For those of you who’ve been reading my articles on this site, you know that something very important to me is covering the expanding intelligence industrial complex, especially the fact that it has ever more power by the day. For those of you who’ve been following me for years, you probably know that I believe all legislation, no matter how reasonably worded, to be worthless to liberty. So, how could somebody like me (a privacy advocate who constantly talks about the surveillance state, and how it’s gotten way more powerful than any of our freedom can bear) hate a bill allegedly designed to prevent warrantless spying entirely?

Enter “The Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act”.

On paper, it sounds great. Not only that, but it has bipartisan support, and was massively shared on social media couple days ago, thanks to a concerted campaign by many mainstream media outlets who covered it. It’s not a law yet, and is still has a long way to go before getting there, so it probably won’t even be the same bill once it does get voted on. However, even in its current state, it’s woefully inadequate, mainly because of the way it’s worded. It’s also inadequate because of the timing, having come around during a pandemic, which is being used as an excuse to ramp up government power on untold and unprecedented levels.

But that doesn’t stop a whole lot of mainstream outlets from prettying it up and implying that it will not only take down Clearview, a company I’ve talked about before, but it will also take out a significant amount of the intelligence apparatus.

Does it actually do that though?

Before we get into that, let’s check the text of the bill.

“To amend section 2702 of title 18, United States Code, to prevent law enforcement and intelligence agencies from obtaining subscriber or customer records in exchange for anything of value, to address communications and records in the possession of intermediary internet service providers, and for other purposes.”

Admittedly, this sounds great. It’s a bill with all of the right intentions, allegedly. But if you look a little closer at the bill, you’ll start to see some obvious loopholes given the time it’s coming out.

The most glaring loophole I see is that the bill only bars illegitimately obtained data. What this means is that any data that could be determined as legitimately obtained would still be acceptable. The fact is, we live in times where the concept of a domestic vaccine passport is being floated by thousands of people on a daily basis. The same people that have handled every other part of this “emergency” are the people now using it as a pretext for control, and a decent chunk of that is IDs based on facial recognition.

These things are practically ubiquitous in places like China, where social control are orders of magnitude higher than other nations is the norm, which is used for a testing ground by the elites for what kind of tyranny could be thrust upon the entire world. In order to install the apps necessary to interface with the modern world, Chinese citizens have to accept terms and conditions, which require the use of facial recognition, and a variety of other methods, in order to access basic social functions, including getting paid for work, buying real estate, and more.

“But [insert country] isn’t China! Why are you bringing up China when [insert country] isn’t China?”

Because the technology used by Clearview was basically first used in China, because the app has code in it for a full implementation of the Chinese model, and because they have already started rolling it out in Flint, Michigan, among other places. They’ll likely continue rolling it out, because it’s an extremely convenient way to control people and it makes police’s life easier. Meaning they have more money to spend on Bearcats and more time to perpetrate domestic violence. And even though this bill is being touted as a way to stop things like Clearview, the people who run Clearview aren’t quite convinced yet, saying, “We look forward to engaging with policymakers on the best ways to protect consumer data and continue to be a resource for domestic law enforcement agencies to battle crimes against children, human trafficking, and domestic terrorism. While we haven’t seen this particular bill yet, we plan to carefully review it and provide feedback if given the opportunity.”

Almost like it wasn’t gonna be this easy…

Like the only reason anybody is claiming that Clearview is even at threat is because Google, Twitter, and Facebook, have all sent them cease and desist letters. but that doesn’t mean that they’re in violation of terms of service, and it doesn’t mean scraping publicly available social media sites is against the law, which means this bill isn’t even guaranteed to do what everyone is advertising it to do, which is kill Clearview. Clearly, the people who run Clearview still think that there is room for conversation, and they’re probably right, given the fact that this was a controversial piece of technology anyway. But considering law enforcement all across the country was using it, I doubt that the existence of a bill is gonna have more sway than the police unions, and the politicians who salivate over their “tough on crime” legislation. Biden anyone?

It’s also supposed to privatize your location, which would also be good if it wasn’t based on the same kind of thing. And it’s not like this is a universal thing, because the only thing this would do is require warrants. I don’t know how many of you paid close attention to the Edward Snowden situation, but eventually the US government admitted that what they were doing was illegal, many years after a lot of the programs that were under discussion were abjectly closed and shut down. It was way too little, way too late, and the pressure to lock anybody up for this illegal activity was off. Sure, the government eventually admitted to its crimes, but that wasn’t until the crimes had already been committed, and the criminals had gotten away with it. The state isn’t into it for accountability. They’re in it to let you know that they can do illegal things all they want and you can’t do a thing about it, prole. And maybe they’ll tell you about it…maybe, if you’re good. Otherwise, they’ll do their crimes in secret, and not tell you a thing until somebody leaks it, usually getting away with it even when it does, because of laws that are purposely built to excuse government crimes. This is why they hate people like Julian Assange, and why they routinely silence truth seekers and censor their social media pages with the social media arm of the government.

