Do you think the FBI or the SS troll these boards?

[Javaman]

Just curious

[Florida_Geek]

1. Does a bear shit in the wood

:evilgrin:

One benefit of not being a donor is nobody has an address on you.

[Skidmore]

3. Yeh, but

does it smell.

[smiley_glad_hands]

19. But they do have an email address and server logs with ip address. eom

[firebee]

48. Believe me... I didn't make it hard for the FBI or the CIA to find me.

I've written the FBI and CIA several times over the last two years in regards to issues of terrorism and issues involving this administration. They know where I stand, they know where I live and I don't care if they come to see me or not. If they come to see me, I'll just have a couple more insiders as contacts. I find it's helpful to remind our government operatives about who they're supposed to serve.... you know... "We, the People". Any agent who visits me is going to be an agent asking himself "Why the hell were we sent to talk with this guy?"

[RBHam]

50. Maybe they need to see you to find out what's really happening...

The way they're compartmentalized and censored...

[firebee]

52. Yes, I could start a grass roots campaign

I live on E. 10th St in the Pine Grove Apts #16, if any agents want to have some coffee with me. We could talk about foreign relations, domestic security or whatever else you want to talk about. I'm always willing to help make America a safer place for "The People".

[Burma Jones]

2. Maybe, if they're bored........

I believe they see us as cranks and kooks, much as they view the cranks and kooks at Freeperville...........

[DuaneBidoux]

38. Apparently they were real bored when they showed up

at the Colorado school where the band played a Bob Dylan song.

[Tace]

4. All The Domestic Intelligence Agencies Are Lurking

I'm not sure why FBI or SS would be trolling, though.

[mom cat]

5. Sure they do. Wave to them now!

:hi::puke::spank::nuke:

[SammyWinstonJack]

8. Heck, why not?

:hi:

[Tweed]

6. Yes and I think they troll the Free Republic too

Both boards seem to attract the extremes of both ends of the political spectrum. Those people don't make up the majority of either board, but people from the extremes of the political spectrum usually end up causing the most problems. I think that the boards have low priority (because reallywhat idiot is going to lay out their plans on a public website) and they check it every once in awhile.

[AnIndependentTexan]

7. didn't the 100%'ers turn us into homeland security?

[noordinaryspider]

15. You can donate through PayPal.....

...and forego the star; I'm not sure if that helps much, since they might well be able to track my starless IP, but it is the option that pops into my own head at the moment.

[newyawker99]

54. Hi noordinaryspider!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[MidwestTransplant]

9. Personally I am sure they have better things to do than lurk around

More likely they would come if somebody reports something suspicious to them. Just my opinion...

[burn the bush]

10. yeah, i think they do these days

but we're not doing anything illegal, though it might be if bush has his way. We don't encourage violence, we're very patriotic, most of us believe in God. What can they do? ok, i know some of that answer. If they take one of us, we will all stand though. Once the other Americans realize whats happening, they will even stand with us if it ever comes to it.

[City Lights]

11. I thought "Agent Mike" was FBI, no?

:hi:

[ParanoidPat]

14. No, Agent Mike L*****

is Secret Service. :evilgrin:

Hi agent 'Mike'! :hi:

[indigobusiness]

22. Agent Mike says"hi"...

[judge_smales]

12. They probably lurk on occasion

on this board, as well as many other politically oriented sites. Along w/ hate sites, and fundie religious sites.

[BiggJawn]

13. HELLO Agent MIKE!

How they hangin' Mike ol' buddy?
Getting closer to that promotion, since the top is thinning out a bit?

:D

[Dogmudgeon]

16. I think we've been too paranoid

I'm sure that there are self-appointee patriots and guardians of the public weal who "monitor" liberal websites and compile dossiers in the style of international spies, but they're less like James Bond and more like Austin Powers. The (non-Autin) Powers That Be are largely content to allow us libbruls to bitch and moan. They view it as an efficient outlet for righteous anger, and it keeps the pretense of Democracy alive.

I have some personal experience in these matters. When I was in college in the late 70s and early 80s, I was the co-"publisher" of an underground newspaper, a folio, really, and an early, shabby precursor of The Onion. One of the gag columns discussed plans for a Mock Draft Protest, because President Carter had authorized a Mock Draft Call-Up to test the new registration system.

Well, two FBI field agents visited my school, and on a day I wasn't there. The older students, some of who had been part of the Counterculture a decade earlier, were scared out of their minds that The Man was pulling back on the leash, and that the bootheel of Fascism was coming down on their necks.

