Guest article by Lauren
“If You Have Nothing to Hide
You have Nothing to Fear”
Every despotic government in history has used some variation of this.
The Germans believed it before WWII, when Hitler was just gaining power, before children started turning in their parents. The Russians believed it before Stalin murdered millions.
Many years ago I spoke to a woman from the USSR (as it was called at the time). She was a teacher, towing the party line, and she believed it too. She had nothing to hide and therefore nothing to fear. Until they came for her in the middle of the night, and her husband didn’t dare object.
She spent twenty years in a military prison. Her husband thought she was dead. She never knew what caused them to pick her up. They never told her. She had nothing to hide, but that was no protection.
As things break down we see a movement toward using law to criminalize certain groups—this week it’s gun owners. Next week it might be preppers, Christians, or civil rights activists.
So if suddenly you’re in their sights for something that has never been a crime, you’re a sitting duck because they have all the information they need to convict you in the .gov databases. The pendulum swings, and laws made to vilify one group are routinely turned on others.
Today’s Modern Tracking Technology
Today we have the capability to create the society the early socialists only dreamed of—a world where the actions of any individual can be predicted accurately based on thousands or millions of data-points. Where people can be tracked and controlled without a high use of human personnel.
Did you ever ask yourself why the educational system requires cradle to grave tracking? Why keep track of religion, parenting styles, socialization skills, and family political leanings in an educational database? Why track thousands of data points for each child that enters the school system?
It’s currently being used in other countries to label children as young as three as potential “extremists” based on religious teaching in the home. It’s being used to separate children from their parents based on politics that don’t conform with the accepted mainstream.
TWO QUESTIONS
The statement “If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear,” requires that we each answer two questions
1. Who is looking?
2. What are they looking for?
If you can’t honestly answer both these questions, for today and every day for the rest of your life, you may want to reconsider whether you have anything to hide, or anything to fear.
[Ken adds:] Imagine if they make a law retroactive (this is being done in other countries). Think about that. They’ve got all the tracking data (your purchases, geo locations, communications, google searches (I use DuckDuckGo), TV viewing, Alexa recordings, smart phone interactions, phone logs, friends network, photographed mail, subscriptions, interests). Hey, don’t worry though. If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear.
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Agreed. DDGo and Fire Fox in private mode
It doesnt matter what you personally think you do or dont have to hide, if gov sees you as a subversive your on the list, period.
Its coming
Nailbanger,
It is beyond coming , I think it is here today, right now !
MEDIA CONTROL= PEOPLE CONTROL
EDUCATION CONTROL= PEOPLE CONTROL
TRACKING CITIZENS = PEOPLE CONTROL
GUN CONFISCATION – PEOPLE CONTROL
FOOD CONTROL = PEOPLE CONTROL
Where does the list end ?
Yup, they just havent started hauling us to the gulag yet
agree with many. I think a LOT of it is here..Now.
—heard many incidents on the news, where someone was convicted /brought on charges on something because they went back through media/phone/etc files. They were “sure” such and such indicated guilt. However, let’s just say something was found. Who is to say it was not a)planted. b)ended up there by accident? On my own cell phone i have gotten calls asking what i wanted as i had called them. When i insisted i had not, they actually repeated my cell phone number back to me….(I had not called/ not pocket dialed/etc). Over past five/ten yrs, i have gotten several calls like this. What i could find on the net, said that sometimes lines do get “crossed” (?), and a call can look as if it orgininates from another number. ———-Lots of concerns. (and i am a pretty staid middle aged person)
As far as phones go, I keep getting advertising coming from private numbers. Someone is re-routing through private numbers (always the same company, a different local number every time) for their scams. Or my favorite, and one I’ve gotten several times in the last week, is that the number coming in is “unassigned.”
Several years ago I called a number and got a message in Arabic, followed by the phrase in English, “Nothing can stop us now.” I turned it over to the FBI (and yes, I knew what the Arabic phrase meant) but if at any time that phone number becomes a target so do I, because I called it. Not just once, but over and over because it was a wrong number in the company database for someone I needed to contact.
Nothing to hide, sure. But nothing to fear? Only as long as I’m not worth their time.
When I got my cell number I received a lot of calls from people wanting to buy drugs. Once I received a message about a place to either buy or a drug party. I called the police and told them and they weren’t interested.
If you use the Internet there is no real way to hide..in your “travels’ you will pass thru some portal or arrive at some server where you IP will be captured and stored until someone one day does a “field search” and badda bing the men in black ( or worse) show up…
“It’s not paranoia when they’re really after ya”
real “Forensic Audits” will be a deadly weapon when used against honest folks
I also use DDG and FF. And I use Kaspersky. Even though ‘our’/’your’ .gov doesn’t like it. Why? It is quite good at stopping attempts to collect data from this computer. No, this is not a con to get anyone to buy Kaspersky. This is an opinion on how I feel I should do certain things. And I have fun looking at the number of ‘spear phishing’ attempts made and from which site. Example: Yahoo tried over 1800 times in 5 minutes to ‘probe’ my computer this morning. (Or some of their advertisers.) CNN averages 280 times in the first few minutes after accessing their site. The BBC website even has a Neilsen ‘dog’ watching where I look. LOL Oh, and I always do this: Never use tabs. Always use a new ‘window’ for your searches, browsing, etc., away from the page you are currently on. Why? Each site on each tab can find and report on everything in that window. Window to window can be done, but is not that easy. Or, if you want to mess with anyone ‘looking’, have CNN on one of the tabs and Yahoo on another. But open a new window to come here. Nobody cares about CNN and Yahoo. And all their junk responses might overload the jerks trying to snoop.
I just checked ‘Daily Mail’, a UK site. 400 on the nose attempts in under 5 seconds.
We are not alone!
