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You know, they really

go through everything.

The one cop finds

the box that has all my,

like, military awards.

He comes bringing it down,

he says oh, you were

in the military?

And we start talking

army talk, he sees that

I speak the language.

And that's when

he asks me, do you know

what an armalite ar-10 is?

And I was like, that's

why you're here, guys?

You're here because I made

a bad joke on facebook?

Like I, you know--

it blew my mind.

It's the ultimate buzzkill,

really, your facebook page

brought s.W.A.T. To your house.

They told me not to like,

you know, go far from new york

'cause I'll be needed for all

these court cases for a year.

They claim one of my

facebook friends called 911.

Which is another thing

I think is bogus.

So I asked for the 911 tape,

which they keep on file.

They have to.

And it's my right,

It's my stuff.

They have to give me

my mug shots if I want.

So they come back and say,

oh, turns out it wasn't

someone who called 911,

It was someone that just

walked into the police station,

And that's something

"we don't keep a record of."

And how'd you get my address?

I'd lived there

for like 10 days.

You know, like, I didn't

update my mailing address yet,

Like, all my banking

stuff is still going

to my old apartment--

There was nothing

saying I lived there except

for a verbal agreement.

[boy] 'three minutes after

being done with my lunch,

I was told to go up

to the office,

And then I was sat down inside

the vice principal's office,

And I wasn't told what

was going on until maybe

ten minutes later.

[woman] my phone rings, and

I look at it and it was

the number to his school,

And I answer it, and it's

the school security guard--

Just giving me a fyi, you know,

for your information,

Just to give you a heads-up,

the secret service is here

With the tacoma police

department, and they have vito

And they're talking to him.

[vito] a man walked in,

in a suit and glasses,

And he said that he was

part of the secret service,

And he told me it was

because of a post that I made,

And it indicated as a threat

toward the president.

[narrator] yes, a seventh-grade

boy was visited by our fbi

Because of a red flag that

came up in their spy system.

I was saying how osama's dead,

And for obama to be careful,

Because there might

be suicide bombers.

[narrator] it didn't consider

his age, or that his comment

About obama needing to

watch out was one of concern.

The machine simply determined

that based on a series of words,

Vito was a potential threat.

Pre-crime, the belief in this

potential breach of the peace,

Their belief that

you might cause a crime.

There's those pre-crime

arrests in minority report.

[tom cruise in minority report]

mr. Marks, by mandate of

The district of columbia

pre-crime division,

I'm placing you under arrest

for the future murder

of sarah marks,

Due to take place today,

April 22nd,

At zero eight hundred hours

and four minutes.

No! I didn't do anything.

This arrest happened

on the royal wedding day

When I attended a zombie

flash mob wedding picnic--

- Great.

- And myself

and four other zombies

Were arrested preemptively for

a potential breach of the peace.

Even if you dress up

as a zombie, it seems to me

That the crime isn't

really committed until

you've eaten some brains.

Yeah. To be fair,

we did have some brain cake.

So there's that.

How did they know that

you were going to be dressing

up as a zombie this day?

Could it have been emails,

or anything really?

It could have been.

It's hard to know, yeah.

- I think that's

the toughest thing, right?

- That's the scary thing, yeah.

The indication that

they were monitoring

private social networks

Came in the way they were

reacting to certain things and

asking about certain things.

So they were asking about

maggots, and they were asking

about climbing gear,

Which they must have heard

about through some exchanges

on the internet.

Neither of which was true.

Nobody had maggots

or climbing gear.

And not something that was

itself posting a hazard to the

royal wedding celebrations;

We were nowhere near

the royal wedding celebrations,

And we had no plan of going near

the royal wedding celebrations.

Anything that wasn't part

of the official, ostentatious,

Joyous, expensive,

celebrations

Of this wedding

of two strangers

Was prevented from

happening,

And that seems

deeply disturbing.

You can see that surveillance

measures are being used

To silence protests

before they even happen.

And this was of course

the royal wedding.

We'd all helped pay for

the royal wedding, it wasn't

just a private wedding.

[from tv]

you're arresting

a professor of anthropology

That runs

a street theater group.

One o' kings, one o' kings,

one o' kings--

We couldn't believe

this was happening.

It was just--

we werso obviously

a street-theater troupe.

Some of us hadctually

gotten costume on, you know?

So we were locked away in

lewishamolice station

for 25 hours.

Once the whole wedding was

safely over, we were let out.

For the first time, as far

as I'm aware in this untry,

A number of us-- something

like fifty of us---

Were arrested, and

in most cases incarcerated

For thinking about protest,

For thinking

about, in this case,

some street theater.

A lot of-- a lot of life

is based upon trust.

I mean, if you have

a conversation with

your inner circle

On a key strategic decision

that is vital to your company

And you read about it in

the newspaper before the

decision is implemented,

In other words, you get

preempted from acting

Because somebody inside

your company has talked,

You're not gonna like it,

and it'll hurt.

[narrator] the activists

didn't need to commit any crime.

They just needed to text and

to email, and to call each other

About potentially protesting.

But I think that

the answer is not to

take away the capacity of

Looking at the public actions

of citizens and keeping

a record of them.

The solution is to make

sure that we elect

better governments.

Well, I know this argument,

And it is not very new.

It's old-fashioned, saying,

"we are complying with rules

and so what happens?"

Between leading my--

leading the sinful life

I would like to lead,

And hoping that governments

will protect my privacy,

Or, assuming that no one's

going to protect my privacy

And leading a less sinful life,

I'll go with the latter.

It's simply just the odds

of success seem higher to me.

I congratulate the people who

say they have nothing to hide.

I don't believe them,

And I also say they're probably

hiding something from someone.

We all do.

You have nothing

to hide till you do.

And you are not necessarily

going to know

What you have to hide or not.

[narrator] you might

remember the case of milly,

A teenaged girl in britain

who disappeared in 2002.

[announcer]

police in surrey say they're

growing increasingly concerned

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