You probably should be.
Whichever wing of the two party bird is allowed into power this November, you can bet the intelligence agencies have those late night drunk posts where you said that all gov't force is illegitimate.
In the new normal, that can disappear you.
I hope you stop making those drunken rants about how you would like to be free of the yoke of oppressive gov't force.
You should probably brush up on your security culture.
What Is Security Culture?
A security culture is a set of customs shared by a community whose members may be targeted by the government, designed to minimize risk.
Having a security culture in place saves everyone the trouble of having to work out safety measures over and over from scratch, and can help offset paranoia and panic in stressful situations—hell, it might keep you out of prison, too.
The difference between protocol and culture is that culture becomes unconscious, instinctive, and thus effortless; once the safest possible behavior has become habitual for everyone in the circles in which you travel, you can spend less time and energy emphasizing the need for it, or suffering the consequences of not having it, or worrying about how much danger you’re in, as you’ll know you’re already doing everything you can to be careful.
If you’re in the habit of not giving away anything sensitive about yourself, you can collaborate with strangers without having to agonize about whether or not they are informers; if everyone knows what not to talk about over the telephone, your enemies can tap the line all they want and it won’t get them anywhere.
Develop a private shorthand for communicating with your comrades in public.
It’s important to work out a way to communicate surreptitiously with your trusted friends about security issues and comfort levels while in public situations, such as at a meeting called to discuss possible direct action.
Knowing how to gauge each other’s feelings without others being able to tell that you are sending messages back and forth will save you the headache of trying to guess each other’s thoughts about a situation or individual, and help you avoid acting strangely when you can’t take your friend aside in the middle of things to compare notes.
By the time you have convened a larger group to propose an action plan, you and your friends should be clear on what each other’s intentions, willingness to run risks, levels of commitment, and opinions of others are, to save time and avoid unnecessary ambiguity.
If you haven’t been part of a direct action planning circle before, you’ll be surprised how complicated and convoluted things can get even when everyone does arrive prepared.
As you can see from having read the story, security culture is not hard, it just requires practice to establish habits that keep you from getting no knock raided in the early morning hours.
Deciding to tell the truth in an empire built on lies, is revolutionary.
If that is you, protect yourself, or be jailed.
It really is as simple as that.
