Posted on 01/13/2012 5:17:49 AM PST by tutstar
Just prior to his appointment as President Obamas 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 Securitys 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 departments 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.
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Actually they can't do this part:
criminalizing opposition and arresting their enemies without due process??
Due process is now in place.
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...
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!
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!
I see you don't spend much time on the Birther threads.
Or socialism. But I din’t make it, I just swiped it.
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?
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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.
It’s the Schiaavo threads that get to me.
Yeah. Elián González did it for me.
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.
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?
Better the ones we know?
>> “When are they going to start banning thought crimes?” <<
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What do you think a “hate crime” is?
What about the non-word “homophobia?”
Yes, they are here.
>> “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?
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