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The average American on the average day commits three felonies every day. If they decide they want you, they don't
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like your politics, they can get your metadata, find crimes that they can charge you with and ruin your life, and
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there's nothing you can do to protect yourself. >> What is it that you know about the
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nature of the reality that we all live in that the average person really has no idea about? Number one, John Kennedy
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called the CIA the best and the brightest. And we're not. We're just average people. And we're not as smart
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as we think we are. We're not as worldly as we think we are. We've pretty much
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missed every major global development since 1947. From the, you know, the rise of the Berlin Wall to the fall of the
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Berlin Wall to the fall of the Soviet Union to the Suez crisis and the Iran hostage crisis and 9/11 and everything
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else. We missed it. We're really good at day-to-day, you know, updates for the
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president. We're really good at recruiting minor hangers on around terrorist groups, but the the big
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picture items were just not good at it. Number two, until 9/11, it was against the law, like in stone, to spy on
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Americans. And now billions of dollars are spent spying on Americans. Whether it's NSA or
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CIA or or FBI or intelligence community contractors, nothing is secret. Nothing. And to make
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matters worse, let's say maybe you did do something that law enforcement might
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be interested in. They don't need a warrant anymore. They don't need to go
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to a judge and say, "Well, we have reason to believe, you know, blah blah blah." All they have to do is just buy
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your metadata because it's for sale. Just go to the go to the carrier. Just buy it. They don't need a judge's order
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to do that. It's all out there. We've made all we've made ourselves vulnerable. All of our lives are out
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there, whether it's on Facebook or X or Insta or whatever. If they really want
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to get you, they're going to get you. Which reminds me of a book written by Dr. Harvey Silverglate. He's a professor
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of law at Harvard and it's called Three Felonies a Day. And he argues in this
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book that we are so overcriminalized, so overregulated in this country that the average American on the average day
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going about his or her normal business commits three felonies every day. You may not mean to, but you
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do every day. So if they decide they want you, they don't like your politics,
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they can get your metadata, they can go through that metadata, find crimes that they can charge you with and ruin your
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life. And there's nothing you can do to protect yourself.