Police State: The Word Gestapo. They Are Watching...

[paulitician]

Choose your words wisely Americans. You are being watched.

Revealed: Hundreds of words to avoid using online if you don't want the government spying on you (and they include 'pork', 'cloud' and 'Mexico')...


The Department of Homeland Security has been forced to release a list of keywords and phrases it uses to monitor social networking sites and online media for signs of terrorist or other threats against the U.S.

The intriguing the list includes obvious choices such as 'attack', 'Al Qaeda', 'terrorism' and 'dirty bomb' alongside dozens of seemingly innocent words like 'pork', 'cloud', 'team' and 'Mexico'.

Released under a freedom of information request, the information sheds new light on how government analysts are instructed to patrol the internet searching for domestic and external threats.

The words are included in the department's 2011 'Analyst's Desktop Binder' used by workers at their National Operations Center which instructs workers to identify 'media reports that reflect adversely on DHS and response activities'.

Department chiefs were forced to release the manual following a House hearing over documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit which revealed how analysts monitor social networks and media organisations for comments that 'reflect adversely' on the government.

However they insisted the practice was aimed not at policing the internet for disparaging remarks about the government and signs of general dissent, but to provide awareness of any potential threats.

As well as terrorism, analysts are instructed to search for evidence of unfolding natural disasters, public health threats and serious crimes such as mall/school shootings, major drug busts, illegal immigrant busts.

The list has been posted online by the Electronic Privacy Information Center - a privacy watchdog group who filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act before suing to obtain the release of the documents.

In a letter to the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counter-terrorism and Intelligence, the centre described the choice of words as 'broad, vague and ambiguous'.

They point out that it includes 'vast amounts of First Amendment protected speech that is entirely unrelated to the Department of Homeland Security mission to protect the public against terrorism and disasters.'...

Read more: REVEALED: Hundreds of words to avoid using online if you don't want the government spying on you | Mail Online

 

[ScienceRocks]

Time for some restrictions and for our government to respect the rights of Americans!

 

[Contumacious]

Choose your words wisely Americans. You are being watched.

Revealed: Hundreds of words to avoid using online if you don't want the government spying on you (and they include 'pork', 'cloud' and 'Mexico')...

That's awful and objectionable.

I am just glad that the words I Google the most are not included

blondes pussy russians

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[QuickHitCurepon]

They are a dark cloud hanging over us.

 

[ozro]

So let me get this straight; if a first responder from homeland security schooled in national preparedness and disaster medical assistance decided that transportation security was more important than biosurveillance intragration, and wrote an email to his buddy who also worked for homeland security at Fort Hancock, it would trip alarms at this agency that monitors words on the internet?

I wonder how many bells that sentence will ring……

 

[Contumacious]

They are a dark cloud hanging over us.

Excuse me, they are NOT clouds, they are drones.

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[ScienceRocks]

drones can be used for a lot of good things. Why just ban the SR-71? This is more a matter of respecting our rights that are god given within the constitution!

 

[Sherry]

Choose your words wisely Americans. You are being watched.

Revealed: Hundreds of words to avoid using online if you don't want the government spying on you (and they include 'pork', 'cloud' and 'Mexico')...

While traveling to Mexico, I spotted a cloud in the shape of a pork chop.

 

[OKTexas]

Time for some restrictions and for our government to respect the rights of Americans!

Why, do you want to take us back to the 1780's, or what? Damn you're a joke, I just love your situational adherence to the Constitution. The sons of bitches spend hundreds of trillions of dollars unconstitutionally and your fine whit that, but heaven forbid they read an online entry with suspicious wording. You know social media is not a secure communication?

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Police State

At least you’re consistent at being an ignorant idiot.

As this in no way constitutes a ‘police state,’ and you only succeed in exhibiting you ignorance of what a police state actually is.

 

[OKTexas]

drones can be used for a lot of good things. Why just ban the SR-71? This is more a matter of respecting our rights that are god given within the constitution!

ROFLMAO God given, "within the constitution", you're just a walking oxymoron aren't you.

 

[paulitician]

Police State

At least you’re consistent at being an ignorant idiot.

As this in no way constitutes a ‘police state,’ and you only succeed in exhibiting you ignorance of what a police state actually is.

Ah, you would say that. Not surprising coming from a loyal Communist Obamabot.

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

Choose your words wisely Americans. You are being watched.

Revealed: Hundreds of words to avoid using online if you don't want the government spying on you (and they include 'pork', 'cloud' and 'Mexico')...


The Department of Homeland Security has been forced to release a list of keywords and phrases it uses to monitor social networking sites and online media for signs of terrorist or other threats against the U.S.

