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Author Brad Thor Dishes on His New Thriller: ‘24 Hours a Day, 7 Days a Week, Our Digital Exhaust Is Being Sucked Up by the Government’

Author Brad Thor Talks About His New Book Black List, Obama, Mitt Romney and Total Surveillance

Author Brad Thor (courtesy Simon & Schuster)

You can find Brad Thor’s books in the fiction section, but there is more truth implanted between the pages than you could ever imagine — or would want to.

The New York Times best-selling author’s unique style of fusing fact and fiction into one compelling and cohesive work of art has led Glenn Beck to deem his literary genre as “faction.” If you are just looking for an edge-of-your-seat, white-knuckle thrill ride, any of Thor’s thrillers will do the trick. But don’t be surprised if you learn a little something along the way.

“I want to be the king of faction,” Thor told TheBlaze in an exclusive interview. “My number one goal as a thriller writer is to entertain you. But I’ve got a chance to not only entertain people, but have them close my book and be smarter having read it.”

His new book “Black List,” which comes out Tuesday, does exactly that while tackling the concept of “total surveillance.” And in a day and age where there are cameras on nearly every street corner and the federal government can access by various means your phone calls, text messages, emails and other personal information, the book couldn’t come at a better time.

“If I had to sum up the concept of ‘Black List’ in one sentence it would be: Someone is padding the president’s kill list,” Thor said. “The subtext though is all about this surveillance technology.”

All of the surveillance technology found in “Black List” is based upon systems currently deployed, or in the final stages of development by the U.S. government and its partners. Make no mistake, the implications are absolutely terrifying.

Author Brad Thor Talks About His New Book Black List, Obama, Mitt Romney and Total Surveillance

"Black List" comes out Tuesday

“If I had been around with George Orwell back when he wrote ‘1984’ and I knew what I know now, he would have told me I was crazy,” Thor said, chuckling to himself before getting serious again. “Orwell couldn’t have predicted this.”

Flashback to 1975, he explained, when Sen. Frank Church appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press” and issued a dire warning about America’s invasive surveillance capabilities:

“[America's intelligence gathering] capability at any time could be turned around on the American people and no American would have any privacy left. Such the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn’t matter. There would be no place to hide.”

That was based on the technology of the 1970s. We are now in the high-tech digital world of 2012 and as a result of the attacks on 9/11, the full might of the U.S. government’s surveillance capabilities has been unleashed on its citizens under the guise of “national security,” according to Thor.

“Let me make this very clear: 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, our digital exhaust is being sucked up by the government,” he added. “It is being compiled on big server farms and it’s being analyzed by different computer programs, looking for any hint that you and I are up to no good.”

In fact, the National Security Agency (NSA) has been compiling so much information on U.S. citizens that it actually outgrew its facility in Fort Meade, Md. and had to build a new facility outside of Salt Lake City to the tune of $2 billion, Thor explained.

But that’s just the beginning.


The Technology

Though there are too many to cover in this one story, Thor told The Blaze which of the surveillance technologies being used or developed by the U.S. government concern him the most — all of which are integrated into his latest book.

He said intelligence agencies have made use of a particular software system that allows them to access various databases and compile as much data on individuals as possible. This may include information from an array of different sources such as credit agencies, websites and social media networks. Social media, he explained, has helped these agencies tremendously as it aides them in creating a relationship tree for any person of interest, a previously difficult and time consuming task.

Case in point: Just last week a story surfaced noting that the plan to archive every single tweet is “definitely still happening.”

Even more alarming, Thor explained: The government is using this data to develop “artificial intelligence applications” that can not only process large amounts of data quickly but are being programmed to anticipate what you are going to do next.

“Under the guise of security the government has been robbing our liberty,” said Thor. “And I’m not down with that.”

And what if we were once at a point in our society that you could be arrested before committing a crime? It may sound like science-fiction, but the technology has already moved on to phase two.

The Department of Homeland Security’s Future Attribute Screening Technology (FAST) program, which recently passed its first round of testing, uses a computer program that studies physiological indicators of a person, such as heart rate and the steadiness of a person’s stare, and then utilizes that data to determine whether that individual may have “malintent,” the intent to cause harm.

“That‘s ’Minority Report,‘ that’s thought crime,” the author said, who added he actually used information from a previous report by TheBlaze on the FAST program in his new book.

Finally, Thor said the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recently came out with a statement that said it had been directed by the Obama administration to open up the skies for unmanned drones. The FAA said based on what they are being asked to do, they anticipate the U.S. will have upwards of 30,000 drones patrolling the skies.

