The American Surveillance State Is Here. Can It Be Evaded?

The Rutherford Institute ^ | July 29, 2013 | John W. Whitehead

[xzins]

In the face of such powerful lobbyists working in tandem with our so-called representatives, any hope of holding onto even a shred of privacy is rapidly dwindling. Indeed, the life of the average American is an open book for government agents. As Senator Ron Wyden, a longtime critic of the American surveillance state, points out, government agencies operate based upon a secret interpretation of the Patriot Act which allows them to extract massive amounts of data from third party agencies, enabling them to collect information on “bulk medical, financial, credit card and gun-ownership records or lists of ‘readers of books and magazines deemed subversive.’”

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[null and void]

NSA = Neo Stasi Agency

[JimRed]

It is well past time to start picking off the listeners from ambush.

[Buckeye McFrog]

If you exclusively use the email ID imamalimosque@gmail.com they’ll leave you alone.

[Carry_Okie]

No. It needs to be dismantled.

The Constitution left law enforcement up to the people. Policing in the early United States was restrained to elected sheriffs.

[American in Israel]

They can survey and watch, record and monitor my life infinitely, it is my secret plan. Gonna kill them with boredom. “look he’s taking out the trash”, now “he’s mowing the lawn”, “off to work”...

NSA needs to get a life, at least, one of their own.

[Logical me]

Understand they are working on recording how many times you flush your toilet so they tax it.

[PGR88]

Wear very large sunglasses.

[Logical me]

Understand they are working on recording how many times you flush your toilet so they tax it.

Forgot to mention they will call it crapper tax.

[knarf]

We don't evade ...we destroy.

Evasion is just another war on poverty ... it never goes away, it costs a lot of money, a few lives and the wrongest politicians for America get elected/re-elected.

SOMEwhere along the line folks we just gott'a say .. NO.

[BitWielder1]

Soon enough, trying to evade them will be considered "suspicious behavior".

[xzins]

Sheriffs only is a good idea.

It might be too late, though.

Internationally, the military should handle our enemies, and for those who injure us we should have a policy of massive retaliation/destruction.

Knock down the WTC, and we fire bomb one of your leading cities with no effort to build a democracy, to rebuild your country, or even to occupy you. The glorious leader’s residence becomes a holocaust and lights up the night.

[null and void]

They do tax it. It’s called your “water bill”.

And if I had a toilet that actually flushed on the first attempt I wouldn’t have to flush a dozen times a day.

Thank you algore!

[Inyo-Mono]

Bttt.

[xzins]

:>)

The really sad thing, AII, is that there are those who want to tell you HOW to take out the trash, and who consider it important that they monitor your methods so they can force you to do it their way.

If you don’t sort your plastics by color, then the police are involved.

[Political Junkie Too]

Can It Be Evaded?

Wear a hoodie everywhere.

-PJ

[Albion Wilde]

"Erected in secret, without any public input, these surveillance programs amount to an electronic concentration camp which houses every single person in the United States today."

[Mears]

God,this is frightening.

I remember when we worried that the other parties on our telephone line were listening.

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