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The Surveillance Tech Turning Half of America Into ‘Terrorists’
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22:02Now PlayingTrump’s National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7) gives the FBI, IRS, DHS, and Treasury Department broad new powers to investigate "domestic terrorism" — defined so loosely it could effectively apply to more than half the country. Independent journalist Hannah Riley Fernandez joins Rania Khalek and guest host Amanda Yee to explain how the directive is already producing dystopian punishments for protesters: one Prairieland defendant was sentenced to 30 years for moving a box of zines, another got 70 years after being acquitted of violence.
Tracing NSPM-7's roots back through decades of anti-left crackdowns — from COINTELPRO to the Patriot Act to Cop City — Fernandez explains what's actually new: a surveillance tech infrastructure of Flock cameras, Clearview AI, and Ring doorbells that makes it cheaper and easier than ever to manufacture criminality out of belief and political conviction. It's a threat we know firsthand: in light of Trump’s MAGA allies in Congress subpoenaing BreakThrough News, Fernandez explains exactly why independent media has become a critical target:
"We're done pretending the quote-unquote 'violence' from the left is anything compared to what we're seeing from the right, which is actual, literal, fascist authoritarian violence. And a free press that pushes back on that framing is incredibly threatening to a fascist regime."
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