I belong to a National Militia, I believe in it. I teach Constitution facts, prepping and history, plus I also teach from the King James bible, mostly New Testament.
Lavoy Finicum, and Ammon Bundy are my friends, I, and my teachings; were exposed to the FBI, through an illegal operation called a “STINGRAY” in the Occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. I’m not gonna debate anyone on here if that was right or wrong, you are entitled to your opinion.
What I getting at, nothing I taught was illegal, it’s being taught in all most every church in America. Just the fact my name came to the attention of the FBI, I was guilty, of what?, I don’t know. I know only that the interface with the FBI, is some thing I don’t wanna do again.
I am not a RADICAL RIGHT WING TERRORIST, I believe in my Heavenly Father, I tell the truth, I believe in the Constitution and We the People, and I obey the law. This belief makes me a threat to these people. In my community, I teach classes at my church in following God. Up holding your self to the standard our Lord set forth, and, mostly, prepping. 90% prepping. And a lot of first aid and trauma training. Still, I’m on the list of “RADICALS”.
What are THEY looking for. I feel it’s us who know our rights and teach independence from the system. THEY, care NOT for the TRUTH to be taught, especially to our youth.!!
SMG
Its all about control, they dont know what to make of people who keep stepping away from their regulation,
Whats mind boggling are all the people afraid of being watched by tptb, IMHO they can bite me
Nailbanger
Their bite hurt. I took The 5th, my Lawyer told me later, he had NEVER seen them so pissed off. That cost me over $2000.
Now my phone is traced, my bank account was probed (internal bank source), I can’t go into town with out being tailed and I have be pulled over for every thing you can think of. I’m pretty sure every thing I do on this computer in now recorded some where. When SHTF, I’m gonna be targeted FIRST, but I’m not going to a FEMA camp or Jail. I”l leave the rest of the story to your imagination.
Brother all who stand firm for the Lord will be targeted, as the scripture says the judgement starts with the church. And may i add that whatever fate befalls us (FEMA cams or not) all is in the hands of the Lord so fear not.
On topic of the discussion, at this moment in time we can assume that everything being said/written through our devices is stored somewhere and datamined and will be used against us (either via ad business or govts)
There is so much that we have no control over, the reality is that government wants loyal subjects not independent, successful, thinking, citizens, its quite a slap in the face when you finally figure that out
Yea, a free, thinking and independent man is more of a threat to powers that be than standing armies. Perhaps the only thing we have control over (and even that is continually messed with) is the choice for either good or bad in the sight of the Lord.
There was a joke i heard long time ago about the question that was posed by some officials, if people believe in a higher power and what it really meant is if they answer to a higher echelon of command than the government of US.
Ha, yea, font think thats whats meant by faith in a higher power.
😎👍🏻
Nailbender & Macek
Well I guess I’v had it wrong all my life, when someone asked me if I believed in a “Higher Power” I would answer
“well sure I do, the 7.62 is MUCH higher that the 5.56”
No wonder I’m going to he!! in a handbag?????
NRP
Might just be the gin,,,
They said a shot a day keeps the doctor away, not a 5th a day,,,,,
However, the way things are going a 5th may not be enough!
Nainbanger;
It all has to do with the “size” of the Shot-Glass 🙂
NRP
I can relate, sorta like my coffee cup, i have a few cups every morning, have to brew a new pot for the 3rd cup
Hahaha… you guys are just too much…
The question is, too much what? 🙂
Hey don’t get too worried. One Man’s Terrorist is Another Man’s Freedom Fighter.
Oh darn now the .gov federalies are gonna have to stop investigating Trump and come after me now just for that. If its gonna hit the fan I don’t plan on sticking around for .gov to show up on my door step either.
What does the religion of peace say over in the sand box. Aloha Snackbar!!!!
Problem with obeying “the law” is that laws can change and laws may be wrong. People obeying and enforcing other people’s laws is part of the problem
John thompson,
We get it, you distrust LEO’s and the military. So does the left-wing radicals. A goodly number of those following this blog are veterans of either or both of those groups. I personally have no use for folks that cast aspersions on entire groupings of people because of the bad behavior of a few. The cops and vets I know swear allegiance to the Constitution, not their bosses. Sleep tight tonight they’re watching over those who love and respect them and those that don’t. They’ll do the same if things go south.
If that were the case cops wouldn’t be pulling people over by threat of force for not wearing seat belts, ticketing businesses for giving plastic bags to customers without payment, arresting people for having pills or plants or guns or for not paying taxes (which is theft). But they do and there is nothing honorable about it.
I laughed way too hard at the title …
No comment from me even needed …
Crazy Horse
I keep having people throw this in my face like it’s some kind of banner. It’s just stupid. It isn’t DO you have anything to hide, it’s what innocuous statement or purchase or web search can they use against you if they decide you’re worth the effort?
You’re a bunch of paranoid nut jobs. I only visit sites like this for entertainment value. I have no fear of my beloved and trusted government seeing what I do on the internet. Why should I fear an entity that’s looking out for my protection. How dare any of you question their motives?
ROTFLMAO
😜
I don’t question the motives of our beloved leaders. Only the criminals that could besmirch their reputations by pretending to authority. O_o
“I dare because I must. Who will dare for me, if I dare not dare for myself?” — Jela
So… what about guns? I’m sure some of us have guns that are on the .gov database, and some might even have some that aren’t on that database, thanks to inheritances and private deals.
How can we be sure that they are “invisible” when not registered?
These questions keep me up at night! 🙂
Well they passed a bill here in California that background checks will now be done whenever you buy any ammo. Set to start next summer 2019. So even if one had a gun not on their database they can now track your ammo purchases. So if down the road they were to confiscate guns and you claimed you didn’t have that let’s say. 45 caliber but there is a record of you buying. 45 caliber ammo, well you might have a problem. Here is my city you have to give your thumb print when you buy ammo.
