Feds Investigate Couple for Online Searches (pressure cookers, backpacks and quinoa, oh my!)

Medium.com ^ | Monday, August 1, 2013 | Michell Catalano

[pluvmantelo]

Thanks for pointing out the comment. I feel better now. :-)

[FreedomPoster]

And don’t talk to the police.

http://youtu.be/i8z7NC5sgik

Highly worthwhile to watch.

[Impy]

Uncool.

[sickoflibs]

I don't know what to make of this story but it does remind me of my reading here of an online group proposing to organize (online) and gather supporters to flood google with similar searches to keep the government busy as a protest.

Is the author really Michele Catalano???
Former music contributor at Forbes, freelance writer published in The Magazine, Maura Magazine and at Boing , as it says at the link.

[visualops]

There’s an update to the article, in that they were there because (mostly, only?) of her husband’s searches at his old job. She doesn’t say what his old job was, or what he searched for, or how long ago the old job was. And then says she didn’t mean to mislead, and wrote the article with the information she had at the time.

[NFHale]

“...And I’m supposed to feel safer with these clowns protecting me?...”

No, actually, you’re NOT supposed to “feel safer”.

You’re supposed to feel intimidated, coerced, threatened, frightened, scared, apprehensive, watched, observed, surveilled, kept-in-line, and otherwise controlled by a Damocles sword of Selective Enforcement hanging over your head for everything you think, say, feel, write, and believe.

And you are.

Because that’s what all of this nonsense was designed to do.

It’s not designed to protect YOU; it’s designed to protect government functionaries and government workers FROM you.

And they’re not “Keystone Cops”. Far from it.

They’re trained, professional Agents of Der Staat that would have wasted this guy and his family in a heartbeat given even the remotest threat to themselves, and Der Staat would back them up fully and completely regardless, and make up some story about the unfortunate couple to cover it over - not that they’d need to, mind you, because their compliant buddies in the media would be more than happy to help them smooth things over. Nothing to see here, move along.

That’s where we are right now, whether people want to admit it or not.

[NFHale]

ping
see post 106

[OneWingedShark]

“Never ever let the police conduct a search without a warrant”
They don’t need a warrant. They declare you a terrorist suspect and therefore don’t need one. That’s all perfectly legal due the “PATRIOT ACT”.

Maybe legal (having the appearance of law), but not lawful (unless the Constitution is not the supreme law of the lang).

[OneWingedShark]

no it won’t stop them if they choose to come in but it may prevent them from using it in court.

Maybe an actual, open, constitutional court of law, but what about a secret & closed court where only the government's case is presented?

[OneWingedShark]

“...And I’m supposed to feel safer with these clowns protecting me?...”

No, actually, you’re NOT supposed to “feel safer”.

You’re supposed to feel intimidated, coerced, threatened, frightened, scared, apprehensive, watched, observed, surveilled, kept-in-line, and otherwise controlled by a Damocles sword of Selective Enforcement hanging over your head for everything you think, say, feel, write, and believe.

And you are.

Indeed, everyone needs to stop thinking they know how to interact with government agents, the old ways have passed away and the new ways are upon us; no more are they public servants, but lords and masters; everything you need to know about your new relationship with the government is explained in this handy and informative brochure:
Stop, Drop, and Cower
[Direct Link]

[driftdiver]

well its that or start shooting

[NFHale]

“...no more are they public servants, but lords and masters; ...”

Which is why they want us all disarmed.

Not an option. Ever.

[OneWingedShark]

These bombs have been used for years around the world, and our crack Secret Police never figured out they might be an issue until someone blew some up this year. People should think about that too. We have idiots “protecting” us, who can’t think of anything until AFTER it has blown up in this country.

No kidding.

[OneWingedShark]

Let’s all Google pressure cookers and backpacks, or maybe pressure, cooker, and backpack in no particular order, just to mess with them.

Heh, amusing.
…but do you know what this story will do to my chances of patenting a backpack pressure-cooker?

[OneWingedShark]

Agreed. Part of the reason I made the Stop, Drop, and Cower brochure was to point out this worrying trend in a way that makes someone think and/or laugh. (In my experience: Those that have usurped their authority, and are therefore insecure about it, are VERY sensitive to being laughed at.)

[NFHale]

“..in a way that makes someone think and/or laugh..”

And I understand that... just that to me, I can’t laugh about it at all.

There’s zero humor in anything these b*tches are doing to us.

I’m pretty much in absolute contempt mode most of the time.

[stephenjohnbanker]

“uncool”

Very

[Clintonfatigued]

This is ominous. It’s hard to read news like this and not assume the worst.

[metmom]

Have you ever looked up how to make a pressure cooker bomb? My husband, ever the oppositional kind, asked them if they themselves weren’t curious as to how a pressure cooker bomb works, if they ever looked it up. Two of them admitted they did.

Awesome husband she has there.

[metmom]

America,,,2013.

Amerika 2013.

Welcome to the U.S.S.A.