There is nothing reconcilable about American Liberty when contrast with a looming surveillance state. There is no facet of American values, the essential core of what we define as Americanism, that can exist without true liberty.
While the Declaration of Independence is long regarded as the greatest written declaration of purpose, the latter created Bill of Rights, the first Ten original amendments to the U.S. Constitution, is just as important. The first declared our intent; the second defined how our founders intended to retain the intent during our collective assembly. Together they outline what set the course to make America great.
We have allowed the foundational intent of both sets of documents to be compromised, because, well, simply we were lazy and complacent. Now we are engaged in a time of great consequence that will determine whether or not the purpose of our assembly can continue.
We are, in factual reality, now deep inside a debate carried out in the world of politics. The stakes have never been higher.
In nine days, President Donald J Trump is scheduled to be sworn in as President of the United States. In my non-pretending world, this is likely to be the last time in our lifetime to drag the conversation of how we define liberty into the American psyche. All of my research in the past two decades indicates this likelihood is not hyperbole. We have one shot at this, and our time is now.
Liberty, the fundamental decision to retain it or lose it, is the context for all other contexts that have preceded it. The principles of liberty that we have defined for generations cannot exist in an American surveillance state. Thus, the secretive courts, the unlawful usurpation of the 4th Amendment, the short-sighted ramifications of the Patriot Act, the weaponization of our federal law enforcement and police agencies, all of it, must be reviewed through this fundamental core issue, Liberty.
I have traveled throughout the East and West to gain perspective on what makes us different, and what I can assert with clarity is that if we lose the Liberty argument, then the ideological representatives behind Barack Obama will have succeeded, the fundamental transformation will be irreversible.
This frames the cornerstone of my viewpoints on all of the characters in politics. It is not a matter of debate that on these core issues of Liberty and the stopping of the Surveillance State, everything else is a downstream consequence. The tiered system of constitutional protections for particular categories of personage must be rebuked. On this matter there cannot be compromise, because every outcome that impedes our way of life is a derivative of this value.
I will oppose all interests who refuse to confront the Surveillance State. I will draw bold attention to those who are willingly creating it, and I promise you I will call out every operational interest that is willfully blind to its creation.
This is my hill.
Love to all,
Sundance


Looking forward to the naming of names and that specifics can be shared across all social media with the intent that the People become informed and then make a decision.
I’m certain Trump wants our cooperation and blessing.
If we push back……and he does not like it……what will he really do????
If he does not like it, then he defines himself in sharp contrast…
fwiw
Who’s Planning to Sabotage Trump From Within, Is DOGE Too Ambitious, & the FBI’s Future
The Rise of a Tech Surveillance State
We make it so easy for them as we carry the most sophisticated surveillance device known everywhere we go……..
and we have several generations now seeming unfazed by their government knowing every aspect of their lives.
They make it so you are greatly disadvantaged by not having them.
I went from answering machine to beeper, to cell phone, to text message
Paper prescription to electronic record prescription to unable to prescribe without a cell phone
Two factor authentication required to access medical records, licensing records, prescribing, certification — which requires a cell phone or being tethered to a desk
We can’t even access our bank accounts online without asking for permission and it being “granted” as if the banks own our money instead of the depositor being the owner.
Do you want to login? (password)
Do you really want to login? (2-factor authentication)
I am personally tired of the “begging” to access the data that belongs to me while meta data collectors liberally share it and give it away ($$).
And now… we get a third-fold email that our “payments have been accepted” – oh really? Geez, thanks! As if you wouldn’t accept my money? Will I ever get an email that “your payment is not accepted” or are we gearing up for that?
Don’t bank online. Wait until the next morning or the next weekday and walk to your bank to do business using your account. Keep your records air-gapped. Pay cash for expenses with money stashed under your mattress. Pay bills with money orders paid for with cash. The simpler you make your life, the more complicated it becomes.
OMG you just explained me. The bank is always questioning me. I am a Tech free bank person.
While ‘they” are so busy making it difficult for us to access our information, “they” make it very easy for said information to constantly be breached, hacked, sold on the dark web.
JWoo: For me, the time lost during a typical day to login to online accounts adds up to hours–every single day. This includes the frequent forced updating of password, re-verification of identity, “accepting” updated user terms, and “approving” cookies.
I dread having to use most government websites, which tend to use obsolescent, convoluted login procedures.
This log on problem is exacerbated if you like to keep a clean computer. I learned years ago to set your email to delete the deleted when you exit, and when you close a browser, delete history, cookies, etc.
What this does is keep yours tools running better but also causes any website to not recognize your computer. They think someone else is trying to hack and sends all these emails “alerting” us we just logged in.
I used to have to answer security questions but some only allow subjective answers like what are your favorite things. Doesn’t that change and how do you remember?
I have to say I keep all websites and passwords and security in a spot that sure makes it easier when you can just copy and paste. I have accumulated almost a hundred and every day you deal with someone who wants you to open another account, for security, and just opens the door for more hacking.
If you’re unmarried, don’t get married. It amounts to days upon days of work updating your identity. I’m a bookkeeper, billrla, I empathize with you and the tediousness of managing finances, insurance, life policies, you name it. When I kick off, I’m sure the life insurance companies will make it so terrible to claim my estate, my daughter will just give up. Let’s hope not… but ya know!
JWoo: Fortunately, I’ve been married for a long time, although one of the responsibilities of marriage is having to remember or keep track of all of your spouse’s online login info!
I’ve handled bookkeeping on my own for my businesses and the HOA I have run for many years and also use outsource bookkeeping.
Speaking of estates, make sure your daughter has all the login info and account access authority for your accounts that she will need. I’ve been through that process, twice, and being prepared ahead of time makes a big difference.
perhaps we should get the true definition of “deposit verus “posit?”
Research Bitcoin, (pier to pier transactions). More and more people/businesses are excepting BTC which means from your account to theirs. I think you’d like it. I use coinbase.com. You can purchase any amount of a bitcoin, $1o or whatever. And it’s a maybe great investment. If you get the fever, you’ll want to convert everything. Only invest what you’re willing to lose. Its easy and probably the future. You can also convert money to digital currency, just a way to have some money out of the bank.
I don’t have a cell phone, and I haven’t had any problems living my life as I always have. I do have a regular home phone with answering machine that works just fine.
I may have a problem with my windows-10, ten-year-old laptop in oct of 2025. Microsoft sends me messages (screen size) that as of Oct of 2025 they won’t be able to do upgrades anymore. ( I never asked Microsoft to upgrade anything on my laptop)
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Somehow I am still managing with no significant issues to do without constantly carrying around the GPS tracker or doing any electronic banking. I do not “text”.
I also continue to run old computer programs on virtual machines, no updates needed.
Okay so I didn’t know for several hours that I had a newborn granddaughter 1800 miles away. I brought a dozen eggs at the store that we didn’t need because I can’t see into the fridge from afar. I periodically have to tell a client to get out a pen and paper to write something down. And I don’t get interrupted repeatedly with “urgent” (they never are) cryptic “thoughts” texted by a client who can’t be bothered to pick up a phone or remember the issue themselves for an upcoming meeting.
We have become a crazy society.
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I don’t believe anymore that the “updates” are actually improving the program code.
Whatever is happening, downloads OR UPLOADS, it is more likely serving the information gathering purpose of the surveillance state.
Agree. I never click on updates – in fact I keep deleting all messages for me to update anything.
I ignore updates, as well, but eventually your device may not be supported. In fact, during lockdowns my friends were amazed that my smartphone did not have the “health” app that mysteriously popped up on all their phones.
The app, likely connected to Covid “contact tracing,” cannot be deleted. it’s just sitting there, waiting for that time when AI will insist on vaccine passports, I suppose.
One thing I can do is stop using the phone when it no longer suits me. That day is fast approaching.
One track mind! Making money.
That’s exactly right, except the vaccine idea preceded computer viruses.
You can get Windows 10 updates after October 2025; you just have to pay for them:
The Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) program gives customers the option to receive security updates for PCs enrolled in the program. ESU is a paid program that provides individuals and organizations of all sizes with the option to extend the use of Windows 10 devices past the end of support date in a more secure manner.
A user friendly Linux distro like Linux Mint (about 30 min learning curve for an ex-Windows user) solves that problem.
Potentially if your machine handles it, there’s always Linux one distribution or another
I was using windows 10 with office 2007 just fine until recent upgrade to office 2021. Even that is set to expire in 2026 but cost $60 versus $300 when newer.
Same with me adirondacker, no smart phone, only a flip phone and a landline phone with ans. machine. My family makes fun of me and they keep trying to get me to get a smart phone – no way. I too have a windows 10 computer and like you I don’t care about upgrades. It’s bad enough as it is. Wish I could go back in time before smart phones. I just hope they don’t make me get rid of my landline phone. I’ve been told they really can’t do that because of the people who live in the back country.