Author Brad Thor Talks About His New Book Black List, Obama, Mitt Romney and Total Surveillance

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He used a metaphor written by NRO’s Charles C.W. Cook to make his point: “As a farmer would be a fool to presume that the good year’s harvest augurs perpetual success, so a citizenry would be unwise to place the tools of abuse in the hands of the state simply because it is currently benign. This, if anything, is the Constitution’s role, and it applies as keenly to the ‘just’ leader as to the baleful.”

In other words, giving the government authority to implement “total surveillance” and expecting no one to ever abuse that power is foolish.

Surprisingly, Thor said he gets a lot of his intel and ideas for his books from “mainstream” U.S. government officials who are in positions of power but who can’t sound the alarm without being called a “conspiracy theorist” or marginalized. So they go to him.

He refused to out any of his confidential sources but said it “would make Americans’ hair curl“ if they knew where some of the information found in ”Black List” actually came from.


On the 2012 Election

We couldn’t let the conservative author get away without weighing in on the upcoming presidential elections. He said while presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney wasn’t his first choice, the former Massachusetts governor has his full support.

“We have to defeat Barack Obama — this is the most important election of our lifetime,” Thor said. “The future of our republic is at stake. We have been, as citizens, incredibly derelict in our duties as stewards of this country.”

He said babysitters face more personal scrutiny than President Obama did in 2008.

“We talk about Bill Ayers, we talk about Reverend Jeremiah Wright, we talk about Frank Marshall Davis, we talk about all these people Obama has surrounded himself with and the mainstream media ignores it completely,” he said.

“Show me one single patriot who has ever been in Barack Obama’s life in any position of influence. You can’t do it… Barack Obama detests this nation as founded. He has zero respect for the founding documents.”

The author said for those who voted for Obama in 2008 because they were expecting “hope and change,” 2012 is their chance for redemption.

“You know what, you people who voted for Barack Obama, you made a big mistake. You finally have a chance to make it right and you need to. You need to. You owe it to the future generations of this country,” said Thor.

Pre-order your copy of “Black List” today or order a copy when it comes out at midnight, here.

But the fight to take back the country from big government progressives and elitists bureaucrats doesn’t end with a Romney victory — it is only the beginning. But it can be done, he said. “We can still turn this around.”

Comments (71)

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  • MTSchmidt
    Posted on July 23, 2012 at 5:23pm

    laugh if you want, but this eerily reminds me of the building of SkyNet

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    • juancarnuba
      Posted on July 23, 2012 at 6:59pm

      Laugh? I’ve been saying that for years now. It’s actually quite disturbing because it is happening. We will be under constant surveillance in one form or another.

      30,000 drones? Will they be armed?

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    • Gorp
      Posted on July 23, 2012 at 10:21pm

      I just ordered the ebook for my Kindle Fire.
      @Juan: Of course they will be armed. That’s a given.

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  • ChiefGeorge
    Posted on July 23, 2012 at 5:10pm

    He is exactly right!

    We’ve been building this machine for decades in the name of fighting the coldwar and then the war on terrorism…that has been downgraded to a police action. The police action is what we should all worry more about since it will be used against us and not our enemies…as much! Their law enforcement attitude towards an actual state of war bother some of us but now we can see a morphing of this tactic into something scarier. Before it was hard to account for where the enemy might be at any given moment, but now, its a different story! Now they know who you are literally inside and out. Your thoughts, intentions, linkages to others…its amazing but its one of the many developments that people actually embrace…its the cage walls being put in place all around us while we laugh and giggle on FB. That was really weird? My characters remaining on this comment at the end of that last sentence were 666. Is someone trying to tell me I’m not far from the truth here? I believe so! I think I’ll practice writing some letters to friends.

