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The American Surveillance State Is Here. Can It Be Evaded?
The Rutherford Institute ^
| July 29, 2013
| John W. Whitehead
Posted on 07/29/2013 2:09:43 PM PDT by xzins
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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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posted on
07/29/2013 2:09:43 PM PDT
by
xzins
To: xzins
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posted on
07/29/2013 2:13:07 PM PDT
by
umgud
(2A can't survive dem majorities)
To: xzins
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posted on
07/29/2013 2:14:48 PM PDT
by
null and void
(You don't know what "cutting edge" means till you insult Mohammed.)
To: xzins
It is well past time to start picking off the listeners from ambush.
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posted on
07/29/2013 2:17:38 PM PDT
by
JimRed
(Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
To: umgud
To: xzins
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.
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posted on
07/29/2013 2:21:30 PM PDT
by
Carry_Okie
(Islam offers choices: convert, submit, or die.)
To: xzins
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.
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posted on
07/29/2013 2:22:36 PM PDT
by
American in Israel
(A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
To: xzins
Understand they are working on recording how many times you flush your toilet so they tax it.
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To: umgud
Wear very large sunglasses.
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posted on
07/29/2013 2:24:31 PM PDT
by
PGR88
To: 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.
To: xzins
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.
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posted on
07/29/2013 2:26:59 PM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
To: xzins
Soon enough, trying to evade them will be considered "suspicious behavior".
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posted on
07/29/2013 2:28:26 PM PDT
by
BitWielder1
(Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
To: Carry_Okie
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.
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posted on
07/29/2013 2:30:21 PM PDT
by
xzins
(Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for their victory!)
To: Logical me
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!
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posted on
07/29/2013 2:32:33 PM PDT
by
null and void
(You don't know what "cutting edge" means till you insult Mohammed.)
To: xzins
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posted on
07/29/2013 2:33:11 PM PDT
by
Inyo-Mono
(NRA)
To: American in Israel
:>)
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.
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posted on
07/29/2013 2:33:32 PM PDT
by
xzins
(Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for their victory!)
To: xzins
Can It Be Evaded? Wear a hoodie everywhere.
-PJ
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posted on
07/29/2013 2:34:16 PM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
To: xzins
"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."
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posted on
07/29/2013 2:37:01 PM PDT
by
Albion Wilde
("Remember... the first revolutionary was Satan."--Russian Orthodox Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov)
To: xzins
God,this is frightening.
I remember when we worried that the other parties on our telephone line were listening.
.
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posted on
07/29/2013 2:39:45 PM PDT
by
Mears
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