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[RobertEarl]

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[zappaman]

1. Says who?

BeFree to tell us!

[RobertEarl]

8. There was a time on DU

When one could be free. Those were the good old days.

I see you have been keeping a file on members here?

So you are a fine example of the problems we shall all face one day, when someone such as you gets a hold of someone's file and use it in their stupid game.

Thanks for showing up and showing the truth via an everyday example.

[zappaman]

14. Still waiting...

Says who?

[Cali_Democrat]

15. zappaman keeps files on DU members?

[zappaman]

35. Of course!

They are all in here...

[pintobean]

53. No files are needed for common knowledge.

Citizens of the world, it's all about the future.

[DevonRex]

18. The Monkees!!!

&feature=youtube_gdata_player

[zappaman]

34. Finally an answer!!!!

Don't we all?

[HappyMe]

36. They know where you are going, too.

[zappaman]

42. Well, you made me a believer!

[The Straight Story]

47. Our govt does (nt)

[Whisp]

52. I'm Free!

[zappaman]

54. FREE to BE me!

[HappyMe]

61. Free to Be.....

[woo me with science]

2. And if you get some idea about organizing resistance to something they really want to do,

they may use it.

[truedelphi]

3. Oh please! It's not EVERYONE. If you' re someone who enables the Totalitarian Surveillance

State and who enriches the coffers of the MIC, you certainly do not have such a file, or you have the file confiscated and burned.

Di Feinstein comes to mind, as being someone who doesn't have such a file.

[Hydra]

31. Actually, I bet they have one on her. BIG.

You could label all this spying as "just in case."

Even the President has one. Can have him going all "constitutional" on them.

[Electric Monk]

4. Reminds me (in an odd way) of a late eighties movie starring Keanu Reeves...

[geek tragedy]

5. Yes, it's called your Social Security file, with your entire employment history.

Also, the IRS has another one on you, with your entire employment and your entire financial history.

More anti-government moonbattery.

[RobertEarl]

9. Who are you?

You sit there and cast out names all the while confirming the validity of the OP.

What is your game? You get your cookies being anti-freedom and anti-privacy? What is it with you?

Why don't you show us your file? What? You want privacy? What are you hiding? Go ahead, tell us all about this geek tragedy name you are hiding behind. Otherwise you are just being a crude hypocrite.

[geek tragedy]

10. "Go ahead, tell us all about this geek tragedy name you are hiding behind.

Otherwise you are just being a crude hypocrite."

Okay, I'm a complete geek in real life, and thought this username would be a mildly clever play on words, though there's a very compelling case to be made that it's not at all clever.

I get my cookies when my wife bakes.

[RobertEarl]

12. Figures

What are you hiding? You sit there and make fun of people who want their privacy, but when given the chance to let it all out, you squirm away?

Hypocrisy, is the real tragedy!!

[geek tragedy]

13. I answered your question, and you respond with such hostility. Horrendous breach

of etiquette on your part.

[pintobean]

60. I've got your file right here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=profile&uid=144296

I know you have mine, as well.

[geek tragedy]

68. Sacre bleu! nt

[randome]

6. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Or take actions against the things you know about. There's always that option.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]There is nothing you can't do if you put your mind to it.
Nothing.[/center][/font][hr]

[RobertEarl]

11. Take action?

WTF you think most here are doing? They are standing up for their rights and their privacy, all the while certain random posters take their cheap-shots.

Why don't you tell us who you are hiding behind that randome name? What are you afraid of, randome?

Oh wait, no, you want your privacy? Of course you do, who doesn't? So why all the cheap-shots from you?

[zappaman]

16. Yeah!

I wonder if he has more than one user name at DU!!!!
Wouldn't that be ironic???

[randome]

19. 'Cheap shots'. I call 'em like I see 'em.

Show me how my privacy's been violated? And use something besides Edward Snowden's evidence-less claims, please. Or what could happen or what 'they' might be doing.

My privacy is still mine. If the NSA needs to be reigned in, I'm all in. But I'm not going to panic until I see evidence other than Ed ("I'm not here to hide from justice&quot Snowden.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]There is nothing you can't do if you put your mind to it.
Nothing.[/center][/font][hr]

[struggle4progress]

20. TPTB want you to think that posting on-line is activism -- but it really isn't

[Electric Monk]

24. It's feeding the database, giving even more points of info to be cross-referenced

[JaneyVee]

7. I would say JACKPOT! Smell the law$uit.

[William769]

17. F.B.I. has had a file on me since 1983!

If they have any pictures of me in my private life, I hope they enjoy them (many and I do mean many in compromising positions).

If they were to ever release them I would sue for royalties! I could always use the extra income.

[geek tragedy]

21. I wish I had an existence sufficiently intersting to draw that kind of attention. nt

[William769]

22. Get a Job in State Government (especially Law Enforcement)

Interesting or not, you'll get a file.

