Trump Is Putting Americans Into Digital Prison
Paul Craig Roberts

The Trump regime has shown that its true agenda is to dump Americans into captivity. Trump and his Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, a George Soros lackey, are using undocumented aliens as an excuse to force American citizens into total digital surveillance.

The Burning Platform explains:

“In a move that exposes the true agenda behind the “America First” rhetoric, the Trump administration is barreling forward with an executive order that will force every American to hand over their biometric facial data or be locked out of the banking system entirely. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, a longtime Soros protégé who helped wreck the British economy in the 1992 Black Wednesday raid [by Soros on the British currency], has confirmed the policy is “in process.” Banks will be required to verify every customer’s citizenship using a U.S. passport containing embedded RFID chips and government-ready facial recognition biometrics. No passport? No bank account. Period. Real ID, driver’s licenses, and every other common document will not suffice. This is not border security. This is the final knot in the digital noose.

“The order’s language is chillingly straightforward: banks must fully “know your customer,” including  immigration status. Undocumented immigrants “don’t have a right to be in the banking system,” Bessent declared. But the real target is every American citizen. Millions without passports will now be compelled to get one with high-resolution facial scans formatted for seamless integration into centralized government databases. Once your face is digitized and permanently linked to your money, the infrastructure for a cashless surveillance state is complete. Track, freeze, or deny funds at will based on compliance, social scores, political dissent, or future “misinformation” flags. This is how they build the cage: one “security” measure at a time.” See this. 

Notice that Trump’s unconstitutional executive order pretends the order is against “undocumented immigrants” who Bessent says “don’t have a right to be in the banking system.” What a blatant lie! Undocumented immigrants have the right to work and they are paid via checks drawn on bank accounts. The federal government issues them ID cards and states issue them driving licenses. They receive housing, medical, food, and educational benefits. In some Democrat states and cities they vote in US elections and serve in state and local governments. California passed a law, or tried to, to allow immigrant-invaders to serve as police officers. Immigrant-invaders have been extended the Constitutional rights that the US Constitution gives to US citizens. So what does Bessent mean that undocumented aliens cannot have a bank account?

Is this the best disguise the Trump regime can give to tyranny?

The infrastructure of tyranny “is being built right now, under the cover of “securing the border” and “know your customer.”

Trump is adding to the construction of tyranny by urging Congress to approve a FISA domestic spying program. Trump says he is willing to give up his Constitutionally protected civil liberties for national security and the military’s needs.

Be sure you understand what is occurring. The federal government let in millions of undocumented immigrant-invaders including criminals and possibly terrorists.  To protect against this threat, the federal government wants to take away the Constitutionally protected civil liberties of US citizens.  Trump’s plan leaves Americans completely unprotected against government just as the American colonists were unprotected against the British government except by force of arms..

Congress will vote for “national security” and “for the military.” Voting against the military/security complex is as dangerous as voting against Israel. See this.

The US Constitution has been destroyed piece by piece for a long time.  Today hardly a remnant remains.  President Lincoln destroyed states rights during 1861-1865, thereby wiping out limits on federal power.  1913, the eve of the First World War, brought the termination of the Constitutional prohibition of an income tax, and it established centralized control over the banking system, to which Americans had long been opposed.  President George W. Bush set aside, unchallenged, habeas corpus and asserted presidential power to hold citizens indefinitely on suspision alone without evidence presented to a court.  Obama asserted the right of the president to execute American citizens on suspicion alone without due process of law.  The Biden regime used the power it claimed to imprison citizens on the basis of false allegations.  And now Trump, himself a victim of weaponized law completes the federal government’s construction of Tyranny for the American People.

The American people, as insouciant as they have proved to be time and time again, have little comprehension that America’s time as a free society has come to its end. This coming July 4 will the last time Americans hear about America’s unsurpassed freedom and the men who gave their lives for us to have it. No such freedom will any longer exist.

The agendas of organized interests have overridden the agendas of the American people–family, morality, good will toward others.  America wastes its resources and lives fighting wars for Israel’s agenda of Greater Israel and for the profits of the military-security complex.