The intriguing the list includes obvious choices such as 'attack', 'Al Qaeda', 'terrorism' and 'dirty bomb' alongside dozens of seemingly innocent words like 'pork', 'cloud', 'team' and 'Mexico'.

Released under a freedom of information request, the information sheds new light on how government analysts are instructed to patrol the internet searching for domestic and external threats.

The words are included in the department's 2011 'Analyst's Desktop Binder' used by workers at their National Operations Center which instructs workers to identify 'media reports that reflect adversely on DHS and response activities'.

Department chiefs were forced to release the manual following a House hearing over documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit which revealed how analysts monitor social networks and media organisations for comments that 'reflect adversely' on the government.

However they insisted the practice was aimed not at policing the internet for disparaging remarks about the government and signs of general dissent, but to provide awareness of any potential threats.

As well as terrorism, analysts are instructed to search for evidence of unfolding natural disasters, public health threats and serious crimes such as mall/school shootings, major drug busts, illegal immigrant busts.

The list has been posted online by the Electronic Privacy Information Center - a privacy watchdog group who filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act before suing to obtain the release of the documents.

In a letter to the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counter-terrorism and Intelligence, the centre described the choice of words as 'broad, vague and ambiguous'.

They point out that it includes 'vast amounts of First Amendment protected speech that is entirely unrelated to the Department of Homeland Security mission to protect the public against terrorism and disasters.'...

Read more: REVEALED: Hundreds of words to avoid using online if you don't want the government spying on you | Mail Online

I think sometimes we overthink the reasons why they would do this. Consider that the cloud bomb the North Koreans caused back in 2004 using a jetliner - they set the sky on fire and left a crater below so huge you could see it from outerspace. Our own mainstream media CBS reported they thought it was a nuclear explosion!! Then the story dropped off the radar. That is serious stuff. If I were in HLS I'd be watching for the word "Cloud" too. I don't see anyone in the media suggesting that 777 could be used for such a thing but these guys have to be found before it is too late. That is most likely why they are watching for the word Cloud.

 

[Katzndogz]

Nothing, no action exhibits a police state until it does. Then it's too late.

The government is taking steps to protect itself from citizen enemies. The more steps it takes the more of a police state it becomes. Some in the press are starting to realize how far it's gone.

 

[Clementine]

It's not just internet they are watching. They are watching emails and listening to our phone conversations. Posting on a forum isn't private, but we should expect that our phone conversations would be.

I remember living in Germany 20 years ago and AFN ran a lot of public service ads in lieu of commercials. One of them reminded us to say hello to Boris whenever we used the phone because "Boris is always listening." It was expected of commie fuckheads to spy on everyone, but now we can remind people to say hello to Obama. He's always listening. And it's no different than Boris.

And what are they really listening for? Of course, they will tell us it's all for our own good. They justify damn near everything they do with that explanation. But is it really for our own good or do they have other purposes? Boris wasn't doing it for the good of the Russians. They spied on everyone for their own purposes. I fail to see any difference now.

I don't doubt that they are interested in figuring out who the political dissenters are. Discussing the constitution and bill of rights is an American thing. If anyone doesn't get that, they are the enemy.

 

[ScienceRocks]

how about respecting our rights as Americans? Our government should spy and kill terrorist that want us dead with all the tools within our tool box!

 

[Moonglow]

Man I would sure love to pork a Mexican.....

 

[paulitician]

Man I would sure love to pork a Mexican.....

Is that your way of defending your Dear Leader on this?

 

[TakeAStepBack]

Police State

At least you’re consistent at being an ignorant idiot.

As this in no way constitutes a ‘police state,’ and you only succeed in exhibiting you ignorance of what a police state actually is.

Have you ever been right about anything on this site, Dullard?

A police state is a state in which the government exercises rigid and repressive controls over the social, economic, and political life of the population. A police state typically exhibits elements of totalitarianism and social control, and there is usually little or no distinction between the law and the exercise of political power by the executive.
The inhabitants of a police state experience restrictions on their mobility, and on their freedom to express or communicate political or other views, which are subject to police monitoring or enforcement. Political control may be exerted by means of a secret police force which operates outside the boundaries normally imposed by a constitutional state.[1]

Police state - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[thanatos144]

I am trying to figure out where your emails are private in any TOA? I use gmail and assume regularly that the government can read them because when I agree to the use of the service it doesn't state that they cant. Same with posting things on Facebook and instagram. We need to make restrictions on the government to change this....Now I am all for that but very much doubt we will ever see it. Instead we have things like Obama wishing the UN to police the internet like the fucking moron he is.