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🃏 THE SOFT FORK | The Architecture of Pre-Terrorism

From predictive policing to child recruitment, digital debt coins, and the intimidation of judges — four fronts, one design.

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TJ Baden
Oct 07, 2025
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An editorial-style infographic summarizing the four-part Substack investigation, blending document textures, diagrams, and vintage type.

The Soft Fork — where policy, power, and propaganda merge into one thread.


The new authoritarianism doesn’t need tanks. It just needs data.

🟢They call it prevention.
I call it pre-terrorism.

When the state starts mapping possibility instead of proof, every citizen becomes a data point, every disagreement a “signal.”
The memo—NSPM-7—reads like a policy draft for Minority Report: a federal directive ordering agencies to detect “organized political violence” before it happens and to coordinate early interventions against anyone meeting a new “pre-terrorism bar.”

That bar isn’t action; it’s association, speech, or transaction.
It’s your bank transfer, your group chat, your donation.
Tax law becomes counter-terrorism.

At the same time, the pipeline expands downward: children courted by recruiters, biometric IDs tied to financial systems, digital coins wrapped in the language of freedom.
And when judges push back? Their homes burn.

This is how a democracy trains for permanent emergency.
Not through ideology—but through systems that learn faster than the people trapped inside them.

A sepia-toned image showing a declassified government memorandum overlaid with the shadow of the U.S. Capitol rotunda, symbolizing surveillance and control of dissent.
Declassified directive meets the dome’s shadow — dissent redefined as data.

🧩 Full analysis continues below the paywall — four fronts, one pattern.

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