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  • bethsioux
    Posted on July 23, 2012 at 1:50pm

    Every year, near the end of July,I get all excited for the best read of the year when Brad Thor’s new bit of “faction” comes out–even if you are not “into” a military/adventure-action genre, it is such an intellegent experience where I learn so-o-o much, and enjoy it so-o-o much
    Thank you Brad for my upcoming sleepless Tuesday night as I will not put it down until I finish it and thank you Glenn for initially introducing me to this fabulous author‘s series’ of books (in additions to Tuesday’s bestseller coming out with Scot Harvath, there is also the new series The Athena Directive, by Mr Thor)You guys make my reading life a dream!
    Also many kudos to the stuff Glenn and Brad do behind the scenes to make this country a better place to live
    God bless you both :)

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  • Want our country back
    Posted on July 23, 2012 at 1:44pm

    LIBERALS NEED NOT READ – Glenn Beck is having a patriotic rally this weekend called “Restoring Love”, they have collected enough food to feed over 1 million people which will be sent to 11 cities that are in dire need. They have 35,000 volunteers from all over the world that have been working tirelessly to help repair and heal this country. Next week-end completes the trilogy, Restoring Honor, Restoring Courage and Restoring Love. The usual suspects, Code Pink and Westboro Baptist Church will be protesting.
    Please encourage Mitt Romney to get involved or attend this GREAT event. Mitt has a web site for suggestions, this is a great one.
    http://www.mittromney.com/forms/suggestions

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    • Gorp
      Posted on July 23, 2012 at 10:49pm

      It makes you wonder just what are they protesting. Love? Compassion? Helping others? Sharing? Beats the heck out of me.

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    • Gorp
      Posted on July 23, 2012 at 10:56pm

      Thanks for the link.
      Here’s what I wrote: If you really want to secure your campaign why not show up at Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Love” event in Dallas, TX this Saturday? Glenn won’t bite but might ask tough(but not “Got Ya”)questions. It will also show those who might be on the fence where you really stand.
      Come On, Mr. “Next” President, show up.

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  • Critters58
    Posted on July 23, 2012 at 12:52pm

    Love this guy, his books are the best! Get them and enjoy them!

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  • Nuncle
    Posted on July 23, 2012 at 11:43am

    And people really think Romney would change this??

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    • 19RANDY59
      Posted on July 23, 2012 at 11:57am

      The republicans want control also. They just campaign as if they don’t, to keep their jobs. It will never be repealed. They‘ll just come up with bogus reasons why they can’t repeal it, and the idiots out here will just keep believing them. It’s funny, how everyone knows politicians are outright liars, but they keep voting in the same kind. Never would they think of voting for an honest man, as he wouldn’t promise them all the goodies. We deserve what we’re getting.

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    • NoNannyState4me
      Posted on July 23, 2012 at 1:14pm

      The Republicans want this is an understatement. Patriot Act was the first major law invoked and passed under GWB to really put herding and hurting Americans into effect…

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    • De minimus
      Posted on July 23, 2012 at 1:50pm

      I don’t know if he could change it or not, probably not since the government is now rife with Marxists at every level and that does include the president and his people.

      Romney is not a Marxist. It’s a start.

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  • Man-On-A-Mission
    Posted on July 23, 2012 at 11:41am

    You guys are a joke….you conservatives want to know who’s in your bed, what your smoking, what your drinking…..what religion are you…..Liberal do not care about such things and believe them to be private. Bush singed the FISA bill…which was suppose to keep surveillance on foreign suspects, but which is actually tapping phones and monitoring every day American’s. FISA and Citizens United have done more to take away our freedoms than any Liberal has. Why aren’t you speaking about that!!!!!!

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    • NoNannyState4me
      Posted on July 23, 2012 at 1:17pm

      Liberals want it just as bad if not more than Repubs otherwise Obamallama would have repealed the Patriot Act, would not have a “hit list”, would not have signed the NDAA etc etc etc etc. Both parties have the same ruling factions of Goldman Sachs. When each side wakes up to this it will too late.

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    • webbie
      Posted on July 23, 2012 at 1:37pm

      Obama said he would not be continuing those programs. One more lie! He not only contiued them, but increased them!

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    • XScramblerX
      Posted on July 23, 2012 at 1:44pm

      You’re using sarcasm right? You don’t believe what you just typed? I want to be left alone, but Obama wants me to pay for your sexual habits,(contraception-abortion) and tell my RELIGION it HAS TO COMPLY. I want to be left alone, but Obama is FORCING me to pay for your healthcare, I want to be left alone, but Obama want’s to continue using FISA and even making it worse for Americans. Who’s in the bedroom, who’s forcing religion, who’s between me and my Doctor, who’s listening to private conversations?

      Nice try, but you‘re a CONSERVATIVE and don’t even know it!

      Tea!

