To which Brits say, “What the fuck was what we already had?”

A bill giving the UK intelligence agencies and police the most sweeping surveillance powers in the western world has passed into law with barely a whimper, meeting only token resistance over the past 12 months from inside parliament and barely any from outside. The Investigatory Powers Act, passed on Thursday, legalises a whole range of tools for snooping and hacking by the security services unmatched by any other country in western Europe or even the US. The security agencies and police began the year braced for at least some opposition, rehearsing arguments for the debate. In the end, faced with public apathy and an opposition in disarray, the government did not have to make a single substantial concession to the privacy lobby. US whistleblower Edward Snowden tweeted: “The UK has just legalised the most extreme surveillance in the history of western democracy. It goes further than many autocracies.”

This is immigration. Without Islamic immigration, there would be no reason for this. The government would want it, but it is only terrorism that allows it to be enacted openly like this. It makes me wonder if that is why they imported the Muslims in the first place.

Interestingly,

On the campaign trail, Trump made comments that implied he would like to use the powers of the surveillance agencies against political opponents.

Goose, meet gander. He just needs to be careful he doesn’t let himself be attached to any decisions relating to any of this, because close proximity could be dangerous. He needs a Roger Stone-like fall guy to handle it, and take the dive if there is any blowback.

For the time being, people think of this as simply archiving old emails and saving metadata from phones, none of which will anyone ever really look at. But what people don’t realize is the degree to which real live government agents will be watching even innocent people every day of their lives, and accumulating files on them.

The problem is, once you go down this route, it needs to be kept secret, which means watching everyone to find out early if anyone figures it out and becomes a threat to it. That means for every uniformed cop patrolling a sector in a targeted municipality, three to ten plain clothes federal agents may be spread out in the sector watching and keeping notes on everyone, and especially certain people the machine is interested in or thinks might be a threat. I’ll bet Reddit is poured over every day by an army of spooks, given the threat those weaponized autistics pose.

I also view this as a sign of the coming Apocalypse. The elites are building a Stasi-like force, because they think they will need a Stasi-like force. What I don’t think they have mapped out is what will happen at the collapse, when they will lack the money to maintain this force, its underfunding my produce exposure, and its having been built in the first place will only cement resistance against the elite machine.

All roads lead to upheaval, or as it is more properly known, K-selection.

You might want to tell people about r/K Theory because you are being watched