Syndicated Columnist Vin Suprynowicz is author of the highly acclaimed books, Send in the Waco Killers and The Ballad of Carl Drego.

Praise for Send in the Waco Killers includes this amazing comment from Bill Branon (author of Let Us Prey): “This volume by Suprynowicz is why words exist. It is the seminal work of the past five decades. It will change lives. It will direct nations."

Vin grew up in a nice Politically Correct Democratic family, fine folks who taught him that it was wrong to steal or to hate people for being different from them.  He still feels that way, but has expanded his idea of who those people are from merely homosexuals and members of racial minorities, to machine-gun owners, militiamen, folks who choose to vote their conscience in the jury rooms in defiance of the judge's instructions, who use intoxicants other than those approved by the current government, who decline to contribute any portion of their income to support the welfare/police state, and the like.

He landed his first newspaper job at the alternative Hartford Advocate in 1972 after graduating from Wesleyan University. He went on to become the star reporter at the daily Willimantic Chronicle, wire editor of the Norwich Bulletin, managing editor of the daily Northern Virginia Sun, and founder and publisher of the weekly Providence Eagle. 

Vin was named three times to the Golden Dozen (the top 12 weekly editorial writers in the U.S. and Canada) by the International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors.

He finally migrated west to Phoenix, then moved to Las Vegas. He is currently an editorial writer for the Las Vegas Review-Journal. He also pens a twice-a-week syndicated political column that runs in 20 or so daily newspapers around the country. His columns are available at the Review-Journal's site.

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"As I’ve toured the country over the past few years, speaking to jury rights groups, to gun clubs, to homeschoolers, to libertarian and other political groups, to anyone who’d listen, the question I’ve heard most often is, 'What can we do, Vin?'

"Here’s what I did:

"I used to talk and write about homeschooling -- anything to rescue one more young soul from those Ritalin-drenched, mind-numbing, government youth propaganda camps. I used to talk and write about exercising our gun rights before they’re gone and teaching your neighbors and friends about the power of the fully informed jury.

"I still talk and write about those things -- and I’m still going to, all the time.

"But I finally realized I was acting like one of those pathetic pig-headed French generals in World War One, pointing out the enemy, waving my sword, and shouting “Charge!” -- sending warriors into battle against a ruthless foe without providing them with any useful armor.

"I’d fallen into the oldest excuse of all . . . 'It’s not my job.'

"Because it 'wasn’t my job,' what I hadn’t bothered to figure out -- let alone explain -- was how those of us who want to resist America’s burgeoning welfare/police state and set this nation back on a course to freedom can stand immune the first time -- and the second and third time -- some government flunky decides to freeze our assets, go after our homes and families with some bogus charge of “money laundering” or “tax evasion” or “child abuse” . . . or anything else that strikes his fancy.

"How do you divorce yourself from the system so that they can’t even find most of your assets -- or at least can’t connect the home and car you’re using as legally “yours” -- well enough to grab them?

"How can you keep paying your bills and putting food on the table as they search in vain for your bank accounts (which you either don’t have or are held in the name of a trust)?

"How can you feel secure enough to smile at the snarling child-welfare worker and say, “No, no one in this house has volunteered to submit to the authority of your payroll taxes, your government propaganda camps, or your “free public health” programs. So you just don’t seem to be finding that “regulatory nexus” the court says you need to get in here and mess with us -- do you, babe?” . . . as you gently close the door in her face?

"I don’t have all the answers. (At the start, I had embarrassingly few.) But I have built an inspired and motivated research team that’s helping me track them down as fast as I can. Beyond that, I firmly believe the need for this information is too urgent to ask folks to sit around for a year or two while I craft and edit a book

". . . a book that would probably be mostly out of date before we could even get it printed. And so was born, of necessity and determination and hope, our monthly newsletter, Privacy Alert.

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