[mgibbons19]

"They" can't track all of "us."

There would simply be too much information to be sifted through. If you think of all the info about you on the net, all your searches, all your credit card transactions, all your cell phone info, there is simply too much information.

What they can do is dig it all up if for some reason they get interested in you. It is creepy that after the fact, folks can dig up the last three days worth of a criminal's activity on video and surveillance cams, and reconstruct their whole life for some time back.

I've heard rumors of near the end of the Soviet Union, storage areas full of tapes and other data that had been collected but which had never gone through. "They" simply didn't have the ability to watch all of "us" then, and They don't now.

There is a critical mass problem here, and computers and modern data storage don't fix that problem. If anything, they increase the amount of data on each and every person exponentially, making the amount of material of interest that much harder to sift through.

Or get off the computer, go cash, and ditch the phone. But I wouldn't guess you'ld be that much more invisible.

[EROEI]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TommyJefferson', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('lawnchair', 'I') listened to shortwave radio and wrote QSL requests to Radio Havana, Radio Moscow, Voice of Korea, etc. A letter of "I am an 8 year old American interested in your system of government" got great swag back. I still have my Fidel Castro baseball trading cards.

[Kingcoal]

The constitution says: "The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States."

Defence is the key word here. What is defence? Is spying on one's citizens, "defence?" What is going on today is a shadow civil war, where one set of citizens, identified as conservative, are making war against another set of citizens. The idea is to force everyone into the conservative camp. Don't want to get pulled over? Make yourself over into looking like a yupie, tell people you really do like to watch O'Reiley, marry a nice, blond, blue eyed girl and send your kids to private school. The republicans have hijacked this country and they aren't going to give it up without a fight. They don't care if they have to arrest, intimidate or marginalize your grandmother, they have the power, we gave it to them, and they want to keep it forever.

[TommyJefferson]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EROEI', 'H')ow'd you get your name on the TERRA watch list?