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

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

[exPBRrat]

In Amerika today skybot can check anyone out...unless their in a mosque. That’s off limits.

[Vigilanteman]

. . . how - with all of this out of control surveillance - they did not catch the Boston Marathon bombers.

Probably because it would be racist to profile a Muslim. It is much easier to profile ordinary citizens instead.

Did you ever read Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Solzhenitsyn? I did way back when I was in high school. It provides splendid insight on the nanny state mindset.

One passage which particularly struck me told of some neighbors who went to the local KGB office to complain about the lack of arrangements made to care for the young children of a couple which had been detained for suspicious activity. Unfortunately for them, the office was short exactly two people of their detention quota for the month. Guess who filled it?

[B4Ranch]

>>Either this article is BS or we have officially crossed a line. A Big Red One.<<

BUMP

[driftdiver]

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

[Paine in the Neck]

It has never been suffieciently expplained, as far as I know, how - with all of this out of control surveillance - they did not catch the Boston Marathon bombers.

It's not for that purpose. That's just the public justification. Its real purpose is to collect extorsion information to use against political enemies. Think Obama, Axelrod and Jarrett handling opposition research on this scale. Who would dare oppose them? Certainly not John Roberts. Who would choose to run for office knowing that the Chicago bolshevik mob has access to this kind of information?

[Alas Babylon!]

Never, ever, let them in.

[driftdiver]

Do you have a warrant?
Am I being detained?

You’re trespassing

[glorgau]

“May we search your house?”

Ask them to let you rifle through their wallet while you're deciding whether or not to let them.

[driftdiver]

try coming up positive on one of their ‘random’ explosives tests and see what happens.

they didn’t know what to do.

[dirtymac]

They do not spy on muslims. Only Americans that might resist the takeover of this country.

[TigersEye]

Six gentleman in casual clothes emerged from the vehicles and spread out as they walked toward the house, two toward the backyard on one side, two on the other side, two toward the front door.

Sounds like the movements of a hit team. Were they trying to start a firefight?

[Alas Babylon!]

smh... You are so right. Everyone, stop to think on it.

[I want the USA back]

If Bush were president we’d be hearing stories about Bush/Hitler.

[cuban leaf]

“May we search your house?” Not unless you have a warrant and I’m in cuffs.

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Whether or not he let them in is not the takeaway in this story. The simple fact that they were there at all is HUGE. I'm talking USSR, NAZI Germany huge.

That is why I will assume this story is bogus until corroborating evidence reveals itself.

[null and void]

"I’m scared. And not of the right things."

No, Dearie, you are scared of exactly the right things.

[null and void]

*shrug* The last time an FBI agent showed up on my doorstep, I invited him in.

[Alas Babylon!]

I agree with you about the impact, but disagree that it couldn’t be happening.

It is. Sadly. More than sadly, we should all be moaning and crying like banshees! But most will just turn away, nothing to see here, I’m busy....

[Chickensoup]

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

[chessplayer]

Use a search engine that doesn’t spy on you.

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There is no such thing. They may make the claim, but the govt can track anything.

[Chickensoup]

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn