Skill Level: 🔥 Intermediate
Tool Explanation
NSPM-7 is Trump’s latest national security directive that weaponizes law enforcement against beliefs, not crimes. It gives the FBI, DOJ, and even your local sheriff’s department a blank check to preemptively target dissenters who are “anti-American,” “anti-capitalist,” “anti-Christian,” or “hostile to traditional family values.” In other words: if you believe in equality, feminism, queer rights, or workers’ rights — welcome to the new “terror watchlist.”
This isn’t security policy. It’s repression with a memo header. Our survival tool today is exposure + resistance tactics: shining a light on NSPM-7 and preparing to outmaneuver its chilling effects.
Why It’s Important
History lesson: Authoritarian regimes don’t always start with jackboots on the street. They start by normalizing surveillance, making dissent “dangerous,” and labeling opposition as “terrorism.” Once that legal foundation is laid, arrests, blacklists, and censorship come next. NSPM-7 is the paperwork for dictatorship. If we let this slide quietly, we normalize a future where protest = prison.
Step-by-Step Instructions
- Read the Fine Print (and Share It)
- Ken Klippenstein’s breakdown explains NSPM-7 in plain English. Share it everywhere. Most people won’t even hear about this memo unless we make noise.
- Protect Your Digital Tail
- Move organizing chats to Signal or Matrix.
- Use ProtonMail instead of Gmail.
- Keep your VPN purring at all times.
- Remember: under NSPM-7, your posts can be “indicia.” Protect your trail.
- Get Loud, Not Quiet
- Authoritarianism thrives in silence. Write op-eds, post memes, raise hell.
- Call your representatives: demand oversight hearings on NSPM-7.
- Build Legal Shields
- Connect with ACLU, EFF, and local civil liberties orgs.
- Learn your protest rights: know what to say when cops push you.
- Pool funds for a legal defense kitty (pun intended).
- Stay Organized Locally
- Join or form resistance pods: small trusted groups who meet, plan, and mobilize.
- Train in nonviolent resistance. If they try to call you “terrorists,” show the world your peaceful strength.
Example of Importance
Imagine being at a protest with a sign that says “Capitalism is killing us.” Under NSPM-7, that belief alone could be flagged as “anti-capitalist indicia.” Suddenly, you’re under surveillance — not because you broke a law, but because you held a sign. This is why exposure and collective resistance are vital: it only works if we’re isolated and silent. Together, they can’t cage all the cats.
Kitty’s Rallying Call
NSPM-7 is the litter box Trump thinks he can bury democracy in. But guess what? Resistance Kitty digs it back up, claws sharp and tail high. Beliefs are not crimes. Protest is not terrorism. And we’re not letting some orange wannabe emperor rewrite the First Amendment.
Claws up, comrades. This is Survival Guide #121 — stay safe, stay loud, stay free.
Source List
- Ken Klippenstein — Trump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs as “Terrorism”: kenklippenstein.com
- American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU): aclu.org
- Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF): eff.org
- Freedom of the Press Foundation: freedom.press