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Writer Claims Online Searches for Pressure Cookers and Backpacks Earned Her a Visit From the Feds
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| 8/1/13
Posted on 08/01/2013 10:25:00 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
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When pressure cookers are outlawed.... Imagine what would happen if the feds, in the same fashion, swooped down on someone in the 'hood who bought a hoodie online...
To: Impala64ssa
Good Lord help us! What a bunch of Barney Fifes!
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posted on
08/01/2013 10:26:41 AM PDT
by
MWestMom
(Psalms 109:8)
To: Impala64ssa
Bookmarking to check back later to see if this story turned out to be true.
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posted on
08/01/2013 10:29:01 AM PDT
by
Made In The USA
(I'm not yelling, just... just talking enthusiastically..)
To: Impala64ssa
I would have answered yes I have a bomb. It’s a videotape of Plan 9 From Outer Space.
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posted on
08/01/2013 10:32:16 AM PDT
by
windcliff
To: Impala64ssa
Did their dog survive the interview?
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posted on
08/01/2013 10:36:49 AM PDT
by
rmh47
(Go Kats! - Got eight? NRA Life Member])
To: windcliff
And folks think the NSA data mining of everyone is harmless?
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posted on
08/01/2013 10:37:06 AM PDT
by
BigEdLB
(Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
To: Impala64ssa
Unreal! Absolutely unbelievably unreal.
So if someone wants to get a neighbor into trouble, they can hop on their unsecured wireless network and do a Google search for these terms and the Feds show up to question them?
What country... what PLANET do we live on anymore? Holy crap.
Furthermore, what happens if this sort of thing does happen completely innocently and the cops show up on your doorstep? Me personally, I wouldn’t open the door and I would tell them to come back with a warrant. I don’t talk to the police without a lawyer present.
Does that mean over the next week or month I have to be concerned for my life because I’ll likely have a no-knock raid committed on my home under the pretext that I’m a terrorist?
This is gestapo crap, folks. Make no mistake, you can become a statistic just this easy. A simple, innocent search for two seemingly unrelated items could net you a visit from the Feds. Make sure your dogs are locked up, or they’ll be shot dead just because your wife wants to make good quinoa and you want to go hiking in the Adirondacks.
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posted on
08/01/2013 10:39:57 AM PDT
by
rarestia
(It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
To: Impala64ssa
Good Morning Big Brother!
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posted on
08/01/2013 10:40:49 AM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(The Tipline for Zimmerman's Inquisition is: Sanford.florida@usdoj.gov ... Use it.)
To: Uncle Miltie
Look folks, if they are going to abuse our Fourth Amendment Rights, we need to overwhelm their stupid systems with noise.
Any time you are reminded of how they abuse citizens, take it upon yourself to jam their stupidity and violation of our freedoms down their throats. In a legal way.
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posted on
08/01/2013 10:43:14 AM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(The Tipline for Zimmerman's Inquisition is: Sanford.florida@usdoj.gov ... Use it.)
To: rarestia
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posted on
08/01/2013 10:44:14 AM PDT
by
BigEdLB
(Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
To: Made In The USA
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posted on
08/01/2013 10:45:41 AM PDT
by
SE Mom
(Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
To: rarestia
A simple, innocent search for two seemingly unrelated items could net you a visit from the Feds. Let's see if it works. I just did a search on IXQuick for 'pressure cooker, backpack, quinoa.'
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posted on
08/01/2013 10:49:04 AM PDT
by
TigersEye
("No man left behind" is more than an Army Ranger credo it's the character of America.)
To: Impala64ssa
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posted on
08/01/2013 10:53:13 AM PDT
by
deks
("...the battle...liberty against the overreach of the federal government" Ken Cuccinelli)
To: Uncle Miltie
Exactly right. Start using encryption more often and searching for known things such as this that can cause them to react. Pepper your emails with keywords.
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posted on
08/01/2013 10:54:46 AM PDT
by
wrencher
To: wrencher
See tagline.
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posted on
08/01/2013 11:01:06 AM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(Where's my pressure cooker backpack wmd ricin laced al qaeda terrorist BASSELOPE?)
To: deks
(Update, 12:50 p.m.: The Guardian confirmed with the FBI that the agency was aware of the visit, but that it was conducted by local police on Long Island.IOWs the Feds let the local popo take the risks based on their high-quality intel.
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posted on
08/01/2013 11:02:45 AM PDT
by
TigersEye
("No man left behind" is more than an Army Ranger credo it's the character of America.)
To: BigEdLB
I think this points to a larger issue that we cannot assume anything we do online is safe, secure, or otherwise innocent.
This is way past anything I believe 1984 or Brave New World could’ve predicted.
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posted on
08/01/2013 11:03:01 AM PDT
by
rarestia
(It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
To: Made In The USA
It’s true, although it wasn’t the Feds (FBI), it was the local cops. So now not only the Feds are spying on us, but the locals are too!!!!
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posted on
08/01/2013 11:38:59 AM PDT
by
Shimmer1
("What a poor, ignorant, malicious, short-sighted, crapulous mass." John Adams)
To: Impala64ssa
I call BS on this story.
Some drama queens will literally do anything for attention.
This low IQ couple never talked to each other?. Never made a connection between pressure cookers and backpacks? Hello?
How stupid do you have to be?
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posted on
08/01/2013 11:59:33 AM PDT
by
publius911
(Look for the Union label, then buy something else.)
To: Impala64ssa
I'm calling BS. I googled the heck out those items when it was in the news. I also hit every ammo and gun selling site out there, and had several searches for hi-cap mags.
No visits here. Well. None that I know of. I can say for certain my dog's still alive.
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posted on
08/01/2013 12:21:50 PM PDT
by
IYAS9YAS
(Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
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