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By Greg Kay
"Whenever the legislators attempt to take away the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they place themselves in a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience."
John Locke
Big Brother is here to protect you, and he will fight endless wars against anything that threatens. In the name of the “War on Drugs” and more recently, in the name of the “War on Terrorism," the Federal government has rammed through a continuous stream of legislation completely gutting the 4th Amendment. The FBI can now obtain search warrants without probable cause, having to say only that it's part of a terrorism investigation. What you read, write, say, buy, spend, or go to the doctor for is all now the Government’s business, as I heard a woman say on WNPR the other day, “If we have nothing to hide, we have nothing to worry about and shouldn’t object.” Oh really? Well, if you have nothing to hide, lady, why don’t a dozen of my buddies and I come over and watch you take a shower? After all, it’s the same principle. Just because someone is not involved in extra-legal activities doesn’t mean that he should be willing to surrender his Constitutional rights and allow people to pry into his business and watch his every move.
Rights are a very real concern in this nation of secret judges in secret courts handing out secret warrants and secret indictments, while secret prisoners, some of them citizens, are held in secret locations on secret charges, are interrogated under secret conditions, and face secret trials with secret evidence and possibly secret sentences.
A patriot is obligated to oppose a system like this. Inaction is not a choice – you’re either part of the solution or part of the problem. In this case, to become part of the solution, you need to become part of the government’s problem. Uncle Sam has become no more than a nosy old pervert looking in our windows, and it’s high time we pulled the shades against this peeping Tom!
As if that weren’t bad enough, your privacy is also fair game for any number of private, non-governmental miscreants, ranging from corporations tracking your purchases to hackers from anti-Southern or rival Southern groups to professional watchdog groups. The ADL, for example, reportedly has continuously updated files on people they disagree with which they make available to police.
Below is a series of steps that will help you to minimize the compromising of your privacy. This is not legal advice, and we can’t advocate you committing crimes; check with an attorney or your local laws before doing this, or do it at your own risk.
PROBLEM: One of their major targets lately have been libraries and book stores. Sammy the perv wants to know what you are reading, because what you read may make you a "risk." Government agents have been approaching literary outlets and demanding customer reading lists. Rest assured, this is not investigation; this is censorship through intimidation, because most people will hesitate before reading anything contradicting the government line if they have reason to believe that doing so may make them suspects in a terrorism investigation, and earn them a visit from "the men in black." Soon, ideas that go against “accepted thought” will disappear down the memory hole.
SOLUTION: If you’re a librarian or a book vendor, purge your files on a regular and fairly frequent basis. Less customer service is a fair trade off for more privacy for most of us, and the Feds can't look at records if they're no longer there.
Get a library card under another name, or have your local group get one under one individual’s name, if he is in agreement. Better yet, take a notebook or pocket scanner with you and take notes on the spot.
When buying books at a grocery or other store, don’t use a favored customer card and pay with cash instead of check or credit card; it leaves no paper trail to you. If you buy mail order, it may behoove you to have one person in your group to do all the ordering for a small compensation.
Some people have even gone as far, although it violates the copyright law, as scanning and saving to CD Rom or photocopying entire books and distributing them freely to each other. (You are, however, stealing from the author and publisher if you do so without compensating them.)
Better yet, become a vendor of “controversial books” yourself, keep the customer records separate from the order and tax files you need, and shred the customer section immediately after the transaction is over.
PROBLEM: Big Brother now has the capability to monitor nearly all email communications, secretly hack into computers remotely or on site, and generally watch everything you do.
Solution: Use powerful encryption programs (older ones without a “back door”) and watch what you say. You may even want to encode the encryption into a multi-layered code: for instance, if the encryption is broken, they then have to translate a pig-Latin version of Ubangi written backwards, only to find it to be an apparently innocuous conversation where only every third word is part of yet another code. It’s good to do this occasionally even if you are not sending anything controversial. It costs them money and time figuring it out, and it drives them nuts.
Cultivate “hackers*,” “crackers**,” and “phreakers***,” and recruit them actively. Some of them are pretty strange, but they usually know what they are about when it comes to computer and phone security (The old philosophy of “Set a thief to catch a thief.”) and have a general disrespect for Federal authority. Additionally, some of these guys get off on setting cyber-traps to wreck electronic “death and destruction” on a snooping invader’s computer system.
Of course, use firewalls, electronic file shredders, etc.
PROBLEM: Big Brother wants to know who is exercising their 2nd Amendment right to own legal firearms. The only purpose for registration now is confiscation later.
SOLUTION: Buy from individuals rather than dealers whenever possible. Flea markets and local trade papers are good sources. Pay cash. Trade a lot; the more unregistered guns in the system, the more free we are.
Instruct your children to politely inform anyone, be it teacher or doctor, who asks them if there are guns in the home, that it’s none of their business.
PROBLEM: Big Brother wants to know what your purchasing habits are, to look for a “pattern.”
SOLUTION: Pay cash. If you use a preferred customer card, don’t use one in your name.
Also, when your check reaches the bank (Due to tax laws, Uncle Pervie already knows how much you get paid.), leave in just enough to cover your monthly bills and take the rest out in cash all at once, every month. Cash is difficult to trace. Stash it in a few different places for security reasons.
Of course, there’s always the use of a proxy buyer, barter, or the “gray market:” individual anonymous cash or swap transactions “off the books”.
PROBLEM: Big Brother can intercept phone calls.
SOLUTION: Watch what you say (unless you want to play games, which is very dangerous, as ol’ Sam has no sense of humor), use public phones, older cell phones whose locations are difficult to pinpoint (Your friendly neighborhood hacker can help you here.), and do all messages possible face to face.
Remember too, that the random (non-targeted) ECHELON searches key on particular words, like “gun,” “bomb,” the name of the current president, etc. Develop a code to discuss private subjects that won’t set it off and make them listen: something innocuous like recipes or calculus.
Recruit a phreaker to help you with scrambling.
Finally, SPEAK OUT! Tyranny IS terrorism! Speak out against any government infringement on you rights loudly and continuously, and encourage others to do the same. Stand against tyranny now with your voice and your refusal to cooperate with it, or your children will have to stand against it with a rifle
*Hackers: people who invade computer systems for fun or challenge
**Crackers: people who do the same thing only with theft or destruction in mind
***Phreakers: think “cracker” in a phone network
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