Thanks Joan
Yeah, I am a Dinosaur, I just don’t need or care about any of the new crap they keep bringing into the world. I also don’t watch TV, what a waste of time that is.
I only use the laptop late at night (mostly) for a little entertainment, the updates all the time are annoying!
Thye could force us out of using Landlines by raising the price over and over.
Yes they can. They did it here in “the back country.
The only company that provided true landline POTS phone service got bought by another company who simply did not offer the service. No more POTS…
You can get a “landline” phone that is Voice Over IP, however it will not work when power is out. It’s essentially a computerized service for speaking and voicemail.
I exited Microsoft to Linux-based system four or five years ago. There are replacements for most things you think you need from Microsoft, you choose when and what to update. Lots of free stuff.
I default to just a few things:
Ubuntu Libreoffice Blender TimeShift
How do the Amish live?
They keep their affairs within their own microculture. They are the model of self-reliance.
They live by The Book.
They live very well if you ask me.
Pretty richly actually, from what I see of clips of their life, pretty much the same problems, categorically at least.
Very good points – as well as why I don’t own a smart phone, demand direct personal human interaction for banking and other transactions, refuse “REAL ID”, and never select the paperless option for anything.
I don’t look at it as being “disadvantaged”, but instead as having an advantage.
I started way back in teletype, and knew how to communicate Via Morse code, and high frequency transmitters, receivers other than antennas hardwired to telephone pole power lines, but now I’m back to texting- – teletype, and magnetic charging of my handheld texting device. But, they do say that’s progress! Of course there were those two documented instances of precise mind reading of a complete stranger! Who knows?
A Fable From The Age Of Science
“Science was a grand liberating force… to unlock the gates to a new world where everyone would be equal and free. Within 20 years, the revolution was taken over by technocrats who looked down on the crowd below as though they were atoms.
“They were inspired, not by Marx, but by the law of engineering. They believed they could transform the Soviet Union into a giant rational machine which they would run for their political masters.
“This is a story of science and political power.”
Pandora’s Box: The Engineer’s Plot
The demise of great nations and empires is the moral decay and rot from within. This is how Greece, Rome, the Israelites, etc. throughout history have fallen. We, the USA, are no different. When the moral values of a nation degrade into filth, debauchery and perversion the result is dissolution of said nation. These also contribute to laziness and sloth. This is what we are actually witnessing now. You can blame lincoln, wilson, fdr, lbj, obama, biden, etc. but the real cancer is the abandonment of Godly moral religious values. It’s all around us in our faces. As one cleric noted ” When you kick God out, whom is everything good, evil steps in”. Sad to say this is where we are at as a nation.
Amen, we step up to the line of enlightenment and Lucifer shakes a sack of money and we all fall down. It could be so different, so much better but…….the greed of people is so strong it blinds us. You cannot seek money and say your heart is for God. You can seek God and receive everything including money.
I suggest this change.
Any lost moral compass is laid at the feet of elected representatives.
Jesus still has a place in my, and many, many other patrons hearts.
Agree 100% with your last sentence, but it is up to all of us to spread the Gospel, council our friends and neighbors, and stand up and shine a bright light upon those who live in and attempt to bring darkness to the world by whatever method they use – be it in our own communities or our state or nation. Christ never turns His back on us, neither should we.
“The republic of Venice has existed longer than those of Rome or Sparta.”
–John Adams, 1787
“I fear, from the experience of the last twenty-five years, that morals do not of necessity advance hand in hand with the sciences.”
–Thomas Jefferson, 1815
Here’s the thing, most people are conformists. Those of us prone to questioning everything– are rare.
In my small (real) world, I’ve looked high & low for those who look beyond their personal life & problems… & found none.
They know the Gov is corrupt, but they fail to ask why or think longterm. They are quick to give up various freedoms– under the guise of convenience. They go along to get along.
It’s disheartening to say the least.
There are so many disparate responses to your wondering, but only one answer. God placed man on this planet to fellowship with Him. Post fall, man was tasked with telling his fellow man about God and that relationship.
There were phenomenal strides and successes in this task, but this is now a political anathema with that attitude even penetrating most “churches”.
I live in a small New England town. I have the same issue, in spades. Very blue here.
Even in areas that are ruby red most are still of the world, unwilling to question, much less stand against the growing darkness and often highly skilled in the art of rationalization.
I kid you not… immediately after posting this I just had a lovely older couple knock on my door to discuss the horrible recent events (like CA) that keep occurring… tying it to the bible in warning us of it all having happened before.
I said, “yes, history repeats.”
Take this for what you will.
The issue becomes this. When you question everything, and God answers, you must let go to go forward. Very few can. Remember this line. “It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle then a man to enter into heaven.”
In my own life as I progress I find distain and a hopelessness, I see myself as I am and I bargain desperately for my ego. My job, my family, my…my…my it’s Gods.
Around 32 AD Camels were used for moving goods they built Tripods Called Needles that they would lead the camel thru lowering the goods on the camel to transport them thru the Silk Road.
To Reach Heaven Thru Jesus is the only way.
Faith : Believing God sent his son to die for our sins.
Born of a Virgin.
Died on a Cross.
3 days later he resurrected defeating Death.
Returned to his Apostles proving his Diety.
Ascending to Heaven sitting at Gods right Hand as our promise to the promised Land.
All this is free of charge God is good.
He prophesied all this would happen when the generation that sees the birth pangs will also see his return.
Once he removes his Church he also removes the Restrainer allowing man to do what he does best Kill one another.
His Wrath will be unleashed on the World for the Great Tribulation. He warns his of all things before they happen we are in the midst of the Birth pangs.
Mathew 24 Luke 21 should be reviewed asa well as the Book of Revelation studied to understand the times. We all should know the Bible and stay in it daily to renew our Spirit. God Bless.
There are many passages in the bible that answer this question. My favorite, shortening a complex sentence of Paul, basically says: We are created for the praise of His [God’s] glory.
Eph 1:11 In him we were also chosen,[e] having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will, 12 in order that we, who were the first to put our hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory
Jesus says, “Don’t you know I must be about the will of my father”
Our genetic design is set to optimize this function — no matter what level you analyze it: from the molecular, physiologic, hormonal, neurologic, social, community, and intergenerational. Our function and happiness is optimize when we choose our purpose this way.
Amen Doc. Great to see you.
My 5 year old son answered that question to my satisfaction; he was a deep thinker, on the back deck, as I came out to shake some rugs while cleaning the house, he said ‘mom isn’t everything, everything beautiful, from the grass to the sky and they all do things for us’ I answered quickly to get back to the cleaning, ‘yes I know, but why are we here?’
He said even quicker ‘just to see it and enjoy it’, like when you decorate the Christmas tree it means something and it’s beautiful and you want everyone to look at it. God made everything on earth for us to see and enjoy and to know we can’t live without any of it.’
Never thought of the real symbiosis of God’s people and His earth. I didn’t go beyond thinking he provided everything for us to live on.
My son knew God, I’m a believer always trying to really know Him, I do look at His earth in awe and His people too. Magnificent perfection in structure, flaws in His gift of free will thinking. IMHO. Arrogance to question God’s will of giving us free will??
From the old Westminster catechism:
Q. 1. What is the chief and highest end of man?
A. Man’s chief and highest end is to glorify God, and fully to enjoy him for ever.
Your five year old already senses the question and knows the answer. I love it!
“Trust in the Lord and do good.
Dwell in the land and feed on his faithfulness.
Delight yourself also in the Lord,
And He will give you the desires of your heart.”
Psalm 37 v. 3-4
If you want to know how lazy humanity is. They went from Sunday evening clipping coupons from the local advertisers, to digital coupons on their phones. Scissors and paper, and they were too lazy to use them!
We here are a rare, and dying breed. Never forget, they tried to kill us all
The first question to ponder is where did everything come from?
Can something come from nothing? No, that is not scientific according to the law of cause and effect.
Is the universe eternal? No, that is not scientific either according to the thermodynamic and gas laws.
Therefore a purposeful force already in existence must have caused it.
So who is that Force and has He communicated with us?
Belief in God, a superior being, is the only phenomenon inherent in almost all culture/tribes of the world; from the remotest to the congregating . Believers are to be found even if they had been isolated in jungles, mountains, or on islands the earliest explores found. The rites used are distinguishing, not the universal belief.
I’ve wondered if it’s in our genes.
Yes! Check out Eternity in their Hearts, by Don Richardson
Here’s the blurb at Amazon (it wouldn’t let me copy/paste the link for some reason)
Has the God who prepared the gospel for all people groups also prepared all people groups for the gospel?
