Ever wonder if your anti-Bush rants are being monitored?

[RiverStone]

Not just by freeper lurkers...but does the BushCo regime monitor our blog language on DU, collect IP addresses, or even keep our "handles" on a sophisticated watch list? I refer to language here which is not threatening, but reflects a political ideology or opinion which does not march in lock step with the party that was (key word WAS) in control of all three branches of our government.

Or are such possibilities reserved for conspiracy theorists and the paranoid?

Since Bush came into power, he has dictated to the people from a place of fear; my guess is we would all be quite surprised to learn what length his minions have gone to, to watch and listen and track what We The People are saying about him on the internet, particularly if it is less then flattering.

Even this very post. :yoiks:


Goggled the question this a.m., and came across this interesting article on the subject from this summer:


Air Force Targets The Blogosphere For Warfare

It may not have been enough to know phone conversations and email messages were being routinely and illegally intercepted by a prying government, but then came the revelation that the same government was dabbling in private financial records. Those of us who are faultless and blameless, innocent and free will have no worries, of course.

Best is to avoid words that could be triggers for inquisitive algorithms. Don't write or say bomb or blast or dynamite, even if the sentence is "That comic really laid a bomb. I had a blast last night" or "She/he is really dynamite!" There are about 10,000 words that could trigger a snooping computer. But don't lose heart. I once, long ago, read that an 800-word vocabulary was enough to converse in a language. Dumb it down, dude.

Now the news from the Department of Defense carries the war on terror to the blogosphere. According to William J. Sharp of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the US Air Force is funding a study that includes blogs.

Versatile Information Systems Inc. of Framingham, MA, is going to get $450,000 from the military for a three-year project called, simply enough, “Automated Ontologically-Based Link Analysis of International Web Logs for the Timely Discovery of Relevant and Credible Information.”

If you wondered where tax dollars go (450,000 at a time), and what goes on in those boxy, post-modern, Silicon Valley buildings, here is a relevant example to make your blogging hours happy, refreshing, and worry-free.

link here:

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/07/08/063948.php

[Monkeyman]

1. For those who read our post this Veterans says Bush sucks

[BOSSHOG]

5. And this veteran seconds that sentiment

and I urge any member of the armed services charged with desertion to call bush as a character witness.

HE SHOULD BE RECALLED TO ACTIVE DUTY, PUT IN UNIFORM, CONFINED TO A MILITARY BASE, TRIED FOR DESERTION IN A TIME OF WAR AND WHEN FOUND GUILTY SENT TO LEAVENWORTH FOR LIFE.

AND CHENEY'S ENERGY TASK FORCE REPORT SHOULD BE MADE PUBLIC NOW.

[GoldenOldie]

11. I'm to old to give a damn

Caught the flu last week, passed-out and hit my head and fractured it. Needless to say that my weekly exercise classes helped me get out of bed a lot quicker than I would have.

Docs say it will take months and most likely a few years to get over it......That could be for the rest of my life.

I decided long before this health crisis, I have nothing to lose on saying and doing anything that I want about The Idiot Emperor and his evil family and friends. It only means that I am assured free health care, food and housing for the remainder of my life. There are millions of Americans that are not that fortunate.

[Cheap_Trick]

17. if they're reading this

they can kiss my white hairy ass. Whenever I talk to one of my liberal friends on the phone I always make sure to say hi to whatever fucktard may be listening from the NSA or whatever, and to make sure to give my (lack of)regards to the regime.

[Kansas Wyatt]

2. Yes they do, and be very careful when debating on other sites

Don't try to be sarcastic and end up just giving them something to parrot to the people.

[flyarm]

3. i do not wonder..i "assume " they are .....and agent mike..if you are reading this

tell little lord pissy pants to go fuck himself!!

since he has fucked my nation..without even a smile on her face!!

fly

[cboy4]

4. I wonder about everything. But we know at least one "person" does:

HI MIKE! :hi:

[flyarm]

7. cute isn't he?....GIGGLING.....HERE....

AGENT MIKE...COULD I DO THINGS TO MAKE YOU SMILE!!..LOL......

FLY

[cboy4]

13. Isn't he though??...listening to Rove whisper sweet nothings

through his ear piece.

Looks like we thought of Mike at the same time!

Scary! LOL

[hootinholler]

16. You tease! n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. If you don't

you have not been paying attention

Oh and Agent Mike

Merry Christmas... I hope you get a coal in your stockings, if you know what I mean

[Kelly Rupert]

8. Your anti-Bush rants are not important enough to be monitored by anyone.

I'm sure the RNC has paid operatives keeping tabs on the liberal blogosphere, but we have our guys observing them, too, that's only smart politics. Government data miners are certainly trawling this site, as they do every site. But they certainly aren't going to be paying people to read the tens of thousands of liberal blog and forum posts created per day.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

9. No. They still haven't discovered all those checks from the Kremlin.

The ones I, and all those unAmerican protesters, supposedly got back in the '60s. I assume mine are still in the mail.

[lpbk2713]

10. I would only request one thing of those assholes ......

and that would be








..... that they kiss my librul ass.

[cassiepriam]

12. Of course they are, they don't have Princess Di to bug anymore :(

[lyonn]

14. Sure, but also figure we are Way Down on the neo-con list

of things to do. Bushies have made it clear who counts in this country and who doesn't and our rants are probably laughable to them.

[MindPilot]

15. Yes I do and I couldn't care less.

In fact I hope they are.

[hfojvt]

18. I wrote

'weapons of mass destruction', that I used to work in that field (which is true, agent Mike, except I was a computer programmer for the Air Force (if you can call what we were working with in 1986 'computers')
and I got a PM from a DUer I did not know, asking where I live because he was gonna move to my state.
Coincidence?