Monday - June 01, 2015

Speaking of Government Spying…

It’s official - the Department of Justice (Why am I thinking of the Ministry of Love from 1984?) is studying “Far Right Social Media Use”.

We’re on the radar folks.  There is no rumored evil from the Obama admin that hasn’t proved out.  We’re being investigated like criminals.

Here’s the article from The American Spectator

DOJ Collecting Your ‘Right-Wing’ Social Media Posts

I like this quote:

The study draws more upon right-wing forums than upon the corners of the web inhabited by Islamist extremists.

“We will collect posts made in four active forums used by members of the far-right and three from the Islamic Extremist community, as well as posts made in Facebook, LiveJournal, Twitter, YouTube, and Pastebin accounts used by members of each movement,” the grant said.

“The findings will be used to document both the prevalence and variation in the ideological content of posts from members of each movement,” the grant continued. “In addition, we will assess the value of these messages in the social status of the individual posting the message and the function of radical messages in the larger on-line identity of participants in extremist communities generally.”

The project will also “identify the hidden networks of individuals who engage in extremist movements based on geographic location and ideological similarities.”

...and this from Fox News

Justice Department funding study on ‘far-right’ social media use

“There is currently limited knowledge of the role of technology and computer mediated communications (CMCs), such as Facebook and Twitter, in the dissemination of messages that promote extremist agendas and radicalize individuals to violence,” according to the NIJ grant. “The proposed study will address this gap through a series of qualitative and quantitative analyses of posts from various forms of CMC used by members of both the far-right and Islamic extremist movements.”

It wouldn’t be complete without these links to the original.  Officially they lead to the National Institute of Justice, same ministry, different department.:
NIJ Award Detail: An Assessment of Extremist Groups Use of Web Forums, Social Media, and Technology to Enculturate and Radicalize Individuals to Violence

...and this one:
Solicitation Title:Research and Evaluation on Domestic Radicalization to Violent Extremism

We are being investigated as if we were terrorists and criminals.  We are a seditious lot, but the last I checked dissent, an insistence on the the rule of law with our Constitution paramount and all the rest, were not terrorist acts or criminal acts in any way.  Our ideas, beliefs and hopes are only a threat to the people who want to criminalize them. 

When they make us criminals, what’s the old saying?  May as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb?

se·di·tious
səˈdiSHəs/

adjective; inciting or causing people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch.
“the letter was declared seditious”
synonyms: rabble-rousing, provocative, inflammatory, subversive, troublemaking;

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