We’ve seen it all before in the movies: there is a big heist and the crooks get away from the long arm of the law to some international safe haven. But, is there such a thing? Can you really live on the lam, like a fugitive in the movies or is this purely make-believe?
 
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In the post-Sept 11th world that we live in, its admittedly more difficult to do many things we once used to and took for granted. One of these things is our ability to travel without Big Brother noting our whereabouts, you know, in the interest of “national security”. (as I write this in late 2011, […]

Lets face it, there are many many good reasons why any one of us might want to drop out and disappear completely. Someone could be out to kill you, you could owe loads of money to the wrong people, or need to get away from a psycho ex. And with the economic turmoil these days, […]

Life in the 21st century is characterized largely by technology we have grown dependent upon. Perhaps the most ubiquitous of all tech devices are personal communication devices such as cell phones (”mobile phones” in the UK). Any new technology raises issues and with cell phones, the biggest seem to be privacy issues. The National Security […]

Likely the best information available online is the lecture by Regent Law Faculty Professor, James Duane and the from Flexyourrights.org. If you are an American, you are protected by the Fifth Amendment, which the Founding Fathers wrote into the US Constitution to protect the individual from tyranny from agents of the state. These two videos […]

With more and more reports regularly in the media of police brutality one has to be more careful than ever when dealing with them, regardless of how in the right we think we are. Its not just the average person that is at risk from some of the police who act no better than […]

Lets be clear, no one supports or condones the use of drugs while on the job or when operating a vehicle, but many of us oppose forced drug testing, especially for substances as benign as marijuana. In a free society, no one should have any business telling you what you can and cannot put into […]

There are several instances when you might experience living out of a suitcase, such as being on vacation. But what if you could downsize your life to such a level of minimalism that you could live out of a suitcase?
 
You could have just gone through a divorce and want to start over again in another […]

With the rising rate of home forclosures in the USA now and another tent city springing up somewhere around the nation every week, there are many ideas for alternative homes out there so that one can live “off of the grid”. One of the easiest DIY home plans I came across recently is details […]

Whenever there are large scale public demonstrations, one of which can turn into a riot at any time - all it takes is a trigger set off by either a small group of agitators, police, or infiltrators. I got to thinking, what if you were caught in such a situation, or got caught someplace where […]