“Don Richardson, author of the bestselling book Peace Child, has studied cultures throughout the world and found startling evidence of belief in the one true God within hundreds of them. In Eternity in Their Hearts, Richardson gives fascinating, real-life examples of ways people groups have exhibited terms and concepts in their histories that have prepared them for the gospel. Read how Pachacuti, the Inca king who founded Machu Picchu, the majestic fortress in Peru, accomplished something far more significant than merely building fortresses, temples, or monuments. He sought, reached out, and found a God far greater than any popular “god” of his own culture. And there have been others throughout the world, like him, who lived to receive the blessing of the gospel.”
(Interesting to note that the reason you and I, and the thousands of others on the Treehouse, are able to converse together, share information, encourage one another, etc. …. so we use their plans for our puposes?? – I think we can do that!)
Here’s the link Sharon:
https://www.amazon.com/Eternity-Their-Hearts-Don-Richardson/dp/0764215582
The thing I hear a lot is “I know they are all corrupt, but there’s nothing I can do about it.”
My reply is usually “If we don’t try to correct it, our children and grandchildren will be the ones to pay the price.”
I think I might start using the Mike Vanderboegh quote SD has on the Presidential thread.
I like rock and roll. It attracts this animal part of me that I can control. (emphasis, the register that it amusement not to be taken whole sale/sake).
But the left progressive embeciles compound their god LESS ambitions into the abyss by celebrating nihilllism
I give you the single best exemplification of the Corruptors:
conformists
The Act of Uniformity(UK), produced non-conformists.
“Is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than of face and stature.”
–Thomas Jefferson, 1782
along
Collectivists seek conformity of opinion and faces. Put on a mask and we’re all science!
G Edward Griffin talks about collectivism in America
A pattern emerges: a cover story within a cover story.
Anyone who has been paying attention recognizes that the Manmade Global Warming/Climate Change issue was a cover story to justify a massive transfer of wealth from the middle class in developed countries to Third World countries. Once you pierce the climate change lie, that cover story emerges. But even the cover story was a cover story. It hid something else: the massive transfer of wealth would go to multinational corporations and the global elite, LAUNDERED through the Third World.
Similarly, the Covid pandemic was a cover story to justify total political and social control. But that control was itself a cover to hide the purpose of that control: another massive transfer of wealth to multinational corporations and the global elite.
I am becoming increasingly suspicious that the entire AI enterprise is just one more cover story. When I look closely at AI, I don’t see anything artificial or intelligent or anything that “learns.” What I see is the development of a monstrous large set of interconnected databases, and the ability to search them all simultaneously and extremely rapidly to identify patterns and predict behavior based upon the patterns and the manner in which the data has been categorized. It is little different from the cable company keeping track of what you watch on TV and suggesting similar programming. If you watched Sleepless in Seattle, their next suggestion will be You’ve Got Mail, NOT Scream 3.
What the Surveillance State will do (already does) is look at every email or IM you ever sent, what you said in every phone call you were on, who they were to, from, and with, what you ever bought and where, who every check was made out to, every place your phone went, every place your car went, every site you ever visited and every comment you ever made everywhere on the internet. It puts all this data together, looks for patterns, and then attempts to predict your future behavior based upon how your behavior and contacts have been categorized.
In the end AI is just gargantuan database mining, just another fake, another cover, a head fake, misdirection. What is its purpose? Why is AI all we are reading about?
While we are debating how to control a nonexistent AI and how to protect our liberty from it, the Surveillance State will be picking our pockets on behalf of multinational corporations and the global elite … again. How? By distracting us from our MAGA goals of reindustrializing the US, deporting 25 million illegal aliens, and cutting off foreign government freeloaders who have been laundering the American Middle Class’s wealth into the pockets of multinational corporations and the global elite.
Oh, fake AI’s threat to our liberty is real. But we can’t just stop AI and think we are done. The real danger lies much deeper. We must address directly the evil power of multinational corporations and the global elite. Who are they? How do we stop them? Answering those questions is where we should be directing most of our intellectual energy.
In my humble opinion.
Excellent overview, Trapper
You are 100% correct.
God our Creator in Heaven knows all things due to his being God. Doesn’t need all this for the day of Judgement.
Satan the God of this World does not have this ability he was created also. He wants the ability to control thru the mark of the Beast. That is what all this is. The lead up to the main AntiChrist. All this being unleashed in the summer of 1947. Roswell Crash, Computers, CIA, FBI, Antarctica Peace Treaty The first time every Nation in the world agreed on one thing similar to Covid. Eisenhower warning about the Military industrial Complex. The Greada Treaty was the most telling however. It is in the Library of Congress. The Great federation agrees with the US Government to trade Technology for Humans at first they limited it to 2500. Now you know where all the exploited children are going. They have Technology from before the Great Flood the reason our God was Greived so terribly he had to bring on the flood. We are up against technology we have no idea existed. There is one way to battle it however Ephesians 6 tells us how to combat this effort. The Veil between Heaven Gods Dwelling place and Earth is being lifted. God BLess.
Thank you. Our Creator God is sovereign over all including history. I believe that what you state here is likely true. I was born in 1948 and this has been coming all of my life. Those who have eyes to see and seek truth which is available in the Word of God cannot deny what is coming. Therefore we must stand as instructed in Ephesias 6 and not fear.
Yes one day and a Thousand years to our Lord is the Same. We on the other hand are here similar to a Vapor. For I tell you, that many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen [them]; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard [them]. (Luke 10:24, KJV)
No Fear I Watch in amazement.
Satan has been around a long time Mick Jagger claimed. He knows the scriptures by heart and knows the rapture is coming soon he has planned for this also. They are conditioning humanity for this. The story will go something like this.
The news will report that Millions of people have disappeared. Aliens (AKA Satans Demons) will be swiftly introduced to the masses. The explaination will be the Christians have the wrong thought patterns and have been sent to retraining camps on the Mother ship they are OK and will return better than ever.
Blatvatsky with her New Age Religion taught this. Oprah Winfrey is steeped in this claiming there are many ways to God one only needs to be spiritual to reach Heaven a Damning Soul Crushing Religion.
Yes, I agree the “aliens” are Demons and we humans are being prepared to be “introduced” to them. I had not thought about how the “rapture” would factor into this. Do you forsee that the “rapture” will preceed the tribulation? And yes, I believe our soul is as a “vapor” and will leave our bodies at the end of our earthly life. God bless you.
Its very easy. The elite own everything, and you stop buying.
Whether its buying goods, or buying into a story, just stop buying. That is how we win.
Simple but effective..and just one modification…buy only what you need.
If we can’t starve the beast, we can at least put them on a diet.
Yes it is easy, and the only question to be answered is, why won’t people do it?
Because we are humans. And this is why Jesus had to die for our salvation. We cannot possibly earn it on our own.
Yet, as individuals we honor His sacrifice by confessing our own sins and repenting, not repeating them. This is where the remedial behavior you describe enters the picture.
We can’t change everybody
else, but we can change ourselves and hopefully inspire others through our good works.
Excellent post – my favorite parts:
I am becoming increasingly suspicious that the entire AI enterprise is just one more cover story. When I look closely at AI, I don’t see anything artificial or intelligent or anything that “learns.” What I see is the development of a monstrous large set of interconnected databases, and the ability to search them all simultaneously and extremely rapidly to identify patterns and predict behavior based upon the patterns and the manner in which the data has been categorized. It is little different from the cable company keeping track of what you watch on TV and suggesting similar programming. If you watched Sleepless in Seattle, their next suggestion will be You’ve Got Mail, NOT Scream 3.
What the Surveillance State will do (already does) is look at every email or IM you ever sent, what you said in every phone call you were on, who they were to, from, and with, what you ever bought and where, who every check was made out to, every place your phone went, every place your car went, every site you ever visited and every comment you ever made everywhere on the internet. It puts all this data together, looks for patterns, and then attempts to predict your future behavior based upon how your behavior and contacts have been categorized.
In the end AI is just gargantuan database mining, just another fake, another cover, a head fake, misdirection. What is its purpose? Why is AI all we are reading about?
While we are debating how to control a nonexistent AI and how to protect our liberty from it, the Surveillance State will be picking our pockets on behalf of multinational corporations and the global elite … again.
MAGA: “AI, how do I stop the next hoax?”
AI: “Look in to security cameras.”
Truth! Thank you for your analysis Trapper.
I agree with you, Sundance! Pascal said, “Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.” In our times, the obscurity is even greater because it is virtually world-wide. Only the truth will set us free. Be not afraid.
I only jump in here occasionally now,as hubs care takes most of my time,,,,,,,IMHO, to get his people in place, Trump may have told them to do the democrat shuffle, in other words, to say and do whatever it takes to get approved, then go scorched earth, that is what I would do,,,,,,,remember Occam’s Razor
Newscum is scorching California like Turdeau did Canada.
Make Democracy Fake Again
CA: “The Last House Race Decided a Month After Election as Democrats Manufacture Enough Ballots to Win”
https://x.com/JDRucker/status/1864244601571127541
God bless you, Sundance, and God bless America!
