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DOJ COLLECTING YOUR ‘RIGHT-WING’ SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS
American Prowler ^ | 6.1.15 | Emily Zanotti

Posted on 06/01/2015 8:31:09 PM PDT by nickcarraway

One of the primary contentions, yesterday evening, of Establishment Republicans and Democrats in defense of the NSA's massive data collection program, was that the program was not only free from abuse (something we know is not true), but that it's ultimately useful in targeting real threats to the American people; maybe not yesterday, maybe not today, but perhaps some day in the future it will ensnare an entire sleeper sell of Jihadists mid-phone call to Iran, giving an unsecured credit card number to their yellowcake suppliers. The data collection, you see, is done only on those whose backgrounds demand it. If you've done nothing wrong? Then why worry that your cell phone data records are stored on a massive supercomputer in Utah, where they can be routinely downloaded and searched?

One thing they forgot to mention? The Obama Administration, which has greatly expanded warrantless wiretapping, has a very interesting definition of who consitutes a threat. They haven't been entirely forthcoming (or maybe they have, really) in who they focus on when it comes to things like "lone-wolf terrorist" or "threats to the very nature of our social fabric." And that's because, when they use the terms, they don't really mean the homegrown groups of Jihadists that Lindsey Graham or Dan Coats envisions, plotting to put a dirty bomb in a shopping mall or release anthrax into Congress's air ducts.

(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News
KEYWORDS: beseeingyou; bigbrother; dojsocialmedia; enemieslist; internet; nsa; rightwingsocialmedia; socialistnetworking
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1 posted on 06/01/2015 8:31:09 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Let them learn something by reading me then. :-)


2 posted on 06/01/2015 8:34:00 PM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: nickcarraway

Hmmm....my computer is acting strange today!


3 posted on 06/01/2015 8:35:47 PM PDT by entropy12 (My Fearless forecast for Iowa Caucuses: Walker will win with a big margin.)
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To: A CA Guy

Ultimately the nations peoples will simply refrain from expressing their opinions on anything for “fear” of being misunderstood or used against them.....

“Mission Accomplished”.......silence the debates and truth is never revealed.


4 posted on 06/01/2015 8:36:56 PM PDT by caww
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To: nickcarraway

Yo, Low-wretched! GFY.


5 posted on 06/01/2015 8:38:28 PM PDT by clintonh8r (ISIS IS ISlam/Christian lives matter!)
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To: nickcarraway

Here let me start; Barry Soetoro Hussein Obama needs to be put under oath regarding the 27 Operators who perished in a helicopter in Afghanistan.


6 posted on 06/01/2015 8:39:47 PM PDT by cardinal4 (Certified Islamophobe..)
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To: A CA Guy
I wonder if one can get in trouble just by excerpting?

“..maybe not yesterday, maybe not today...sleeper cell...Jihadists...[Allah]...Iran...yellowcake...demand... cell phone....supercomputer...Obama...threat...lone-wolf terrorist...Lindsey Graham...Dan Coats...dirty bomb...shopping mall...anthrax....Congress.”

7 posted on 06/01/2015 8:40:24 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: nickcarraway

They’re gonna need lots of coffee.

ZZZzzzzzz.


8 posted on 06/01/2015 8:42:24 PM PDT by HLPhat (This space is intentionally blank.)
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To: nickcarraway

coming soon to a residence near yours:

greeting we are the federal homeland security police (flashing badge), visiting your home with a no-knock warrant at 3 am to make certain that no terrorists are using your home computer to post cartoons, jokes, or opinions that are considered inflammatory and dangerous to the public.

and oh by the way we shot your dog on the way in. and your 5 year old niece.

and oh by the way since we are federal, we are immune from prosecution.

have a nice day.


9 posted on 06/01/2015 8:43:37 PM PDT by SteveH
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To: HLPhat
You think Free Republic is boring?
10 posted on 06/01/2015 8:46:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
They haven't been entirely forthcoming (or maybe they have, really) in who they focus on when it comes to things like... "threats to the very nature of our social fabric."

The Obama's attacks on childbearing and the institutions of marriage and even organized religion are "threats to the very nature of our social fabric". So are efforts to push Socialism into all aspects of life, denying people choice in healthcare, squashing dissent in the media, etc.

Clearly this isn't being done in the effort to prevent another 9-11 style Islamist attack because the previous Islamist attacks we've seen on US soil were apparent in the online posts (and investigations of) radical Islamist jihadists in this country yet they were permitted to go about their deadly deeds and threats.

This president surrendered the "war on terror" when he took power.

11 posted on 06/01/2015 8:52:02 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Funny how Hollywood's 'No Nukes' crowd has been silent during Obama's Iranian nuclear negotiations.)
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perhaps some day in the future it will ensnare an entire sleeper sell...

sell? Good grief.

12 posted on 06/01/2015 8:52:18 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: nickcarraway
No, I think FR reflects reality, which isn't as conspiratorially exciting as the left would like it to be.

Truth, Logic, and Reason short circuits the ability of leftists to manufacture perception in venues where they don't have control.

Note to DOJ watchdogs:

It is incumbent upon the honorable craftsman to be aware of whether or not his services are being used as a means to accomplish evil ends - and to act (or NOT) accordingly.

13 posted on 06/01/2015 8:53:35 PM PDT by HLPhat (This space is intentionally blank.)
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To: nickcarraway
The Department of Justice is concentrating on “far-right” groups in a new study of social media usage aimed at combatting violent extremism.

Tell the damn Obama-Holder-Lynch Department of Just Us mob to stop making such Casses of themselves. Americans don't want a news or any other kind of czar and fetters.

Here's how President Obama's [former] head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs and author of "Repulblic.com," Cass Sunstein, describes FreeRepublic.com as "group polarization," where people segregate themselves so effectively online with other like-minded thinkers that they create an echo chamber where the group's worst and most malevolent opinions get reinforced and strengthened. "We might want to consider," Sunstein startlingly told the Times recently, "the possibility of ways of requiring or encouraging sites to link to opposing viewpoints."

Cass Sunstein recently left the Administration to become an employee of Harvard.

14 posted on 06/01/2015 8:56:58 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: nickcarraway
But....but....but...all I said is Obama's a communist, Marxist, anti-American muslim....


Coming to a neighborhood near you?

15 posted on 06/01/2015 8:57:51 PM PDT by PROCON (CRUZing into 2016 with Ted.)
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To: nickcarraway

Good. I want them to have lots of evidence to convict me.


16 posted on 06/01/2015 9:01:33 PM PDT by Politicalkiddo ("Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God."-Reagan)
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To: nickcarraway

We need a nationwide draw Obama contest.


17 posted on 06/01/2015 9:06:46 PM PDT by MaxMax (Call the local GOP and ask how you can support CRUZ for POTUS, Make them talk!)
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To: nickcarraway

Is anybody surprised?


18 posted on 06/01/2015 9:10:08 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: PROCON

Wonderful animated graphic!
I’ve always assumed our posted remarks here were under scrutiny.


19 posted on 06/01/2015 9:10:15 PM PDT by onyx (PLEASE SUPPORT FR. Donate Monthly or Join Club 300! God bless you all.)
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To: nickcarraway

Somehow, my 870P doesn’t give a shiite.


20 posted on 06/01/2015 9:15:05 PM PDT by Salvavida (The restoration of the U.S.A. starts with filling the pews at every Bible-believing church.)
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