So I guess the solution is to buy one bullet of every kind they have and frame them on your wall. 🙂
LOL I LIKE IT Lauren!
Yes, I also live in the “most-stupidest-state” and knew about the passage of that law. That’s why before it went in to effect, I stocked up on various calibers that “might possibly have a use in the future”.
Honestly tho, that was the main reason I bought the 30-06 ammo for the rifle my Dad left me… I DO NOT WANT A PAPER TRAIL AT ALL!
“You bought fifty cases!”
“Sure. They wouldn’t sell them single.”
“What’d you do with the rest?”
“Threw them away, of course. I don’t want that stuff just lying around.”
Do not toy with them my friends. A sniffer dog is pretty darn good at finding ammunition and common gun cleaning products.
They can find something to put pain in your life. You know how long it takes them to put a thumb drive in your computer and Prove your a Pedophile?
Plan B storage my friends Plan B.
ROB ,,,,,,HAVE TWO THE SAME ,,,,,one with paper. One, well you guess what ,,,
Some of us are marked by the past,and what we did ,,,,in the name of the great white father ,,,,,,,,,except the fact we /you and I are a problem for the PTB,in that we have in the past been willing to standup for what we think is right and honourable ,,you can hid but are you willing to give up your past life?
To do so you would need to follow the protocol the US MARSHALS use to hid witnesses. ,,,,
When I left the company I was dogged ,and reminded ,after years funny things still happen ,,,,,,can you live without the web? the phone ?
Can your wife for get family? can you ?
Let’s say you love Italian food can you NEVER go near a Italian restaurant again ?,,
If you think you have nothing to hid most people become neurotic at the lack of privacy,,,it’s like that’s my space and you can’t have it ,,
When you read the book and under stand it I will give you some names to meet
Oldhomesteader.
Funny things still happen …yes,they do.
Teaching some fellas IN THEORY,how to make toe poppers . Kinda like a knitting class cept for guys. ( No offense ladies.)
They worry about AR 15’s. There are so many other ways to assume room temperature …
BJH,,,,, yep ,,,,i often felt TPTB did not us to come home ,we learned things ,how to ,and such ,,,,,,hence keep us on a leash ,,,,
Ever go fishing with a claymore? ,,, to survive we had to learn how trip wires worked and why ,,,had to watch out for a shotgun shell in a piece of pipe in the trail ,, If you steped on it if your lucky you only lose the foot but most of the time it would blow your balls off too
Aw fun and games ,,, we are marked men ,
Just listen to churchill speach from 1940
Oldhomesteader,
Claymores ain’t subtle …Lol
I always liked that quote from the movie
” Unforgiven” …
” well I guess he had it coming.”
“We all have it coming kid …”
All we can ask for is that we live the last few minutes well …
Mr. was just talking about claymores the other day. Describing the bearings/shot and how they used them in Vietnam.
Mrs.USMCBG;
Now there is a nice romantic candlelight dinner conversation HAHAHAH, Sorry just got a huge chuckle out of that 🙂 🙂
Indeed. When I hear I hear someone say at times, ” I have nothing to hide!” I ask them well then since you have nothing to hide is it OK with you if the police search your house (without a warrant) once a month, since you have nothing to hide? If not, why not?
Everyone is commenting on how they feel and what they think, but unlike those young highschooler’s who are being funded by those big dollar lobbyists who are backing the Democratic Party and also the left-wing! No one is standing up on the right to say let’s start our own party to stop it! We must start by saying that this is it and this is America leave it or love it! We all hide on blogs like this and don’t do anything but comment and think that’s going to make things happen!
I think this is actually a different issue (or several). I have my blog, where I post stuff like this. I have spacebook, where I interact with the useful idiots if necessary. I do not have a platform, or funding, or the TIME to be a figurehead. Nor do I have the interest. I do my best on paper, not in public. Put me in front of a crowd I’m liable to freeze, but one on one I can work with it. Better yet, let me write out what I want to say, refine it, read and re-read until the message is exact and all problems have either been eliminated or addressed. (Hard to do in less than 1000 words, by the way).
Those who hate our country and everything it stands for excel at finding figureheads, people who know how to rile up a mob and are willing to perjure themselves for the cause. Any cause, as long as they get paid. The rest of us look on and shake our heads because we’re not willing to lie, cheat, and steal to get what we want.
SGM W
I’m out in public teaching the Constitution, at least twice a week. Most of us, walk the walk we talk.! I agree with you, get OUR message to the public, any way we can.
Where I live has been downgraded from rural to frontier. So I put together a group of about 35 people and we buy from Emergency Essentials, Augason Farms and other places. We get better prices that way but since I organized it I buy the products, put it on a credit card and everyone pays me and I deliver or they pickup. I make no money off of it. Unfortunately everything is in my name. After several years we have slacked off buying but i hang onto the records as it looks like I have a whole lot of food that i don’t. So I am definitely fearful of them coming after me for food.
Old lady,,,,you need a trading post ,,,put that on the purchase order ,,hang a sign on a shed ,, NOT your home ,,or call it a church ,,,,,, and put up a tent on food day,,,,,
Dang! If I’m marked by my past, I guess I’m going to have trouble denying and hiding all those guns I bought when I was a gun salesman for 6 years. Even the ones that accidently fell in the lake when I was duck hunting. And the ones I lost in the woods hunting. No wonder I never got anything, always losing my gun.
Lauren,
Thank you for your article. I’ve had this discussion with MIL, who used to say ” I have nothing to hide” – thinking that if someone wanted to listen to her phone calls or read her e-mails what did it matter? Especially if it made everyone safer (you know – catching the bad guys).
Now that she knows that her space book info is all over the place, and her name has been bought and sold, and that even her bank has the nerve to ask why she wants to take money out (or sometimes even put money in) she has a whole new viewpoint.
