Most critical thing to hammer into your head and the heads of everyone around you: information is the most powerful weapon in the world. You can't hit a target if you don't make a target.
The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were finely-tuning America's intelligence infrastructure to generate as many targets at possible, collecting any scrap of information they possibly could. As far back as 2011, I remember seeing veterans talk about how terrified they were to witness Afghan civilians being rounded up and biometrically catalogued to build an indexed database to exploit even the tiniest crumbs of DNA or hearsay. This war was fought by raiding people's homes in the dead of the night, to kidnap or kill these people turned into targets through the accumulation of intelligence. Scraps of information. DNA signatures on bomb fragments. "HUMINT." Chains of acquaintance. Family. Wrong place, wrong time.
We now know ICE is extensively using Palantir software -- ELITE -- in their field operations. Just as we know Palantir's Gotham software was used extensively in the Gaza genocide to generate "hundreds" of targets per day, where, previously, Israeli intelligence would generate "ten in a year." This, too, was put to use in the so-called Global War on Terror. Honed by the brutalization of the Middle East. CEO Alex Karp has identified Palantir's role in expediting the "kill chain," the decision-making process to identify targets.
This software is being fed more information than you can imagine. Any video, any photograph, any post that has been put on any social media website has been scraped up -- legally or not -- and fed into this system. Flock cameras have been placed in many, many cities across the US to track the movement of individuals via their vehicles. Ring cameras are now a part of the Flock network. ICE is using Flock's system.
Ice agents have said there is a database of protestors being generated. For years, Trump has talked about targeting the "enemy within." His administration has declared the amorphous "Antifa" to be a formal terrorist organization, opening the gates to the full might of post-9/11 counter-terror laws which empower the US government to, essentially, do whatever they want to anyone labeled "terrorist."
Anonymize yourself as much as you can. Exposure is vulnerability. Threats will be taken seriously. Once attention has been drawn to yourself, it has been drawn to everyone around you. Admit to nothing. Camouflage yourself. Feed the system as little information as possible. Generate deniability. Do not incriminate yourself. Do not make yourself or your people into targets.
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