FACE FACTS, available in daily headlines – The Musk-Trump KAKISTOCRACY is WEAPONIZING YOUR GOVERNMENT against YOU. It is also destroying YOUR government’s ability to protect YOU.
*** “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”
[ James Madison, Federalist Papers #47 ]
1] “This gets to a fundamental point about privacy: It is not just the question of, ‘Does anyone else in the world know this about me?'” said John Davisson, the director of litigation at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, which has sued the administration to block DOGE’s access to financial data at the Treasury and federal work force records at the Office of Personnel Management. “It is a question of WHO knows this about me and what can they lawfully – as a practical matter – do with that information?” {“How Musk’s Team Collects, and Connects Data About You”: Emily Badger, Sheera Frenkel; New York Times; 4/13/25 ]
*** “Only after the Jews were identified..could they be targeted for efficient asset confiscation, ghettoization, deportation,, enslaved labor..annihilation. It was a cross-tabulation and organizational challenge [that called for a computer]..But IBM’s Hollerith punch card technology did exist…Hitler was able to automate his persecution of the Jews.” [ Edwin Black: “IBM and the Holocaust ]
2]. “How DOGE Collects, and Connects, Your Data”. [New York Times; 4/13/25] This is a list of over 300 types of “Personal Data Held in systems DOGE Has Sought to Access” from “Academic rank…Alimony paid…Dates of Employment…Family size…Hospitalization records…Jury duty pay…Medical diagnoses…Moving expenses… Personal bank account number…Physician name and number…Prescription drug coverage…Prior status in foster care…Psychological or psychiatric health records…Residential clean energy credit claimed…Social Security number…Spouse demographic records…Student loan amount…Tests for H.I.V./AIDS…Tip income…W.I.C..nutrition assistance received..” {AND – there are 300 more records on YOU they’re examining!!!!!!! “Big Brother’ is watching]
*** “they have not demonstrated a single case in which fraud detection has required some universal governmental access to everybody’s data.” [ Jamie Raskin, Maryland Democrat U.S. House Representative ]
3] “This assembled data would give the government too much power..It would create a national security vulnerability..it would break a longstanding covenant between the federal government and the U.S. public rooted in privacy laws – that Americans who share their personal data with official agencies can trust that it will be secured and used only for narrow purposes.” [Badger & Frenkel; 4/13/25]
*** “The makers of our Constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness.. They sought to protect Americans in their beliefs, their thoughts..They conferred, as against the Government, the right to be let alone – the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.” [ Justice Louis Brandeis; “Olmstead” ]
4] “Privacy advocates say that al this data could enable the government to punish its political opponents by weaponizing the information about an individual’s personal life..or halting the benefits they receive..” [ Badger & Frenkel; 4/13/25 ]
*** “the American government is premised on the theory that if the mind of man is to be free, his ideas, his beliefs, his ideology, his philosophy must be placed beyond the reach of government.” [Justice William o. Douglas; “The Bill of Rights’ ]
5]. “Technologists warn that trying to match complex data sets to make decisions about government programs – including by using artificial intelligence to identify waste in government spending, as Musk allies have discussed – could produce rampant errors and real-world harm.” [Badger 7 Frenkel; 4/13/25]
***111***!!! Some recent headlines – of EXACTLY what technology experts warned could happen from DOGE:
– “‘Dead” immigrants show up alive” [ 4/19/25; Washington Post; Natanson, Rein, Kornfield]
– “DOGE Makes It’s Latest Errors Harder To Find” [3/14/25; New York Times; Fahrenthold, Singer-Vine]
– “About 40% of DOGE contract cuts save nothing” [2/26/25; Assoc. Press; Foley]
– “DOGE can’t find Social Security fraud” [3/25/25; Washington Post; Frankel, Natanson]
– “DOGE’s only public ledger is riddled with mistakes” [2/23/25; New York Times; Bhatia, Badger, Fahrethold, Katz]
– “HR Experts Say Musk’s “Bullet Points” Faulty” [3/10/25; Washington Post; Abril]
6] “Where will it end?” said..Barry Goldwater..”Will we permit the computerized systems to interlink nationwide so that every detail of our personal lives can be assembled instantly for use by a single bureaucrat or institution?” With the passage of the 1974 Privacy Act, Americans chose privacy over efficiency..” [ Badger, Frenkel; 4/13/25 ]
*** “They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” [Benjamin Franklin]
*** “THe only people who still have a private life in Germany are those who are asleep.” [Robert Ley, director of Nazi “German Labor Front”]
With Justice For All 