The best way to infringe on liberty is to use the words ‘for your safety’ from international affairs/wars to surveillance at schools, stores, city streets with armed guards to seat belts and car seats to pandemics and medical tyranny including abortion and euthanasia. The campaigns to keep people ‘safe’ is a never ending battle of wits.
When it starts out as ‘safety’ then balloons into control and punishment and takes away individual choice it becomes oppressive. Cultivated oppression; gradual, staged, carried out with covert military precision, propaganda, and mind control via complicit sources; schools, universities, news outlets, entertainment. And censorship as a main component. Cultures are created.
The book ‘How to Kill 11 Million people’ is eye opening, a quick read, and lasting.
God Help US
Getting rid of God and Country make for a ‘safer’, manageable, and cared for populous………according to NWO/Communism
‘To Serve Man’
The books are cooked!
Safetyism: an impulse to be sheltered not just from physical harm but emotional turmoil
Safetyism: The Paranoid Style in Progressive Politics
https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-paranoid-style-in-progressive-politics
peeps better get this
NOW
we stick together as if 1775 or
we HANG together.
yet, Jesus is the final answer.
Visual satellites are definitely not keeping track of individuals (via their vehicles) unless they present an extreme threat. Electronic tracking (cell phone, debit and credit cards) is far easier and more likely.
The All-Seeing Satellites That Know Your Next Move and the Military’s AI (Sentient)
10 Jan 2025
They don’t need to track individuals visually, only record large areas for later digestion and analysis. It’s part of the reason they want everyone stuffed into 15 minute cities, makes it so much easier to track and observe versus the entire country’s vast area.
Wide area surveillance capabilities by satellite a dozen years ago…
https://old.bitchute.com/video/TIRPJG6c9cni/
All the comments are spot on, starting with Sundance’s opening post. To me, the beginning of the situation is not as important as the end.
The only thing I have not seen posted is the coming response of God to all that has happened or is going to happen. It is coming soon and will change everything.
The Warning, also called the Illumination of Conscience, followed a few months later by the Great Miracle in Garabandal, Spain will be God’s final act of mercy. It will illuminate our consciences so we will see our sins the way God sees them. This is God’s last act of mercy before He becomes the just judge of Mankind.
The Warning will be a direct intervention by God and will be experienced by every human being on earth at the same time – believer, non-believer or atheist.
The Warning will also prepare us for the Great Miracle, which will follow the Warning within a few months and will confirm that the Warning was indeed from God and was His final act of Divine Mercy for our Salvation.
I believe these events are going to happen soon, within the current generation.
If Mankind still does not repent and change, a Great Chastisement will follow The Warning and Miracle. Some call this Chastisement the “Three Days of Darkness”
The message of Garabandal is clear. God is going to act in our lifetime to clean up this mess, not just in the US but in the whole world.
Put your trust in God and lead spiritual lives.
Where does this wisdom come from?
None of that is in the Holy Bible. Check out Mathew 24 for a reference from our Creator the Blue Letter Bible is free and is a great tool. The book of Revelation spells out exactly what will come. If you get that far the book of Joel in the Old Testament will also explain it. The Book of Isiah is another one. In 1990 the Dead Sea Scrolls were found and the entire book was found word for word. God BLess. PS. Satan is spiritual as well as the God of this world. Your Soul is Eternal be wise on where you get your info.
Satan comes from the Jewish book. It was from the worship of Saturn the planet, and from that came the day of the week, Saturday, and Jews will not do the work of SATURN/SATAN on a Saturday.
Hell comes from the Jewish book. It was a place on the outskirts of Jerusalem where they took rotting animal corpses and garbage, and burned debris. The worst of the worst in society would scavenge in the rubbish heaps. That place was called hell, and was told to people if they bad that, that is where they would end up.
Let me correct my Error When I refeer to Hell I do it in an American Cultural context but what I really mean is the Lake of fire created for SATAN in the future currently Hell is the bad side of Abrahams Bosom in the depths of Earth. God Bless ya R.
Hey a fellow deep diver! BLB is my go-to source for the Hebrew / Greek Bible language word meanings.
I had the chance to try to learn those languages years ago but blew it. But with the BLB you don’t need to be a credentialed insider to know what the Bible’s original words and meanings are.
Matt 24 and the Horsemen of Revelation do exactly correlate, fulfilling the requirement of Deu 17:6, Mat 18:16 and 2 Cor 13:1 for at least two witnesses to establish the truthfulness of a matter.
BLB is my go-to also. It’s on my favorites right at the front of the line.
Leading a spiritual life should never mean isolation, saving yourself, or self sacrifice IMHO; it means seeing evil and doing something about it; Actively trying to stop evil with God’s help.
Recognizing evil can be blinding and and dismissed; women talked into believing 73 MILLION abortions a year is the answer to their ‘problem’, knowing MILLIONS of children are missing with mass migration rampant, knowing about Pizzagate and it’s still going on, knowing about abuses within child protection agencies, knowing of rampant child abuse among the entertainment industry and the political field and it continues………feeling powerless to stop the plague of the evils against children is daunting. My campaign against these abuses have gotten me the name of ‘nut’ case over the years. As the abuses continue in even greater numbers.
Whether God will chastise, punish, or even destroy because of these evils is yet to be known. Does He expect us to do something and punish if we don’t.
But many doing the fight against evil in His name are being called ‘nut’ cases, too.
Conspiracy theories, even when proven correct, leave the theorists ‘nut’ cases.
God Help US
Getting rid of God and country is the way to go; according the the NWO/communists. Throwing in your guns is just another added benefit for them.
Bless you PAWatcher for your campaign against the abuses you mentioned. The list of abuses committed by mankind against God’s creation has grown to the point it would fill many paragraphs on this site.
My belief is that we should worship the Creator…not the created. You are not throwing in your guns when you live a spiritual life. It means you are trusting God to do that which you cannot. I doubt many of us on this forum have the ability to change the abuses plaguing the world today as individuals but collectively, as a group, we can make a difference.
Making a difference starts and ends with doing God’s will – not our own. I have researched and studied the prophesies of Our Lady of Mt Carmel, the Blessed Virgin Mary, the once human, now divine mother of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and She has made it clear that God is going to intervene in our world soon. I will turn 80 this year and I believe I will experience this awesome event. The Garabandal Prophecy of the Warning
Bullshit. Not a word of it in the Bible. Satan’s got you hook, line, sinker, boat, motor, trailer, and truck.
Mary Died just like the rest of us Sinners Jesus is the only way. Showboat man I really hope you can learn the truth. The Catholic Church not the people is an extension of the Babylonian pagan concept Jesus came to destroy. No different than the Muslim Religion. There is only one way into Heaven that way is thru Jesus. Mary was used as the vessel for the Virgin birth no more no less. God BLess.
May not be in the Bible Sourdough, but if you think that the revelations from Heaven only come to us from the Bible you are misinformed. It’s alright, when the Warning happens you will become aware of your failures, as I will of mine, and both of us can praise God together. My purpose in posting is not to try and convince anyone of my beliefs, just that the illumination of our conscience is coming soon so all will recognize it when it happens.
This is indeed the hill that must be defended; and it is in the foresight of the Founding Fathers that graciously gave us the tools. Learning how to use them after we let them get rusty sitting in the barn of our memories, that’s the tricky part. Thankfully, slowly at first – then all at once, works for the lovers of Liberty too.
“There is no such thing as a free lunch”. My favorite professor of finance would repeat this quote in almost every lecture. To be honest, I did not remember this when the big techs started out with ‘free’ apps. They own the data we input for free. The real cost became apparent with the Russia hoax disclosures.
I do not think anything can be done about the collection and storage of ‘our’ data – too late for that. Anyone doubt that smartwatch ‘health’ apps are designed to bypass the HIPPA regulations?
Perhaps something can be done about ‘use’ of that data. The end game is ‘leverage’ – remove that and some sense of freedom may be salvageable. Perhaps PDJT could start with Presidential Orders:
– every citizen can demand access to government records of their info;
– by extension, citizens can demand permanent erasure of any info that the govt cannot justify as important;
Perhaps extremely naive on my part but I do have faith that it could easily snowball into a national election issue, irrespective of political views. That may be the only way to stop this.
The really scary part is how this is beginning to look like the Stasi and East Germany (I am in my fifties so I do remember how crazy that was). Perhaps we can use that as a rallying cry.
Great idea Neve!! Praise God!!! Fight! Fight! Fight!
You are a hero, Sundance. Thank you. I pray for your continued safety.
When things get too bad so that the governed people can no longer accept the criminality of their government, it is their duty, their right, to throw off and abolish said government so that they may create a government more suited to their needs and their desires.
These words are paraphrasing the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America
We allow our government to have these chains on us and we allow ourselves to be held in slavery, whether physical, mental, or digital.
While it may be a last resort, it is an option.