[geek tragedy]

26. I didn't know that. That's quite a perk. nt

[William769]

30. Well if you ever go through the interview process

I wouldn't necessarily call it a perk, it's more like a colonoscopy.

[RobertEarl]

25. What? You'd sue for 2 dollars worth of royalty?

Not everyone may be as clean as you. Have you ever considered that there are some who are different from you and consider their privacy to be important? Now if privacy is just a joke to you, just forget this reply.

[geek tragedy]

27. I'm gonna love the response to this one. nt

[William769]

29. With age comes wisdom (at least thats how it's supposed to work).

If you don't understand that, just forget this reply.

[HappyMe]

23. Okay.

If they do, I'm sure they are bored to tears with it.

[sagat]

28. Oh no.

[nenagh]

32. The Russell Tice videos on YouTube... just watching now.

Very interesting.

[randome]

41. I'd recommend a little skepticism, though.

He last worked for the NSA in 2005 and every year he makes new allegations. Those facts make me a little suspicious of what he says.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]There is nothing you can't do if you put your mind to it.
Nothing.[/center][/font][hr]

[nenagh]

44. Well I'm Canadian and so I'm designated as a foreigner.

[randome]

49. Not to mention that you're...CANADIAN!

Kidding! Kidding! Really.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]There is nothing you can't do if you put your mind to it.
Nothing.[/center][/font][hr]

[Progressive dog]

33. I saw yours on the internet yesterday

but mine is boring, so the release date hasn't been set yet.

[Brigid]

37. Mine will elicit this reaction:

[flamingdem]

38. BS. I wrote for my files and they had zip nt

[FarCenter]

39. My government file began when they recorded my birth down at the court house.

[AllINeedIsCoffee]

40. I hear they even issue a card with your name and a uniquely identifying number.

[randome]

43. I used to issue those numbers! So you know they have a file on me, too!

Oh, dear me.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]There is nothing you can't do if you put your mind to it.
Nothing.[/center][/font][hr]

[Whisp]

55. and they know how much money you make, where you work.

F.U.C.K.!!!


Eddie, Eddie heeeeeeeeeelp!

[AllINeedIsCoffee]

59. I hear they even read my tweets!

One cannot even announce criminal activity to 1,000s of people anymore without the government butting in!

[Half-Century Man]

45. Probibly several..

IRS, US Navy, FBI, NSA, Dept of Labor (maybe), and I should have been mentioned in a report to the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.

[DevonRex]

46. OMG!!! I just KNEW I shouldn't have gotten that driver's license.

Now they know where I live!!!

[Whisp]

50. and the colour of your eyes!

my gawd, maybe there is something to this Snowden stuff.

[DevonRex]

57. Ha! I fooled them, then.

Not even I can tell the color of my eyes. Bwahaha!!

[AllINeedIsCoffee]

62. At least they allow you to guesstimate your weight.

[zappaman]

51. As long as they don't know my date of birth...

[Whisp]

48. Drama Much?

You been thinking about Eddie & Glennie too much.

[RobertEarl]

58. You think this is a joke?

The replies here really show what a sad country we have become. Anyone wanting privacy is to be laughed at? Made to appear to be drunk or otherwise incapacitated?

The forefathers probably wish they had just said fuck it, screw those assholes. ""We gave up our lives and fortunes for people who are making a joke of the constitution?""

[Whisp]

64. the forefathers were bigoted racist sexist assholes.

[AllINeedIsCoffee]

67. NO! The forefathers would limit the amount of files they kept.

For example, they'd only keep three-fifths of a file on African Americans.

[liberal N proud]

56. The government has had a file on for 40 years

Required for security clearance.

Obviously the didn't have enough information on one specific former intelligence agent turncoat.

[RobertEarl]

63. And that one has exposed the whole shebang

Which places everyone in peril. Thanks for the confirmation of just how dangerous having files really is.

[hollysmom]

65. pfft - they have had a file on me since college and protesting Viet war.

How do I know, I applied for a government job and they told me.

[Octafish]

66. Choice: Police State or Democracy

Can't be both, as those who've read Bertram Gross are aware.

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Fascism/Friendly_Fascism_BGross.html

Brave post, Robert Earl. Interesting responses from a COINTELPRO POV, too.

[RobertEarl]

69. Here is the original OP

( Due to the stupid first subthread, I am deleting this thread. That and the people making a joke of your privacy.)

Yes it does. Somewhere they have a file of all the info they have collected on you.

Every day they add something to your file. It may have false info or it may all be true. Then one day, someone in the government may release that file to the world. Say, posts it on the internet.

What would you say then? Would you finally say enough spying?

That day is coming, the way things are going. Be prepared. Or fight it now, before your file grows.

As you may read, many posters here think the government having a file all about your life, the money you spent, the phone calls you made, everything, is just a big joke to them. Which goes to show just how controlled the people have become. It is a sad place we are all in. Expect no privacy, because fellow Americans consider your privacy to be just a big joke.