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Jeffersons Ghost

(15,235 posts)
Mon Nov 11, 2013, 10:06 PM Nov 2013

The NSA is nothing more than a Gestapo-like agency using terrorist tactics on the public

The NSA intends to use tactics, which indicate the agency watches and listens to us everywhere, all the time, to scare us into complying with anything the agency ordains. Isn't that a terrorist tactic? If you do not vote this OP to the top, it is because the NSA is blocking or manipulating readers who oppose their sick research on the public while preventing readers from responding to this post and other documents that will end an NSA siege of terror on the world. Essentially, the NSA is absolutely a terrorist group that the FBI[and Secret Service because of threat the NSA facilitates on the life of the Commander In Chief, using terrorist technologies, which were put in all homes and numerous DHS and FBI facilities as the NSA watched] should investigate.

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The NSA is nothing more than a Gestapo-like agency using terrorist tactics on the public (Original Post) Jeffersons Ghost Nov 2013 OP
mainly because half of the people i was with at the time believed it until i explained it to them... dionysus Nov 2013 #1
Still no recommendations? Is the NSA blocking them or is D.U. falling in love with the NSA? Jeffersons Ghost Nov 2013 #3
NSA nanomites are blocking everyone. dionysus Nov 2013 #8
It is like my earlier posts state. if the NSA wasn't attempting to control ALL media this OP... Jeffersons Ghost Nov 2013 #14
Nonsense.Post is specualtion only without facts or evidence bjobotts Nov 2013 #26
No I think it is a lame attempt at satire. zeemike Nov 2013 #27
Wow! I wonder how many posters will remember. last1standing Nov 2013 #4
And many experiences. Don't forget those. NuclearDem Nov 2013 #16
thank you. grantcart Nov 2013 #29
Yeah, JimboBillyBubbaBob Nov 2013 #2
Time to sweep out the temple JG agent46 Nov 2013 #5
An NSA thread? I can't wait to comment on-- NuclearDem Nov 2013 #6
Then why be a smart ass? n-t Logical Nov 2013 #10
A squid's got to earn a living somehow. NuclearDem Nov 2013 #11
FYI, That's an octopus. ;) adirondacker Nov 2013 #15
Sweet! I get an ink defense! NuclearDem Nov 2013 #17
Strange. I keep trying to rec this OP but my cursor jumps every time I try to click. last1standing Nov 2013 #7
With the NSA allowing only 174 readers, at least the OP got 16 recommendations. Jeffersons Ghost Nov 2013 #18
And quite a list of recs it is. NuclearDem Nov 2013 #19
LOL! I agree with your sentiment, but I don't think the NSA is tampering with the "DU rec" function. last1standing Nov 2013 #21
If you check other posts you will see the NSA not only tampers with DU, it is their code machine... Jeffersons Ghost Nov 2013 #24
I worry all the DU'ers who remember WWII are GONE... KoKo Nov 2013 #9
I remember, but I also remember that many Germans at Cleita Nov 2013 #12
When the last Senator to investigate the NSA in public got done... Octafish Nov 2013 #13
This message was self-deleted by its author Cronus Protagonist Nov 2013 #20
Yep libodem Nov 2013 #22
''The NSA is nothing more than a (Gestapo agency) using terrorist tactics on the public.'' DeSwiss Nov 2013 #23
NSA +IRS = FATCA riverbendviewgal Nov 2013 #25
Look at the fascist laws against dissent in place in this country scottx2 Nov 2013 #28
You're just paranoid. So what if some private corporations and secret government agencies ... Scuba Nov 2013 #30
K&R Blue Owl Nov 2013 #31

dionysus

(26,467 posts)
1. mainly because half of the people i was with at the time believed it until i explained it to them...
Mon Nov 11, 2013, 10:07 PM
Nov 2013

beer and travel money and all that...

Jeffersons Ghost

(15,235 posts)
14. It is like my earlier posts state. if the NSA wasn't attempting to control ALL media this OP...
Mon Nov 11, 2013, 10:26 PM
Nov 2013

will be hot

 

bjobotts

(9,141 posts)
26. Nonsense.Post is specualtion only without facts or evidence
Tue Nov 12, 2013, 12:40 AM
Nov 2013

Maybe easy to believe but there is no proof yet my sense tells me it is entirely an unnecessary agency. However this post not getting rec'd to the top is hardly proof of NSA involvement because this short post really reveals nothing.

last1standing

(11,709 posts)
4. Wow! I wonder how many posters will remember.
Mon Nov 11, 2013, 10:14 PM
Nov 2013

Perhaps the best source of tension relief many here had during a very contentious period.

grantcart

(53,061 posts)
29. thank you.
Tue Nov 12, 2013, 03:23 AM
Nov 2013

A brief moment of sardonic perspective before the thread returns to minimizing the Holocaust and rendering the meaning of historically specific words meaningless.

