Authoritarian Regimes Embrace Surveillance Technologies to Stifle Opposition from the Left
In the current political climate of the United States, allegations of government surveillance and financial targeting of conservatives have sparked intense debate and controversy.
Former President Donald Trump has accused some financial institutions of engaging in "government-directed surveillance programs" following the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot, leading to the denial of banking services based on political views, a practice known as "debanking". In response, Trump issued an executive order directing federal regulators to eliminate guidance that enables such politicized debanking and to take remedial actions against institutions engaging in it.
Conservative groups, such as Heritage Action, oppose new governmental surveillance tools associated with Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), viewing them as Orwellian government control and surveillance tools that threaten privacy and civil liberties. They have pushed for legislation like the Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act (H.R. 1919) to prevent government-issued digital assets from restricting Americans' financial freedoms.
Broader political efforts, like Project 2025, signal potential shifts in how federal agencies could be used regarding surveillance and intelligence. Critics warn that this initiative, led by conservative actors including The Heritage Foundation and former Trump officials, could exacerbate the targeting of political groups, including conservatives, under the guise of law enforcement or national security.
Public trust in government surveillance or intelligence efforts remains low across the board, with only about one in three Americans currently trusting the government generally, according to surveys.
However, allegations from conservatives suggest that the Democratic Party is monitoring conservatives and maintaining files on them. The Schiff Report indicates that U.S. intelligence and the House Intelligence Committee were used to spy on a conservative president, a conservative congressman, a journalist, and log the private phone calls of the president's lawyer.
The left is accused of having no regard for the truth, and the political powers of the left, which dominate our media and government, have a totalitarian coloration. The left is alleged to be attempting entrapment, portraying legal activities as illegal, and framing Republicans for crimes on circumstantial evidence.
Meanwhile, the media is unwilling to address the sudden reappearance of a renewed communist bloc with many new member-states around the globe. Growing fleets and armies can be observed in Russia and China, with Beijing issuing warnings to Australia.
The ideology behind this subversion is communism, which has taken various disguises but maintains a revolutionary core. The left is accused of ignoring principles of law used in the past to neuter the counterintelligence functions of the FBI and CIA, and openly using these functions with a vengeance against their opponents and critics.
The left's practices, narratives, and aspirations have a totalitarian essence. The left believes that conservatives are the enemies, and any measures, however extraordinary, must be employed to criminalize their political activity, to cripple their means of self-protection, and eliminate them from the country's political life. The left is suppressing witnesses in favor of Republicans and trying them in the media to make their guilt an accepted public fact.
Simultaneously, America's role in Europe is being questioned slyly, with the left's strategies of intimidation employing technical surveillance capabilities of the state to threaten conservatives. The threads of external danger are intertwined with threads of internal subversion.
In summary, the current state of surveillance and intelligence activities targeting conservatives in the United States involves significant controversy and debate, particularly around allegations of government-directed surveillance and financial "debanking" of conservatives. While no concrete publicly available evidence confirms widespread ongoing government surveillance campaigns targeting conservatives currently, political and legal disputes continue intensely over these issues.
- The allegations of government surveillance and financial targeting of conservatives, known as "debanking," have become a contentious issue in the current political context of the United States.
- Conservative groups, such as Heritage Action, express concerns about new governmental surveillance tools associated with Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), fearing Orwellian control and threats to privacy.
- In response to such allegations, former President Trump issued an executive order to eliminate guidance that enables politicized debanking and take remedial actions against institutions engaging in it.
- Broader political efforts, like Project 2025, have raised concerns over potential surveillance and intelligence misuse, with critics warning of increased targeting of political groups, including conservatives.
- Public trust in government surveillance or intelligence efforts remains low, with only about one-third of Americans currently trusting the government generally.
- Meanwhile, the left, with dominance in media and government, is accused of a totalitarian approach, ignoring truth, using entrapment, framing Republicans for crimes on circumstantial evidence, and maintaining files on conservatives, among other practices.