It’s sort of like the George Floyd situation. It took a long time to even get the trial going, and it took even longer to get a conviction. It was like pulling teeth and the whole world was waiting on bated breath to see if justice would be served. That’s how The US government is. They don’t care whether or not something’s legal. They’ll do it anyway, in front of you, in HD, and most of the time they leave you out of the room if you try to get any sort of justice at all. If you think some bill is going to help with that, I think you’re sorely mistaken.

But back to this bill.

The fact is, so many people are being put between a rock and a hard place. The subsuming of small businesses, and the lower and middle class, in favor of the mega corporate super class of state capitalism, combined with the high level of centralization being implemented everywhere, not the least of which is the privacy-free digital dollar that is coming. This means power is being stripped from the hands of the vox populi, and being given to the very wealthy and the few in entrenched power, in order to dictate policy. This being the case, in a variety of locations and a variety of ways, people are relying on corporate power and government approved organizations and businesses in order to live. This might be fine in a freedom sense if there were alternatives that were meaningful and accessible, but the state works hard to make sure that all these alternatives are squelched. And this latest pandemic thing is nothing more than an excuse to squelch yet more of them. People are being forced to engage in whatever policy the elites hand down that day, but they don’t even see it that way, and many of them comply with no resistance whatsoever, and even a servile sense of pride.

So, how does this app help them? Keep in mind, Clearview had been used as a facial recognition database, whereby just taking a picture of somebody’s face could link you to their name and enough information that you could find their social media profiles if they weren’t immediately listed. Banning that sounds neat at all, but when you have an entire class of people who are buying into the vaccine passport, and other such “papers please” methods for getting around their environment, then you have a bunch of people voluntarily logging their face into facial recognition databases, and “voluntarily” (under legal coercion and state aggression) accepting terms of service that allow that information to be transmitted to the state. Because that’s what these are for: they query government databases.

So basically, yeah. They might stop the evil folks over at Clearview, but they won’t stop the actual idea of Clearview, nor will they stop it from being implemented – just under a different name, with different handlers. Anybody who thinks that they’re any more private because of this bill, while the nearly cult-like mentality of the vaccine crowd is turning America even more dystopic than it already was (which is saying something) has missed the boat entirely, and is currently drowning in the ocean while they think they’re breathing fine.

To some of the more “Woke™” readers, the answer might seem obvious. Just don’t get the vaccine, and you won’t be databased. This is another naive assumption, however. The fact is, Clearview was just an AI facial recognition system attached to the same sort of intelligence that intelligence communities were already collecting for a long time, and ending that particular thing doesn’t mean you’re not already databased. The fact is, if you’ve made any card purchases in public anywhere without a covered face (which I know I have), they already know your face and your name, and can match it at a variety of angles, and build a facial recognition model out of that anyway. They’ve pretty much already nailed the vast majority of people and they truly didn’t need Clearview. It’s just a convenience. And now that people are swooping in in droves to give their facial recognition data to a third party, so that they can do basic things like go to Thanksgiving, attend sporting events, and eat food, they don’t even need to worry about the majority of people, because the majority of people are going to line up like the sheep they are, scan their face, and go right in for the bread and circuses.

The fact is, they don’t need you and they don’t care about your consent or lack thereof. They are already doing this, whether you like it or not.

So yeah, whatever. Maybe this bill is well-intentioned, and maybe it also shines a light on these unethical practices, but don’t think for a second that these practices are going to stop simply because the state has been told what to do. The US government does not follow their own laws and they don’t give a shit how you feel about it. The great reset is going to happen and they’re going to thrust you into a privacy-free dystopia with apocalyptic ramifications, so that the wealthy elite can still enjoy their palaces, while we all live in pods and rent everything from them. The future is bleak, and passing attempts at reform like this don’t actually change anything. It’s been disheartening to see the same libertarians discuss this as though it’s some magic pill – some panacea which will heal the world of the infection of the intelligence industrial complex. But don’t think for a second that that’s the case. This is nothing more than a distraction, an appeasement tactic, designed to get you thinking that it’s also a problem which it does not solve. The ultimate truth is, unless you start to actively resist the coming tyranny, it’s gonna hit all of us extremely hard. There is no easy way out, and nothing sponsored by the state is going to curtail its power.

Instead of pushing for Republicans and Democrats to save you, start building your own new life in the counter-economy and take back your freedom manually. There is no hands-free function here, and it’s going to require the dirtying of one’s hands to build a better society. You can’t vote your way to freedom and your “Representatives™” do not represent you.

Never forget that, no matter what bill comes out. In the end, all legislation serves the state.