Trump’s Thought Police: Straight From George Orwell’s 1984 (Podcast)

Welcome to Trump's Orwellian Ministry of Mayhem, where truth is optional, chaos is policy & resistance is the only sane response. - Thom Hartmann

• Thought Police - Wikipedia
• Trump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs As Terrorism “Indicators” - Ken Klippenstein
• Trump and Orwell’s 1984: A Comparison - James Couper
• VIDEO: FBI Agents Visit Anti-ICE Protester - Ken Klippenstein

George Orwell’s 1984 explores the dangers of authoritarian control, propaganda, and reality manipulation. Trump’s rhetoric and political strategies mirror Orwellian themes of Newspeak, doublethink, propaganda, reality control, and fear-based politics. Follow Trump’s attacks on the press, his use of “alternative facts,” and his shifting narratives to see how he is destroying democracy. - James Couper excerpts.

1984 by George Orwell

Trump’s NSPM-7

Trump’s NSPM-7 resembles George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. The novel is based on how the secret police in the Soviet Union used surveillance, control, and punishment of dissent.

The Thought Police are the secret police who discover and punish Thought Crimes are personal or political thoughts unapproved by régime. Much like how Trump has weaponized the FBI under Kash Patel and the Department of Justice under Pam Bondi to target people who criticize Trump.

“NSPM-7 is a declaration of war on anyone who does not support the Trump administration and its agenda” explains Ken Klippenstein. “Trump’s directive retools the counter-terror apparatus to go after Americans at home, this means monitoring political activity, or speech… The focus on speech is evident throughout NSPM-7. The directive says that political violence is the result of “organized campaigns” that often begin (with the left) dehumanizing targets in “anonymous chat foras, in-person meetings, social media, and even educational institutions.” Trump is using NSPM-7 to target anyone who even discusses:

• anti-Americanism,
• anti-capitalism,
• anti-Christianity,
• support for the overthrow of the United States Government,
• extremism on migration,
• extremism on race,
• extremism on gender
• hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family,
• hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on religion, and
• hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on morality.

Monitoring people for signs of dissent

Thinkpol monitor people using criminal psychology and surveillance via informers, computers, cameras, and microphones and arrest all those who have committed thoughtcrime in challenge to Big Brother’s régime.

ICE just bought new tools to monitor hundreds of millions of smartphones. Experts say it’s dangerous. - The Independent

Florida education officials pull hundreds of books from school libraries

Also on the list of books removed from libraries are "1984," George Orwell's seminal work on censorship and surveillance, accounts of the Holocaust, such as "Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation" and "Sophie's Choice." - CBS

Take Away: Listen to how Trump copies the Thought Police tactics of 1984.

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