XPost: talk.politics.misc, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh   
   From: OFeem1987@teleworm.us   
      
   Polluted Pup wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:   
      
   > On 12/25/25 7:11 PM, Governor Swill wrote:   
   >> On Thu, 25 Dec 2025 04:16:43 -0800, Pluted Pup    
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> As for the thread title, leftists have been promoting   
   >>> dragnet surveillance of cities in America and the UK and   
   >>> around the world by claiming the only thing wrong with it   
   >>> is because it might be used by immigration enforcement.   
   >>   
   >> Two words:  "Patriot Act"   
   >>   
   >   
   > And?  Are you suggesting that the Patriot Act is somehow   
   > incompatible with dragnet surveillance?  It is essentially   
   > the same thing.  In both cases the Left promoted it by   
   > claiming it would stop crime, and logically would have it to   
   > be an empowering boon to the average man.  Actually the   
   > surveillance dragnets are intended to hurt the average   
   > person and so serve that politically repressive purpose.   
      
   The Left?   
      
          
      
       The growing surveillance state in the U.S. is far worse than   
       you imagined   
      
       Through court battles, legal loopholes, executive orders, and   
       shady contracts, the Trump administration preempts legal   
       challenges and crushes the safeguards protecting privacy   
       rights and due process   
      
       President Donald Trump is taking decisive steps to crush   
       administrative safeguards and preempt legal challenges,   
       allowing his administration to rapidly consolidate a   
       surveillance state with diminished privacy rights. Aided by   
       recent Supreme Court decisions, Republican lawmakers, and   
       quickly eroding due process rights, the administration is   
       ensuring that the data and sensitive information of each   
       person in the U.S. can be used against them.   
      
       To achieve this, the administration has been working   
       diligently to interconnect the data hosted by all levels of   
       government, including Democratic states and local law   
       enforcement agencies, while also contesting lawsuits for   
       privacy violations in courts across the country. In some   
       instances, the administration appears to be violating federal   
       privacy regulations, and it is already divulging sensitive   
       data. Medicare and Medicaid handed over personal data of   
       millions of enrollees in sanctuary states and cities—including   
       California, Washington state, Illinois, and Washington,   
       D.C.—to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which also   
       struck a deal with the Internal Revenue Services (IRS) to   
       access addresses of taxpayers, many of whom are undocumented   
       immigrants who pay billions of dollars in taxes each year.   
      
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