and you're critical of the government; government policies; the NSA, FBI, CIA, and so on; the Republican Party.....you get the idea.
You think message boards aren't monitored? Ha. Think again. You think that there aren't even members here who represent one or two of those agencies? Think again.
They'd be stupid not to monitor political boards. I suspect on some of them, they'd pick up talks of violence....I'd like to think those are only on right-wing boards, and I suspect that is the case, but one never knows.
What infuriates me is the likelihood that it goes beyond monitoring for threats and goes into monitoring vocally, consistently critical posters and possibly closer monitoring of their other forms of communication.....email, phones, etc. Yeah, that's in my imagination but given what we now know, how far off is my imagination likely to be? After all, we have our own verbal, virtual version of OWS here on a daily basis, as well as active participants in OWS. I'm a member of quite a few Facebook OWS groups, progressive groups, etc. I have no doubt about those being monitored, too.
So, yeah, just by posting here we stand out from the crowd. I think most of us know and accept that. It's sadly a fact of life if these United States. 
(Does the above statement mean acceptance on my part? HELL NO!!! Every single American should be fighting these breaches of our civil liberties!!)
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