What the government did on January 6, 2020 was illegal and against the Constitution of the United States and the Amendments to said Constitution. What they have done since then to silence and suppress everyone since then is also illegal and against the Amendments to the Constitution. They have set themselves as above those whom they are hired to serve and they need to be reminded that they serve the people, not the other way around. Therefore, they must be brought before a righteous court and adjudged in a righteous manner. They do not have the right to exempt themselves from laws, indeed, they are the ones that must be under more severity of laws and penalties for they only represent the will of the people of this country and when they fail to perform their jobs in the agreed upon manner and functions then they must be removed and tried for their dereliction of duty.
Exemplary writing and clarity of thought in this writing, Sundance.
Bringing into sharp focus the essence of the fight. I stand along side you…
I can make a difference and will do so too!
I am Spartacus
I see that some parts of the Patriot Act have been challenged in the courts, but the rulings are not consistent and the challenges have not been on the basis of a warrantless search. If those searches are secret and the results of those searches are secret, how would anyone be able to challenge the search?
All I can conclude is that the Patriot Act has turned out to be as evil as we were warned at the time that it could be.
President Trump wasn’t even allowed to see a full copy of the search warrant which ushered the FIB into the most private areas of his family’s home. I don’t think he has yet seen a complete copy.
Orange Man Democracy is a threat to forever-war democracy, endless-war democracy, and/or long-war democracy, depending on who is kicking your door down for democracy.
My opinion only.
Liz Cheney Calls Afghan Withdrawal ‘Epic Failure,’ Blames Biden, Trump Admins
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/cheney-afghanistan-trump-biden/2021/08/15/id/1032426/
courts
“It was intentional that it went this far… to renew the Patriot Act.”
Anecdotal: Husband recently in Florida for work. Stayed at a Hilton and tried to pay for meal in cash. Several others attempted and all were told that no Hilton property in Florida takes cash.
After more discussion they were told that the Florida legislature has pending bills to require businesses to accept cash. That is true, you can look up HB 35 and SB 106.
IMHO, coming up with ideas of how to pick away at the surveillance state would be a good exercise.
Sounds like people need to go eat at the Hilton when not staying there and when they say, “Sorry, we don’t take cash”, then get up and say, “Well then, thank you for the free meal because that’s the only way I pay.”
Representative contacted. What more can I do? I want to do as much as I can. Give us examples.
Hi Jim,
Thank you for serving as our Representative in Central Indiana.
I’m writing to you today, because I take great issue with the renewal of FISA 702 that has been turned as a surveillance weapon against the American citizens in this country. Over 260,000 violations of data search and seizure took place that had no merits under a court order as our 4th amendment rights guarantee. Our meta data should not be a commodity exchanged liberally amongst big data thugs.
Additionally, I take great offense that our representatives in Washington can exclude themselves and their staff from FISA 702. Why is that? Just like terrible Obamacare policies – a representative of American constituents should not themselves be excused from policies that affect their representative populace. Isn’t that just another example of a two tier justice system?
We have a lot of problems in this country – primarily because of criminal and treasonous behavior of people in seats of high power and those who choose to turn a blind eye and deaf ear to their behaviors and recklessness. Above all, our Constitution and Bill of Rights must be protected.
Benjamin Franklin said that “Those who give up liberty for safety, deserve neither liberty or safety.” Our forefathers sacrificed much. Our military sacrificed much. To protect such rights for the United States citizen. I hope and expect you to do the same.
https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative
Can’t tell you how many times I’ve written to my representatives and they send a pre written all encompassing letter back about what they are doing after acknowledging they ‘received’ my letter; their answer proves they didn’t read it, but they received it.
Yes, PAWatcher…
Not sure what the “magic number” is… but supposedly there is a number of inquiries received that start gaining traction. If collectives of us all write about the same dang thing, then they start to wonder if they should do something about it.
As an example, I was once working on developing a program for tracking the maintenance of industrial engines with a big-name multinational company, up to and including automated parts consists sent to the parts department when launching work orders for the work. I found that if I needed an software tweak, I gained little priority if it was just me asking. However, if I contacted some of my sister dealers across the country and a half dozen of us called in for the same system update… we’d get it because the priority became higher.
Same methodology.
The government isolates us to keep us from collective bargaining, so to speak. We have to circumnavigate that and collectively go at them. Supposedly, they must respond to every online inquiry, unless you mark the request “no need to respond”.
I just want to irritate them to the point they know me by name. Sadly, I’m known here… so might as well FIGHT.
Great comment.
Same thing. Boilerplate response.
I sometimes wonder if I sent them a letter asking them to declare ‘Bugs Bunny Memorial Day’ (or some such nonsense) would the response very one iota?
very long substack article; one that Marc Andreeson is sharing on his X account; it identifies all the various players, including NGO groups, that are entwined, inter-connected, playing together, when it comes to “being concerned about” artificial intelligence getting its foothold in all things humans do, so a nice primer of who’s who from that aspect, if true, and what they aim to accomplish.
Interestingly, the article approaches the desire to contain AI as a bad thing so the slant of the groups this article identifies as panic about AI is something to keep in mind as this may be the tech boys primer on which groups to target as humanity tries to put a plug in all things AI.
https://www.aipanic.news/p/the-ai-existential-risk-industrial
Fear of AI, especially God-like AI , kinda makes me laugh, out loud sometimes. Then I think……
Kinda like the threat of ‘aliens’ from outer space, taking over minds. Electricity frying eyes. Telephones warping the brain. Microwaves getting free. Splitting the atom, x-rays, and indoor toilets being threats and caused fear to humans.
Fear of the unknown, especially manmade fear, can overwhelm. AND any invention of man can be used for good or evil. AI being used for pure evil seems to be the objective, to replace humans with AI. AI does not have a life or mind of it’s own; man produced it and if my spell check is any indication of it being able to actually ‘think’ I’m laughing. I know how to stop AI in it’s tracks; pull the plug.
God Help US
AI will prove to be labor saving, nothing more to the common man; to the evil doers it will be precision spying at it’s best. IMHO.
Will share a memory, it is as you say, the fear and learning to deal with it. And yes, it does seem when humans invent things that thing immediately gets used for evil, such as the atomic energy was first used in war, and now it’s like pulling teeth to get permits to build power plants, which may or may not yet happen.
In the late summer of 1969 a close friend saw a UFO walking home at night from my house; it made the newspapers as the sighting was over a part of Richmond, Virginia where we were living at the time, also was on the local TV news for a few days.
The next day she was telling us all about it, and the look of true, heart stopping fear on the face of one of our friends has stuck in my mind ever since.
She was so frightened she never ever spoke to that friend that had seen the UFO, and she actually would avoid us in the hallway at school. Cooties fear is what I now call it, fear of catching, or experiencing, what someone else has or experienced.
Saw that same fear in little kids when shopping at the grocery store with their parents, everyone masked up, staring at my unmasked face, the same fear in their eyes reminded me of my friend.
Instead of these tech folk running head first to invent the latest application their computer coding minds can come up with, it would be refreshing to see that entire community stop and simply ask themselves “should I. . . or should we . . . do this thing?”
Another idea, another Treeper did ask for ideas –
what if all these disparate groups got together, picked three main focal points to bring to the public consciousness in a targeted way, for example one towards the 1st Amendment where the 2nd Amendment is there to ensure the 1st stays in place;
another to focus on the 4th and 5th Amendments, the rights of the people to be secure in their persons and to not incriminate themselves and
then another group to focus on bringing the military-corporate-industrial complex to heel, might, at the least, sway public awareness into expecting, then demanding both their representatives (local, state & federal) and the judiciary (also local, state & federal) to honor the entire Constitution – might be a way to get somewhere.
Pull their resources together, get a game plan, and let’s work it. Who knows what can be achieved now that we know the different groups out there, with funding, that want to ensure our human rights remain in place?
AI trips out like hippies dosed by the Black Sorcerer.
How AI companies are trying to solve the LLM hallucination problem
https://www.fastcompany.com/91006321/how-ai-companies-are-trying-to-solve-the-llm-hallucination-problem
Agree with all but one of your statements: “This is my hill.” This is OUR hill!
“We have one shot at this, and our time is now.” !!!
SD already expressed that there won’t be systemic reform, which I agree. Deals are being made that we’re not aware of. This fight has always been a longer arc than Trump’s window of leadership.
arc
Orange Man Americana likes to weave.
Trump on McKinley’s Tariff Act of 1887
https://revolver.news/2024/10/trump-just-gave-a-masterclass-on-tariffs-on-dave-ramsey/
Reminder: Four sitting US presidents have actually been assassinated.
Abraham Lincoln
James Garfield
William McKinley
John F. Kennedy
https://x.com/AmiriKing/status/1835505764297052413
Our hope is in the LORD; the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Luke 12:4-5
(4) And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.
(5) But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.
Ecc 12:11-14
(11) The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.
(12) And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
(13) Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
(14) For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
It is written for our instruction.