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    • yiska8
      Posted on July 23, 2012 at 2:29pm

      You must be new to politics. Here it is: The left has and always will be telling people what to do. They ARE in your business. They force the gay agenda on us. They want to continue dismanting the traditional family, they want to control what you eat, how you eat, whether you smoke and where you smoke.Education is ruined because of the liberal minds writing the curriculum. The healthcare industry will now be government controlled and contracted under Obama’s OblivionCare. Doctors and nurses will basically be federal employees and if they screw up, who do you know that can afford to sue the U.S. government? Liberals want people doped up for life on marijuana and want it legalized. Now there is a bill from anti-Second amendment lib wackos that states all shell casings sold will be numbered or tagged to the registered owner. IT NEVER ENDS. You are so utterly confused. It is the conservatives who want people out of their business. It is conservatives who want government out of their daily lives. It is conservatives who fight for privacy and have been through the Clinton, GWB, and now the King Barry years. It‘s only getting worse and you’re on the wrong side of the fight.
      Your welcome.

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on July 23, 2012 at 5:14pm

      One of these days you’ll be sitting down with some guys who look like they just stepped out of the Matrix. They’ll flip a little scandisk on the table in front of you and say we know everything about you…its all there. Your phone conversations, emails, Blaze posts and esp your InforWars posts. Any last requests? Yea, don’t put me in a cell with the guy with red hair!

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on July 23, 2012 at 5:18pm

      Yiska is right MAN! Its your liberal programming that will not allow you to see the truth, because it is they who poisoned your mind to believe all these lies or why on earth do you think they told you this stuff in the first place? Did you believe it is liberals who have a corner on the truth…not even close! Everything they believe is a lie.

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  • yiska8
    Posted on July 23, 2012 at 11:28am

    Truth is bitter. Thor get its it. I remember Dwight Eisenhower warning about the military industrial complex years back. With that came the rolling avalanche of what would lead us to where we are today. They’ll be investigating all of us and probably everything that is written here. We had a huge government complex here in an old former SONY manufacturing building in San Antonio. I think it’s an NSA data center full of servers.The security gives one chills. No signs. Not even a building name. Alex Jones reported on it and Thor is right on with this. They are watching us and listening. But then so are some of us.The ones who choose to be AWAKE.

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    • januscatinhat
      Posted on July 23, 2012 at 11:17pm

      The military industrial complex is more complex than you or I even know–their projects have been truly “out of this world” while in, on and under it. It is entirely possible the Aurora, CO shooter was programmed as a Manchurian candidate by the military industrial complex encouraged by his parents, who are not cooperating with CO police investigating the actions of their son, and one or both parents may be deeply embedded in this complex military complex which dates back way before Eisenhower. They have the power. We do not whether we think liberal or conservative type, so what does it matter which side we think we are on when they have the power way above the Presidential Office to do what they want, when they want, anytime they want at any expense needed to fund their never-ending projects. Guess their money just rolls in from everywhere, secretly, of course.

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  • Captain77
    Posted on July 23, 2012 at 10:31am

    So Romney is supposed to be our last and only hope, but among the several things that concern me about that, my greatest concern is that since the Supreme Court ruled on Obamacare, I haven’t heard Romney even whisper about repealing it. If Romney won’t fight to repeal Obamacare, then he has no chance of getting my vote.

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    • Thats_right
      Posted on July 23, 2012 at 10:47am

      Are you being sarcastic?

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    • muffythetuffy
      Posted on July 23, 2012 at 10:56am

      It does not matter anymore if you vote or you don’t. If you stay home your vote will be cast for Obama after the poll close. My daughter who moved out of state ten years ago still votes every election and there isn’t anyway she or me can have her name removed. You vote does not count any may not have been counted for ten or twenty years.

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    • Recceman90
      Posted on July 23, 2012 at 10:58am

      Congress, both houses, are the one to repeal it. All Romney has to do is sign the bill!

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    • cykonas
      Posted on July 23, 2012 at 12:22pm

      Cap’n, Romney has said on more than one occasion that he would repeal it on Day 1. There are two problems with that. First he can’t do it alone. It must be done by Congress.

      Second he talks a lot about replacing it. But shares very few details on what he intends to replace it with. Governor Romney is just another side of the same coin that is President Obama.

      No matter which one of them wins in November we are all screwed. Peace.

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    • red_white_blue2
      Posted on July 23, 2012 at 12:36pm

      Try following proper media. You would have heard him say it. I did!

