"anyone 'overly concerned about privacy' or attempting to 'shield the screen from view of others' should be considered suspicious"
"anyone 'overly concerned about privacy' or attempting to 'shield the screen from view of others' should be considered suspicious"
Hmm, I wonder how this ties in with police departments cracking on people videotaping officers conducting their duty.
OH YES! If its the government we should NEVER be suspicious!
GPS is a terrorist!
Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote: "anyone 'overly concerned about privacy' or attempting to 'shield the screen from view of others' should be considered suspicious"
I was just trying to send explicit e-mails to my girlfriend.
I'm a terrorist if I don't want my coworkers to know I'm into BBW foot fetishes?
Ties in nicely with the FDA arguing that "stem cells" are actually drugs that they can regulate.
OMG!!! Hydrogen Peroxide is on the watch list!!! Bottle Blondes everywhere are going to be carefully watched.
oh wait....
they probably like that
Well lets see. I own one of those privacy things that blurs the screen from angles, only pay in cash, use comcast, buy acids and solvents regularly, probably have a copy of peer guardian installed on my home PC and bought a copy of the anarchist cookbook back in 1988.
Good thing I am a honkey. They will never suspect the white guy.
Ahh, got it - if someone's a little too interested in where their seats are at a ball game, you should turn them in - especially if they're a little too blonde
Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote: FBI / DOJ Flyer in PDF format "anyone 'overly concerned about privacy' or attempting to 'shield the screen from view of others' should be considered suspicious"
There's concerned and there's overly concerned. Paranoid is another way to say it.
When you walk in on your kids and they jump to hide something don't you want to see what it is?
carguy123 wrote:Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote: FBI / DOJ Flyer in PDF format "anyone 'overly concerned about privacy' or attempting to 'shield the screen from view of others' should be considered suspicious"There's concerned and there's overly concerned. Paranoid is another way to say it. When you walk in on your kids and they jump to hide something don't you want to see what it is?
"Overly" is completely arbitrary. Why would you defend something like this?
The flyer is doing no more than suggesting being aware of your surroundings and watching out for overly suspicious activity and taking note. You would be surprised at how little it takes to be put on a government watch list. Stop your vehicle outside the wrong building for a few minutes, and someone has a camera on your license plate. Suddenly the FBI is looking up who you are. First hand knowledge.
J Edgar Hoover would be staining his fishnet hose if he were here now.
MG Bryan wrote:carguy123 wrote:"Overly" is completely arbitrary. Why would you defend something like this?Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote: FBI / DOJ Flyer in PDF format "anyone 'overly concerned about privacy' or attempting to 'shield the screen from view of others' should be considered suspicious"There's concerned and there's overly concerned. Paranoid is another way to say it. When you walk in on your kids and they jump to hide something don't you want to see what it is?
I wasn't defending, only pointing out it's a matter of degrees.
There are degrees that ARE suspicious and indicative of people doing what they shouldn't.
If I was the FBI or any authority figure and I saw someone doing things beyond the normal, it would raise my suspicions. A guy skulking outside the bank is overly suspicious. A teenager standing around the corner listening to a group of other kids talking isn't OVERLY suspicious.
Oh, & if you are a terrorist you do want internet privacy so it's a smart place to go looking for terrorists. You hunt ducks on a pond and not in the desert.
I'm sure they'll be able to intelligently sift through the thousands of tips they get per day and find the real threats.
...and pigs will fly.
Grtechguy wrote: OMG!!! Hydrogen Peroxide is on the watch list!!!...
aircooled wrote:Grtechguy wrote: OMG!!! Hydrogen Peroxide is on the watch list!!!...How do hydrogen peroxide rockets work?
aircooled wrote:Grtechguy wrote: OMG!!! Hydrogen Peroxide is on the watch list!!!...How do hydrogen peroxide rockets work?
TRoglodyte wrote: J Edgar Hoover would be staining his fishnet hose if he were here now.
While making out with Sen. Joe McCarthy.
And this comes from the agency that was totally oblivious to field agents warning them muslims learning to fly planes, but didn't care to learn how to land.
And who ignored warnings about goings on in Pakistan before that.
This paper is one effort to learn from their mistakes. C'mon guys you've got to give them credit for at least trying (says the one guy on the forum trying to stay off their lists)
have we reached "too far yet"? I am more afraid of my own government than any terrorist
Why do they keep upping the terrorist prevention measures when we haven't had a terrorist attack in a 10 years? Isn't it obvious to everyone by know that the government just wants to spy on us?
93EXCivic wrote: Isn't it obvious to everyone by know that the government just wants to spy on us?
A big clue was the "Patriot Act".
Another was a President-to-be who railed against said legislation and then had his DHS goons list "domestic terrorists" as a priority target.
And those just occurred in this century.
Call me whimsical and waxing nostalgic but a government that fears its' citizens probably should be - as our Founding Fathers intended.
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