American Firearms Association

 

I am a proud member of the American Firearms Association (AFA), a no-compromise on gun rights nonprofit lobbying group that works on federal legislative efforts.

 

This morning, 10/8/2025, on Facebook, they ran a quote which is profoundly insightful. It is short, it is theirs not mine, but I will write it out and then comment on it. Here it is:

AFA: “Our government is backward. We are private; they should know nothing about us.

 

They are public: We should know everything about them.”

 

My response: This is political wisdom of the highest order. Our government does have it backward: they are the servants of the people, but, its entrenched ruling elite, have forgotten who is the boss, the people. The ruling elite, of any country or any kind of institution anywhere, is endlessly, ceaselessly greedy for power, the bad kind of power. Governing elites are the worst. They want to know everything about us, and, in fact already come close to knowing everything about us. Tyrants of the totalitarian mindset always surveil and spy on the masses to learn all they can about their private lives. Glen Beck is very worried that England’s recent forcing every Brit to sign up  for a digital ID is so intrusive that privacy disappears for each citizen.

 

We see what Red China is already doing to facial recognition technology, with likely a digital ID and social credit systems to deny money and jobs to dissidents, heretics, and criminals. With a one-world Communist government (Red China intends to rule the world, and should be regarded as building up their military, so they can take over the world.) Imagine all money is electronic, and a one-world government with a digital idea required for every person on earth.

 

In office totalitarian elites with this type of intelligence-gathering technology, will unleash unheard of levels of cruelty and viciousness upon their civilian populations, as the agents of their national dictator, or in the case of the head of the CCP, should he become world emperor, his universal monarchy would wield human rights abuses in ways that would make Stalin, Hitler and Mao blush. We are serious trouble as Western governments go down the same terrible path, as has the CCP, which has smashed the illusion of citizen privacy.

 

They trample under the red line, indicating private citizen privacy, an intelligence-gathering intrusion into which, is constitutionally and legal disallowed still in America, except if the citizen is suspected of engaging in illegal or seditious activity, which much be actual, and a judge needs to sign off on a search warrant, based on probable cause.

 

I am not saying the government should know nothing about the private citizen, but mostly they should not. I am not saying we should know everything about what the government on all levels is doing (There are acceptable, protected state secrets kept by our government for reasons of national security and privacy rights of government employees which need to be protected, as long as they conduct themselves legally and honorably.), but we should know most of the those ruling us on all levels are up to.

 

Our governing ruling class, if left operate without being ever scrutinized, not monitored, and questioned openly and repeatedly by a class of super-involved, bright, and questioning American masses, comprised of individuating supercitizens, they will be up to no good often immediately right away, and inevitably so sooner or later. They want their corrupt, cruel, and often illegal acts done in secret, so the public cannot discover what they are up to, to stop them before it is too late.

 

I have long sensed I am under federal surveillance for my political and religious views, but I cannot prove it. I wonder how I can file a lawsuit under FOIA to see what they have on me in a federal file, and if they are conducting illegal surveillance upon me, a private citizen doing nothing illegal, and nothing dishonorable. I wonder if I could sue them for damages for intruding illegally into my private affairs without cause.

 

We should know almost everything about them, and they should know almost nothing about us, though the technology exists by which they can easily and readily know everything about us, while keeping us from knowing almost everything about them.

 

Kudos to AFA for getting it so right, once again.