Using fake names on Facebook, the Surveillance State, androidsJon Rappoport Congress is now debating an update to the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Turns out its already a misdemeanor to exceed authorized use of a computer, but the DOJ wants to make it a felony. Of course, what does exceeds authorized use mean? Well, it means, for instance, an employee sending emails to pals while hes at the officebecause his employer has a rule against that. In other words, the feds want to back up employers rules and turn them into felonies. Splendid. Yeah, you remember Jack, dont you? Used to work here? One day he made an online reservation at the Wynn in Vegas, and now hes in jail. Life is tough, keep your eyes straight ahead and dont mess with the boss. And Betty? She ordered three lipsticks on a slow Thursday and shes now upstate. I hear the shrinks got hold of her. Dosing her with an anti-psychotic. Hope she has three live brain cells to rub together when she gets out. Then theres the Facebook issue. The company, originally bankrolled by a CIA front, has a rule against users setting up accounts with fake names. Does the DOJ want to go after Facebook users who break the rules? The Surveillance State, aided by Facebook, wants to know who you are at all times. They want you to be your name and no other name. The joke is, most people lead lives that are fictional already. The NSA and its allied partners spy on those lives. Heres the same thing from another angle. John Smith, citizen, follows the straight and narrow. He, like every other John Smith, is a target of the Surveillance State. He hasnt committed any crimes. He isnt a threat. But that doesnt matter. Hes there. Hes a unit. Therefore, hes on the radar. But John Smith is a fiction. Hes a convenient, solid, average, normal persona/role in the stage play called Society cooked up by the Real John Smith, who is hiding. Inside himself. You rarely see him. Once in a blue moon, he pokes his head out and says something off-key. Then he retreats behind his facade. There are millions and John Smiths, and the NSA is spying on all of them. The fake ones. The fictions. What if every John Smith invented six or seven new personae? Sir, are you pretending to be somebody else? Yes, and the pretending is now more intense. Its ongoing. But you see, sir, that introduces confusion, when we spy on you. I used to believe I was a John Smith android forever. Wow, was I kidding myself. I used to go to one church service on Sunday. Now I go to three different churches. And Im also an atheist. Excuse me? I campaigned for Democrats only. Now I campaign for Democrats, Republican, Libertarians, Communists, and Anarchists. Of course I dont vote for anyone. Im exploring monarchy as well. I think the divine right of kings could make a comeback. But who do you actually worship? The NSA, of course. And the CIA and DIA, Interpol, MI-5, the old GRU, and the Chinese Secret Service. Sir, we have you on the record talking about eight different wives. Only eight? I must have misplaced a couple. Some people will assume I mean they should actually marry a dozen women. Those people are the literalists. They always go for the lowest-common-denominator reading. They think if they have a little fun, do a little acting, a little pretending, it might infect their minds. It might take them over. Theyre the John Smiths. They live inside walls of fear. Reality is one fiction among a limitless number of possible realities. The basic problem with Reality is that its only one. Any baby can teach you that. Play with the kid in just one way, over and over, and hell develop an itch he cant scratch. Hell cry and go off on you. Play with him a hundred different ways and hell gurgle and laugh and wriggle and decide coming into this life was a good idea after all. Every kid needs an uncle and an aunt and a few cousins and a brother or sister. Parents tend to repeat themselves. Their repertoire wears thin. The kid needs a boost, a change, a different face, a new joke, a shift of rhythm. People who can make you laugh take you out. They take you out of the one, forever, exhausting IS. Reality is the fiction of one and only one IS. There are two types of laughs. One blows up reality. The other, which is the android laugh, comes across like tranquilized mule with a hernia. The NSA is super-serious about the one persona that is supposed to be the super-serious you. Thats what theyre spying on. The internet thrives on anonymity. This causes a lot of nonsense and crap to surface. Thats the price we pay. But the Surveillance State doesnt want anonymity. It wants just the facts. It wants to scare people into being their android-selves and nothing more, nothing else. It wants The One Reality. If they can make that happen, they win. Afterward, it really doesnt matter what people do. I remember watching the very first episode of the original CSI. At the murder scene, the techs were going over an apartment, collecting evidence, bagging it. Then we were back in the lab. More analysis. I thought, are they kidding? They believe people want to watch this stuff? Well, people did. They wanted to watch the lab, the fine-tuning of hair, blood, DNA. The categorization, the tracking, the accessing of the data banks. The first cousin to Surveillance. You want to talk about operant conditioning? The whole CSI franchise is one giant psyop. For more than a decade. Getting people used to ubiquitous looking and spying and tracking, on behalf of justice. Thats what NSA wants to be. Thats how NSA wants the public to view it. Super-serious-android-NSA spying on super-serious-android-us. In the one and only Reality. Thats the op. Sostep back and calculate our chances if we continue to live in the one and only Reality and try to fight them from that position. Of course, entering and inventing other realities takes imagination. Thats the catch. It always was. Ever since the first elite priest class on Earth cooked up some crazy spiritual Ponzi scheme to suck in the rubes, imagination has been the nemesis of the State. Paraphrasing Groucho Marx: In the 1930s, you could make a movie in which a woman fell down a flight of stairs, and people would laugh. But eventually it couldnt be a movie. It had to be a real woman falling down a real flight of stairs. People are trained like dogs to appreciate and accept only one IS. The real IS. They convince themselves this is a good idea. These people are unconscious allies of the Surveillance State. Whats that? People are into all sorts of multiple virtual realities? Yes, for a while, but they keep coming back to believing in The One and Only Just-the-Facts Reality. If they actually wanted new realities, theyd be cooking them up themselves, they wouldnt be dreaming inside somebody elses. In light of all of the above, the universe of propaganda becomes more vivid. Its aim is reduction. Reduction of the way we see ourselves. Were given bound images of human beings as citizens living in a walled fortress, where our every thought and action needs to be boiled down and made transparent, so our leaders can make threat assessments. This is the fiction were being fed. Over and over. Its not asking too much, is it? Its too hard to seek out and find terrorists. We need to collect everything on everybody, and then with suitable algorithms established, we can select out the dangerous ones. In fact, its better if we consider everybody dangerous and track and limit their movements. That works. Yes, the NSA is looking at you. Theyre looking at you as if youre an android. Well, naturally. Theyre androids. Wherever they look, they see androids. Jon Rappoport is the author of two explosive collections, The Matrix Revealed and Exit From the Matrix, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at www.nomorefakenews.com linkwithin_text=Related Articles: 