Friday, November 24, 2023
DEA's Domestic Surveillance 'Mission Creep'
Normally, when Americans see a story mentioning the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), they expect it to deal with the nation's endless (and futile) war on drugs. And most of the time, the news about or coming from the DEA concerns illicit drug trafficking, arrests, and prosecutions. But during the 2020 national protests against the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, the DEA got publicity for another mission its leadership generally doesn't want to discuss: domestic surveillance.
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Tell me how American Civilian LE, Federal LE and The INTELL Agencies aren’t completely out of control and Need…to be brought to HEEL like the Dogs they are.
ReplyDeleteCute article. The fact is that all agencies of the federal government are in domestic surveillance, including embedded neighborhood informants, ground surveillance ("gangstalkers"), drones, planes, and satellites.
ReplyDeleteA good intro to ground surveillance is here: https://www.anonymousconservative.com/blog/surveillance/
We live under a permanent level of surveillance that the Stasi or KGB could only dream of.
Yes, "we", not just ones and twos of us. Start watching for the apparently random car that passes your house just as you walk out your door. Or the person walking out of Walmart exactly when you walk in. Size up the contractor's white van (it's always white for some reason) with all those ladders on the rack. Why's he idle in the middle of the day? Why don't I recognize the name on the side of the van? Say, wouldn't that be a great platform for mobile electronic surveillance, and planting bugs? Why yes, yes it would. And is.
Why do we still have a USPS? For surveillance. Take a good look at the next mail van you see. Especially the deviant sitting in it (it won't be moving).
Watch for occupied parked cars with open windows. Size up that occupant. He'll seem a little off. He won't want you looking at him.
And especially watch for the pedestrian using their cell phone camera at waist level. This is craft for surreptitious photography, but once you look for it, it's a dead giveaway of the informant.
How big is the network? I dunno, but it's huge. I know they surveille small fry nobodies for years without end, they plant people in neighborhoods for lifetimes, and the drones, planes, and satellites are always up there. And of course high profile types, meaning every public figure, in politics, media, sports, entertainment... they're all covered, and subject to the Kanye West psyche commitment treatment if they cross the wrong line.
-Mike G
Mission Creep, hey?
ReplyDeleteIt was time for new shocks on my VW Syncro Van.
Found a sweet deal on the shocks at Rock Auto.
But did I stop there? No.
Ball joints, control arm bushings, bump stops, dust covers, camber washers, and miscellaneous hardware ended up costing more than the shocks.
...And then the labor ...
Haha. I remodeled an entire bathroom. It started because I couldn't find an O ring to fix the faucet. No new faucet fit the hole spread in bowl. No new lavatory sink fit the cutout in the countertop. Might as well build new cabinet.
DeleteWhy stop there? Might as well put in new floor and shower stall. New wall paint, new window and fan.
The Orwellian named Dept Homeland Security was born without a clear objective. The warnings of mission creep were many.
ReplyDeleteNow, consider the many tentacles of that dept. Include also the offices in other agencies, such as ODNI, created since 2001. Consider the ramifications of a government growing faster than the criminal, nefarious, wayward behaviors those agencies are tasked to investigate.
There is more government searching for limited supply of nefarious behaviors. The agencies are not going away; they only become more entrenched and more massive. So, investigations must therefore creep into every avenue of life.
Undercover buyers busting undercover sellers, or vice versa, in phoney drug deals is no surprise. More tales of such bufoonery are to become commonplace. Every gathering of The People will necessarily include a number of spook infiltrators. Charlottesville, VA courthouse, J6 were proof of concept.