But one of my friends, who at that time was 19, told me that the agents were respectful and actually seemed to be annoyed that they were sent out to chase down a couple of young, second-rate comedians. It appears that even the Dean had spoken a few words in my defense, in spite of the fact that I hadn't even met him. My father, who was a Defense Department worker, didn't even hear about it, let alone suffer any repercussions. And that was the end of it.

We're not fighting a pre-WW2 style fascist tyrant. The Bush Cabal, and the other ruling cabals, operate far differently than that. They are more economic machines than incarnations of public psychosis. This is probably why the number of people who have been subject to the USA-PATRIOT act have been relatively few; in four years, Hitler was able to fill several dozen work- and death- camps with people he didn't care for, the Jews and Poles and Gypsies and Communists and others who suffered under or perished in The Holocaust. Stalin's tyranny was much more cold, sterile, and mechanical, claiming 10-50 million victims, the number depending on the counging criteria used. But relatively few of his victims suffered traditional official abuse and oppression -- most of them died of engineered famines, illness, and the brutal cold of the Russian winters.

If Team Bush establishes an American Tyranny, it will certainly be automated, computerized, and threaten the population of the world with death. But since there can be no political power if the population has died off, there is a limit to how far they will go. They're in it for power, not for kicks.

The upside? This is situation that we can use to re-assert Democracy in an age where Democracy is on the skids.

--bkl

[Village Idiot]

17. One word -

ECHELON. Wake UP!

[Dzimbowicz]

18. Of course they do

[Ducks In A Row]

20. what? and read the truth

it might give them pause about what the WH is doing to this country.

[RyomaSakamoto]

21. it's probably automated

with key words/phrases triggering wetware to check it out.

the authorities have been dying and spending enormous sums to get into our heads for ages... i'm sure they wouldn't pass up such a plum.

btw: thats another reason why they will never shut the web down... well while there's still profit in maintaining the facade that is :evilgrin:

[alexisfree]

23. very good!

the lizards have more advance way to spy on us..

[indigobusiness]

26. It seems the Eschelon data sorting ilk has swamped them.

I remember something awhile back about an overwhelming backlog of data.

Careful what you wish for.

[RyomaSakamoto]

29. yep, corporate america can't keep track of all it's data

i doubt the feds will do better with the HUGE AMOUNT of data they need to track but knowing that just makes me more nervous :scared:

[uppityperson]

30. keywords like? shall I post some? I 've got a file because Peace Corps

[RyomaSakamoto]

33. lol

i'm sure the DU sets off plenty of alarms constantly :evilgrin:

[kitkatrose]

42. Someone had a bunch in their sigline a while back.

Thankfully I saved it. :evilgrin:

FBI CIA NSA IRS ATF BATF DOD WACO RUBY RIDGE OKC OKLAHOMA CITY MILITIA GUN HANDGUN MILGOV ASSAULT RIFLE TERRORISM BOMB DRUG HORIUCHI KORESH DAVIDIAN KAHL POSSE COMITATUS RANDY WEAVER VICKIE WEAVER SPECIAL FORCES LINDA THOMPSON SPECIAL OPERATIONS GROUP SOG SOF DELTA FORCE CONSTITUTION BILL OF RIGHTS WHITEWATER POM PARK ON METER ARKANSIDE IRAN CONTRAS OLIVER NORTH VINCE FOSTER PROMIS MOSSAD NASA MI5 ONI CID AK47 M16 C4 MALCOLM X REVOLUTION CHEROKEE HILLARY BILL CLINTON GORE GEORGE BUSH WACKENHUT TERRORIST TASK FORCE 160 SPECIAL OPS 12TH GROUP 5TH GROUP - This list of hotwords is intended to make you Echelon douchebags waste valuable time spying on harmless old me. Enjoy!

[mainegreen]

35. Really lets test!

N0w terr0rist BOMB osama Shopping Mall Vote pickle Kill Imam Iran Iraq Shia Holy Blessed be his name Plot account swiss cheese bank The General.

Now that must score high on their systems right?

:evilgrin: :bounce: :evilgrin: :bounce: :evilgrin: :bounce:

[uppityperson]

45. pickle? thought it was cucumber. n/t

[indigobusiness]

24. Psychological profiling would be greatly facilitated by reading

specific DUers postings.

If they've got your number, this site could be an asset.