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  • frogg
    Posted on July 23, 2012 at 9:47am

    This is only to be expected. The citizens of this country must take back the power by voting for good people instead of the people in power now. I‘ve alway’s held the view that if you can’t publicly face those who accuse you, you are living in a police state! That’s what the Patriot Act does to us all!
    Let‘s get rid of it and make a law that protects us but doesn’t take away our freedoms!
    Vote the BUMS out this November! Please! Pretty Please!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Check out http://www.rescueourconstitution.com/

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    • turkey13
      Posted on July 23, 2012 at 10:19am

      Don’t worry – Brad – Myself, wife, 3 sons and 3 daughter in-laws alll Democrats and voted for Hope and Change. We don’t like the change and have given up on hope. We all know or have been affected by this buch thats in the White House. My sons heve their own construction Co. they started 4.5 Ys. ago when they were in their 20′s without the governments help. The EPA came out with a new law where my son’s have to take diesel samples and fill out paperwork and send to a government lab at their expense. They are checking for water in the fuel. My sons treat their fuel with moister absorbants and also raise the cetain. This is good business sense because a set of injectors cost almost $1,000.00 and the equipment is out of service. DUUU!

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  • OneTermPresident
    Posted on July 23, 2012 at 9:46am

    See any of these things going on today…?

    1963, Albert Herlong, Jr., a Floridian who served in Congress from 1949 to 1969,
    entered the top 45 Communist goals into the Congressional Record (Vol. 109,
    88th Congress, 1st Session, Appendix Pages A1 – A2842, Jan. 9 – May 7, 1963).

    Below are some of those goals.

    1963 Communist Goals…

    Capture one or both of the political parties in the US. (Guess which one they did)

    Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions, by
    claiming their activities violate civil rights.

    Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for Socialism, and
    current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers
    associations. Put the party line in text books.

    Infiltrate the press. Get control of book review
    assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions.

    Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all form of artistic
    expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good
    sculpture from parks and buildings,” and substitute shapeless, awkward,
    and meaningless forms.

    Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography, and
    obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio and TV.

    Present Homosexuality, degeneracy, and promiscuity as “normal, natural,
    and healthy.”

    Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the
    grounds that it violates the principle of “s

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    • right-wing-waco
      Posted on July 23, 2012 at 11:18am

      They are certainly doing a great job… aren’t they?

      Wake up everyone and reverse this trend. Abolish the Dept. of propaganda and most other federal programs and departments and restore freedom and sanity. We must force the government to obey the limits on government listed in the Constitution.

      Vote the progressives out of Congress, the Senate and the White House.

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  • BenInNY
    Posted on July 23, 2012 at 9:38am

    So who’s going to be the first to test/prove it by posting wacky stuff online? Anyone bored at the moment?

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  • OperationNorthwoods
    Posted on July 23, 2012 at 9:38am

    If you have nothing to hide, then why should you be concerned about this stuff? Wasn’t that the argument all you sheeple made when they passed the patriot act? Why are you so upset now? You reap what you sow. Please stop complaining and enjoy the police state you made with your own ignorance.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on July 23, 2012 at 9:58am

      OPERATIONNORTHWOODS, Believe it or not, WE did not pass the Patriot Act. There are so many here who were against it from it’s inception.

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    • cykonas
      Posted on July 23, 2012 at 12:40pm

      If you have nothing to hide, then why should you be concerned about this stuff?
      ——————————————————————————————————————————————-
      Please tell me you’re kidding. We should be concerned about it because these expansions of Federal government power are in direct conflict with our rights as they are guaranteed by the Constitution.

      When we begin to lose sight of the Supreme Law of the Land in the name of supposedly better security we have lost our Republic. The next time you hear someone say “there ought to be a law” punch them in the nose. There are way too may laws already. The watchword should be “there ought not be a law”. Peace.

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    • riseandshine
      Posted on July 23, 2012 at 2:58pm

      @Cykonas….. Reread Op.Northwood’s post.

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  • bluzrider
    Posted on July 23, 2012 at 9:36am

    I have said it many times when I post comments on stories on all the various media outlets that let you post your opinion.

    We as citizens of this country have failed to live up to the expectations of what our founders set up for us, they expected us to be a check on government, we failed in that, and we just elect our leaders either because of name recognition or we believe the B.S. that comes from a candidates mouth and never really check on the way these people really think, or we vote for whoever our union tells us to vote for without vetting the candidates ourselves.

    We have no one to blame but ourselves, we failed to do our job. The founders gave us the only tool we would ever need, and that was the right to vote. We voted for a government that is survailing every move we make, every word we say, every notion we have. If you think that the government would not abuse this power we gave to them, then you are living in a fantasy land.

