Daily Take: From Surveillance State to Kill Machine: Has the Line Already Been Crossed?
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 24 April 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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What began with data collection is rapidly evolving into something far more dangerous: systems that can decide and act to kill people here in America…
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| 1:04.6 | From surveillance state to kill machine, has the line already been crossed? |
| 1:09.6 | Everything a drone could chase you down the street or fire a bullet through your living room window because you pissed off Trump Miller or their ice thugs? If the answer is that's science fiction, please read on. That |
| 1:16.6 | reality may be only a few months away and every single part of the spying and death-dealing |
| 1:21.6 | infrastructure needed to make it happen has been quietly assembled by the Trump regime over the last |
| 1:26.6 | 14 months. |
| 1:28.2 | This Tuesday, while America was obsessively watching the latest bizarre twists in Trump's Iran debacle, |
| 1:34.6 | Whiskey Pete's Pentagon rolled out a $1.5 trillion budget request that contained a line item |
| 1:40.1 | almost nobody's talking about, a 2,400 percent increase from $225 million last year to $54.6 billion this year for an outfit called the Defense Autonomous Warfare Group. |
| 1:53.2 | That's the largest year-over-year jump for any program in the entire defense budget, and it's earmarked to build out AI-driven autonomous human killing systems |
| 2:01.9 | inside the Special Operations Command, headquartered at McDill Air Force Base, Florida. |
| 2:08.7 | Quote, USSO-COM provides elite combat-ready forces. |
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