Safety without liberty is worthless to me. They can put this in my dossier and smoke it!

The Patriot Act never died—it metastasized. Phones, smart TVs, apps, and camera networks feed the same beast: endless data hoarding that makes mass tracking child's play. You don’t have to be doing anything wrong for it to feel like a violation. Privacy was supposed to be the default for free people.

Flock cams, traffic ticket cameras, ALPR networks, and coming facial recognition are building authoritarian infrastructure wrapped in "public safety." Every move tracked. Government hands enforcement to for-profit companies who profit from violations. This isn’t policing—it’s pretextual revenue that shreds probable cause and due process.

Law-abiding citizens shouldn’t be default-indexed, profiled, and stored like inventory. Tech and AI supercharge our corrupt government. Palantir fuses tax records, movements, and associations into searchable mega-dossiers on every citizen.

We have rights—and they’re worth fighting for, not surrendering. The fight is keeping the tools subordinate to rights, not the other way around.

Government and its contractor buddies must shrink, not grow more liberty-crushing tentacles. Starve this surveillance ecosystem of data and contracts now, before our lives become a China-style dragnet with social credit scores.

Don’t Spy On Me.

— One Pissed Off Surveilled American