Big Brother Is Here: Submit To Scanning Of Social Media, Phone Contacts Or Leave (VIDEO)

We are just days into the Donald Trump presidency, and already George Orwell’s 1984 is starting to seem more and more true to life (plenty of Americans agree: 1984 is back on Amazon’s best seller list, despite being published in 1949). We may be taking another giant step towards that precipice, judging by some of the ideas that White House policy director Stephen Miller claims the Trump team is contemplating.

Miller has the unfortunate job of reassuring White House officials that they are moving in the right direction. On CNN’s State of the Union, host Jake Tapper discussed Miller’s statement on Trump’s recent executive order banning refugees from seven countries:

[Miller] told government officials yesterday that the American people are firmly behind this executive order and not to be distracted by the hysterical voices on television.”

The scary part is what comes after that comment. Tapper continues:

The sources also told me that Miller discussed a preliminary idea being kicked around in the US government right now, and that would be to ask foreign visitors to the US to provide the name of websites and social media sites that they visit, and to provide all the contacts on their cell phones. And if the foreign visitor refuses to turn that over, they would be denied entry. Again, this is a preliminary idea being discussed by the White House and the Trump administration.”

Tapper sounds completely shocked discussing this idea, and CNN Chief National Security Correspondent Jim Sciutto also seems baffled as to how it would even be implemented:

You can imagine showing up at an airport, having to give up your phone and just, even practically, how would you go through all the social media websites, etc… If you’re going to do it for absolutely everybody, without any sense of prioritizing, it’s unclear today that you have the people necessary to do that.”

I’m sure the White House will prioritize visitors from countries where Trump does not currently do business.

This turn of events should be incredibly worrisome for the safety and privacy of anyone in our country. There’s no telling where our notoriously thin-skinned Commander-in-Chief will turn his thought police next. Watch the full clip from State of the Union below:

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