{"id":32194,"date":"2025-08-20T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T17:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/?p=32194"},"modified":"2025-10-12T17:28:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T00:28:23","slug":"ep-833-james-f-ponder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/2025\/08\/20\/ep-833-james-f-ponder\/","title":{"rendered":"Ep. #833: James F. Ponder \u2013 Police State, Mass Surveillance and Pre-Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As federal authorities tighten their grip on policing in the nation&#8217;s capital and roll out advanced technologies to track citizens, some fear we&#8217;re witnessing the rise of authoritarian control. Jeremy welcomes James F. Ponder to discuss how law enforcement&#8217;s move toward pre-crime assessments could turn ordinary people into perpetual \u201csuspects\u201d and what that means for our privacy and freedom.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>News Links<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/threats\/2025\/08\/how-trumps-dc-takeover-could-supercharge-surveillance\/407376\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How Trump\u2019s DC takeover could supercharge surveillance<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/letting-safety-override-freedom-makes-us-all-pre-criminals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Letting safety override freedom makes us all &#8216;pre-criminals&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/blogs\/webb\/2025\/08\/19\/new-moon-discovered-orbiting-uranus-using-nasas-webb-telescope\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Moon Discovered Orbiting Uranus Using NASA\u2019s Webb Telescope<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/avi-loeb.medium.com\/does-3i-atlas-generate-its-own-light-e9775594afc5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Does 3I\/ATLAS Generate Its Own Light?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As federal authorities tighten their grip on policing in the nation&#8217;s capital and roll out advanced technologies to track citizens, some fear we&#8217;re witnessing the rise of authoritarian control. Jeremy welcomes James F. Ponder to discuss how law enforcement&#8217;s move toward pre-crime assessments could turn ordinary people into perpetual \u201csuspects\u201d and what that means for our privacy and freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2028,1077,2027,1138,786,2024,2025,2026,647],"class_list":["post-32194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shows","tag-authoritarian","tag-crime","tag-freedom","tag-james-f-ponder","tag-law-enforcement","tag-mass-surveillance","tag-pre-crime","tag-privacy","tag-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/833-james-f-ponder.png?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32194"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32995,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32194\/revisions\/32995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}