    After reading this article, it just may be the last opinion I ever post anywhere. They already have enough information on me. I am not going to give them anymore ammunition on me, to pin the label of trouble maker on me, just for voicing my opinion. Most people don’t know it yet, but we already gave up our right to Free Speech.

    We let this happen by not paying attention to the intentions of our so called elected leaders.

    We failed as a people to do the job that our founders gave us, and now we will start to pay the price.

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  • paprtowl
    Posted on July 23, 2012 at 9:29am

    orwell’s book “ animal farm ” will give us a good perspective on present day governments.

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  • freedomofspeech
    Posted on July 23, 2012 at 9:07am

    Think one presidential election will solve the drone issue? Nope it is here to stay. Now is the time to seek to the same tech to protect our privacy. I am one to look for solutions. Drones will be a part of our children’s life as irritating Mosquitos . Diversion, redirection, camouflage, or shoot them down out of fear? We teach our children to garden, hunt, basic first aid, survival skills now drone deflection skills? The hunger games becoming a reality?

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  • glassaudioguy
    Posted on July 23, 2012 at 9:06am

    Glenn is probably right- the best thing that could happen to our country would be an EMP to wipe out much of this stuff.

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    • gridley1
      Posted on July 23, 2012 at 9:51am

      @GLASSAUDIOGUY… Do you really believe the government computers are not hardened against EMP? If a massive EMP attack were to occur, it would wipe out the data on your computer, and maybe even your bank’s computer, but not the NSA, FBI, CIA, IRS, or any of the other governmental TLA’s. You would be in the dark and they would have even more power over you. Be very careful what you wish for.

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  • Godzgrl247
    Posted on July 23, 2012 at 8:56am

    I’ll have to look these books up. These types of books are the genre I love!

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    • bitterclinger
      Posted on July 23, 2012 at 1:23pm

      Look for Ben Coes too. His third book just came out. Rush turned me on to him.

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    • KickinBack
      Posted on July 23, 2012 at 2:32pm

      Or try Steve Berry, whose books kind of remind me of a James Bond/Indiana Jones mix…Good action and lots of history.

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  • Meyvn
    Posted on July 23, 2012 at 8:49am

    We now live in the age where we must produce as much dis-info as info. The role and importance of dis-info will increase for each citizen as we move farther forward into this despotic state of existence.

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  • Altair
    Posted on July 23, 2012 at 8:35am

    A firearm may one day be, literally, worth its weight in gold.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on July 23, 2012 at 9:54am

      As will the ammo. An RCBS Rockchucker and supplies make for a great investment.

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  • momrules
    Posted on July 23, 2012 at 8:33am

    Some people get it, some never will until it is too late. Thor is one who gets it and I agree with him about the trouble we are in with an out of control, ever more intrusive government.

    I don’t like being afraid of my own government but I am. I don’t like feeling watched, every move scrutinized, every purchase monitored and every word spoken a potential threat to my own safety.

    I often wonder if we have let things go too far and honestly, I think we have.

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  • Sharon Rose
    Posted on July 23, 2012 at 8:18am

    We have a govenrment that is totally out of control. Vote the progressives,socialists and commies out in Nov.

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    • TAXEVERYONE
      Posted on July 23, 2012 at 9:13am

      We get bad politicians when good American citizens don’t take the time to vote.

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  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on July 23, 2012 at 8:05am

    We‘ve allowed our government to run wild with this idea of ’protecting‘ us and we’ll all pay dearly for that mistake.

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    • shogun459
      Posted on July 23, 2012 at 10:21am

      Those of us that have railed against this for decades and been denigrated as paranoid for it will be some of the first to disappear.

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  • ThePostman
    Posted on July 23, 2012 at 7:57am

    Yup, he is right. We are barreling as fast as possible into a totalitarian state. It was a lot easier having an uprising when there weren’t cameras on every corner, and when every single communication was not monitored. This oppression is only now beginning, and will last 100′s of years and extend globally if we let it take hold. there is no other place to flee to, mankind’s future is in our hands.

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    • historyguy48
      Posted on July 23, 2012 at 8:38am

      Comrade, and why did you think they put all that stuff out there? So you will know how long the estimated time is for traveling from point A to point B?
      Haven’t you wondered why nobody has written a good, realistic, book about an armed American resistance movement? Because people that know what is really happening also know that we are already so well tracked and monitored that a resistance movement is virtually impossible!

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  • Apple Bite
    Posted on July 23, 2012 at 7:54am

    Semi-Automatics should be flying off the shelves by now….

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