Christ’s 2022 Christmas Gift To the Associated Press: A Freakin’ Clue

The useful idiots never realize that after the Regime uses them to cement its control of society, they’re the first to be put against the wall. Because dissidents fight back while useful idiots expect a cookie for their good behavior.

Police seize on COVID-19 tech to expand global surveillance

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By Garance Burke, Josef Federman, Huizhong Wu, Krutika Pathi and Rod McGuirk, 19 December 2022

JERUSALEM (AP) — Majd Ramlawi was serving coffee in Jerusalem’s Old City when a chilling text message appeared on his phone.

“You have been spotted as having participated in acts of violence in the Al-Aqsa Mosque,” it read in Arabic. “We will hold you accountable.”

Ramlawi, then 19, was among hundreds of people who civil rights attorneys estimate got the text last year at the height of one of the most turbulent recent periods in the Holy Land. Many, including Ramlawi, say they only lived or worked in the neighborhood, and had nothing to do with the unrest. What he didn’t know was that the feared internal security agency, the Shin Bet, was using mass surveillance technology mobilized for coronavirus contact tracing against Israeli residents and citizens for purposes entirely unrelated to COVID-19.

In the pandemic’s bewildering early days, millions worldwide believed government officials who said they needed confidential data for new tech tools that could help stop coronavirus’ spread. In return, governments got a firehose of individuals’ private health details, photographs that captured their facial measurements and their home addresses.

I TOLD YOU SO! I told you that Covid was never about a disease.

I told you that lockdowns are not a medical procedure. They are a prison procedure.

I told you that “two weeks to destroy civilization before Covid gets the chance” was not about a disease. It was about population control.

I told you that government banning people from trying cheap medical treatments in favor of an untested DNA-mutating gene slime that the government paid for in advance, to itself, was not just gross malpractice and a complete betrayal of the public trust, it needs a Nuremberg Trial for medical crimes against humanity.

AND, I told you that the reason the government was developing the ability to track who a person associates with in realtime, is because that’s what Springtime For Hitler looks like. You hypocritical “anti-fascists”.

I told you and you didn’t believe me because I WAS NOT GOVERNMENT-APPROVED TO DISAGREE WITH THE GOVERNMENT. You lackwitted, Godforsaking FOOLS! You heard me say that face diapers were useless, and you called me evil because the government said face diapers were mostly useless but not always and therefore should be worn 24-7 by every human being on the planet under penalty of incarceration without due process. Or starvation.

But it was Cuomo who killed Grandma. You show me the Black Death one more time, I’ll show you a government bureaucrat. Who’s killed more people NOW, huh?

Now, from Beijing to Jerusalem to Hyderabad, India, and Perth, Australia, The Associated Press has found that authorities used these technologies and data to halt travel for activists and ordinary people, harass marginalized communities and link people’s health information to other surveillance and law enforcement tools. In some cases, data was shared with spy agencies.

The issue has taken on fresh urgency almost three years into the pandemic as China’s ultra-strict zero-COVID policies recently ignited the sharpest and largest public rebuke of the country’s authoritarian leadership since the pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989.

For more than a year, AP journalists interviewed sources and pored over thousands of documents to trace how technologies marketed to “flatten the curve” were put to other uses. Just as the balance between privacy and national security shifted after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, COVID-19 has given officials justification to embed tracking tools in society that have lasted long after lockdowns.

I don’t like animated images because they can’t archive well and are distracting, but Stephen Colbert making rude gestures in front of a giant “I Told You So” sign is simply perfect here.

The AP found:

–Israel’s Shin Bet security agency repurposed phone surveillance technology it had previously used to monitor militants inside Palestinian territories to monitor people for COVID-19 contact tracing. Then, in 2021, the agency quietly began using the same technology to send threatening messages to Arab citizens and residents of Israel whom the agency suspected of participating in violent clashes with police. Some of the recipients, however, simply lived or worked in the area, or were mere passers-by.

“It was okay when we were doing it.”

–In China, the last major country in the world to enforce strict COVID-19 lockdowns, citizens have had to install cell-phone apps to move about freely in most cities. Drawing from telecommunications data and PCR test results, the apps produce individual QR codes that change from green to yellow or red, depending on a person’s health status. Now, as pandemic restrictions lessen, there is evidence that the health codes have been used to stifle dissent. Citizens who wanted to lodge complaints against the government suddenly found their codes turning red even though they hadn’t tested positive for COVID-19 or been near infected individuals.

Now would be a good time for you Democrats to outlaw government surveillance of society other than individuals for which a judge issued a warrant. Oh, but the problem here isn’t that the government has unlimited power! The problem is the government using unlimited power against you specifically.

–As early as May 2020 in India, the police chief of Telangana state tweeted about his department rolling out artificial intelligence-based software using CCTV to zero-in on people not wearing masks. S Q Masood, a social activist, was among the people stopped seemingly at random by police in a predominantly Muslim area of Hyderabad last year. Masood said officers told him to remove his mask so they could photograph him with a tablet. He’s now suing police to find out why. Although law enforcement denies using facial recognition in Masood’s case, the lawsuit is continuing and experts said it may set precedent for future policing activities.

—In Australia, people used apps to tap their phones against QR codes at restaurants, performance venues and other public spaces to record their presence so they could be contacted in case a COVID-19 outbreak was linked to a place they visited. But in multiple cases Australian law enforcement co-opted the state-level QR check-in data as a sort of electronic dragnet to investigate crimes. The practice came despite government assurances that the information would be used only to promote public health.

“I am shocked! Shocked, I say!”

–Finally, in the U.S., the federal government used the pandemic as an opportunity to build out its surveillance toolkit. It signed two contracts in 2020 worth $24.9 million with the data-mining and surveillance company Palantir Technologies Inc. to support the Department of Health and Human Services’ pandemic response. Documents obtained by the immigrant rights group Just Futures Law under the Freedom of Information Act and shared with the AP show that federal officials considered integrating “identifiable patient data,” such as mental health, substance use and behavioral health information from group homes, shelters, jails, detox facilities and schools. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control does not use any of that individual-level information in the platform CDC now manages, said Kevin Griffis, a department spokesman.

And if you believe THAT, you’re probably still sucking on a face diaper, sitting in a government-owned cubicle, on your fifth booster shot, wondering why you still feel sick.

For Christmas 2022, here is YOUR FRICKING CLUE!

“What COVID did was accelerate state use of these tools and that data and normalize it, so it fit a narrative about there being a public benefit,“ said John Scott-Railton, a senior researcher at the Toronto-based internet watchdog Citizen Lab. “Now the question is, are we going to be capable of having a reckoning around the use of this data, or is this the new normal?”

It’s YOUR New Normal, you useful idiots. Now up against the wall with you!

Sing hallelujah to the Lord
Say, hey you useful idiots!
You thought to track us down
You tried to kick us out
You fell into the pit you dug

Jesus is risen from the dead
NPCs hope that they will not
Christ will give them second life
So He can kill them again
Oblivion is not the final stop

 

Postscript, ye Socialists and Normies, Climate Change is a lie whose purpose is to transfer wealth from the weak to the powerful, and to criminalize the very existence of human life.

I. Tell. You. So.