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villager

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2. "Be worthy of their surveillance; earn your file"

Reply to FirstLight (Reply #1)

Wed Jul 3, 2013, 12:29 PM

Jul 2013

This was a maxim we had back in the pre-digital 70's, when we still assumed there was really not much of a 4th Amendment left.

And I work as a journalist and an author, so my "trail" has been a pretty obvious one, too...

See you in the back of the black vans!

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