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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: Venturer

Doesn’t stop them from trying. Lots of crypto-Mittbots around here coming out of the woodwork lately carrying water for Romney.


81 posted on 01/13/2012 6:49:13 AM PST by Utmost Certainty (Our Enemy, the State | Gingrich 2012)
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To: cincinnati65

1) Internet ID's for all users
2) Infiltration of websites for "subversives" who dare to question the administration
3) NDAA -- which allows incarceration without due process for threats to the administration

Well how else is FEDGOV™ going to protect us from scary Muslim terrorists.

82 posted on 01/13/2012 6:51:16 AM PST by Roninf5-1
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To: tutstar

As if this hasn’t been going on for years already...


83 posted on 01/13/2012 6:51:42 AM PST by stuartcr ("In this election year of 12, how deep into their closets will we delve?")
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To: Travis McGee

Is there a link for the pic?


84 posted on 01/13/2012 6:52:18 AM PST by tutstar (Want pings to Aaron Klein articles and OWS nonsense?)
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To: elvis-lives
I was sort of thinking the same thing, except the humor continues even further. Klein’s article is a theory about a conspiracy prompted by an article about conspiracy theories that projects a conspiracy theory.

Hahaha. :)

It’s like holding a mirror up in front of a mirror and seing the image replicate infinitely.

Woo, infinite regression.

85 posted on 01/13/2012 6:52:48 AM PST by Utmost Certainty (Our Enemy, the State | Gingrich 2012)
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To: Utmost Certainty

Or for Ron Paul.


86 posted on 01/13/2012 6:54:03 AM PST by Venturer
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To: Utmost Certainty

Wow, that’s a huge bathroom!


87 posted on 01/13/2012 6:54:12 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: MrB

And of course it didn’t get any media attention since most people would say what I said. Got to love the LSM. A terrorist gets a little water, nightly news for a year. Gov takes kids, crickets.


88 posted on 01/13/2012 6:56:25 AM PST by LevinFan
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To: MrB

I’m no lawyer but couldn’t that be considered entrapment?

Wait. Nevermind. Since when does a little thing like the law matter to barack?


89 posted on 01/13/2012 6:56:51 AM PST by rfreedom4u (Forced diversity causes dissent!)
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To: bamahead

Bat.

Sh!t.

Crazy.

They’re losing it at such a rate that it’s hard to follow.


90 posted on 01/13/2012 7:07:14 AM PST by bayouranger (The 1st victim of islam is the person who practices the lie.)
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To: rarestia; Liz; sickoflibs; MrB
Social networking involves myriad political and social ideologies, and there would be absolutely no quicker way for this failure of an administration to isolate themselves than to start shutting down the sites that Internet-addicted teens and twenty-somethings use minute-by-minute.

You're missing something here - they're not after 'social networking sites' - they're after people who disagree with the Liberal Establishment. They're totalitarians. The modern day equivalent of the SS - - the petty dictator's 'secret police' ...

You can smell the stench of power hungry bullies waiting to ask YOU for your papers. These assholes all use the same techniques - it starts with thought crimes. And gets worse. Much worse.

George Orwell would know these folks. And Orwell would know what's coming next.

91 posted on 01/13/2012 7:08:55 AM PST by GOPJ (GAS WAS $1.85 per gallon on the day Obama was Inaugurated! - - freeper Gaffer)
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To: redgolum
"..You would be foolish to think this isn’t going on now..."

How true. This is just like the iceberg theory. 10%up and 90%hidden. If its making noise in the media today, that means that this has been going on for years and years.

92 posted on 01/13/2012 7:23:45 AM PST by redshawk (0pansy is a Liar)
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To: cincinnati65

Look what they did to Joe the Plumber for asking a simple question of the Messiah. You don’t DO that to Messiahs, apparently, in a police state. Sheesh, this is getting worse by the HOUR in America.


93 posted on 01/13/2012 7:31:19 AM PST by AmericanInTokyo (Romneybots will appear left & right on FR in the next few weeks/months. Jim/Mods, PLEASE zap 'em!)
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To: Travis McGee

Good graphic. But rather, should say, “Entering Totalitarianism”.


94 posted on 01/13/2012 7:35:05 AM PST by AmericanInTokyo (Romneybots will appear left & right on FR in the next few weeks/months. Jim/Mods, PLEASE zap 'em!)
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To: Utmost Certainty

Disgusting, isn’t it?


95 posted on 01/13/2012 7:37:50 AM PST by AmericanInTokyo (Romneybots will appear left & right on FR in the next few weeks/months. Jim/Mods, PLEASE zap 'em!)
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To: tutstar
...which involves regular monitoring of “publicly available online forums, blogs, public websites and message boards.”

They're here, for sure. We represent a danger to their Marxist agenda.

96 posted on 01/13/2012 7:51:27 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: plenipotentiary
“The 1996 crash of TWA flight 800 was caused by a U.S. military missile.”

Wrong. It was a Muslim terror attack from a small craft offshore of the airport. The plane was a random target.

97 posted on 01/13/2012 7:54:45 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: tutstar
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98 posted on 01/13/2012 7:55:22 AM PST by Augie
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To: se_ohio_young_conservative
Lyndon Johnson did not kill John Kennedy !
99 posted on 01/13/2012 8:05:30 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: JimRed
Lyndon Johnson did not kill John Kennedy !

Well after all, it was you and me.

100 posted on 01/13/2012 8:06:34 AM PST by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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