SavannahMann
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I stumbled across this video on youtube.
Now, what happened in short. The maker of the video makes a lot of videos on Diesel Truck engines and power and all that sort of thing. Well he saw an add for a cheap silencer you could order online. He looked at a couple videos, and checked out a couple webpages, and decided it was a scam. Junk. And it is actually illegal. So he forgot about it. These silencers are based on a oil filter pipe. So long story short, he knew it was bullshit when he ordered fuel and oil filters for his two Diesel powered trucks. Imagine his surprise when there is a County Sheriff and a Special Agent from the Department of Homeland Security who show up on his door wanting to know why he is buying illegal silencers over the internet.
He bought filters. The Agent shows him the order, the agent had a copy of the order. And shows him the large number of filters he had ordered. The man walks them to his shop and shows his two diesel powered trucks and his workshop. They depart, possibly satisfied, probably to up his watchlist position.
So how could this happen? Well those computes that are supposedly needed and used only with a warrant, you know those computer records that the NSA and Homeland Security swear are never abused? That's right, those computer records that are never examined without a warrant from a court. Well that computer apparently tracked him through the videos and webpages about these bullshit silencers. Then it watched his orders, and when he ordered filters, flagged his file to a human. One and One makes two.
Now, what reason for a warrant could they have for a guy living in rural Michigan? They didn't. What this guy is learning is that ex military are on a watch list all their own. We are watched because the Government knows what we have been trained to do. They trained us. And you don't turn a weapon loose without some sort of safeguard that it won't be turned against you.
To this fellow I say welcome to the world we have known about for some time. For the rest of you who think that all this crap, the Homeland Security nonsense is to protect us from Terrorists, wake up.
Now, what happened in short. The maker of the video makes a lot of videos on Diesel Truck engines and power and all that sort of thing. Well he saw an add for a cheap silencer you could order online. He looked at a couple videos, and checked out a couple webpages, and decided it was a scam. Junk. And it is actually illegal. So he forgot about it. These silencers are based on a oil filter pipe. So long story short, he knew it was bullshit when he ordered fuel and oil filters for his two Diesel powered trucks. Imagine his surprise when there is a County Sheriff and a Special Agent from the Department of Homeland Security who show up on his door wanting to know why he is buying illegal silencers over the internet.
He bought filters. The Agent shows him the order, the agent had a copy of the order. And shows him the large number of filters he had ordered. The man walks them to his shop and shows his two diesel powered trucks and his workshop. They depart, possibly satisfied, probably to up his watchlist position.
So how could this happen? Well those computes that are supposedly needed and used only with a warrant, you know those computer records that the NSA and Homeland Security swear are never abused? That's right, those computer records that are never examined without a warrant from a court. Well that computer apparently tracked him through the videos and webpages about these bullshit silencers. Then it watched his orders, and when he ordered filters, flagged his file to a human. One and One makes two.
Now, what reason for a warrant could they have for a guy living in rural Michigan? They didn't. What this guy is learning is that ex military are on a watch list all their own. We are watched because the Government knows what we have been trained to do. They trained us. And you don't turn a weapon loose without some sort of safeguard that it won't be turned against you.
To this fellow I say welcome to the world we have known about for some time. For the rest of you who think that all this crap, the Homeland Security nonsense is to protect us from Terrorists, wake up.