I think these touch on the core themes that I feel form the confluence of what is converging upon my very existence - surveillance abuses, mass hysteria, witch hunts, and flawed thought processes, with books touching directly on nuts and bolts of the surveillance economy listed first, and those suggesting sociological forces which when paired with surveillance capitalism yield particularly brutal consequences for me. I view this as a far more respectable body of literary viewpoints than, say, the writings of “some obviously biased suburban cop who got called by a rich white person” and “some stupid cop-referral-dependent court appointed psych” which have apparently been regarded as gospel in the ultimate definition of my life, with devastating consequences, and are flagrantly dependent on anecdotes and “aggravated adjectives” (the formula is basically as follows: “aggressive,” “on drugs,” “erratic,” “threatening,” “yelling,” no matter what’s really happening - and what is most often really happening is that person already had hunted me down to provoke and report this via flagrantly rampant and cop/gov-endorsed cell pinging abuses haha) despite the glaringly obvious reasons to have a smart person re-review what really went down. ; )

The most prominently displayed is “The Circle” by Dave Eggers because I think it so perfectly captures the radicalization of even very bright and talented people through reward systems built into this industry that praise things like mediocrity and groupthink and societal conformity, and punish critical thinking and independence. I’m basically Mercer from the book, most of you are merely Mae’s followers, but some of you might just be the Maes of the world, people who can influence and change things. Hopefully in this iteration, the real-life version, of the “The Circle” you will choose to heed and evangelize Kalden’s warnings, and not the echo chamber of The Circle.

To this day, all brokers in the shady industries of video analytics and data forensics and real-time geolocation sales present me as a living breathing threat, not a person, and very few of their end users read books. The warning signs of surveillance tech are everywhere, but they’re only felt by a few of us. So I feel that it would benefit any of us to revisit these books to remind ourselves what human nature repeatedly proves itself capable of, and to imagine those tendencies blended in with the capability to track each of us down by our faces, phones, cars, transactions, and even voices at any time and place on the planet.

Interestingly, within hours of posting this page, my 100% perfectly healthy dog suddenly dropped dead before my very eyes, during the same timespan during which I’ve been begging any and everyone to look into what’s going down here, and really promoting this webpage and trying to get heard. It’s beyond suspicious, I know it’s murder, I will never prove it, and I wonder who is next and if the answer is me.

In light of this needless, unjustifiable atrocity, I have now added “Tattoos on the Heart” for all of the radicalized Christian Dominionists and Nationalists who have closed in on me, and my loved ones, and my property, in increasingly aggressive ways. Your so-called religious doctrine arrogantly subverts the role of your God. You’re not a legitimate judge, jury, or executioner of any of us. Perhaps it’s time for some of you to step away from the thrill of your persecutions and relearn what it is to be godly.

The strategy of Jesus is not centered in taking the right stand on issues, but rather in standing in the right place—with the outcast and those relegated to the margins.

As to “How Would a Patriot Act,” I recommend the chapter “Fear As a Weapon” since you lazy assholes don’t read books anymore, and I believe it’s Chapter 4(?) of “No Place to Hide.” Grunwald is better than any other at laying out in plain English the case against rogue surveillance which anticipate and warn of numerous nefarious applications which I have already endured. Actually, the last chapter(s) of “No Place to Hide” are awesome too, as they delve into the very predictable yet powerful ways in which critics of surveillance structures are discredited. People often ask me “what makes you think you’re so important?” The opposite is true. I am targeted precisely because I’m not important. For every Ed Snowden there are 25 million+ Joe Leinewebers - psych patients, people with criminal convictions, outspoken activists, unpopular minorities, political threats, drug addicts (I’m not but am a member of the same categorically exploitable minority underclass), and in this era “future tense threats”. Basically anyone seen as a threat to the established order or a drag on the economy. Entire multi-billion-dollar industries have been built on surveillance capitalism, which like the prison system, are reliant on perceived “nobodies” like me, voiceless vulnerable “underclass” members, to keep things churning. As the title of the book attests, for us it’s not about “nothing to hide,” it’s truly that there is “no place to hide.”

One of the sadder commentaries on society is that I felt forced to abandon home computer use throughout my struggles, and that placed me at public libraries regularly to simply access the internet … as you’ll read in “Data Cartels” (not the first book I would recommend), librarians pose as the most anti-surveillance and pro-privacy subcommunity of government. Yet my personal experience repeatedly disproved that, as library staff themselves enacted, every single time I did so much as stood up out of my seat to retrieve a print job, or take a leak, this ludicrous “staff safety” drill would kick in where they all kind of buddy up, cover name badges / flip them over, and move to specific positions in the building that are apparently between myself and the exits, clearly all disinformed by my “criminal / mental health” reputation which is complete bullshit, like the country and agencies that created it. So-called “liberal” Americans, and their utterly pussified definitions / allegiances to “safety,” has not only greased the slopes for my life to backslide unfairly into a pile of pure authoritarian shit, but this shocking naivety and subservience to “public safety protocol,” particularly as a function of their jobs, will inevitably affect their own in ways they clearly do not presently foresee. It’s very evident to me that this “prevention / deterrence” culture gives folks in boots-on-the-ground positions a false sense of empowerment, and seems to be a very poorly thought out paradigm as well as in my frank opinion a substitute for competence and actually being better at their actual primary job function.