While Americans cheer for “safety” and “law and order,” the Deep State and Silicon Valley are quietly welding the doors shut on a surveillance state that tracks your face, your money, and your mind.
If you were to ask the average American if they live in a free country, they would likely answer with a resounding “Yes.” They would point to the recent elections, the rhetoric of “protecting democracy,” or the seemingly endless debates on cable news as proof of their liberty. But while the public was busy cheering for their preferred political savior, the cell door of a digital prison was quietly being welded shut behind them.
The truth is that the “Land of the Free” is rapidly transforming into a technocratic police state that would make George Orwell blush. This isn’t a conspiracy theory; it is a matter of public record, financed by your tax dollars and constructed by a fusion of the administrative state and Silicon Valley oligarchs.
From the skies above us to the screens in our pockets, the infrastructure for total control is now complete. And the terrifying part isn’t just that they are building it—it’s that millions of Americans are cheering them on.
The Eye in the Sky: The FBI’s Biometric Obsession
As Carey Wedler recently pointed out, on November 21, 2025, while families were preparing for Thanksgiving and arguing over politics, the FBI quietly issued a Request for Information (RFI) that signals the end of anonymity in public spaces.
The Bureau is not simply looking for better cameras. They are actively seeking AI-powered drones capable of real-time facial recognition. According to the procurement documents, the FBI demands technology that can autonomously identify “vehicles, vessels, people, animals, and firearms.”
This is not about chasing criminals. It is about creating a persistent surveillance grid. The RFI specifically requests systems that can analyze “perimeters with an awareness of movement direction” and integrate with the Team Awareness Kit (TAK). In plain English, this means they want a swarm of drones that can track you, identify you, and log your behavior instantly, all without a human operator ever needing to look at a screen.
The Voice in Your Head: Larry Ellison’s Propaganda Empire
While the FBI builds the hardware of this prison, the “software”—the narrative control—is being consolidated by the very technocrats who stand to profit from it.
Enter Larry Ellison, the billionaire founder of Oracle. Ellison is no longer just a tech mogul; he is the architect of the surveillance state’s backend. In a moment of terrifying candor at an Oracle financial meeting in September 2024, Ellison laid out his vision for the future:
“Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that’s going on.”
He didn’t say “criminals.” He said citizens.
Ellison is now moving to ensure you accept this reality. As of August 7, 2025, Skydance Media—controlled by the Ellison family—officially completed its acquisition of Paramount Global. This gives a single technocratic family effective control over CBS News, MTV, Nickelodeon, and a massive swath of American culture.
Why does a cloud computing tyrant want to own a dying legacy media empire? Because if you control the news, you can reframe surveillance as “safety.” You can convince the population that privacy is dangerous and that submission is patriotic.
Furthermore, Oracle is already the gatekeeper for TikTok’s US data via “Project Texas.” They hold the keys to the algorithms that influence the minds of millions of American youths. They have the power to suppress dissent and amplify propaganda with the tweak of a line of code.
The War on Dissent: Palantir and the “Antisemitism” Trap
This tightening of the digital noose is also being justified by a weaponized definition of “hate speech.”
Palantir, the data analytics firm founded by Alex Karp and Peter Thiel, has long been the darling of the surveillance state. Their systems are currently being used to autonomously identify and target individuals in Gaza and Ukraine. Now, that same logic is being turned inward.
Karp has publicly suggested that the US needs to take a harder stance against “antisemitism” on college campuses, calling recent protests a “pagan religion” and a “regression.” While no rational person defends genuine hatred, the term “antisemitism” is increasingly being weaponized to silence anyone who questions the government of Israel or the US war machine.
We have seen Jewish rabbis labeled antisemites for protesting the slaughter in Gaza. When a surveillance CEO like Karp talks about “standing up” to speech he dislikes, we must ask: Will Palantir’s “targeting” algorithms be used to flag American dissidents next?
Financing Our Own Enslavement
The tragic irony is that we are bankrupting ourselves to build this cage.
History teaches a brutal lesson: Emergency powers granted to fight a “temporary” enemy are always turned against the citizens who cheered for them. We saw it with the PATRIOT Act (meant for terrorists, used on parents) and the TSA (meant for hijackers, used on grandmothers).
Now, we are seeing it with the border. The facial recognition towers and biometric drones being deployed to “stop migrants” will not be dismantled when the border is secure. They will pivot inward—tracking you at a protest, a gun show, or your church.