 

NuclearDem

(16,184 posts)
19. And quite a list of recs it is.
Mon Nov 11, 2013, 10:52 PM
Nov 2013

KoKo
cantbeserious
Cleita
idwiyo
SixString
Holly_Hobby
NuclearDem
sendero
kentuck
Octafish
agent46
louslobbs
villager
dickthegrouch
Agent_MikeNSA47

last1standing

(11,709 posts)
21. LOL! I agree with your sentiment, but I don't think the NSA is tampering with the "DU rec" function.
Mon Nov 11, 2013, 11:00 PM
Nov 2013

Yes, we need to rein in the NSA and prosecute those who have violated the law but let's not suggest that they've infiltrated DU when the very fact that you can post this OP and have posters rec it shows that they haven't.

Jeffersons Ghost

(15,235 posts)
24. If you check other posts you will see the NSA not only tampers with DU, it is their code machine...
Mon Nov 11, 2013, 11:15 PM
Nov 2013

Be sure and check the number or actual readers of this allegedly, highly voted OP

KoKo

(84,711 posts)
9. I worry all the DU'ers who remember WWII are GONE...
Mon Nov 11, 2013, 10:16 PM
Nov 2013

and few are left to understand your post. But, yes...GESTAPO TACTICS.

But...who is left who would understand. After all..some would say...we ALL HAVE TO USE THE INTERNET...it can't be all bad because none of us are TERRORISTS!

And, that's how FASCISTS prevail. They use "Who could have known that we would be of interest to NSA?"...We all were just using the "Internet" for our Business/Commerce...and we didn't think ANYONE would be spying on our Contacts in other Countries or on us HERE in AMERICA! "We are just humble Business People" trying to make a living and no one would be using us that way....

Lambs to slaughter.

Cleita

(75,480 posts)
12. I remember, but I also remember that many Germans at
Mon Nov 11, 2013, 10:22 PM
Nov 2013

the time, who were young and didn't know any better considered it normal. I talked to many who had immigrated here and were my age back in the sixties. They didn't know anything was wrong with the Reich until after the war and Germany was in ruins. They also suffered a lot after the war ended. By then they had come to the realization of how bad that normal was.

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
13. When the last Senator to investigate the NSA in public got done...
Mon Nov 11, 2013, 10:24 PM
Nov 2013

...the NSA got started investigating him.

Soon, there was no more Sen. Frank Church.

And We the Slaves for the Military Industrial Complex got now going on 35 years of Reagan.

Response to Jeffersons Ghost (Original post)

 

DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
23. ''The NSA is nothing more than a (Gestapo agency) using terrorist tactics on the public.''
Mon Nov 11, 2013, 11:06 PM
Nov 2013

/fixed

- Germany may have lost WWII, but the Nazis didn't......

K&R

"According to our best estimates, more than half of all U.S. government records are classified. For an archivist seeking to preserve and understand our history, that means most of our history is kept secret from us, think about that for a moment." ~Richard Dolan


riverbendviewgal

(4,252 posts)
25. NSA +IRS = FATCA
Mon Nov 11, 2013, 11:48 PM
Nov 2013

The law most Americans don't know about.

Word is out, do not marry an American.
Do not be a snow bird.
Do not get s green card.

You will be a slave for life.

scottx2

(20 posts)
28. Look at the fascist laws against dissent in place in this country
Tue Nov 12, 2013, 01:54 AM
Nov 2013

SUPREME COURT NEWS - FIRST AMENDMENT ATTACK UPON ARIZONA HARASSMENT STATUTE - Sheriff Joe not happy



Scott Huminski v. City of Surprise, Arizona
U.S. Supreme Court,
Washington D.C.


In a filing received by the U.S. Supreme Court, government is portrayed fervently defending a state criminal harassment statute that makes any speech contrary to the government's goals a crime under. AZ Rev. Stat. § 13-2921 (criminal harassment)


Speech that tends to "alarm, annoy or harass" anyone, including government officials and police, is a crime in Arizona. Silencing dissent is the hallmark of a police state.


Petition for Writ of Certiorari here...



http://www.scribd.com/doc/178501012/Supreme-Court-Certiorari-Petition-and-Appendix-First-Amendment-attack-upon-Arizona-Harassment-statute



No surprise that this statute exists in Arizona. Under the patently unconstitutionally vague and overbroad harassment statute, this Supreme Court litigation is a crime as is this article when read by a resident of Arizona, say … Sheriff Joe Arpaio. No doubt that the litigation and this article tends to "annoy" the Sheriff and like-minded residents of Arizona.

 

Scuba

(53,475 posts)
30. You're just paranoid. So what if some private corporations and secret government agencies ...
Tue Nov 12, 2013, 07:17 AM
Nov 2013

... have dirt on every politician, every cop, every judge, every prosecutor, every defense attorney,every potential witness - hell, every citizen - in America? They would never mis-use that information. Would they?

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