And people tell me I am paranoid...

Here is one:

Report: TSA misled public on passenger data
Officials called ?inaccurate,? inconsistent in protecting privacy
The Associated Press
Updated: 8:54 p.m. ET March 25, 2005

WASHINGTON - The Transportation Security Administration misled the public about its role in obtaining personal information about 12 million airline passengers to test a new computerized system that screens for terrorists, according to a government investigation.

Here is two:

Mar. 28, 2005
Copyright © Las Vegas Review-Journal
EDITORIAL: Metro cop planted drugs in suspect's car

Sheriff says suspensions will suffice

There have long been rumors that police canine officers carry around
small quantities of contraband drugs which they can use to contaminate
a motorist's car, causing their dogs to "alert" on the vehicle and
thus justifying an otherwise illegal search of the interior and its
occupants.

Many have dismissed such stories as an urban legend.

But what would happen if a group of Las Vegas Metropolitan police
officers were actually found to have participated in such an activity?
Would all be forgiven with a wrist-slap, if they merely said it was "a
mistake"?

While officers were in the process of arresting local resident Mark
Lilly last July on suspicion of selling harmless legal substances and
claiming they were narcotics, an official police spokesman now admits,
canine officer David Newton placed real controlled drugs in Mr.
Lilly's vehicle. He has since contended he did so "as a training
exercise" for his dog.

It seems pointless to ask whether contaminating active crime scenes is
an accepted time, method, or location for a canine "training
exercise." A better question might be what Officer Newton was doing
carrying narcotics to an active crime scene in the first place. Has he
been charged with possession of those narcotics? Were they of a
quantity that would get anyone else automatically charged with
"possession with intent to sell"?

And here is three:

Federal agency nixes your right to privacy! How this harms you.

A quick and inexplicable decision was made to disallow private registrations for .US domain names.

In early February of this year, a decision was made by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (?NTIA?) (http://www.ntia.doc.gov/)to no longer allow private registrations for .US domain names. For the record, the NTIA is part of the United States Department of Commerce. This article provides background as to how and why private domain name registrations came about, why the NTIA decision was inappropriate, and why this harms you.

You need to be alarmed about the NTIA decision, regardless of what domain names you own.
First, don't make the mistake of thinking "I don't own .US domain names, so this won't affect me." It's true, the cancellation of privacy I am reporting to you now, just affects .US registrations. But I assure you, .US is just the first battlefield, it's the test to see if we will allow our privacy to be taken away. If we allow this to happen, the next step is to take away our right to privacy for .COM and other top level domain names. And then, if we lose this privacy, who knows what's next to go.

Private registrations started with a female customer who was in a panic.
Just after the 9/11 disaster, I received a message to phone a new female customer who was in a panic. I was told she had purchased a domain name from us about a month or so earlier, and had used it to set up a very nice website for her new small business. I was also told that she now wanted to delete her domain name and take down her website.

She was a victim of a brutal stalker.
After I called, and she picked up the phone, it was obvious she was terrified. What had her so upset was that for the past few years, she had been the victim of a malicious male stalker, and had since done everything she could to evade this monster. She believed that she had finally arranged her life where the stalker could no longer find her.

She was horrified to learn that all of her personal information had been made public.
When she purchased her domain name, she provided all of her personal contact information. She then learned, to her absolute horror, that all of the information (name, address, phone, etc.) she provided became part of the public Whois directory ? which then became available (24/7) to anyone.

A quick decision protected our customer?s privacy and saved her business.
After spending a few minutes talking to this terrified woman, I made a quick decision. I told her that I would replace all of her personal contact information in the Whois database with GoDaddy.com?s contact information.

We are lied to daily, falsely accused with illegal evidence and activity, and forced to have our private lives and papers spread out for their convenience. All the while, they hide deep in their bunkers and compounds, send their swarms across our lands, and defame our names with words like vigilante, and when this is pointed out, they- and the scared and feeble tell me I am paranoid.

These crimes have happened many times throughout History, but once Man said enough:

Declaration of Independence

IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

A few years ago I read this entire document, to a man I went to High School with, and without telling him what it was that I was reading. When I finished, he told me that the government would consider me a traitor if I made this public. I told him the government had already decreed that the men who had signed this paper were indeed traitors. I was flattered when he asked me if I had signed it, and I told him no, as I was not alive when it was penned and that it was our Declaration of Independence and signed in 1776- I could feel his shame come through the telephone line.

Those men grew tired of the oppression, as has this Paranoid.

You just have to ask yourself when you will too.

--WP