Thank you Sundance. I have been thinking about your post all morning. What follows is not me debating or opposing, but in the spirit of a student learning from you in a circle of much wiser peers.
Your post seeks to answer a question I contemplate daily as I feel the world as a boa constrictor smothering me, my profession, my economic opportunity, my family as my boys seek to build economic capital and security, our community and nation. Smothering my Life, Liberty, and pursuit of happiness.
In my spirit it is past time to fight and resist, but I don’t know what hill to charge. I say that often. Your last sentence to day was, “This is my hill”. I resonate with you so much, delight in the leadership role you have, that comment reached out and shook me. And we all know and feel in our bones that the time of reckoning for the United States is here.
Since I am looking for the hill (of God and Country) to charge myself, without unwisely squandering my remaining life, I wanted to be clear exactly what your hill is.
You make two points: Liberty is core principle of what America is. The Surveillance State (further broken down as the “tiered system of constitutional protections for particular categories of personage”).Liberty is a core value to seek. The Surveillance State and tiered system is a tool/enemy of liberty. I think your hill (given that CTH is about politic) is that you will oppose all interests who refuse to confront the Surveillance State (and?) the tiered system of constitutional protections for particular categories of personage. Is that correct?
Our enemies of this country, like Satan are snakes in the grass, prowling evil lions seeking whom to devour, liars. “Did God not say…?” They make clear lines of demarcation between good and evil fuzzy. They cause doubt on universal principles. They cloud logical thinking with emotions and manipulate us with our desire to be good, compassionate, and loving.
What is Liberty? Freedom from snooping by anyone else, including the government? Washington had spies, Nathan Hale was a spy. But these were national enemies. The courts have been the protectors of our individual rights. We have always justified infringement of individual rights as “for the greater good of the country/society” or “for your protection”. In the history of this country, both in wars with enemies abroad and enemies/criminals within we have slowly allowed the purpose of that power to shift from the protection of individuals and citizens, to the protection of the state.
There has always been a surveillance state in international spies and law enforcement, but how do we define the clear lines of demarcation when we are fundamentally breeching that line. It is probably a larger answer. But we need a clear answer that we collectively understand so that we (currently going by the name of MAGA) and be clear about what we want and don’t want and collectively organize (assemble, make an organizational opposition) and fight for restoration of our constitutional republic.
Liberty also was and is still supposed to be freedom from taxation, freedom to speak freely, meet freely, and publish freely, freedom to seek truth and submit to God freely, and freedom to have a standing militia. All of these freedoms have come under attack and, as you suggest, been recategorized by a tiered system controlled by a growing alliance between the US/NWO state and multinational corporations.
I think when Jefferson and the Framers said Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of happiness. They meant “freedom in the pursuit of God and Truth”, and not a self serving happiness. And with Liberty comes responsibility (just like our sobriety and freedom from alcohol/sin depends on AA unity). The republic, like the church (the called out individuals) depends on the fire and desire of absolute truth burning in the heart of one life at a time as they live out their day. The success of the Republic depends on the fire of desire of Liberty burning in the individual hearts of our citizens — with the freedoms enumerated in the bill of rights so that we can collectively make sure our government operates according to its constitutional purpose.
I still lack clarity to guide my life. I still start each day feeling there is a large enemy that I, and we collectively need to be laser focused on.
I think the hill to die for is Liberty so that we will hopefully pursue the will of our Creator, tho some may squander that freedom.
I don’t think the ultimate hill to die trying to kill is the Surveillance State.
I don’t think the ultimate hill to fight is surveillance. That is just an appropriate tool to be judiciously and respectfully used with careful clear definitions and processes that protect the liberties of our citizens and identify our enemies.
I don’t think the hill to fight is the state. The state is a cancer riddled mixture of health cells to serve us and self serving renegade cells that are slowly killing us (whether they have a clear purpose or not)
I think the hill to charge was referred to in earlier comments on this thread: The separation of enemies (whether domestic or abroad) from patriots. We already know and can tell the difference in our guts, and confirm with details. Many are in transition from dark to light and vice versa.
Sundance said, “This frames the cornerstone of my viewpoints on all of the characters in politics…. I will oppose all interests who refuse to confront the Surveillance State”. The surveillance state and those who refuse to confront it are our enemies. So that is a good and key litmus test. But the real hill to die for is the identification of the enemies of We the People and our Constitutional Republic.
This comment has been an exercise in clarification for me, and I’m interested in feedback. I think our best use of time is two fold, both stated repeatedly by Sundance (my paraphrase below).
Get right with God in a real and personal way and seek to be what he called us to be. Trust your God given gut.
Take an attitude of stewardship in every facet of how we live our lives, starting with relationships, to throwing sand in the machinery, being prepared to charge the hills when we are called.
Choose a hill on which to fight. No retreat.
I fought and died on a hill. The irony is that my death was only momentary. I was instantly transformed into an immortal being. Fighting and dying on that hill turned a narcissistic rebel into a grateful Prince. My life now is to discover how to do what CountryDoc said: “Take an attitude of stewardship in every facet of how we live our lives, starting with relationships, to throwing sand in the machinery, being prepared to charge the hills when we are called.”
(Thy Kingdom come; Thy will be done.)
This is what I am discovering:
My purpose:
Ephesians 2:8-10
For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God, not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.
My power:
Mark 16:14-20
Later, as they were eating, Jesus appeared to the Eleven and rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen Him after He had risen. And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe: In My name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up snakes with their hands, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not harm them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will be made well.”
After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, He was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God. And they went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked through them, confirming His word by the signs that accompanied it.
I have learned that God has everything under control. The hill I fight and die on is called Golgotha. I die there daily. He continually raises me to a new and immortal life.
My answer to all of life is Christ: I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me. Galatians 2:20
So I’m trying to learn daily that my solution, my action, is to follow the Lamb wherever He goes and do whatever He does. I fight to keep both my eyes on Him. He is the ONLY reality. The World and all its turmoil is not real because it is passing away and therefore it has no real substance.
I’m trying to learn how to fight FOR Him and thereby destroy the works of Satan. He fought and won the battle against disease, poverty, sickness, war, etc. He expects me to implement His victory wherever I find myself.
I may use many weapons to accomplish His purposes but the greatest of these is PRAYER.
James 1:27 Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
Visit the nursing homes, the jails, the homeless, the schools, the hospitals, the big box stores, the highways and the byways, the grocery stores, the churches, etc. and remember who sends you and who is with you: and the Lord worked through them, confirming His word by the signs that accompanied it.
“But the real hill to die for is the identification of the enemies of We the People and our Constitutional Republic.”
What good is identification, if nothing is done to stop any facet of their actions?
Conversely, does the individual enemy matter if they are robbed of their tools of tyranny?
Lastly, if every thought and action is scrutinized, recorded, and used to identify to the ‘evil lions’ any who might stop them, what are the odds of successfully doing anything about any who might be identified as an enemy of the people?
Just a couple of thoughts to ponder.
A little more precision needed.
The argument framed by Sundance has several links. Summarizing (it has been built over multiple posts):
We have a Declaration of Independence, a Constitution, and Amendments to the Constitution that frame American (and yes, the philosophic wellspring of ideas the founding fathers drew from) normative principles for Liberty. He is careful to choose the word Liberty and not Freedom. I will title this Our American Liberty Heritage (OALH).
Technology now enables pervasive monitoring, detection, data collection and search capabilities.
The government is harnessing technology to establish a capability set that can lead to a Surveillance State.
The government is not abiding by the core principles embodied in OALH – fundamentally in the sense of massive, warrantless, collection of personal information. The warrantless piece, a control mechanism, of it is critical. He has all but implied that our political system cannot police itself consonant with OALH.
Unfettered (i.e., with little to no systemic controls) Surveillance State capabilities can and are being employed in ways that weaken if not completely undermine OALH.
The last: we are now All Along the Watchtower. The hour it is getting late.
We are free to fill in what happens next. Sundance has made his decision in that regard.
Thank you. Implied in my comments is clearly identifying and marking enemies, then doing something: either to neutralize their ability to continue harm, and also, hopefully, to mete justice.
“The importance to France and England, to have our government in the hands of a friend or foe, will occasion their interference by money, and even by arms.
“Our President will be of much more consequence to them than a King of Poland.”
–Thomas Jefferson, 1788
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/12/06/giddy-up-macron-has-bilateral-meetings-with-both-zelenskyy-and-trump-ahead-of-notre-dame-ceremony/
Donald Trump more popular with British voters than Keir Starmer
https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-more-popular-british-090000326.html
God Bless you Sundance. Take Care
Mike Johnson: Sellout For The Security State? (8:48)
Glenn Greenwald
11 Jan 2025
Mike Johnson: “They ask me today why can’t you guys get accountability why can’t you bring some order to this? Well you know the political reality is here that people sometimes forget is we only have the majority in one house of Congress right now and it’s a bare majority...”
