Government Watch Lists

Privacy is Dead
Remember the days when you didn't have to worry about the US government snooping over your shoulder? Those days are long gone! Your privacy is almost non-existent nowadays. The government can track your location via cell phones, car GPS systems, monitor your social networking, grab your personal surfing data from Google, and access your viewing preferences on cable TV and Netflix. They can even tell what toothpaste you use based on your zip code!!

Buy a Book - Get On a List
The latest thing that you have to worry about is what you like to read. This is being closely scrutinized by Homeland Security and the FBI. It doesn't matter if it's a book from the public library, Amazon.com, Barnes & Nobel, this blog, or where ever you lease or purchase a book. The government is watching - especially if you use a debit or credit card to make the purchase.

Common sense should tell you that buying or just reading "The Anarchist's Cookbook, The Little Red Book", or How to Make Bombs would obviously get the government's attention. That should go without further explanation.

However, there are all kinds of rumors of just how many book titles are on Big Brother's list, but you can be sure there are plenty, and some that would fool you innocents out there. Besides the usual suspects like the ones mentioned, the government has just added any book with the title "Almanac" to their watch list. HUH? So let's get this straight, if you buy the "Farmer's Almanac, this purchase can put you on the watch list because the information contained, could be used by a "Terrorist."

Scheeze!! And they say that the Doomsday Preppers are paranoid!

Be Careful
If you decide to be brave and buy or read a book that the government is "watching" you should be careful. You may end up with having your phones tapped, house surveilled, or getting an unexpected visit without any search warrant required (thank Congress to the passage of the Patriot Act). Meanwhile, just sit back and relax and enjoy your reading materials while you still can before Congress "bans" them too.