Chapter 4

How You Are Watched

THE INVENTION OF EMAIL IS NO coincidence, nor is the new popularity of text messaging and social media. Their widespread use is the result of a complex operation authorized by the Illuminati to aid in the surveillance of the citizens we govern. In a private society that lacks technology, communications between potentially dangerous subjects are difficult to monitor. If a pen writes on a piece of paper and the resulting letter is not physically intercepted, a full transmission of information is completed without any indication of its contents. Plans between anarchists and genocidal murderers cannot be prevented if our associates are not alerted to their creation, leaving citizens open to harm from those who seek depopulation of the planet for their own gain.

In modern times, the leader of a large country strayed from our directives, succumbing to his addiction to power.

By siphoning away the resources intended for his people, he was able to stockpile a vast network of wealth. This money was used to finance the construction of biological weapons and the development of a plan to overtake a highly populated country, whose power had made it impenetrable for centuries.

To overtake such an established world power, he schemed a genocide.

He planned to propel a rocket into the outer atmosphere of this planet and allow it to fall over the targeted country. airspace whe[illegible] be detected, the rocket would dismantle itself and release a net of large balloons that expanded to reach over a radius of miles. The balloons would contain a viral poison, and when shot down by the defensive agencies of the target, the chemicals would rain upon the people who lived below.

The disease was developed to lose its potency within weeks but had no cure and would spread quickly between hosts. With his naval ships hovering on the coasts to prevent anyone from escaping, every resident of the country would succumb to the effects of the disease and die. Within days, the entire population would be exterminated, leaving a land of bodies to decompose in the sun, and later only dust for his armies to trample upon. But like all plans by misguided sociopaths, his held a fatally overlooked flaw. While devising his strategy, he communicated via an email system created specifically for messages of high security — forgetting that all electronic messages are actively monitored by our departments. While the conversations he had with his generals in private went unnoticed, his electronic communications could be intercepted due to the fact that they were typed into a computer.

While monitoring private messages may seem invasive, it is for the safety of all humans. Because of the systems we have established, this plan for destruction never reached fruition, and justice was served for his insubordination.

IF THERE IS NO GUILT, THERE IS NO REASON TO HIDE.

The department responsible for monitoring worldwide communications has no need for the private details of the daily lives of our citizens. Our systems remain in place only for your security. There is no risk of any data becoming public knowledge without our authorization. Humans lie to themselves with a belief in secrecy and security. Corporations devise large-scale methods of anonymity through the use of codes and passwords and aliases, believing that their information is safe from outside eyes — forgetting that the very computers they use were manufactured to broadcast directly to our agencies.

THERE ARE NO SECRETS.

Every computer, phone, or communication tool is a device used to gather information about you. Electronics were proliferated for this very purpose. Billions of terabytes of data are transmitted, reviewed, and stored in secure locations that cannot be destroyed by any threat other than a complete obliteration of this planet.

To truly understand the magnitude of this operation, you must dispel what you have been told and taught throughout your entire life — misdirections we have placed for the security of this initiative. Our surveillance cannot be detected nor deactivated because it exists in the core of every electronic device.

The personal computer's purpose is to gather data on individuals and create profiles of their movements, loyalties, and the level of risk they are to the human species. To ensure the independence of every citizen, we cannot intercept all crimes — unless such actions could affect the human species as a whole.

Our department retains a dossier of every human on earth: every website they have visited, every document they have typed, every image they have scanned, every video they have recorded or broadcast.

WE KNOW AND SEE ALL JUST AS A SHEPHERD KNOWS AND SEES ALL OF HIS FLOCK.

The Illuminati supports various digital initiatives to ensure your safety from global threats. We have propagated safeguards throughout a minimum of 98% of all communication devices currently in operation. The success of our surveillance is the result of public relations campaigns working to increase societal reliance upon technology.

In 1999, our Illuminios conference encouraged societal influencers to increase the public’s usage of text messaging, as these are easier to surveil than audio phone calls that must be transcribed.

In 2004, our organization funded the development of an Internet membership website to aid in the collection of data on citizens of interest. Our influencers were encouraged to use the website and invite those who follow their lead to do the same. Our partners created a “tagging” [illegible] features of a person in a photograph or video, no matter which angle they might appear, and launched a campaign to promote its usage.

In this way, our operatives are able to gather a vast amount of information previously unavailable from private citizens. Every photograph and video that is stored on the Internet is immediately tagged by our systems with the identities of every person in the image, regardless of if they are the subject or merely a person in the crowded background. This allows us to track the movements of every single person in a technologically advanced society, even if they themselves do not carry any traceable devices.

A FALSE SENSE OF SECURITY REVEALS THE DEEPEST SECRETS

Much of our surveillance techniques involve creating systems that claim to be anonymous, therefore attracting those who have things to hide. Online anonymity networks have seen increased usage amongst those who require the utmost privacy. Its users openly reveal their deepest secrets behind onion layers of protection, not realizing that the network they rely upon is of our invention and specifically created to trace their movements.

The technology in use by private citizens is already 20 years behind that of the United States military, and theirs is 50 years behind what has already been developed in our laboratories. With unlimited resources at our disposal, our organization can invest billions into the research and creation of any technology. The focus of our future objectives has turned to increasing the popularity of cloud storage services and computing.

By encouraging citizens to store files in a remote location that is secure and easy to access, their private documents and information are volunteered eagerly for our surveillance.

Even the mightiest kings will fall because of secrets. We know of everything. We know of the message a politician sent that may seem to be long gone history but would lead him to suicide if his spouse was to see it. We know of the worst mistakes and the worst sins ever committed by everyone in power.

THE ILLUMINATI IS FORGIVING BUT THE PEOPLE ARE NOT.

When our ranking members stray from our directives and require judgment, their punishment is shame. It is for this reason you often read of celebrities and public figures who suddenly face scandals but remain silent amidst the backlash. As thei[illegible] crumble, they know there is nothing they can do — they knew our judgment was approaching weeks before it appeared.

The sanctity of our authority must be upheld amongst every human, even those who believe they are powerful enough to disobey. The Illuminati’s purpose is the preservation of the human species and thus we avoid causing death to even our worst perpetrators.

Leaders of the world fear little but death and losing their power. Public shame is a warning shot: one that is rarely ignored. The [illegible] who receive judgment with humility are often restored to their previous glory at the end of their sentence.

Every person is human and every human makes mistakes, but buried in those mistakes are scandals of abject ruin. You will deny that you have secrets when in reality you know exactly the secrets we are referring to.

Your loyalty is your armor and protection. There is no reason to fear any public dissemination of your secrets. It is highly unlikely that any human has even observed your dossier in our database, as they are sorted and filtered by an electronic algorithm to identify risks. Find security in knowing that while your secrets are safe, the secrets of all who strive to destroy your species are also in our hands, and can and will be used against them.