"There is a huge difference between legal programs, legitimate spying, legitimate law enforcement — where individuals are targeted based on a reasonable, individualized suspicion — and these programs of dragnet mass surveillance that put entire populations under an all-seeing eye and save copies forever. These programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power."
"think you're underestimating the stupidity of some people. :-)"
I wish that were true. However, humanity's own actions throughout history has insured my realization that stupidity and ignorance are the two most common aspects of human nature world wide. While I place the blame for this squarely at the feet of Society/Culture - programming by the rich for the benefit of the rich - it is nonetheless the most unavoidable aspect of the species.
I simply don't see this situation - the nasty search string - as being caused by stupidity.
Carelessness perhaps - but even that is a stretch.
I would assume that Google altered the Auto-complete's selection criteria shortly after this law-suit became public, if indeed it was ever part of the list of possibles.
While it is indeed somewhat suspect that:
a. "Bombs" would be the first selection in a Goodle Search Auto-complete's criteria for possible insertions after "Remote Contolled" and
b. that anyone would actually trust an auto-complete to select the type of remote controlled item to search for and
c. that anyone would hit search after reading the word "Bombs" inserted into their search string...
- the simple fact that the NSA snoop and scoop computers can easily record what you type as you type it, does lend credence to the idea that - IF - the auto-complete added the word "Bombs", there would indeed be a copy made by the NSA S&S system of the search string reading "remote controlled bombs".
I assume that ANYONE, ANYWHERE on earth who would type such a string into a google search box would immediately and automatically be put on the NSA's "bad-guys to watch" list.
Anyone working for the US government would come under special scrutiny and anyone who met certain internal criteria would be open for cointelpro implementation.
The real problem here is that the FBI, NSA, CIA, ETC., have proven themselves to be deceptive to the max, over-reaching in every way possible, irresponsible and incapable of respect for the laws of the land and they have shown that they hold the privacy of their fellow Americans and the citizens of the rest of the world in utter contempt.
There is very little I would not expect them to do to get their way and weasel out of criminal charges.
Just in case you did not read the previous posts, cointelpro, counter-intelligence programs, are designed specifically to make people crazy, or at least to make them appear crazy to the general public.
The idea is ancient and effective; make your enemy appear to be a lunatic, and no matter what he says about you or about anything else, nobody will listen because people will think the victim is just crazy. Its even better when the process actually results in driving your target insane.
The bonus here is that the methods used to accomplish this goal will appear to those who hear about them, to be beyond anything anyone would actually do, increasing the public disbelief in the "ravings" of the victim.
This is even moreso when the actions are being done by what is widely perceived as the "Good Guys".
It was indeed the Auto-Complete process itself that got me thinking about whether the spooks can read as you type.
Given that information, it is quite possible that the man saw the auto-complete insertion and deleted the word "bombs", finishing the string properly with "model airplanes", and the computerized snoop and scoop recording of the event would still maintain a copy of the string that included the word "bombs", triggering the cointelpro by the spooks.
"There is no apparent circumstance where he would have hit enter or clicked the search button immediately after the auto-complete addition of the word 'bombs'"
"Why?"
When typing into a search engine, it is unlikely that anyone would assume that the auto-complete would choose the right insertion when what you're looking for has numerous types - remote control; planes, boats, cars, trucks, toys, helicopters, rockets, home-lighting, garage doors, lawn-lights, etc., and I would assume that even a bad typist like me, who needs to watch the keyboard as they type, would still look at the screen after typing "remote controlled" and notice that the word "bombs" was not the words "model airplanes", before hitting Search.
A really bad typist - one who looks at the screen only after the whole search string was typed in - would likely not notice the auto-complete insertion at all and continue typing the words "model airplanes" after the word "bomb", resulting in a search string "remote controlled bombs model airplanes".
The only reason I can think of to type "Remote Controlled" by itself, and then hit enter/search, would be if I just wanted info on all types of remote controlled items indescriminately and according to the man's claims, he was specifically after a remote controlled model airplane for his son.
While I admit it is possible, I just find the "error" difficult to perceive.
Actually, I do use "reply to this", however, the editor has been wonky lately - cusor will not respond to keyboard movement keys, cursor does not move when I click on screen, extra letters appear out of the blue, cursor will suddenly jump to new place on page - that sort of thing. Makes it all quite a challenge really. Can take 4-5 Reviews to get the thing right before submission.
