1. Plan your every move at your starting point or base.
2. Follow your plan.
3. Be alert. If there are any flaws like your target moves out of place, you’ll have to wing it and carry out the rest of the plan from there.
4. Take whatever information you need. eg: secret times/dates, what they do in spare time.
5. Sneak away unnoticed. Be aware of everyone and everything at all times so nothing catches you by surprise.
6. Walk quietly. Avoid wearing jeans, sweatpants, chains, board short, or any other noisy clothing and stick to carpet as much as possible, as tile or any other surface can cause you to make unnecessary noises.
7. Wear colors that will provide you with camouflage. If you are sneaking around at night, black may be your best option, if you are spying during the day, match the wall. If you can’t find anything that will allow you to blend in, try to avoid anything bright.
8. Use binoculars for long distance spying.
9. Know your house. If you have to cross a wood section of flooring, know where the creaky ones are. Keep in mind that the floor creaks less near the walls.
10. Slide on tiles using socks or slippery shoes as “ice skates”. It’s a lot easier, quieter, and fun!
11. Pull back your hair and hide it under a bandanna or beanie. If you have bright red hair, be especially careful to hide it.
12. Avoid animals. They give excellent tip-offs by running and jumping up at you, or looking at you and meowing/barking.
13. Buy a cheap baby-camera. It looks cutesy, but it’s a cheap effective camera.
14. Come up with a code system and spy name. Not only is this fun, but if you are working with a team, it will help you communicate. For instance, if things go wrong you could whisper “Code Blue Code Blue this is not a drill!”

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Neighbors spying on neighbors? Mothers forced to turn in their sons or daughters? These are images straight out of George Orwell’s 1984, or a remote totalitarian state. We don’t associate them with the land of the free and the home of the brave, but that doesn’t mean they couldn’t happen here. A senior congressman, James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), is working quietly but efficiently to turn the entire United States population into informants–by force.

Sensenbrenner, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee Chairman, has introduced legislation that would essentially draft every American into the war on drugs. H.R. 1528, cynically named “Safe Access to Drug Treatment and Child Protection Act,” would compel people to spy on their family members and neighbors, and even go undercover and wear a wire if needed. If a person resisted, he or she would face mandatory incarceration.

Here’s how the “spy” section of the legislation works: If you “witness” certain drug offenses taking place or “learn” about them, you must report the offenses to law enforcement within 24 hours and provide “full assistance in the investigation, apprehension and prosecution” of the people involved. Failure to do so would be a crime punishable by a mandatory minimum two-year prison sentence, and a maximum sentence of 10 years.

Here are some examples of offenses you would have to report to police within 24 hours:

• You find out that your brother, who has children, recently bought a small amount of marijuana to share with his wife;
• You discover that your son gave his college roommate a marijuana joint;
• You learn that your daughter asked her boyfriend to find her some drugs, even though they’re both in treatment.

In each of these cases you would have to report the relative to the police within 24 hours. Taking time to talk to your relative about treatment instead of calling the police immediately could land you in jail.

In addition to turning family member against family member, the legislation could also put many Americans in danger by forcing them to go undercover to gain evidence against strangers.

Even if the language that forces every American to become a de facto law enforcement agent is taken out, the bill would still impose draconian sentences on college students, mothers, people in drug treatment and others with substance abuse problems. If enacted, this bill will destroy lives, break up families, and waste millions of taxpayer dollars.

Despite growing opposition to mandatory minimum sentences from civil rights groups to U.S. Supreme Court Justices, the bill eliminates federal judges’ ability to give sentences below the minimum recommended by federal sentencing guidelines. This creates a mandatory minimum sentence for all federal offenses, drug-related or not.  Read more