[Impala64ssa]

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...

[MWestMom]

Good Lord help us! What a bunch of Barney Fifes!

[Made In The USA]

Bookmarking to check back later to see if this story turned out to be true.

[windcliff]

I would have answered yes I have a bomb. It’s a videotape of Plan 9 From Outer Space.

[rmh47]

Did their dog survive the interview?

[rarestia]

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.

[Uncle Miltie]

Good Morning Big Brother!

[deks]

Correction: After confirmation from the FBI that its agents weren't involved in the visit, the headline of this piece was changed to "Visit From the Cops" instead of "the Feds."

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/08/government-knocking-doors-because-google-searches/67864/

[publius911]

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?

[IYAS9YAS]

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.

[AnalogReigns]

Don't use google, or bing, or any other mainstream search engine.

Use startpage.com.

It's a search engine that guarantees NOT to record your searches.