“The idea of the government monitoring your social media activity if you’re critical of their current moves is unnerving yet unfortunately not totally illegal.” “The government reviewing social media posts has been happening for, I think, over a decade, looking at it for people coming in for visas, immigration, things like that. But what I’ve been seeing a lot is they’re starting to use administrative [subpoenas] to go after anybody that’s critical,” said Dave Chronister, CEO of Parameter Security. (HuffPost)
This article from HuffPost is terrifying for me; it seems to make my most perceived nightmares of a dystopian America turn into reality. Inch by inch, step by calculated step, the Trump Reichstadt, the paranoid, insecure, anti-democracy-oriented gang of goons who support a wanna be dictator, Trump, has the power to bully, intimidate, and send to prison any and all of us who demonstrate an iota of dissent and disagreement with their perverted policies.
The first attack has been against the Media, and the censorship implemented to stop any truth from being spoken or any facts from being told. The next attack has been on the citizens of this nation, from protesting to gathering peacefully to exercise free speech in disagreement with the Government's policies. Then, Due Process has almost been eliminated, another Police State tactic. This President has insisted that gerrymandered districts be created, not for the fairness of the populations living in those districts, but to help him maintain his spineless bunch of Republicans in the majority.
And now this, a plan to intimidate and preferably cripple any single American citizen from speaking up, speaking out, speaking against Trump and his Gestapo tactics in making America Fascist.
Authoritarianism is like a parasite, it is like cancer, it is like a poison; its intention is to inhabit, destroy, and finally bring death. In this case, its ultimate goal is to end Democracy. And oh, yeah, a whole lot of this could be stopped in its tracks, if the CEO’s and Boards of Directors, Billionaires, and the Republicans in the majority actually place the US Constitution above and beyond their profits and personal gain.
