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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.’”
1 posted on 07/29/2013 2:09:43 PM PDT by xzins
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2 posted on 07/29/2013 2:13:07 PM PDT by umgud (2A can't survive dem majorities)
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NSA = Neo Stasi Agency


3 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.)
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It is well past time to start picking off the listeners from ambush.


4 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!)
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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.

6 posted on 07/29/2013 2:21:30 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (Islam offers choices: convert, submit, or die.)
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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.


7 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.)
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Understand they are working on recording how many times you flush your toilet so they tax it.


8 posted on 07/29/2013 2:23:32 PM PDT by Logical me
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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.

12 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)
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Soon enough, trying to evade them will be considered "suspicious behavior".

13 posted on 07/29/2013 2:28:26 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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Bttt.


16 posted on 07/29/2013 2:33:11 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (NRA)
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Can It Be Evaded?

Wear a hoodie everywhere.

-PJ

18 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.)
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"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."
19 posted on 07/29/2013 2:37:01 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Remember... the first revolutionary was Satan."--Russian Orthodox Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov)
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God,this is frightening.

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

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20 posted on 07/29/2013 2:39:45 PM PDT by Mears
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Can the genie be put back in the bottle?

Could Pandora close the box fast enough?

24 posted on 07/29/2013 2:45:00 PM PDT by fone (never give up, never give in)
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These communications are being stored in the NSA’s Utah Data Center

So, why are the msm including new the massive NSA Data Center in San Antonio, TX?

28 posted on 07/29/2013 3:18:17 PM PDT by bgill (This reply was mined before it was posted.)
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FYI, my fight:

1. I don’t have a cell phone. If I did, the battery would be removed unless I was using it. I would recharge it overnight off the cigarette lighter in my truck - foils the bad guys using it as a microphone or using the camera. Did you know there’s a smaller battery inside your cell phone that powers the GPS when the phone is off or the battery removed? This battery can’t be turned off. In my cell phone it would be disconnected.

2. I’ve quit using Google almost completely. I use Startpage or Ixquick. Google results without all the tracking. DuckDuckGo also offers trackless searching.

3. The PrivacyBlock Tracker Block add-on is in my browser.

4. Ghostery software reports on and blocks the trackers used by web sites. For instance, FR uses just one tracker, Google Analytics. I’ve been on sites that have 20 or more trackers.

5. I have several throw-away gmail email addresses. These are used anytime I don’t want to use my personal email address.

6. I’ve quit using my credit/debit card. I withdraw cash from the ATM and pay for stuff with cash. Granted, you can’t buy from Amazon with cash. For that I use the card. But I don’t use the card anymore than absolutely necessary.

7. Most important: I do not participate in any social media whatsoever. This frustrates friends who want me to friend them. Tough, it’s MY privacy.

I realize that even with all these precautions I’m still tracked. But I’m doing what I can to be invisible. I won’t make it easy for the bastards.

I’m in complete agreement with Sen Wyden’s sentiment in the last paragraph and will do what ever I can to shut down this tracking invasion.


30 posted on 07/29/2013 3:45:54 PM PDT by upchuck (To the faceless, jack-booted government bureaucrat who just scanned this post: SCREW YOU!)
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and when it views the citizenry as a source of funding and little else, we have no choice but to speak to the government in a language it understands—money.

This is actually mostly wrong. Yes, the feral government (at all levels) is interested in extracting the maximum amount of money that it can from you, but it's not something they actually respond to. The only thing that actually has any effect on government at all is violence. The poverty pimps have figured this out, but thankfully, at the moment the violence they can direct is not very well targeted. As a matter of fact, most of the time the poverty pimps are able to manufacture some violence, it mostly happends within the plantation property itself, and doesn't really spill over much into more civilized areas. So, as a method of shaking down the slave masters a bit for the benefits of the pimps themselves, it works OK as a bludgeon and keeps the swiss bank accounts of those directing one or two rings of the circus like sharpton, jackson, and their ilk, it has apparently been recognised by those orchestrating the 'spontaneous' violence that their primary tactic has perhaps reached the point of diminishing returns.

You can see the change in this latest exercise in Florida. If you listen closely to the press that is acting as the pimp's mouthpieces that there is a not so subtle change in the direction they are pushing their brainwashed masses. It's obvious if you are paying attention that they do not want them to just riot in place. They are trying to push them out into the 'burb's more civilized environments. If nothing else, they want to make whitey, and by extension, anyone that is not a part of their jungle-like enclaves uncomfortable enough to shake loose some real money, and also to generally turn the heat up a little in society in general.

You'll notice that one of the side-effects of their racheting things up has been a merked increase of folks who are armed pretty much full time.  This is why they are so desperate to bring their 'duty to retreat' mindset into areas where it is a foreign concept.  You see, they don't want to you know that you can exert a rather disproportionate effect on a mob  with a relatively small application of couter-force.

Sorry folks, I've gone a bit afield of there I originally intended to go. To be more on-topic to the article, we need to start working on ways to seriously do some damage to their data-collection efforts. I'm thinking it is way past time we started introducing some serious  pressure against the police state's hardware. There is a lot of it out there folks, and there are many targets of opportunity. It would have been better to have started seriously taking the devices out when they were first deploying them,  but it's better late than never.. I remember distinctly being called a tin-foiler here on FR when I started making note of the cameras going up.  I think a lot less folks are snickering about it now. 

Personally, I think we've gotten to the point now, that anyone making comments about tin-foil needs to be  laughed at and ridiculed.  Seriously folks. I mean, if they are so disconnected and uninformed, isn't laughter appropriate?

31 posted on 07/29/2013 8:26:46 PM PDT by zeugma (Be a truechimer, not a falseticker!)
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