Government Trolls - Our Tax Dollars at Work.

[reprehensor]

From "Bring it On!"
http://www.teambio.org/2006/07/government-trolls-our-tax-dollars-at-work/

Last week it was the revelation that the Department of Defense was going to be indexing blogs. Then it was the revelation that Marine recruiters were using My Space to lure people into the military. Now it seems our tax dollars are being used for military personnel to cruise blogs sites and spam the comment section. At least that is what it seems like after we received this comment today:

Greetings; my name is _________ with U.S. CENTCOM. While it is not my place to get involved in any political debates, I just wanted toinvite your readers to visit our website, www.centcom.mil . The CENTCOM website is a good place to get up-to-date news, press releases, video and audio from Iraq, Afghanistan and all other places within the Central Command Area of Responsibility.

...Chris has found out even more information on this intiative:

http://www.dod.mil/news/Mar2006/20060302_4370.html

The team’s motto is “Engage,” and Flowers and others work with more than 250 bloggers to try to disseminate news about the good work being done by U.S. forces in the global war on terror. The effort, officials here said, has reached more than 17 million online readers. “We were given the mission to do electronic media engagement,” Flowers said. “The idea was put forth that so many people are getting their news from online sources that we would be remiss if we neglected that audience.”

Ever wonder why poster __________ was just so gosh-darned persistent?

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[wakeme2008]

2. Well there are our Lounge Lizards........

:rofl:

[walldude]

3. Bwhahaha.. another case of "The citizens are so fucking stupid

if we tell them to get all their info on Iraq from Central Command they'll come running". You'd think the distain they show for their citizens would have removed them from office long ago. I guess the freeps all think they are "in on it".

[valerief]

4. I figured all those people they hired in India to make Republican

fundraising calls during the Bush campaigns were still on the payroll saturating blogs. People called me stupid for saying that. I might be stupid, but I still think they're paying low wages to many people to saturate blogs. And I think our prisons are always filled to brim to provide cannon fodder.

[mirandapriestly]

5. from India?

Maybe that is why some of them seem to post in the middle of the night....

[valerief]

6. Yeah, India is where the GOP fundraising call centers are. n/t