In a recent conversation she and FIL talked about lack of privacy, and they’ve gown tired of answering questions that are no one’s business. FIL says he made a huge stink at the bank recently when they started probing; he had nothing to hide but he was mad. So we had a talk about being gray rather than being the guy who threw the temper tantrum – that while the tantrum makes you feel better for 5 minutes, does he really want to be that memorable? Especially when it changes/accomplishes nothing? So, they now have a new appreciation for how what they say and do can create (or avoid) unnecessary scrutiny.
SO CALGAL,
Not a great idea to throw a fit at your bank. If they have a mind to they can file an SAR (suspicious activity report ) on you . You will not be told by them , your account will be frozen and you will probably have the opportunity to chat with some one from the IRS.
You are absolutely right , stay calm, stay gray , go away and get over it.
Bluesman,
Yep… we covered that ground. Probably came across as a cranky semi-senile 80+ yr old, but who really needs any extra attention? In these cases I think some self discipline is the best way to go.
One thing that I chose not to address (insufficient room, trying to keep it under 1000 words so people would actually READ it) is that it’s not just .gov tracking you. The obvious culprits are G, Y, YT, FB, etc, but there are others. Sometimes for business purposes, such as targeted advertising, but also (as recently demonstrated) so they can control the way you think and what you see.
You are quite right, especially the last part. Its all about the control of the mind and molding of the minds to see things the way they want us to/not to perceive them.
Does anyone here see the resemblance between the photograph of Dr. Goebbels and the photographs of the weenie-armed soy-boy, anti-Second Amendment “spokesperson” David Hogg? Just askin’.
D the W
Been thinking
Have we seen this name Hogg somewhere before?
I can’t put my finger on it. Texas? Out west? Why does this name Hogg sound familiar?
An incident a few years ago?
Joe c, you may be thinking of James Stephan “Big Jim” Hogg, Governor of Texas 1881-1895. Named hi daughter “Ima” (Ima Hogg). His statue was removed after the Charlottesville riots in 2017 along with three Confederate monuments, evidently by mistake, since he was too young to have even served in the Confederacy (his father Joseph Hogg was a Confederate General though).
Dennis
Thanks for the reply, but geeze I’m thinking not the Hogg I’m thinking of. Maybe a name similar??
Somewhere that name has appeared in the past few years.
On some blog, something radical.
Maybe just me. I dunno
Boss Hogg?? Circa Dukes of Hazard?
Dweezle
That kid gives me the willys,
Sorta like psychopath in the making
NB
I haven’t watched the videos, but several sites are compairing Hogg to Hitler. Arm bands, arm extended as Hitler did while.speaking, etc
Could be why the Heebee Jeebies.
Just listen to the children…..
‘Hitler Youth’
And one site did a scene search,
Estimate….less than 10 percent were of kids at the DC protest last Saturday. 18 and under
I have Nothing to Hide
….. Everything to Fear…..at this day and age of technology…..and Ratts
If ya know what I mean.
Be the grey man/woman
This is exactly why cops and the military are the bad guys and shouldn’t be worshipped or praised. Cops follow orders and enforce abusive and immoral laws that violates a persons right to body and property whether it is not wearing a seat belt, possessing a “drug” or possessing a gun or maybe even one day for speech. It’s not the politicians who will cage you and throw threaten you with physical violence or use physical violence, it is the cops.
Joe C
Look up the name Jason Hogg …
Look at his Bio.
It was byte scrubbed the day of or day before the Fla. Situation …
Still interesting …
Joe C.
Then look who his father is …
Another one of those rabbit holes …
Now if they are related somehow …
Know what I mean …
BJH
Thanks will do.
BJH, must be some confusion on who David Hogg’s dad is. Just read an article saying his dad is a Kevin Hogg, former FBI agent who retired in 2014 and moved his family to Florida. Last assignment L.A., Ca. The mother supposedly a radical anti-Trumper.
Dennis,
No confusion.
Lots of times you are dealing with cousins ,brothers and uncles and the strings cross over when you start to dig.
All looks benevolent on the surface …
Then those darn coincidences pile up …
BJH,
Not saying you’re confused, but evidently those in the press are. I’m seeing stories saying Jason as father and stories saying Kevin, a completely different man. Whoever the daddy is, the boy was groomed prior to this event for what he’s doing now.
By the way, the video’s that proved he lied about being at the school during the shooting? There’s a new phone video “selfie” that’s been released supposedly shot inside a closet at school during the shooting. The video is very grainy, barely able to make his face out, but no one else’s, with him having the calmness to look at his watch and give the time, validating he was “really there during the shooting”.
Classic covering up glaring falsehoods found in the original story.
Dennis,
Kevin and Jason are related. Most likely cousins.
Jason’s father is Russel.
Kevin’s father is Robert.
Most likely their father’s are Brothers. (Maybe cousins.)
Kevin is David’s father.
Robert is David’s Grandfather.
The grandfather also went by the name David Robert.
That’s the family connection
THE WHOLE REASON I brought it up is look at the Companies Jason owns and the companies he is ceo and or affiliated with.
Blackstone Group is Gargantuan.
His own co.does business type of security.
His own father owned a CC company.
Now that takes lots of cash to get off the ground.
Now it makes sense WHY this kid got all the attention and still does.
Very very powerful people are in his family Dennis .
Everyone will ignore this. Even here …
This is how they work in the shadows because no one can put 2 and 2 together to make 4 anymore …
Btw,this info was sent to me over a month ago …
BJH, I appreciate the info. This is the reason I scan as many sources as possible as the media will only disseminate that which advances their narrative.
Have you seen the report saying David Hogg suffers with dyslexia? Had applied for entrance to several University of California schools and rejected by all? He reads his prepared rants pretty well for a dyslexic. Does that explain the ever present earpiece?
Dennis,
His grades are mediocre. He’s in the 70% area not up in the 90% area.