And THERE it is as I predicted. Re-post:
The Republican half of the Uniparty simply cannot allow a red wave in CONgress matching the one for Trump. In that case they couldn’t obstruct him with the excuse that they don’t have a sufficient majority… like, for instance, in the coming Senate confirmation hearings.
This explains the very curious lack of full attention pointed out by the Fractal team of the RNC/GOP to horrendously inaccurate voter rolls. It’s like they didn’t care in many states. The excuse is that those aren’t key states for electoral votes, but they ARE key in another way: control of CONgress.
It’s simple: to avoid a large majority where they would have to accomplish something other than the desired results of The Blob, they simply look the other way in elections where needed.
Trump won because the RNC/GOP realized that if they didn’t help there would be a one party system and their phony opposition would appear even more useless than it already is. It was a matter of survival.
For CONgress, they looked the other way:
Down Ballot Steal – The Whack-A-Mole Election
Trump outran the steal, 4 senate candidates and a dozen house candidates did not
Omega4America
Nov 08, 2024
https://omega4america.substack.com/p/down-ballot-steal-the-whack-a-mole
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GOPe worst nightmare is 62 – 38 senate majority.
If it weren’t for RINOs, Republicans would dominate politics. – PT
CALIFORNIA HAS HOW MANY DAYS TO COUNT BALLOTS?
“How CA House seats are going blue in this red wave”
https://rumble.com/v5ttvyw-california-has-how-many-days-to-count-ballots.html
How about a page on this blog rating politicians and administrators on the scale of Liberty versus Tyranny? It is hard to keep tabs on so many of them and remember who is edging closer to 100% Liberty or moving away towards Tyranny? Even prominent figures like Rand Paul are often a puzzle. We need a scorecard! I expect President Trump could use one as well.
Hard to score when many of the “cards” (laws on which they vote) are intentionally designed to give them a valid excuse for why they didn’t vote for the conservative issue.
Here you go: https://libertyscore.conservativereview.com/
A starting point is how did they vote on important issues involving liberty. Most of us wouldn’t agree with all of the criteria used, but it makes a useful starting point and helps identify the “bottom half.” Don’t care much for CR, but they have one and you can look at individuals (say those from your state) and see their votes on the issues used to do the scoring so that you can adjust them.
https://libertyscore.conservativereview.com/
Here are two more:
https://thefreedomindex.org/report/scorecard-118-1/
https://www.cpac.org/post/cpac-foundation-releases-53rd-edition-of-the-ratings-of-congress (Don’t list low scoring members)
Thanks to you and JWoo for the links. As you say, criteria are important. Sundance is good at extracting the Liberty component from actions (not just laws, and not just legislators), so it would be neat to have a scale using his insights and not just the pretenses in which nice-sounded policies are cloaked.
The irony in your penultimate sentence is impressive!
I was worried about Tulsi Gabbard coming on board the Trump Train considering her affiliation with the World Economic Forum. Also, in an interview that aired regarding the fires on Maui, she appeared on the interview with BJ Penn. BJ Penn is not a Klaus Schwab hothouse flower cultivated to decorate the Globalist aspirations . . . BJ Penn is a pugilist. It seemed to me during the interview that Tulsi seemed on edge sitting next to BJ, like “why have you subjected me to this, doing this interview with HIM sitting next to me?”
So now fast forward and Donald J. Trump won the 2024 election and Tulsi Gabbard was put forward for consideration and now we have learned that she will be on board with the FISA Court shenanigans. I am supposed to say, “okay, will maybe this will somehow work out all right” but sleeping on it, I just can’t reconcile it when I see that she looks anxious and I want to say, “What’s UP?”
I do hope and pray that President Trump will withdraw Tulsi’s nomination . . . if she is TRULY on board with MAGA, she could join up with MAGA in Hawaii and dislodge Governor Dr. Josh Green and the Green Machine. Support BJ Penn for another run at the governorship! Just push out that Green Machine that did not care about the precious people who were in the path of destruction during the fires of August 8, 2023; that would include the Sheriff of Maui who happened to be the lead investigator of the Concert Shooting in Las Vegas.
My post from the Treehouse back in March 2024 about Tulsi, from the discussion following Sundance’s post “Tucker Carlson Interviews Tulsi Gabbard”:
suejeanne
March 27, 2024 2:24 am
Reply to bbyrd
Lahaina, Tulsi.
I am sorry but I am not quite buying her “aloha” schtick – why doesn’t she get out there with the other people fighting for the truth to be told regarding August 8, 2023.
Why don’t you get out there and challenge that totally weird governor who seemed so thrilled to speak at the UN about a “green program” for Hawaii.
Why don’t you raise holy hell and demand help and answers for people who suffered, for the trapped people in cars who died in the fire? You don’t want to challenge anyone politically there and get your shoulder to the wheel with others who are still striving to get answers?
Watching the wonderful people at those County meetings in the weeks following the fire – so articulate in their grief – BJ Penn, one of the citizens speaking out, I did not know who he was or that he himself had run for Governor but he put it so beautifully about the current governor, that he is a weak, weak man. Nani Medeiros who was running the meeting was very upset with people like BJ Penn showing up, God bless him. She soon stepped down.
Look at the stupid housing project that Nani Medeiros had worked on for Hawaii – just damn shacks without a bathroom, without running water and without means to store/refrigerate and prepare food. She was proud of THAT as a “housing solution”.
The Martin Scorcese film recently out about the Osage people of Oklahoma and the ugliness of the people who endeavored to take over the properties (and the rich oil reserves) was about something that happened years ago . . . but it is very similar to my mind about what is happening in Lahaina on the Island of Maui right now –
there are parties doing whatever it takes to literally steal the lands of the people who own it . . . people who are of generations of native Hawaiians and then also people from other Pacific Islands as well as from the Mainland who have lived there for decades, keeping on their land, struggling to keep their places with all members of the families working various jobs but the property taxes go up – that’s one way to get a hold of property – also a devastating fire where the people cannot even communicate with their mortgage companies in the aftermath of the fire because for some reason the cell towers did not work.
There are so many terrible things wrong about what happened in Lahaina and what is continuing to happen and part of it is a plan to make it a “15 minute City” – isn’t that a World Economic Forum dream?
So, I want Tulsi Gabbard to absolutely repudiate the World Economic Forum and all their aspirations PLUS she should be over there in Lahaina standing up for the people there -otherwise her aloha and flower in the hair and cool mellow surfer girl vibe is a bunch of bullshit, every bit as bad as John Bolton or Mike Pence.
I think she is just another of those revolving-door types of people who stand around waiting to get tapped for some important role to mess things up further!
Thank you for that heart-felt analysis. I have not yet watched Tucker’s interview but will do so right away. I was not happy with her nomination because I have strong qualms about being able to trust her “conversion”. I had previously read about other life changes she had made in the past.
I was hoping she had settled but was/am not convinced….and am even less convinced now.
I’m on that hill. –€
What I live by, no matter what is going on around me:
Prov 3:5-6
Proverbs 3:5-6
King James Version
5 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
And He has. And He will. For EVERYONE who calls out to Him.💯 The battle is the Lord’s and He will bring the enemy into our grasp.
Pretty good article in alignment with what Sundance has been saying.
“Be leery of everyone, especially of anyone who came out of nowhere and gained a huge following overnight. Be leery of anyone who has only supported Trump the past year. Be leery of anyone who says one thing and does another, who calls out the Biden Administration, yet votes in line with them. Be leery of anyone who seems to care more about a foreign nation than America. Be leery of anyone who has never been kicked off of social media, or whose reach far exceeds the quality of their content.”
https://badlands.substack.com/p/why-the-deep-state-cant-allow-government?publication_id=1135129&post_id=153643381&isFreemail=true&r=125jms&triedRedirect=true
everyone
“Everything is the opposite of what it should be.” – Orange Man Mandate
quality
Make Content King Again? Build Back Quality
Crossfire Hurricane 6: The KoronaKampf Revival
https://www.lifesitenews.com/analysis/how-a-shadowy-group-linked-to-uk-army-intelligence-tried-to-ruin-the-lives-of-covid-skeptics/
Defending my hill to the last round.
My hill too, Sundance.
Outing “The Surveillance” is also Anonymous Conservative’s hill and has been for years.
https://www.anonymousconservative.com/blog/news-briefs-01-11-2025/
Trust the Cam? Make Surveillance Great Again
“The New Surveillance Footage of the January 6th Events sheds an entirely different light on what actually happened.”
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/109979573523540265
I stand beside you Sundance. As many here will stand at the ready.
Go Wolverines!
“Onward Christian Soldiers”
Thank you for that!
The thing is,we have known about this Survellence State, at least to the degree we wanted to know,for many years now.
Snowden ‘sounded the alarm’ and our responce was frankly,…crickets.
