcy bias that we say, oh, that will never happen in America. It's happening in America. Yeah, maybe they're not arresting the dissidents and harvesting their organs, but they're certainly building the digital infrastructure to create an absolute tyranny in this nation. And so this is what we have to just be aware of. And so I don't have all the solutions to this. And I always like to have some solutions. I mean, obviously, it's just get off grid, get rid of your smartphone, become more self-reliant. There's a lot of things like that, which we can talk about. But the biggest solution that I have is that we have to have more Americans wake up to this reality. And that's a lot of the reason why I do this show and why I hope that you can share this show. And it's also why I've really stopped getting into left-right politics, because what it does is that, well, for a lot, A, I think it's just a complete scam, but it also divides us because you might have some people like, I don't want to watch that Man in America guy. He's a Trump supporter. It's like, no, they're all corrupt. It's like, no, yes, I'm on your side. I oppose tyranny. That's my stance. I am pro-freedom, I am pro-God, and I am anti-tyranny, I'm anti-communism, I'm anti-socialism, I'm anti-technocracy. And so that's the key here. And so that's one of the biggest things we can do is just try to help more Americans see this for what it is, because there's a cage being built around us. And if too many of us are still sleeping while that cage is being constructed, by the time you wake up, you're stuck in it. But right now, the cage isn't complete yet. And what we're seeing, if you look at the resistance that we're seeing with the data centers, the resistance to the flock cameras, you can see there's a lot of Americans that are starting to get really pissed off about this. And I think similar to the Epstein stuff and the child trafficking crisis, this is one of those issues that can unite us as Americans. 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