They will find a place for him. A big prestigious college will come along and offer to take him. Bet my last 2 cents on it.
(Probably a family members Alma Mater.)
He is being groomed for politics.
When the times right some Dem will fall on their sword and retire to open up an easy win. (Clinton/Obama got in that way.)
Sounds about right,doesn’t it?
BJH, I’m guessing, since Debbie Wasserman Schultz already has taken him under wing, he will be brought onto her staff as paid intern to be groomed as her replacement. (this all happened in her district).
Dennis,
They could be “grooming him” as her ‘special’ intern… that would screw the kid up for life. Win/Win?
McGyver, Boy, you got that right. My eyes have never quite recovered from the first time I saw a picture of her. Can’t imagine closer contact than that.
Dennis,
Bad luck for them kids
But good opportunity for him.
The sheep will buy anything …
Dennis,just gonna say it …
They are related …
You are seeing the building of a new family dynasty …
But I’m probably full of it …
Dennis BJH
Whilst looking for the Hogg name….
Mother also “anti g u n, anti 2nd, strong ties with cnn” and works at a school. Forgot the name Florida
Dad although retired FBi and now an elementary school teacher in Florida.
Both incomes bought a 1+mil $ home in Florida that is now on the market.
Selling their home, huh? I guess the rumor’s true, Hogg has self identified as a African American Indian and been awarded a special set-aside scholarship the the University of Chicago’s “Barrack Obama-Bill Ayers-Ward Churchill School of Marxist Revolution and Blowing Sh*t Up”, thus ending his quest for finding a college to accept him.😂
(Far be it from me to start rumors)
Joe C,
Ol Jason started out as a FB and I fella.
Then an exec at Blackstone …
Hmmm
Just a coincidence I’m sure …
Ohh, yes
Coincidencdental, I’m.sure.
But I’m thinking further back for some.reason.
Will.have to ask my bro. He remembers and searches everything.
His Dad was in a big scandal while he ran a major Credit card company.
Interesting that alot of those guys with that name are with the FB and I
Daves dad is too …Hmmm
BJH
What I may/maynot remember of that name was a spokes person and/or a victim of some incident in the past.
Damn I wish I could remember.
Joe C,
Ya got to wonder if it may all be one big happy family.
If you remember, can ya post it?
Don’t wish to be a party poo.
Just remembered Hogg was a name of a person I served papers to a few yrs back.
Dang I thought I was on to something. Sorry BJH, but still good info.u gave.
Too much crap going on for this wee mind
BJH
I will still ask bro.
If he or I may get more of this Hogg howe-down, I will post.
Sorry for the confusion.
BJH
I’m so dang sorry.
Dad was an OTR truck driver….south and west.area. Person I Finally.served was.a pistol. Can’t keep my $ it straight I guess.
Dementia……. setting in.
And who am I speaking to?
Crazy.Horse??¿
My brain is going toward a doctor who was killed?
Dr. Who?
I’m so freaking embarrassed.
One insodent that has absolutely nothing to do with the other
I keep thinking of the Dukes of Hazard. Wasn’t Boss Hogg the incompetent bad guy on the show?
Wired ran an article that told how the gov snoops can put child porn or terrorism site views or anything else they want in order to frame and prosecute you on your phones.computers , etc . Backdoor functions given to them by the big Apple,Microsoft,etc enable total manipulation of your stored data that can not be recognized as false data after they place it there . Jury nullification is about our last hope at this point .
Completely right about jury nullification. Not only are juries supposed to guard our freedoms against false allegations but they are entitled to vote down bad laws and stand up for our rights to body and property. Despite what judges or others say one purpose of juries is to have their own say on the governments “law” and vote a person not guilty for doing what shouldn’t be a crime. It is the most direct form of democracy. It always amazes me how many conservatives talk about freedom from government and how government can’t be trusted but they always seem to back up the police state and blindly belief the police and prosecutors. One juror can stop someone from being convicted of exercising their second amendment right, engaging in free speech, defending themselves from police, not having their property stolen (not paying taxes) or having a pill or plant or any object without government permission. On top of that jurors can stop someone from being convicted when the evidence is not direct, overwhelming and when there are no independent witnesses. It is better that 1000 people go free than 1 innocent person being convicted. So many cases are he said she said and should never even make it to trial. It has been proven that DNA, fibers and finger prints can be planted and of course anything on ones computer or isp browsing history. Those things alone should not be enough to convict without video or independent witnesses with no reason to lie.
I’m a free man and I refuse to hide. Anyone who wants to arrest Christians and right-wingers had me in their sights long ago, so there’s no point in me trying to “clean up my act” or go underground now.
I’m probably on so many leftist “hate lists” that they’d come for me before Rush Limbaugh.
I firmly believe that Matthew 24 will be fulfilled soon, including the part about Christians being persecuted. Those are the days which are also described in Revelation 6 – days of great deception, war, famine and death. During that time 1/4 of earth’s population will die (Revelation 6:8).
That passage of Scripture is my main motivation for prepping.
😎👍🏻
Feel the same,
The Lord chooses
Now, here is a man who know what he is talking about. A messenger. Take heed, all souls, listen to you gut feelings and follow Our Heavenly Father.
I agree with you, we are in that season and all the players are about to take to the stage. Did you know that just a while ago the current pope after being asked about his teaching contradicting the Word of God, said his word overrules anything written in the the bible? Well if you ask me the second beast, the false prophet has already revealed himself.
And as the prophecies say and the scripture confirms, the upcoming war and disasters of all sorts isn’t the worst we should be worried about. Time to get right with God for when all else fails, when everything collapses in our lives He will still be there for us, as the scripture says in those days we wont be able to buy, sell or trade unless we accept the mark of the beast and if we do so we are cut off from God so don’t do it.. Our lives are one big choice and those last days will be a test so choose wisely and endure till the end.
