Does anyone else ever refrain from posting something they genuinely believe to be true

[Atticus]

because they fear being "investigated"?

Do we not now live in a time when telling the wrong truth can get a person openly persecuted by a government that does not acknowledge any valid restraints on its authority?

[demmiblue]

1. No. n/t

[edhopper]

2. Nope

[Laelth]

4. I am glad to hear that some non-doom-and-gloom scenarios are possible.

I am sorry to hear that your creative energy is being squelched in favor of political ideology.

-Laelth

[nolabear]

8. Interesting first post. Why this and why nothing else?

[hatrack]

9. Head-scratching, isn't it?

[nolabear]

12. Yep.

[hatrack]

13. Well, that was fast . . .

[nolabear]

17. Oddly I voted to let it stand.

I was curious. But I’m glad it went.

[Beringia]

11. I thought government was into making more rosy pictures

[Under The Radar]

5. What is "the wrong truth"?

[Atticus]

14. Any that offends or inconveniences the current White House occupant. nt

[Solly Mack]

6. No

[zipplewrath]

7. Deleted

My primary filter is the alert squad.

[Doremus]

10. Funny you should ask.

I was just reading a local message board about a city with a notorious speed trap. A resident said he had been served with papers for a $10k debt from the city for unpaid speeding tickets. The resident claimed to have not received a speeding ticket in the last 20 years, but HAD complained about the speed trap on his social media account not even a week prior.

Corruption aided by technology is indeed a scary thing.

[RobinA]

15. All The Time

But it isn’t the government that concerns me it’s an Internet mob. It’s a very intolerant time.

[Klaralven]

16. Not so much the government, but different web sites have different Overton Windows

[DFW]

18. Sure, but not for that reason

I learned in no uncertain terms back in 2008 that posting something that you KNOW to be true can get you blasted in smithereens right here on DU, so I am very careful with divulging certain things I know. I sometimes tell a few friends, but won't post the on the boards. As for being investigated, the only person I know with THAT kind of security clearance is my brother, and he hasn't blabbed one single detail that he shouldn't in 40 years, so I doubt he's about to start now.

The thing in 2008 concerned, of all people, Joe Biden, and I waited 7 or 8 years before giving any details on that. When I met with Obama during the campaign of 2012, I was told that everything that was said was "off the record" until "well after the election," and I waited two years before discussing details. There have been other things in the meantime, too, and it just isn't worth tossing a spark into that kind of powder keg here.

That the Trump Administration knows no inhibitions on committing excesses of authority should be taken as a given by EVERYONE here, but remember the old Socialist East Germany and their secret police, the Ministerium für Staatssicherheit ("Stasi" ). They were so obsessed with keeping tabs on EVERYONE that they drowned in their mountains of information. They had so many files, they never had the personnel to monitor them all.