Are you on the list?
Are you one of the millions of Americans that have been designated a
threat to national security by the U.S. government? Will you be subject to detention when martial
law is imposed during a major national emergency? As you will see below, there is actually a
list that contains the names of at least 8 million Americans known as Main Core
that the U.S. intelligence community has been compiling since the 1980s.
A recent article on Washington’s Blog quoted a couple of old
magazine articles that mentioned this program, and I was intrigued because I
didn’t know what it was. So I decided to
look into Main Core, and what I found out was absolutely stunning – especially
in light of what Edward Snowden has just revealed to the world. It turns out that the U.S. government is not
just gathering information on all of us.
The truth is that the U.S. government has used this information to
create a list of threats to national security that the government would
potentially watch, question or even detain during a national crisis. If you have ever been publicly critical of
the government, there is a very good chance that you are on that list.
The following is how Wikipedia describes Main Core…
Main Core is the code name of a database maintained since
the 1980s by the federal government of the United States. Main Core contains
personal and financial data of millions of U.S. citizens believed to be threats
to national security. The data, which comes from the NSA, FBI, CIA, and other
sources, is collected and stored without warrants or court orders. The
database’s name derives from the fact that it contains “copies of the ‘main
core’ or essence of each item of intelligence information on Americans produced
by the FBI and the other agencies of the U.S. intelligence community.”
It was Christopher Ketchum of Radar Magazine that first
reported on the existence of Main Core.
At the time, the shocking information that he revealed did not get that
much attention. That is quite a shame,
because it should have sent shockwaves across the nation…
According to a senior government official who served with
high-level security clearances in five administrations, “There exists a
database of Americans, who, often for the slightest and most trivial reason,
are considered unfriendly, and who, in a time of panic, might be incarcerated.
The database can identify and locate perceived ‘enemies of the state’ almost
instantaneously.” He and other sources tell Radar that the database is
sometimes referred to by the code name Main Core. One knowledgeable source
claims that 8 million Americans are now listed in Main Core as potentially
suspect. In the event of a national emergency, these people could be subject to
everything from heightened surveillance and tracking to direct questioning and
possibly even detention.
Of course, federal law is somewhat vague as to what might
constitute a “national emergency.” Executive orders issued over the last three
decades define it as a “natural disaster, military attack, [or] technological
or other emergency,” while Department of Defense documents include
eventualities like “riots, acts of violence, insurrections, unlawful
obstructions or assemblages, [and] disorder prejudicial to public law and
order.” According to one news report, even “national opposition to U.S.
military invasion abroad” could be a trigger.
So if that list contained 8 million names all the way back
in 2008, how big might it be today?
That is a very frightening thing to think about.
Later on in 2008, Tim Shorrock of Salon.com also reported on
Main Core…
Dating back to the 1980s and known to government insiders as
“Main Core,” the database reportedly collects and stores — without warrants or
court orders — the names and detailed data of Americans considered to be
threats to national security. According to several former U.S. government
officials with extensive knowledge of intelligence operations, Main Core in its
current incarnation apparently contains a vast amount of personal data on
Americans, including NSA intercepts of bank and credit card transactions and
the results of surveillance efforts by the FBI, the CIA and other agencies. One
former intelligence official described Main Core as “an emergency internal
security database system” designed for use by the military in the event of a
national catastrophe, a suspension of the Constitution or the imposition of
martial law.
So why didn’t this information get more attention at the
time?
Well, if Obama had lost the 2008 election it might
have. But Obama won in 2008 and the
liberal media assumed that he would end many of the abuses that were happening
under Bush. Of course that has not
happened at all. In fact, Obama has
steadily moved the police state agenda ahead aggressively. Edward Snowden has
just made that abundantly clear to the entire world.
After 2008, it is unclear exactly what happened to Main
Core. Did it expand, change names, merge
with other programs or get superseded by a new program? It appears extremely unlikely that it simply
faded away. In light of what we have
just learned about NSA snooping, someone should ask our politicians some very
hard questions about Main Core.
According to Christopher Ketchum, the exact kind of NSA snooping that
Edward Snowden has just described was being used to feed data into the Main
Core database…
A host of publicly disclosed programs, sources say, now
supply data to Main Core. Most notable are the NSA domestic surveillance
programs, initiated in the wake of 9/11, typically referred to in press reports
as “warrantless wiretapping.” In March, a front-page article in the Wall Street
Journal shed further light onto the extraordinarily invasive scope of the NSA
efforts: According to the Journal, the government can now electronically
monitor “huge volumes of records of domestic e-mails and Internet searches, as
well as bank transfers, credit card transactions, travel, and telephone
records.” Authorities employ “sophisticated software programs” to sift through
the data, searching for “suspicious patterns.” In effect, the program is a mass
catalog of the private lives of Americans. And it’s notable that the article
hints at the possibility of programs like Main Core. “The [NSA] effort also
ties into data from an ad-hoc collection of so-called black programs whose
existence is undisclosed,” the Journal reported, quoting unnamed officials.
“Many of the programs in various agencies began years before the 9/11 attacks
but have since been given greater reach.”
The following information seems to be fair game for
collection without a warrant: the e-mail addresses you send to and receive
from, and the subject lines of those messages; the phone numbers you dial, the
numbers that dial in to your line, and the durations of the calls; the Internet
sites you visit and the keywords in your Web searches; the destinations of the
airline tickets you buy; the amounts and locations of your ATM withdrawals; and
the goods and services you purchase on credit cards. All of this information is
archived on government supercomputers and, according to sources, also fed into
the Main Core database.
This stuff is absolutely chilling.
And there have been hints that such a list still exists
today.
For example, the testimony of an anonymous government
insider that was recently posted on shtfplan.com alluded to such a list…
“We know all this already,” I stated. He looked at me,
giving me a look like I’ve never seen, and actually pushed his finger into my
chest. “You don’t know jack,” he said, “this is bigger than you can imagine,
bigger than anyone can imagine. This administration is collecting names of
sources, whistle blowers and their families, names of media sources and
everybody they talk to and have talked to, and they already have a huge list.
If you’re not working for MSNBC or CNN, you’re probably on that list. If you
are a website owner with a brisk readership and a conservative bent, you’re on
that list. It’s a political dissident list, not an enemy threat list,” he
stated.
What in the world is happening to America?
What in the world are we turning into?
As I mentioned in a previous article, the NSA gathers 2.1
million gigabytes of data on all of us every single hour. The NSA is currently constructing a 2 billion
dollar data center out in Utah to store all of this data.
{If I wasn't on the list already, re-publishing this article probably put me on it.}
If you are disturbed by all of this, now is the time to
stand up and say something. If this
crisis blows over and people forget about all of this stuff again, the Big
Brother surveillance grid that is being constructed all around us will just
continue to grow and continue to become even more oppressive.
America is dying right in front of your eyes and time is
running out. Please stand up and be
counted while you still can…
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