God bless you all and may the Lord protect and guide you and your families on your paths in Jesus name i pray. Amen.
Thanks Macek, I need all the prayer I can get and I pray the same for you!
Guess we are in big trouble here, we have so many knifes forks spoons that have caused death to millions im afraid of the consequences😂
Ohh I forgot the most dangerous weapons of all that we have ink pens and paper, all will come to pass as predicted but we will still strive to overcome😊
After I had been following a few of the blogs I realized i was already on another government list. What the heck, whats another one? I figured I might as well start contributing since I was already on it. I’d say that Snowden really got my eyes wide open but they were already open quite a bit. As a technophobe I really don’t understand too much of the jargon and know just enough to realize I really can’t hide.
I can’t help but think that the folks who are attempting to do so are probably just making themselves more “interesting”? I do kind of envy the expertise of those who are more electronically savvy than I. Would some one please tell Orbitz to quit showing me all of those deals, I already bought the damn tickets.
I’m already on the databases for the recent firearms purchases. As for the older ones well they didn’t fall out of the boat. I’ve had a few periods in my life where I was in dire need of cash. The Nylon 66, M1 carbine, Mini 14 and Ruger MK1 all put food on the table and paid the rent at the same time. Technically I guess the MK1 also put a lot of food on the table before I sold it. Lots of cottontails found their ending from it. I have receipts from the folks I sold them to so many years ago. Way back when you didn’t have to log them with the feds.
I think I’m probably more honest than the average person. I do have things in my past that I don’t particularly care to share with the general public. Nothing that I’m ashamed of but some things are best kept private. I doubt that I will end up in the history books and if you google me I don’t come up. I thought about deleting my facebook profile but then remembered joining FB just didn’t seem like something I wanted to do. So I didn’t, hence no profile to delete.
I would prefer to keep my weapons, I do believe that God created men and Colonel Colt made them equal. McGyver has recently been threatened with grave bodily harm and I’ve just found out that the dude who threatened to kill me is getting out on parole. He’s 6 inches taller, 50 pounds heavier and 40 years younger. Colonel Colt made him my equal. If it comes to point where I have to give them up I won’t like it but I know what happened to the dude here a few years back who didn’t. Over 6,000 rounds into the trailer he was in after he shot at the cops when they came to arrest him. All he did was kill the next door neighbor, why did they get so upset? He lived in ICU for about a year before going to the pen for the rest of his life. Nope, prison is not something I ever want to experience.
Good article Lauren. Thanks
a couple of yrs back (roughly) I watched a t.v. interview with Eric Schmidt (of Google). Cannot recall which channel/which interviewer. At one point, the interviewer was “pressing” Mr. Schmidt, on how much did google “know”/”find out” from users actions/search/etc. He was rather evasive in his reply. Rather smarmy. The interviewer “pressed harder”, and expressed privacy concerns/etc..Mr Schmidt’s reply was to the effect…”What does it matter? If you have nothing to hide, what does it matter?”….————–I am a pretty boring person…but it “mattered to me”…then and now.
don’t know if this is the same interview I recall, but did some googling, and found interviews on You tube…
Interviewer…expresses concerns about privacy…========================Eric Schmidt’s response (CEO Google at time)….—“If you are doing/have something you don’t want anyone to know about…maybe you should not be doing that”————————————————————————Interviewer questions privacy concerns again/where does info go to/who to? ————Eric Schmidt’s reply “Google does retain info and the reality is we are all responsive to the Patriot Act, and all info can be made available to the Authorities”….
Let me share what’s on MY list:
Google
Facebook
Yahoo
Twitter
Obama and anyone/any group associated with him for any reason
DHS
FBI
CIA
George Soros and anyone/any group associated with him for any reason
Elon Musk
The Clinton Family and their cabal
The George HW Bush family and their cabal
Democrats
Republicans
Congress
Just read this interesting bit..
“Much like Facebook, Google has probably amassed a vast storehouse of data on you.
How vast? I downloaded my files from the platform just now (here’s how), and they weighed in at over 20 GB, or 20 billion bytes. That’s equivalent to a 12 million-page text file.
(By comparison, the complete works of Dickens as a text file weigh in at 1.7 MB, Dostoevsky at 0.8 MB, and Tolstoy 0.85 MB. Their combined lifetime output comes to 0.000017% of my Google file.)”
ok, maybe this fellow should get caught, or maybe it is just a “cluster chuck”
“Man charged with arson after police read his pacemaker data ——
————Ross Compton, an Ohio man charged with arson based partly on data collected from his pacemaker, has pleaded not guilty to setting his Ohio home on fire.—————–“
Ken, can you please attribute the new quote at the top of the page? I’d like to use it on FB but I need to know the source first.
Snowden.
Thanks
Keep a low profile. Be humble and mind your own business. You don’t need to know what other people are doing and they don’t need to know what you are doing. Stay off social media. Don’t use a smart phone. Send very few emails. Disable your wi-fi router, use hard wire only. Don’t use smart appliances of any kind. Don’t do on-line banking, go to the bank instead and use snail mail. Stop buying crap off the internet or from Amazon… if you haven’t gotten it yet then do without or search and find where the closest place is to buy your stuff then drive over there and get it and pay cash. Just like people did in the olden days. Take out most of your money from the bank and stash it in a safe place somewhere else. It’s eventually going to be worthless anyway whether it’s in a bank or in a mason jar in your backyard. Use credit cards sparingly and never use a debit card or an ATM. Wipe sensitive files from your hard drives using secure wiping programs and then don’t write anything to your computer hard drive… except the most useless and mundane stuff, use an external drive instead. Keep your wood chipper in running order. When the threat becomes imminent, or the system starts to make you feel really guilty about some otherwise normal thing, toss all your hard drives and your cell phone through your 4000 Rpm wood chipper then toss the residue into a bed of 1500 degree hard wood coals. Let them gnaw on that for a while.
