Now the NSA just collects the phone calls, emails, credit card purchases, and travel records of everyone. So much easier that way.

And if you make waves, onto a no-fly or terror watch-list you go.

Best of all, The Military Commissions Act of 2006 now grants the executive branch authority to declare any U.S. citizen an "unlawful enemy combatant" and detain them in an undisclosed location indefinitely.

Good times!

As for Mailer, the feds actually came very close to getting him at least once--but Richard Stratton refused to cooperate, taking a 20-year sentence instead of selling out his friend, the government's true target. Fortunately, Stratton became his own attorney in jail and got himself out based on an error in his sentencing after only 8 years.

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