Author's Note

 

 

Some of the technical details concerning ballistics and explosives have been altered or left intentionally vague in order to render them unusable by misguided readers of this work.  The principles and effects described are completely accurate notwithstanding those self-imposed constraints.

 

The privacy issues raised, such as the use of digital face-scanning cameras, wireless communications interception, and the use of data-mining for behavior predicting programs are all very real.  As useful as these methods may be in our ongoing war against fanatical Muslim terrorist groups, one cannot but be alarmed that these tools and many others, so reminiscent of George Orwell’s 1984, will eventually be used against all Americans.

 

The issue of the steadily increasing militarization of law enforcement, and in particular federal law enforcement, I will leave for the reader to judge.