[Fatima]

25. Yoooooo betcha! And the wingers are eagerly calling for them!

Have you seen this amusing bit of garbage? Check it out (and feel free to leave a comment!)

http://hundredpercenter.blogspot.com/2004/11/democraticunderground-advocates.html

[BeHereNow]

53. EWWW, ICK!

Those are some seriously ignorant, hateful icky people.
Talk about HATE speech!
Somebody call the FBI on them!
They should be locked away and please throw away the key!
I am NEVER leaving my house now that I know those people are
free to roam the streets of MY country.
bhn

[OneTwentyoNine]

27. This comes up all the time,must not make any difference if they do..

Keep any threats to yourself and there will never be a problem with what anyone posts.

[ArkDem]

28. Only when they need comic relief.

[bvar22]

31. Of Course,

But they don't know about the secret hidden forum where the REAL underground plots the return to Democracy. The super secret password is:

{hold down control key and type}Liberty and Justice....whoops

Almost blew it for everyone. Sorry.
Please ignore this post.

[Poor Richard Lex]

32. Yes!

er, I mean NO!

[juliagoolia]

34. these guys are watching you

[xultar]

36. I'm sure they do. We're nothin compared to what the Freepers would do

if BushCo turned on them. That would be my hope, that the freepers and BushCo get into a fight. :evilgrin:

[DuaneBidoux]

37. They know what we say...they know who we are...and we all have files.

In all fairness however, the FreeRepublic probably is monitored the same way.

[Carl Brennan]

39. They are being ASSIMILATED!! See how

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2697219

[ThoughtCriminal]

40. They should

We figured out that the Anthraz assasin was a Freeper/Ditto head the first week. Ashcroft's Keystone Kops wasted months trying to find an Iraq connection and still haven't figured out that one yet.

[anarchy1999]

41. You are kidding, right?

Of course they do. Come and get us! "BRING IT ON"!

[Zorra]

43. Sure. FBI Director Mueller was reading a DU post on 9/11/01, just

about an hour before Bu$h, I mean, bin Laden destroyed the WTC.

Here is the post Mueller read:

Why do you think that Cheney told the FBI to stop investigating suspected Saudi terrorists in the US?

Could Cheney be planning some sort of "Reichstag fire" catalystic event, a domestic terrorist attack, in order to strike fear into the hearts of the American sheeple in order to orchestrate a fascist takeover of the US, and turn our country into an aggressive one party military police state? Gee, I think bin Laden is going to hit the WTC with an airplane sometime today.

Gosh, why is the FBI reading this post instead of stopping terrorists from attacking the WTC?

Oh, yeah - Cheney told them to stand down, and not stop the Saudi terrorists.

Never mind.

(satire?/off)

[Jack Schitt]

44. I don't give a shit if they do.

If they think someone like me or you are terrorists, then they got waaaaaaaaaaaay too much time on their hands. They should be out looking for the REAL enemy, not its own citizens who ARE NOT terrorists. :grr: :grr: :grr:

For those lurking agents (if there are any), I advise you to pick-up and read the book 1984. You might learn a thing or two. Also, brush up on your history of WWII and Nazi-Germany, because that's the direction your leader is heading this country into.

[RyomaSakamoto]

46. FCC clarifies that they do, in fact, control everything

FCC to regulate internet and home computers


http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20041115-4402.html

The FCC's brief, filed in response to PK's challenge to FCC's jurisdiction in the flag matter, is breathtaking. FCC's position is that its Act gives it regulatory power over all instrumentalities, facilities, and apparatus "associated with the overall circuit of messages sent and received" via all interstate radio and wire communication. That's quite a claim.

The scope of such a claim is immense, reaching people's PCs and any other conceivable digital television consumption device. Unfortunately, it's evident that much of the FCC's latest legislation (and hubris) comes at the behest of the larger players in the content production industry, which doesn't bode well for consumers. The trifecta of increasingly draconian copyright restriction, combined with the new ability (via the DMCA) of private entities to effectively set their own copyright rules outside scope of the law, and an FCC that thinks it controls as much as it does, create a harsh environment for smaller companies and consumers. Indeed, the FCC's dismissal of 70 years of procedures reflects the potential problems we could face in near future:

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/16/0518234

[spanone]

47. Sure, I've seen the media call DU a left-wing hate group.

Hello guys.

[Name removed]

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[RetroLounge]

51. Sure they do

Say hello to Agent Mike...

RL