Enemy of the State (news time heh)

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I wouldnt dout it.

Enemy of the State
by Don Nash, Unknown News
Aug. 23, 2005
I discovered on Friday last, I’m under surveillance by some federal agency or another.
There are so many federal agencies that have authority
to do surveillance of Americans these days, compliments
of the PATRIOT Acts I and II. American government
doesn’t trust American citizens any longer. Congress certainly doesn’t trust American citizens or our wondrous Congress wouldn’t have offered up PATRIOT Acts I and II. It’s that “war on terror.” Funniest little thing though, most of the terror is being orchestrated by our very own government.

I began to grow a little suspicious when this really cool helicopter appeared one day circling my house. Curious looking helicopter and it
makes very little noise. Helicopters are notorious for making noise, well, not this sleek new number. It’s quiet as quiet can be.

Then this federal looking guy showed up on our street
and for some reason, Mr. Clean Cut had to inform me that he worked for Comcast. I could care less who the guy says he worked for, it’s a little tough to disguise the federal look. I figured that it was my patriotic and civic duty to play along with Mr. Clean Cut and told the guy that was fine.


Now, there is a Post Office on the south side of our street and it has a driveway that the postal guys use to access the Post Office. No one EVER parks in the driveway. But on Friday August 12, 2005, there was this fancy stealth-looking car parked in the driveway where no one EVER parks. Just where the occupant or occupants of the stealth looking car can get a clear view of our house.

We’ve lived in this really keen old house for a little while, and someone being parked in the driveway across the street where no one EVER parks is more than a curiosity. I take a little walk outside mainly to have a smoke, and I’m watching this curious-looking stealth car, and it looks like there is someone inside. Well, this more than piques my sense of nosey.

I went back inside our house to grab my binoculars. I’ve got this really excellent pair of high-grade binoculars that I use for watching raptors. I like watching raptors and I have for most of my life. That is irrelevant. What's relevant are the binoculars.

I went back outside and trained my high-grade binoculars on the mystery stealth
car that is parked in the Post Office
driveway across the street where no one
EVER parks. Sure enough, there’s this guy sitting in the stealth-looking car watching me watch him. I think that at that point I’ve made watcher guy pretty nervous, because for some reason, surveillance guy holds up this video camera and it’s obvious that he’s taking videos of the whole clandestine business that is now not very clandestine.

I had to go back in our house and get my wife, Mary. I’m thinking that I need a witness to all of this craziness and I’m going to at least get surveillance guy’s license plate number. So, I get my Mary, a pen, a piece of paper, and back outside we go. You can imagine that my Mary is more than a little reluctant. Anyway, I walk down the street just far enough to be able to get the clear view of spy dude’s license plate. I get the number and shout it out to my Mary and she writes it down.

Well, the surveillance scenario has not gone as planned by whomever the federal bosses are behind this nonsense. I made their boy and got his license plate number and this can’t bode well for the federal surveillance process. Considering that the surveillance process is now surely blown, spy dude is driving out of the Post Office driveway across the street where by the way, no one EVER parks.

Mr. Watcher is driving a dark forest green newer Dodge Intrepid, and his license plate number is 976 YTX, Utah. Now here is the federal surveillance give away part: the trunk lid of spy dude’s car is literally covered with an amazing array of antennae. Tall ones, small ones, a squat looking sort of fat one, and all the antennae is the giveaway.

I fired off several rather heated letters to various federal and state officials, to let them know that I know I’m under surveillance and what is up with that? So far, I’ve gotten no response from any official off the record or otherwise.

The entire farce seems like an extraordinary waste of American taxpayer money. If any federal or state official ever wanted to know what I am doing or saying, all that they ever had to do was come and ask me. Face to my face and I would tell them straight up. I firmly believe that is my patriotic and civic duty as an American of good conscience. I’m not now nor have I been hiding anything. I’ve committed no crime other than being a wise-ass. I don’t think that is a crime, yet. I suppose that I should wait and see what PATRIOT Act III brings. It's coming, I can guarantee you.

You must understand that I live in Utah where dissidents and radicals of any color or political bent stand out like the proverbial blue sore thumb. We are very few in number and even fewer in organizational organizations. There are a few isolated pockets of establishment resistance here and way the hell over there, but there are so few nonconformists of any sort in Utah, you could almost count them on one hand using about four fingers.

