government surveillance

Dad’s Permanent Trailer Plate Has Entered the Surveillance State

September 8, 2026 by David T. Cloft

Dad thought “permanent trailer plate” meant permanent. Government apparently meant, “until you buy another trailer, peasant.” For generations, recycling an old trailer plate was the kind of technically-wrong rural economics nobody noticed unless a cop had an actual reason to look. Today, cameras, databases, and algorithms potentially can notice—and remember—things no human officer ever would have bothered with.

That raises a bigger question than Dad’s Great Trailer Plate Crime Spree: **When technology makes it possible for government to notice nearly everything, should it?**

CVFC PAC: The Stealth Reissue Of DOD Directive 5240.01 of 1982

January 23, 2025 by Stu Cvrk

The Stealth Reissue Of DOD Directive 5240.01 of 1982, Illegally Authorizes the US Military To Kill American Citizens and in effect, Weaponizes the US military against Americans

The Erosion of Privacy: Government Surveillance-the 4th Amendment is DOA

June 22, 2024 by David T. Cloft

In recent years, concerns about government surveillance and privacy violations have intensified, raising questions about the protection of individual rights guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment.

‘Black Boxes’ Will Become Mandatory in New Cars Sold in the EU Starting This Summer

February 23, 2022January 4, 2022 by Elizabeth Vaughn

Speeding down the New Jersey Turnpike last month, I asked my husband if he thought states would start issuing speeding tickets by mail. ‘You were clocked at 85-mph in a 65-mph zone. Here is your ticket.’ Remembering he’d received a ticket in the mail for running a red light in New York City more than …

Outfox the VA’s Attempt to Kill You: Part 1, Know the Enemy’s Plan

June 25, 2022June 30, 2021 by Ethan Imaap

Veterans of all wars suffer separation anxiety from their kit. Seriously. The equipment, the sounds, the rituals...a replacement must be found that gives you something to do with your hands.

If you are a veteran, if you prefer rural living to urban, if you own guns—even if you don’t access the VA—if you’re even suspected of being at risk for suicide, you WILL be surveilled, if you’re not being surveilled already.

How Modern Surveillance Technology Could Target Patriots

March 23, 2022June 23, 0202 by Ethan Imaap

Iris scans were only one example of the biometric data collected during the Iraq war.

So what did our country do in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? Yes, they used biometric data—fingerprints, iris scans, gait, smell, DNA, speech patterns, how you interact with the land, what your daily patterns predict about your future behavior, and more—to tag and track bad guys.