Oliver Stone made a movie about it,for those too simple minded to follow the story in the papers…
People watched it, saw it detailing just how intrusive the survellence is, and how it is being exploited to manipulate people,…said “Oh, thats terrible!,…Hey,you wanna get a pizza?” and reached for their cell phone to order one.
I really don’t see the kind of outrage we need, in the population writ large, or even within MAGA writ large, demanding an end to these programs.
“The Patriot Act, yeah thats terrible, right? But hey,Trump won and what do you think about those fires in California, huh?”
Liberty advocates like Sundance will keep beating the drum,
as well they should.
And perhaps will eventually create a groundswell reaction of resistance.
After all, 5 years ago the argument to not vote for the RINO no matter what,got a lot of pushback, and few knew or used the term “Uniparty”.
If they had not used the Fisa process against DJT, to spy on his campaign, far fewer would know or care, and Snowden must wonder why he did what he did, and if it was worth it. A cautionary tale?
A cautionary tale?
EXACTLY what those who would rule want – a populace afraid that none will stand with them and thus instead meekly cower in the shadows hoping to be the last one to be loaded in the box car. The epitome of the exact opposite of those who founded our nation and all who have stood up for it since.
All true.
Snowden also broke the law.
So did our founding fathers.
Sundance you have one of the most respected voices out there out of every place and everyone I read and listen to however I’ve got to just say there comes a point where you are going to have to admit that there is nothing you or I or anybody else in this world is going to do to slow down or stop the surveillance State encroachment on American liberties the Beast has gotten way too big and took on a life of its own and there is no killing it now game over nothing we can do sorry to break it to you Sundance
We forget our place.
Daniel 4 tells us that in the estimation of Jehovah God the highest secular government in human history is that of Nebuchadnezzar – the golden head on the statue in the dream Daniel interpreted. We and our government are the iron and miry clay feet that the stone not hewn by hands will – has – shattered.
As an engineer I am always aware of entropy – that increasing chaos is the result of everything we attempt. I am also aware that the founders said explicitly that the government they had set up was only fit for a moral an religious people.
Which we are not; or at least no longer are.
So what can we do.
First heal our own moral rot.
Take the focus of of ourselves and put it where it belongs. On becoming more Christ like for my self and more righteous for anyone else.
Second recognize that fighting tyranny is a lost cause as long as we allow ourselves to be governed by other men.
It is as simple as do not consent.
And maybe further as a man wrote on the internet some years ago:
Stop fighting tyranny and build freedom.
Withdraw from the system as much as you can and invest your time and energy in making yourself more free. Literally, the less you interact with the tyrants the more freedom you will have.
When they realize that no one is listening, that no one cares, what can they do?
If this sounds too idealistic, sorry.
Excellent analysis and description of the importance of this issue.
But, it’s really important to understand why/who led us to give up our liberty.
“We have allowed the foundational intent of both sets of documents to be compromised, because, well, simply we were lazy and complacent.”
No, not because we were lazy or incompetent.
We panicked, responded to fear-mongering about Muslims coming to our shores to spread “Sharia” and blow things up.
That panic, that descent into fear, defeated logical thinking, justified the Patriot Act, FISA, torture, multiple wars, trillions of dollars pissed away in “nation-building” and more.
Maybe we were/are “lazy and incompetent,” but that’s not what compromised the foundations of our liberty.
In 2002, crafty, cunning neo-con manipulators spun tales designed to panic Joe Six-Pack. Influence operators traveled across the country speaking to “conservative” groups, Tea Party and others. They babbled non-stop on Fox. They took over formerly Normal American websites. They convinced Americans that Islam was coming for their wives and daughters, that a wave of attackers was lurking at the border, that Iran was planning mayhem, etc, etc, etc.
That fear-mongering worked. Americans happily demanded that our rights be stripped and the constitution trampled. And they gave it to us. Good and hard.
And the vile lash-up of PC-Progs and neocons saw the power of that fear-mongering. And they used it again–to cover-up the leak of the virus their partners created in labs in the Ukraine and China. They spun up the fear-mongering again. Fear–raw, visceral fear–panicked Americans again. And we demanded they strip our rights away again. And they did.
Not lazy. Not incompetent. Just afraid. Very afraid.
And it’ll happen again. And again. And again.
It is really important to remember what actually happened in the passage of the Patriot Act. In the House, there were 66 Nay votes. 63 of those 66 Nay votes were by Democrats. Only 3 House Republicans voted against the Patriot Act. In the Senate, there was one Nay vote. That Nay vote came from the only honorable man in the Senate at that time. That was Democrat Russ Feingold.
Just in case anyone wants to “understand why/who led us to give up our liberty.”
“Only 3 House Republicans voted against the Patriot Act. In the Senate, there was one Nay vote.”
Bingo!
I was deeply enmeshed in “conservative” on-the-ground politics at that time, and in the “Global War on Terror,” and saw it all unfold from ground center.
The Patriot Act was driven by neo-cons, using manipulation and fear-mongering, building on Americans’ concerns, soon after 9/11 and the “anthrax attacks,” about Muslim terrorism.
“Conservatives” tried to outdo one another in their eagerness to strip away Constitutional protections.
In the following years, “conservatives” were whipped into a frenzy by neocons and dual-passport holders over “Sharia” and “Islamic hordes” invading. The truth was that Halakah was, and is, a more powerful threat to American values than Sharia. The truth was that Catholic hordes from the south were, and are, a much more powerful threat to America than Muslims. But the neocons, acting for their hostile foreign sponsor, needed Americans to be terrified of Islam, and to support the beginning phases of the never-ending-wars in West Asia, for their Israeli sponsors.
So, when we’re ready to “stop pretending,” there’s lots of issues to discuss. The genesis of domestic surveillance is a great place to start.
Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself. She seldom has received much aid from the power of great men to whom she is rarely known & seldom welcome. She has no need of force to procure entrance into the minds of men. Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper & sufficient antagonist to error.
Thomas Jefferson
Truth doesn’t care if you like her or not.
Sunlight, sunlight and more sunlight.
Fully concur!!!
👏👏👏🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸👍👍👍
SD if I may, this is your treehouse on the hill in which we all will stand. Give us liberty or give us a reason to bears arms in defense of it. There is plenty reason already but we wait on PDJT.
I want to know WHY Chief Justice John Roberts is allowed to forsake his Oath of Office by simply VOIDING/NULLIFYING a Constitutional Guarantee. A Constitutional GUARANTEE which has been precisely worded, deliberately written and then given to ALL AMERICANS as the 4th Amendment for the SECURITY of ALL AMERICANS.
Their is no ambiguity in the words or intent of the 4th amendment for lawyers or judges to parse.
Chief Justice Roberts has corrupted himself, his office, his court, our Constitution, Our Republic and it’s Citizens I can’t find a space or place in our Society that hasn’t been violated by his corruption.
Tell me Sundance, what really happened to Chief Justice Roberts? I just don’t believe he would so easily throw it all away for the reasons you have stated.
He has broken my happy heart. He makes me cry. I don’t think Trump can fix it. I just want to know why.
I’ve educated my 29 yr old Son, and 2 Son in Laws on this #1 Liberty killing FISA.
I have hope for us but we need the younger men and women to understand the grave threat they face for their future if this is EVIL apparatus is not destroyed.
Steadfast
WOLVERINES!
There is rationality to Trump’s policy “first get elected”, parentheses, then make changes.
It appears that T Gabbard has this in mind when she recently agreed with FISA reauthorization, for her approval by the Senate. Team Trump knows that FISA is authorized annually.
it ‘takes’ Jesus CHRIST.
Through his sacrifice, made whole and true by the LORD OF ALL LORDS, we are forgiven.
this truth above all other, is what we must first and always last be obedient.
do you believe..do you have this faith.? yes and yes
do you realize this act of faith is your salvation and makes you whole?
yes
God Bless America
My big American heart is breaking. My privacy and security has been violated so many times we have lost track. I do know at least twice a year I and/or my Husband get notices in our mailbox from unknown 3rd parties’ informing us our (fill in the blank) account has been breached, hacked, compromised and to call some 1 800 number to contact some complete stranger regarding the matter. I know what they are taking, and I want it back. I want it back!
My big American heart is breaking because our Adult children are forced to give up their privacy, security or suffer real daily consequences if they refuse to comply. My children sense what they are losing. Nothing is private.
My big American heart breaks because I know my Grandchildren will never know, never have a moment of privacy or security in their lives. I know they are going to steal my Grandchildren’s guaranteed right to privacy and security. They will never know a minutes peace of privacy or security. They will live a 1984 style in the U.S.of Animal Farm and so will yours’
In addition to Chief Justice Roberts VOIDING the GUARANTEE of our 4th Amendment Rights
What the hell is Chief Justice Roberts thinking when he quarters 4 star Chicken Little Haydens’ on my computer, located inside my house without my 3rd Amendment CONSENT?
How is Trump/MAGA America 1st gonna STOP the STEAL this time? Let me know.