In defense of the dissident community in Utah, I need to say that there is an alternative newspaper here. It’s mostly an advertisement rag for the bars and private clubs, but it is an alternative to the one Church-owned newspaper, and the other newspaper that is owned by this Colorado Republican who's a bit of a dick-wad.

Utah is the home of the original American one religion one political party state. Conformity is the norm here and conformity to Mormon Republican dogma
is taught to Utah’s children. There used to be a Democratic
Party here in Utah, but that was a very long time ago. The very few Utah Democrats are really what would be considered moderate Republicans in any other state in our union. The official Supreme Council for Utah State Conformity to Official Party Dogma allows exactly one Democrat to hold any elective office in the state. Well, then there’s Sparky Anderson, the Mayor of Salt Lake City, but Sparky is an aberration and is mostly ignored.

So considering the relative lack of dissident numbers in Utah and the absence of Democratic opposition, putting any Utah dissident under federal surveillance is absurd. It is a colossal waste of taxpayer money and an even bigger waste of valuable federal surveillance time and manpower. Certainly, the government could use some poor federal surveillance guy on some pressing federal war on terror project that would give something back to our desperately failing American democracy.

Failure is exactly what is happening in America. Surveillance of the likes of me is a failure of American democracy. It used to be that I had a Constitutional right granted to me by the First Amendment to speak out about anything that came to mind. Especially if speaking out involved war criminal American presidents that wage illegal wars of aggression on inconsequential nations like Iraq.

A recent survey showed that fully 98% of all Utah residents supported Bush and his illegal war on Iraq and the upcoming illegal nuclear war on Iran. I am in abject opposition to Bush’s wars here there and everywhere. This is no surprise to anyone in Utah. It shouldn’t be anyway, I’ve always said so in public and private. The phone taps would show this. If the feds are doing surveillance, they must also be doing the wiretap thing. I don’t so much care about that as the fact that all they had to do was to come and ask me. But if the feds were to come and ask, that would short circuit the PATRIOT Acts I and II spirit of the law, and we can’t have that now can we ...

These are truly insane times we find ourselves in. It is entirely possible that 9/11/01, the day that started this mess, was in the very least foreknown by our government. Our government sat back and allowed that disaster to happen for the simple enjoyment of the climate of fear the tragedy would facilitate.

We have arrived. Say goodbye to civil liberties, equal rights, and government of the people.

I would think that the guy had to do something at some point to spark the interest of whoever felt it necessary to access a quiet helicopter (which are not really quiet, they just utilize a sound phase technology that cancels out noise) for an arial view of his property. I mean they wouldn't follow, or surveil someone with absolutely no reason. He could have said something somewhere, IRL, on the phone, or online that triggered an alert. If he did nothing wrong, or has not reason to worry about being watched, then whoever is watching him will eventually go away. In the meantime he should try to get videos of the helicopters, at least that's what I would do. Now, I doubt that feds would be so obvious as to sit in an empty parking lot in a car loaded with antennas. I would expect them to be more covert and use other means: diguised as contractors, utility workers, or whatever. The person watching this guy seems very much an amateur compared to fed tactics. We all know, no matter how hard it is to accept, that there are people in the borders of this country that want to kill us in large quantities. The government is going to do whatever it has to do in order to prevent that from happening. If we are not making ourselves targets, then why should we worry about being watched? I certainly don't care, I have nothing to hide.

I didnt read it and I thought it sounded like a insane person wrote it. Did he say he saw the men in black? Sounded like it to.

It did sound a little paranoid to me as well, but he didn't mention MIB types. He just said that one individual seemed to be a fed type, but I think he watches too many movies. I know that the FBI is well known for driving the same types of cars, but FBI agents I have seen did not have a stereotypical appearance. In fact, if I did not know they were agents I would have thought they were like any other business person. Now, the Secret Service is different. The agents that secure areas for the President ALWAYS wear dark suits, have lapel pins and earphones, or talk into wrist watches. They are obvious, but they also serve a different purpose. I have seen undercover cops wearing jeans, T-Shirts, ballcaps and carrying backpacks. The black helicopters like he described at first sounded (to me) like FEMA (which is basically homeland security), as I have seen them flying around after this area was severely hit by a hurricane. However, these were not using phase cancellation to be silent.