President Trump’s newly declared “crime emergency” in Washington, D.C., sets the stage for unprecedented integration between the military and federal law enforcement—complete with advanced surveillance systems once reserved for overseas battlefields. This move expands cooperation between the D.C. National Guard, federal agencies like the FBI and ICE, and a newly federalized D.C. police force, enabling the use of aerial spy platforms, cell-site simulators, AI-powered analytics, and facial recognition. With emergency powers in place, local oversight may be bypassed entirely, giving federal forces the freedom to deploy technologies that can identify, track, and map entire networks of people with little transparency or accountability.

Many of these tools—such as Stingrays, “dirtboxes,” and AI-driven social media monitoring—have a controversial history, having previously been flagged for privacy violations and warrantless data collection. The White House’s recent acceleration of AI deployment, coupled with loosened interagency data-sharing restrictions, further raises the stakes. As China and Russia demonstrate, such systems can evolve into continuous, nationwide monitoring infrastructures, eroding the line between security and authoritarian control.

These developments echo the Bible’s warnings about an end-times system of total surveillance and control. Every new advance in AI-driven surveillance, centralized data collection, and real-time tracking moves us closer to the kind of global infrastructure that could be co-opted for that very purpose. This isn’t just a political shift—it’s another brick laid in the road toward the Beast System.

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SOURCE: Defense One