{"id":2152,"date":"2013-08-10T21:08:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-11T01:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/intramuralist.com\/?p=2152"},"modified":"2013-08-12T23:03:22","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T03:03:22","slug":"hiding-from-u-s-government-drones-guest-writer-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/?p=2152","title":{"rendered":"hiding from U.S. government drones (guest writer #4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>[This post was transcribed from an encrypted handwritten note sent to me in an envelop without a return address.]<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dear Editor-in-Chief of the Intramuralist,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am honored to be on your list of potential guest bloggers, but I will have to respectfully decline your invitation to write a post this year. Sorry.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I need to decline because for the first time in my life, I am too afraid to share my thoughts. In the past, I could have freely expressed my conservative positions without the threat of reprisal. Now, I need to remain silent because I am scared that the Obama administration will send out thugs, Chicago Style, from the IRS, FTC, FCC, EPA, NSA, FBI, CIA or DOJ to target me and take away everything that I have worked so hard to earn. The current IRS, AP and NSA scandals substantiate the plausibility or even the probability of this.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Our country has changed in five short years thanks to the progressive Obama administration, corrupt or compromised politicians, overly complicated tax laws, a complicit media and an uninformed populace. President Obama says that there is nothing \u201cthere there.\u201d I believe that there is something \u201cthere there,\u201d so\u00a0I have to regretfully say no to the invitation to write on your blog.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Not only that, but I have gone completely off the grid:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I have cancelled my Verizon smartphone with GPS that shows who I talked to and where I went.<\/li>\n<li>I have canceled my credit cards that show what I bought and where I shopped.<\/li>\n<li>You won\u2019t find me on Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, Instagram or YouTube anymore.<\/li>\n<li>I have discontinued my Time Warner Cable TV. They keep track of the shows we watch.<\/li>\n<li>I have not renewed my subscriptions to the National Review and the Conservative Chronicle. I certainly do not need to be on their mailing lists.<\/li>\n<li>I have unsubscribed to the Limbaugh Letter.<\/li>\n<li>I have stopped using my computer to send emails, surf websites, and search Google. These activities are all being tracked.<\/li>\n<li>I will never send checks to conservative candidates again. My checks are being electronically traced by my bank and reviewed by the IRS. In fact, I am going to close my checking account at PNC.<\/li>\n<li>I have sold all of my stock in Caterpillar, ExxonMobil, and Goodyear and bought shares in green energy companies.<\/li>\n<li>I have shut off my Duke energy service because those smart meters record my electric and gas usage and calculate my carbon footprint. I don\u2019t need the hypocritical Al \u201cJazeera\u201d Gore including me in his next documentary.<\/li>\n<li>I have turned in my gun and canceled my NRA membership.<\/li>\n<li>I sold my car with the Onstar tracking system, and I will not be driving through EZPass toll booth lanes anymore.<\/li>\n<li>Kathleen Sebelius, the US Secretary of Health and Inhumane Services will never know about any of my medical conditions because I am not going to see a doctor ever again. I certainly don\u2019t want every one of my diagnoses captured on a computer and shared with the administrators of the Affordable Health Act, the IRS.<\/li>\n<li>And Sebelius can look at my Walgreens loyalty card data all she wants. She will not find anything more exciting than Q-tips, multi-vitamins and Hoops and Yoyo greeting cards associated with me. In fact, from today onward, I am not going to be taking my meds anymore. My psychologist said that I am not paranoid if people are actually following me.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, I have ripped up my passport and have curbed all travel plans that can be monitored, foreign and domestic. My only regret: I didn\u2019t move my family to Hong Kong first.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am now living stress free knowing that my family, our way of life and all of our freedoms are completely protected from our overreaching and nefarious government.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Confidentially yours,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Edward Snowed-In <i>(Pseudonym)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>P.S. \u00a0I will be off the grid until there are term limits and tax reforms that eliminate corruption.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[This post was transcribed from an encrypted handwritten note sent to me in an envelop without a return address.] &nbsp; Dear Editor-in-Chief of the Intramuralist, &nbsp; I am honored to be on your list of potential guest bloggers, but I will have to respectfully decline your invitation to write a post this year. Sorry. &nbsp; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/?p=2152\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;hiding from U.S. government drones (guest writer #4)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2152"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2161,"href":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152\/revisions\/2161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}