(October 21, 2009)

What have you got to hide? The answer may shock you: If you’re like most Americans, you have far more than you realize that you need to be hiding, and not doing so may be putting you and your family in grave danger.

In his new book, 'Three Felonies a Day,' attorney Harvey Silverglate holds that the typical American professional commits an average of three federal crimes a day, just going about their daily business, without even realizing it. And the only thing keeping them out of prison — make that keeping you out of prison — is the fact that federal prosecutors haven't looked at you yet. "No social class or profession is safe from this troubling form of social control by the executive branch," reads a statement on the book's Web site, "and nothing less than the integrity of our constitutional democracy hangs in the balance."

While Three Felonies a Day illustrates the problem quite well, today I want to talk about solutions. Likely you have never thought you needed to protect yourself from the government.