"Liberty" was lost long before 9/11 or Bush. Wake up. every time you walk into a chain store your bank card, credit cards etc. can and are read. "they" can track everything you do if they want to now, and have been able to do so for decades now. Do you have a bank account? Do you use a debit card? By gas with it? pay for groceries with it? work? The only way you can avoid anyone from tracing where you have been, what your habits are is by using strictly cash. But you still have to cash your paycheck, pay taxes, contribute to your number. (s.s.)
“The only way you can avoid anyone from tracing where you have been, what your habits are is by using strictly cash. But you still have to cash your paycheck, pay taxes, contribute to your number. (s.s.)”
Hence my mention of living in a city with a primarily cash economy.
Note that I didn’t say it had to be in the US ...