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Obama czar proposed government should ‘infiltrate’ social network sites, chat rooms, message boards.
Klein Online ^ | 1 12 2012 | Aaron Klein

Posted on 01/13/2012 5:17:49 AM PST by tutstar

Just prior to his appointment as President Obama’s so-called regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein wrote a lengthy academic paper suggesting the government should “infiltrate” social network websites, chat rooms and message boards.

Such “cognitive infiltration,” Sunstein argued, should be used to enforce a U.S. government ban on “conspiracy theorizing.”

Among the beliefs Sunstein classified as a “conspiracy theory” is advocating that the theory of global warming is a deliberate fraud.

The find comes as a government document reportedly relates the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s command center routinely monitors dozens of popular websites, including Facebook, Twitter, Hulu, WikiLeaks and news sites including the Huffington Post and Drudge Report.

Reuters reported that a “privacy compliance review” issued by DHS last November confirms that since at least June 2010, the department’s national operations center has been operating a “Social Networking/Media Capability” which involves regular monitoring of “publicly available online forums, blogs, public websites and message boards.”

The government document states such monitoring is meant to “collect information used in providing situational awareness and establishing a common operating picture” to help manage national or international emergency events.

While the DHS may be monitoring websites for security reasons, Sunstein advocated such actions with another goal in mind.

(Excerpt) Read more at klein.wp.wnd.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aaronklein; bigbrother; casssunstein; conspiracytheory
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To: sport
They will. Just give them time.

Actually they can't do this part:

criminalizing opposition and arresting their ‘enemies’ without due process??

Due process is now in place.

101 posted on 01/13/2012 8:07:56 AM PST by null and void (Day 1087 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made, Frank, they're cornered...])
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To: tutstar
Among the beliefs Sunstein classified as a “conspiracy theory” is advocating that the theory of global warming is a deliberate fraud...

I don't understand what the problem is here. Can't the admin just place these deniers into camps where they can no longer infect the larger population who accepts settled science? That way, the problem would be done with! Past admins have done similar with other populations, clearly the constitution allows this...

102 posted on 01/13/2012 8:09:43 AM PST by C210N (Dems: "We must tax you so that we can buy your votes")
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To: AmericanInTokyo
Look what they did to Joe the Plumber for asking a simple question of the Messiah.

Isn't he still free and now trying to fundraise for a run for a congressional seat? Seems to me that what they did backfired!

103 posted on 01/13/2012 8:10:50 AM PST by JimRed (Excising a cancer before it kills us waters the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: dfwgator

Sorry, I must have HTML’d my comment in response to that out of existence! I’ll try again:

Adolph Hitler never killed a single Jew...he was only giving orders!


104 posted on 01/13/2012 8:15:27 AM PST by JimRed (Excising a cancer before it kills us waters the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: Venturer
It is my belief that an infiltrator to Free Republic would get the Zot before much harm could be done.

I see you don't spend much time on the Birther threads.

105 posted on 01/13/2012 8:15:55 AM PST by null and void (Day 1087 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made, Frank, they're cornered...])
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To: sport
“Enemy Expatriation Act.”
106 posted on 01/13/2012 8:22:33 AM PST by null and void (Day 1087 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made, Frank, they're cornered...])
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Or socialism. But I din’t make it, I just swiped it.


107 posted on 01/13/2012 8:32:52 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: tutstar
I know of a few guys than can get around most if not all that the fedgov can throw at you. In the information area, the government isn't as good as the movies suggest.
108 posted on 01/13/2012 8:36:00 AM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: dfwgator

Lyndon Johnson did not kill John Kennedy !

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Well after all, it was you and me.

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So what’s puzzling you is just the nature of the game? Am I right?

:^]


109 posted on 01/13/2012 8:40:49 AM PST by headsonpikes (Mass murder and cannibalism are the twin sacraments of socialism - "Who-whom?"-Lenin)
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To: null and void

I saw that. But, I have had numerous posters tell me that I had nothing to worry about. The Governmentcannot and will not arrest American citizens for no cause, other than they consider them enemies of the State for their beliefs. Of course, the Jews in Germany said something along the same lines when the Numberg Laws stripped then of their citizenship and they were then placed in the death camps.


110 posted on 01/13/2012 8:49:17 AM PST by sport
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To: sport
Yeah. It's those Jews the Nazis hate, not us Jews...
111 posted on 01/13/2012 8:54:22 AM PST by null and void (Day 1087 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made, Frank, they're cornered...])
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To: null and void

It’s the Schiaavo threads that get to me.


112 posted on 01/13/2012 9:07:36 AM PST by Venturer
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To: Venturer

Yeah. Elián González did it for me.


113 posted on 01/13/2012 9:11:01 AM PST by null and void (Day 1087 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made, Frank, they're cornered...])
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To: tutstar

Cass Sunstein has been concentrating on FR for quite a while. Many of his operatives are totally obvious, and I can’t imagine why they haven’t been booted.


114 posted on 01/13/2012 9:19:11 AM PST by editor-surveyor (No Federal Sales Tax - No Way!)
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To: plenipotentiary

All of those “theories” except for the moon landing have been solidly proven true. That makes me wonder now about the moon landing; why has he put such emphasis on that?


115 posted on 01/13/2012 9:23:57 AM PST by editor-surveyor (No Federal Sales Tax - No Way!)
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To: editor-surveyor

Better the ones we know?


116 posted on 01/13/2012 9:28:03 AM PST by null and void (Day 1087 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made, Frank, they're cornered...])
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To: rarestia

>> “When are they going to start banning thought crimes?” <<

.
What do you think a “hate crime” is?

What about the non-word “homophobia?”


117 posted on 01/13/2012 9:28:53 AM PST by editor-surveyor (No Federal Sales Tax - No Way!)
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To: newnhdad

Yes, they are here.


118 posted on 01/13/2012 9:31:02 AM PST by Fu-fu2
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To: silverleaf; WilliamofCarmichael

>> “Cross fingers he continues to think of us as trivial gnats” <<

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He doesn’t.

He has quite a number of his shills here every day. Who do you think the PDS posse are?


119 posted on 01/13/2012 9:32:53 AM PST by editor-surveyor (No Federal Sales Tax - No Way!)
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To: tutstar
Dress them up any way you want, they are still nationalist socialists, or as we say these days, "liberal fascists."

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120 posted on 01/13/2012 12:10:18 PM PST by Candor7 (Obama fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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