Peter Thiel wrote "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible" in 2009. Then he built Palantir with CIA money. In-Q-Tel, the CIA's venture capital arm, was the company's first outside investor. For two years, it was the only one.Snowden documents revealed Palantir built XKEYSCORE Helper, a tool that imported data directly from the NSA's global surveillance pipeline. By 2010, three members of the Five Eyes alliance were using Palantir to process surveillance data from across the planet.The domestic track record speaks for itself. In 2019, ICE used Palantir to execute the largest workplace raid in recent history. 680 workers arrested across Mississippi chicken plants on the first day of school. Children came home to empty houses. Edgar Lopez spent 11 months detained, was deported, and died trying to return to his family.LAPD's Operation LASER used Palantir to assign risk scores. A 2019 audit found one-fifth of "chronic offenders" had zero prior arrests. In six months, LAPD killed six men in LASER zones. New Orleans ran Palantir's predictive policing secretly for six years without city council approval.The money keeps flowing. Palantir's federal contracts grew from $4 million in 2009 to nearly $1 billion in 2025. The Army consolidated 75 contracts into a single $10 billion deal. A former ICE official warned that federal IT infrastructure now requires Palantir to function. They're locked in.This isn't partisan. Palantir worked across #Obama, #Trump, #Biden, and Trump again. The surveillance state transcends elections. Your rights are inherent. No government grants them. But governments can violate them, and this one is. Nobody is coming to save you.