And the bill is staggering. With the US National Debt surging past $38 Trillion and a $1.8 Trillion deficit, we are printing money to pay contractors like Oracle and Palantir to build our own prison. The “conservative” movement, once the champion of fiscal sanity, is now silent, happily signing the checks for a surveillance apparatus that will inevitably be used to crush them.
The Hegelian Trap: Problem, Reaction, Prison
To understand why half the country is cheering for a police state, you have to understand the Hegelian Dialectic: Problem, Reaction, Solution.
The state does not simply march in and take your freedom; that would cause a revolt. Instead, they create (or exploit) a Problem to generate a specific Reaction (fear), which allows them to offer the pre-planned Solution (totalitarian control).
The Problem (The Bait): The administration and their media partners have spent months broadcasting a single message: America is under invasion. We are told that “violent gangs” and “bloodthirsty criminals” have taken over our cities. The Reaction: Terrified citizens, desperate for safety, beg the government to “do something.” They demand law and order. They demand action. The Solution: The administration graciously obliges by deploying the National Guard into American cities—a move that would have been unthinkable a decade ago.
We are watching this play out in real-time. But look at the data: In Washington D.C., federal data revealed that 80% of the people arrested during the recent “crime emergency” surge had no prior criminal record.
If you doubt the danger of this trajectory, just look at the quiet expansion of ICE’s EDDIE (Eagle Direct Identification Environment) app. In their zeal to “secure the border,” the agency has equipped agents with mobile technology that allows them to capture fingerprints and faces in public spaces, instantly matching them against a leviathan of government databases like the Automated Targeting System (ATS). The terrifying reality? We now know that when U.S. citizens are swept up in these digital dragnets, their biometric data isn’t simply discarded—it creates a permanent “encounter” record. Agents are effectively bypassing physical evidence of citizenship in favor of AI-driven “matches,” turning every American into a suspect until an algorithm says otherwise. This is the weaponization of the surveillance state, sold to you as border control.
They aren’t just catching “bad guys.” They are establishing a precedent.
When you cheer for National Guard troops to patrol Democratic cities or for ICE to conduct warrantless biometric scans, you are validating the federalization of local police. You are giving the state the moral authority to put soldiers on American streets. Today, those soldiers are looking for “illegal aliens.” Tomorrow, under a different administration—or simply a redefined “emergency”—they will be looking for “domestic extremists,” “disinformation agents,” or anyone who refuses to surrender their digital privacy.
The “illegal alien” threat is the bait. The police state is the hook. And MAGA is swallowing it whole.
To the critics who will inevitably scream that pointing this out makes us “libtards” or terrorist sympathizers, let’s be abundantly clear: this analysis is not a dismissal of the very real crisis of illegal immigration. It is undeniable that a nation cannot maintain a welfare state and open borders simultaneously without collapsing, and it is highly probable that foreign adversaries are exploiting this chaos to Americans’ disadvantage. But we must ask ourselves—how perfect of a play was it for the Biden administration to act as the villain who opened the floodgates? They created the perfect pretext so that Trump—or anyone who followed—could step in as the “savior” and slam them shut with the heavy hand of a technocratic police state.
None of this is happening in a vacuum. Before we jump to our deaths in a pit of 1984 despair, we should question how this is unfolding so perfectly for the control freaks in Washington. If it’s coincidental, that’s great news for the technocrats. If it’s more than that, that’s also great news for the technocrats. But if you don’t question the sudden, bipartisan appetite for authoritarianism to act as ostensible protection against the chaos, you don’t actually believe in freedom and liberty—you just want your preferred flavor of boot to lick.
The Solution: Opt Out or Perish
The situation is bleak, but it is not hopeless. The state relies on our cooperation. They need us to use their currency, their platforms, and their networks.
The most revolutionary act you can take today is to opt out.
- Stop feeding the beast: We must migrate away from platforms owned by the likes of Ellison and Google.
- Embrace Privacy Tech: Privacy is no longer a luxury; it is self-defense. This is why we have been vocal supporters of projects like Zano and the Confidential Layer. These are not just “crypto tokens”; they are tools of liberty. They allow individuals to transact and exist outside the Panopticon, using the same level of encryption to protect freedom that the state uses to crush it.
- Spread the Truth: They can only imprison us if we remain ignorant. Share this information. Wake up your neighbors.
The digital prison is being built, but the key to the cell is still in your pocket. The question is: Will you use it to walk free, or will you hand it over to the guards?