The American liberals and the Zionists have achieved their goal. Today Americans are so disunited that it is impossible for a leader to arise.  Trump has proven himself to be a tool of the Zionist agenda and of the authoritarian state. When the Democrats return to office, they will be focused on imprisoning Trump and his supporters, not on restoring the American Republic created by the Founding Fathers.

America’s 15 minutes in the sun are over.

Hon. Paul Craig Roberts is the John M. Olin Fellow at the Institute for Political Economy, Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and Research Fellow at the Independent Institute. A former editor and columnist for The Wall Street Journal and columnist for Business Week and the Scripps Howard News Service, he is a nationally syndicated columnist for Creators Syndicate in Los Angeles and a columnist for Investor's Business Daily. In 1992 he received the Warren Brookes Award for Excellence in Journalism. In 1993 the Forbes Media Guide ranked him as one of the top seven journalists.

He was Distinguished Fellow at the Cato Institute from 1993 to 1996. From 1982 through 1993, he held the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. During 1981-82 he served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy. President Reagan and Treasury Secretary Regan credited him with a major role in the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981, and he was awarded the Treasury Department's Meritorious Service Award for "his outstanding contributions to the formulation of United States economic policy." From 1975 to 1978, Dr. Roberts served on the congressional staff where he drafted the Kemp-Roth bill and played a leading role in developing bipartisan support for a supply-side economic policy.

In 1987 the French government recognized him as "the artisan of a renewal in economic science and policy after half a century of state interventionism" and inducted him into the Legion of Honor.

Dr. Roberts' latest books are The Tyranny of Good Intentions, co-authored with IPE Fellow Lawrence Stratton, and published by Prima Publishing in May 2000, and Chile: Two Visions - The Allende-Pinochet Era, co-authored with IPE Fellow Karen Araujo, and published in Spanish by Universidad Nacional Andres Bello in Santiago, Chile, in November 2000. The Capitalist Revolution in Latin America, co-authored with IPE Fellow Karen LaFollette Araujo, was published by Oxford University Press in 1997. A Spanish language edition was published by Oxford in 1999. The New Colorline: How Quotas and Privilege Destroy Democracy, co-authored with Lawrence Stratton, was published by Regnery in 1995. A paperback edition was published in 1997. Meltdown: Inside the Soviet Economy, co-authored with Karen LaFollette, was published by the Cato Institute in 1990. Harvard University Press published his book, The Supply-Side Revolution, in 1984. Widely reviewed and favorably received, the book was praised by Forbes as "a timely masterpiece that will have real impact on economic thinking in the years ahead." Dr. Roberts is the author of Alienation and the Soviet Economy, published in 1971 and republished in 1990. He is the author of Marx's Theory of Exchange, Alienation and Crisis, published in 1973 and republished in 1983. A Spanish language edition was published in 1974.

Dr. Roberts has held numerous academic appointments. He has contributed chapters to numerous books and has published many articles in journals of scholarship, including the Journal of Political Economy, Oxford Economic Papers, Journal of Law and Economics, Studies in Banking and Finance, Journal of Monetary Economics, Public Finance Quarterly, Public Choice, Classica et Mediaevalia, Ethics, Slavic Review, Soviet Studies, Rivista de Political Economica, and Zeitschrift fur Wirtschafspolitik. He has entries in the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Economics and the New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and Finance. He has contributed to Commentary, The Public Interest, The National Interest, Harper's, the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Fortune, London Times, The Financial Times, TLS, The Spectator, Il Sole 24 Ore, Le Figaro, Liberation, and the Nihon Keizai Shimbun. He has testified before committees of Congress on 30 occasions.

Dr. Roberts was educated at the Georgia Institute of Technology (B.S.), the University of Virginia (Ph.D.), the University of California at Berkeley and Oxford University where he was a member of Merton College.

He is listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World, The Dictionary of International Biography, Outstanding People of the Twentieth Century, and 1000 Leaders of World Influence. His latest book, HOW THE ECONOMY WAS LOST, has just been published by CounterPunch/AK Press. He can be reached at: PaulCraigRoberts@yahoo.com

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