Mind your own business and live an unassuming life style and stop falling for all the new gadgets that will help bring people into your life.
CrabbeNebulae – Whew!!! Reading and yaking on international survival websites on a daily basis didn’t make your “No-no” list!! Woo-hoo! I guess I’m still safe!
CD in Oklahoma
Hmm, might want to run that slogan by the FBI, DOJ etc : )
Lauren;
Good job on the article, and getting comments.
I did notice the “photo” on the article got changed, get a little heat Ken?
Quit a bit of chatter on fire-arms and people worrying about being on the “list”, hate to tell ya all, but just the fact you commented or said the word “g u n” on a publicly ran Survival BLOG is enough to get you on a list.
Sure am bugged about that stinking boating accident on the lake, dang it anyways. The Park Ranger did not know what to do when I filled a report of the accident and what I lost, but he signed the report anyways 🙂
BTW, Lauren, the 1000 word reading attention span only works for articles that are of “sort of ok” to read, when you have a good subject like this and many others, people will read the entire thing even if 3000 words with a well laded out format.
PS; I’m probably on so many list they need a list just to keep track of the list I’m on 🙂
The “recommended” limit for a blog post is 500 words, otherwise you end up with TLDR (too long, didn’t read). I’ve found from personal experience that more people will read the whole thing if it’s shorter so I tend to minimize and cut down whenever possible.
Twitter has ruined the attention span of the public.
Lauren;
“Twitter has ruined the attention span of the public.”
I’m sorry, what were we talking about…… EVEN IN PERSON, most can not keep a decent conversation going…. how sad.
Oh, right…no, we were…squirrel!
HAHAHA, that’s good Lauren… LOLOL
Squirrel !
There’s a standing joke among authors. We have a sort of unofficial contest about what kind of “lists” we’re on because of research.
NRP
They most likely have a special list for guys like you,,,,
Ha!
Honestly though, if most of the people in this country were like the regulars here, our country would be in good order and all over a pleasant place
Lauren,
I agree w/ NRP on article length. When written on an interesting/relevant topic, you’ll have no problem with folks here reading all the way through. But then again, we are an above-average group here! 😉
So Cal Gal;
HOLY COW!!!!!
I need to print this off and frame it.
Not only did you agree with me, but you call me “above-average”
WOWOWOWOW!!!!!!!
HAHAHAH, roflmao
Love ya kido 🙂
NRP,
Hahaha! Just because I am not a gin drinker doesn’t mean I don’t agree with you about lots of other stuff!
Love ya right back 🙂
Great article Lauren. I just added DDG, but have been thinking more and more about just going offline, at least for a while. I have to give it more thought, but there’s something very appealing about just going offline and walking away from all of it.
There’s some good about it (this site, online banking etc), but 99% of it is just a time waster and I’m becoming more uncomfortable about what’s being tracked/stored. I can say I have nothing to hide, but does looking up prepping articles/sites make me a target? What about my Amazon purchase history? Or my FB page, where I talk about homeschooling my kids and working at my church?
Much to think about.
I visit this site, my e-mail and FB. Probably should dump FB, but otherwise I’m completely out of touch with my family since they no longer seem to use phones.
For me it’s a tossup. By going offline I’d probably attract more attention (protective coloration, blending in with the herd) but online I tend to do and say things that probably aren’t helping me blend in either.
As far as whether any particular behavior makes you a target–that depends on who is looking and what they’re looking for. 🙂
LAUREN ,,,,,,,,I KNOW A PLACE YOU WOULD FIT RIGHT IN AT ,,,,,,
Lauren thanks for the reminder of your article. It meshes well with my comment.
You and Shepherdess are the Greyist folks on MSB. You never rise to the bait of “What is your Concealed Carry”. One of the recent articles lately. Who was created that article?
Hermitus I hope your family is agreeing to your bold statement. Tommyboy do you have plenty of popcorn when it gets real?
Lower your Stooge points friends maybe someone else will be the one hammered.
Okay, I had to release this comment (above from NHM) from his auto-banned moderation filter for others to see the paranoia and slander towards me and the trust of my readers.
NHM, You imply that the article, “What is your Concealed Carry” (actually you got it wrong, it’s this one, “What is your EDC Handgun and Why?” is motivated by me being a Fed who is making notes of who has what firearm – so that I suppose I would send upstairs to the bosses – who would then be sure to come to your door? Something like that? And that’s because, why again? Why would they do that? Oh, I forgot… you’re a paranoid delusional. Wow. You’re a piece of work dude.
I feel icky even taking the bait and responding. But I just couldn’t help it.
https://modernsurvivalblog.com/security/what-is-your-edc-handgun-and-why/
Oh, and for all the rest of you, be sure to click on that link and comment what your EDC is, so that I can get good points from the boss upstairs! Thanks alot!
Ken
Wow!
So much goes on that I’m not aware of on this site. I didn’t know you injured yourself….
But I tell ya what, I for one and many, many others dang appreciate what you do for us and do your darndest to protect us from others.
Ok there’s a salute there somewhere…..
Salutes
😎🤙 Thanks, man!
(Tell the Fed boss it’s break time)
Hahaha! I gotta meet my quota first before I get a break! They need names man! OMG it hurts to laugh!
Ken and others,
For what it’s worth, unless you made a conscious decision when acquiring your first firearm and made sure any ammunition or consequent firearm acquisitions were untraceable, the government knows whether you have firearms. Or, at the very least, would have probable cause to obtain a search warrant should possession of such become illegal. If that happened (became illegal, with mass confiscation), they would not be coming to look for one specific gun.
Being retired LEO with nationwide carry through HR218 of 2004, a state concealed carry holder, a member of the NRA, and current hunting license holder, I doubt anyone who cares would depend on this site as a source of determining my gun owner status. That fact is already established.
