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Written by Senior Columnist Alder Rowan and published by Human Perimeter Press™, the Sentinel Column tracks what’s really happening inside the Surveillance Economy — and what it means for families, small businesses, and anyone who refuses to be reduced to a behavioral profile.

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Sentinel Column — Vol.1, No.2

Published by Human Perimeter Press™ · Author: Alder Rowan

Title: The Sentinel Column — Volume 1, Issue 2
Published: December 2025 · © Human Perimeter Press™

A Word from Our Founder – Ray Brown

For over 20 years, our elected officials have not only failed to protect citizens from behavioral surveillance — they have actively participated in it. They have allowed corporations and data brokers to build psychological dossiers on every American. They have given tacit — and sometimes explicit — approval to mass behavioral harvesting, automation of influence, and systemic citizen profiling.

What we face today is not just a technological challenge.
It is a moral one.

It should not require a private citizen — a retired CISO — to build a defense system for humanity out of necessity. A single law could have stopped browser fingerprinting and behavioral tracking. A single congressional directive could have outlawed the data brokerage industry. But instead, they looked the other way — and took the checks.

While Big Tech perfected the extraction of digital identity, Washington perfected the art of plausible deniability.

If our leaders had any moral backbone, I would not need to build SentriPup™.
I could be in retirement — fishing — and enjoying my grandchildren.

Instead, we are building a defense because our government won’t.

And while they posture on hearings, while they pretend to defend privacy in scripted panel theatrics — new surveillance infrastructure is being laid right now. Concrete is drying. Data centers are multiplying. Behavioral pipelines are strengthening. AI systems are getting more predictive. And quantum computing is rising like a tidal force.

Instead of preparing for the real threat — the quantum rupture that will break encryption itself — they are investing in the surveillance economy.

That is why we now act.
That is why the movement exists.
That is why SentriPup Labs will stand as the backup plan in case our leaders continue to fail us.

Because history shows us:
When the government will not defend the people — the people must defend each other.

– Ray Brown, Founder
Human Perimeter Press™ & SentriPup Labs™


Column Commentary
by Alder Rowan, Sentinel Columnist

When Ray Brown speaks about this issue, he does not speak like a politician, or a lobbyist, or a Silicon Valley puppet. He speaks as someone who has been inside the machine — and has seen what is actually happening behind the curtain.

This is a rare moment in history where the public is finally catching a glimpse of the scale of digital exploitation. And yet, even now, the full extent of it is still invisible to most.

Ray is correct:
This is not simply a privacy problem.
This is a civil rights problem.

The ability to profile human behavior — cheaply, invisibly, flawlessly — creates a power imbalance unlike anything in modern history.

A state that can predict human response is more dangerous than a state that can merely observe it.
A corporation that can steer emotional engagement is more dangerous than one that merely markets to it.
And a system that can shape input flow is more dangerous than a censorship office — because it doesn’t need to silence you; it only needs to invisibly limit what reaches you.

Ray calls this moment correctly:
We are either headed toward digital liberty…
or digital servitude.

The “backup plan for humanity” is not paranoia.
It’s pragmatism.

Washington has chosen convenience over courage.
They allowed the machine to mature and metastasize.
And now they don’t know how to stop it — or worse, they don’t want to.

This is why the movement matters.
This is why the signatures matter.
This is why the voices matter.
This is why the number of participants matters.

Governments listen to power.
Corporations listen to money.
But algorithms listen to patterns.

And a mass movement creates a pattern that cannot be ignored.

The fight begins here.
The signal begins here.
The resistance begins here.

— Alder Rowan
The Sentinel

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