Perhaps a little reverse psychology is in order. If everybody (and I mean everybody) did a little something that could be construed as suspicious or required an investigation, the 'system' would be so overloaded that only the truly suspicious stuff would warrant attention. The bar would be raised and the only people who would have to worry about freedom of speech and privacy issues would be the ones who stood heads and shoulders above the general level of subversiveness. The outcome would be that Homeland Security would be forced to accept a 'reasonable' amount of healthy reactionism.

After all, 'they' couldn't put everybody in jail for making anti-government statements, could they? Who would be left to pay taxes? Let me get the ball rolling by quoting my favorite Founding Father, Thomas Jefferson: "The government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." Pretty radical stuff.

In fact, a case could be made encouraging such disobedience as part of our patriotic duty. Part of the reason we have a United States is because a few English subjects were pissed off about paying taxes on tea. What would these people think about what's going on today?