Having said that, I see that some northeastern states are about to create legislation requiring submission of a potential gun purchaser’s social media history to be perused for deciding if they are a threat to others. That’s a sobering thought. A Supreme Court case for sure, being an assault not only on 2nd A, but also 1st A. If such legislation is actually passed, many should fear what they’ve said over the net.
That would be New York. We are (and have been) on a slippery slope for sure. I shudder to think of where all this eventually leads.
For all the talk about god, he created free will and it will play out. We know how it will end but we don’t know in how long and it doesn’t have to be use who become evil or are persecuted. Let it be China and africa and the Middle East that turns evil. It doesn’t have to be whites in the West. Nor should we not defend ourselves from being persecuted.
Thank you for the article Lauren. Really got em going…….
Thanks! *Achievement unlocked* 🙂
Lauren,
Good article!
Title made me laugh though …
Out of curiosity, why did the title make you laugh? You’ve mentioned that twice now.
The original title was “If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.”
I have made a very nice living off of” hiding” things on people’s behalf …
Somewhere in the middle, hide in plain site, not too far left and not too far right. Google earth can find you anywhere.
Years ago, when I was much younger and far more naive, I learned some things from several of my superior officers at the Sheriff Department that truly disturbed me. These were a major part of the reason I left law enforcement. I’ve toyed with re-entering law enforcement over the years, but haven’t. Most of my friends in law enforcement are either clinging to time served to hit their pension numbers or looking for a way to move laterally into the private sector, but few of them are happy.
Back when I was with the Sheriff Department, the phrase was “If you don’t have anything to hide, then you won’t mind us looking”. Any expressed reservation or resistance to that phrase was to be viewed as indication that a person was attempting to hide something.
I was advised that the charge of “resisting arrest” was normally used as an insurance policy to protect the officer and the department from legal action in the event the person being arrested was able to prove their innocence from the original infraction they were being arrested for.
I was taught that there are a few things that I could charge someone with that were highly likely to destroy their lives even if I knew they were innocent, simply because of the way society automatically reacted. Even starting the rumor of these things would be enough. Those included being a pedophile, molesting a child, possessing child pornography, selling/giving drugs to minors, selling/giving alcohol to minors, manufacturing/distributing drugs, possession of certain drugs. People charged with these offenses are almost always assumed to be guilty. They have an incredible, up-hill battle just to prove their innocence. Even after that, they are “tainted” as there will always be a number of people who will still believe they are guilty. That was back before everyone had a mobile phone (much less a smart phone) or a computer with internet access. Now, things can be “discovered” on their hard drives, in their internet history, etc.
I’m not painting the whole of law enforcement as being bad. I know there are good ones and bad ones. However, be aware, even the good ones have an “incentive” to make sure you are guilty. Otherwise, they will take the fall when the lawsuits start flying. And lawsuits are expensive, even for police departments.
Who controls the scene? They do. Who controls the “evidence”? They do. How much oversight is there over chain of evidence? Don’t make me laugh. In many jurisdictions, there is NO definitive explanation or example of what constitutes “indication” by a K9 unit. ANY action can be claimed as the dog giving indication or “marking”. Dogs are not only trained to sniff out drugs and explosive materials. Dogs are also trained to detect electronic devices, including thumb drives; as well as stuff like firearms and ammunition.
Now, with seemingly every little part of our lives being monitored and recorded, aggregated, etc., how can you be sure that some group, party, agency, etc. won’t use that against you? What if they decide that you don’t “fit in” with how they want things to be? You can’t. Now, you’re a “subversive” in someones eyes. How difficult do you think it would be for something to be discovered on your computer that you didn’t know was there? When your cooling fan fires up and CPU/Memory usage suddenly skyrockets… is that just some innocuous task your computer is working on or is someone in your system? Are they looking? Are they planting something?
We the People are being fractured into smaller and smaller groups, and taught to hate the others. Preppers, gun owners, Christians, conservatives- we are the new bad guys, the boogeymen, the ones they’re being told are murdering children, enslaving the poor, engaging in racist behavior, etc. They are being taught to hate us. So, how do you think they will treat us if they ever actually do come after us? Do you think honesty and honor will play any part?
If you’re reading this, you are already on a list. Everyone is on multiple lists. Your medical records, purchase records, utility records, internet activity, smart phone activity, etc. are already in databases that are updated “live” as you go. What remains to be seen is how that data and those lists are going to be used. IMHO, I doubt it will be used for good. Everything in those databases can be skewed, just like anything else. It all comes down to who is looking, and do they like you.
Good post,
I like being just not worth the trouble, certainly no resources to seize and as far as being a radical, yea, real radical, most radical thing ive done in a while was going to walmart! Or biTching on forums…..
If im even close to being on the radar we are all really in trouble
It will continue to get worse out here, as has been predicted in revelation and other parts of the bible. I love my privacy and it is no ones business about my life. Be prepared and ready. Keep your powder dry.
From an article: ‘The NSA Main Core program authorizes computer searches through a massive electronic database, tracks red and blue listed dissidents’ (from intellihub)
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The National Security Agency has already entered eight million Americans into a massive supercomputer database called Main Core.
“In the event of a national emergency these potential threats will be identified and they will be dealt with accordingly,” Ambellas said. “These potential threats are Americans, dissidents, according to the U.S. government, people who have been cataloged.”
There are over eight million of them now listed in the Main Core,” he explained. “Everyone in there is a potential suspect.”
(I don’t know this website or author — is this tinfoil stuff or is it real? Anyone?)
MT
Did you watch the news report after the article? At this point of time I put nothing past those who do not like us with independent minds.
8 million known
How many others unknown?
That’s one heck of an army, against Tyranny.
I believe I’ve been on a list all me life
The _hit list, in one form or another.