Thank you for the "threaded mode" suggestion. I had not realized such existed. I've always had difficulty following posts on TechDirt as they appear one after the other with no real link to the messages they respond to except the title.
When typing into a text field on line, is the text that is typed into the box monitorable prior to hitting Return, or clicking on the Search button??
In other words, can the text I type into a text field be read remotely as I type it, or do I have to "enter" the finished text before it can be read by a computerized monitor?
It just occured to me that even if the Auto-Complete process did indeed place the word "bombs" after the words "remote controlled", the typer would still need to enter the words "model airplanes" to complete his query prior to hitting the search button.
Even if he did not notice the Auto-complete insertion of the word "bombs", his finished query string should have then read "building remote controlled bombs model airplanes".
There is no apparent circumstance where he would have hit enter or clicked the search button immediately after the auto-complete addition of the word "bombs" and thus the only way the Spooks could have read "building remote controlled bombs" would be if they could read the input as it was typed into the box, or if the man had indeed typed "building remote controlled bombs" and then clicked on the search button.
Believing the man to be a would be bomber, allows the agency to use any and all means to force him into doing something they can use against him.
Pschological warfare is designed to cause your enemy to make mistakes they would otherwise not make. It is literally a process designed to drive someone or some group crazy.
Since the American Public has been reclassified as the enemy, it is now perfectly legal to use these methods on american civilians, just as it is now perfectly legal for a federal agency to kidnap an american citizen and ship him off to a foreign country and then torture him and even eventually kill him, all without due process.
Those of you who are paying attention may have noticed that on quite a few occasions now, federal spook agencies have literally told the courts to shove their demands where the sun doesn't shine, when they are told to obey the law.
As long as the fed considers itself at war with its domestic adversary, it will only get worse for the US citizenry.
I'll assume this is in response to my query about the number of folks who have sued a mazillion officials and asked for federal laws to be overturned....
I'll assume this, because the response does not answer the query, but instead directs me to read a description of a common legal "shenanigan".
The Wiki page you posted a link to referenses Vexatious Litigation.
"Vexatious litigation is legal action which is brought, regardless of its merits, solely to harass or subdue an adversary. It may take the form of a primary frivolous lawsuit or may be the repetitive, burdensome, and unwarranted filing of meritless motions in a matter which is otherwise a meritorious cause of action. Filing vexatious litigation is considered an abuse of the judicial process and may result in sanctions against the offender."
Copied directly from the Wiki site.
The man's efforts are meant to reign in an out-of-control federal agency that he claims has used psyops on him for years after a Google Search Auto-fill process placed the word "bomb" instead of the words "model airplanes" (as he had intended) after his imput of the words "building remote controlled".
He is not attempting to harrass or subdue the agency via meritless motions.
The only way to prevent the agency from continuing the program of psychological warfare is to have the laws that make such attacks on American citizens legal, changed or removed.
Do you claim that Google Search is NOT perpetually computer monitored by federal spooks, specifically hoping to catch precisiely this sort of search input by would-be terrorists??
The American Military has used psychological warfare on its enemies since it made its first enemies. Today, the american public has been re-classified as the "adversary" - look that up on Wiki.
For real vexatious litigation, see the articles here on the copyright trolls, Prenda Law.
And sadly, as long as good folks keep pretending that the people running the USA are still the Good Guys, this is gonna just get worse. Methinks it is the inability of the population to admit that they have been invaded and conquered by the nastiest members of their own population, that will spell the utlimate dissolution of the United States.
There was absolutely nothing stopping law enforcement from removing this guy from circulation after any of his many foolish endeavours - such as being caught at an airport with a gun.
The only reason this dipshit was still walking the streets and planning his plots against the monster, was because he was the perfect patsy for another FBI public relations scam.
The FBI and other law enforcement officials allowed this man to remain at large after numerous incidents of mal-intent, specifically so they could use him for their own benefit.
Now which is the more nefarious - a moron trying to bomb his way into fame and glory, or a law enforcement agency willing to allow such morons to run loose so they can use them as promotional photo-ops to make a corrupted agency appear as though it was still made up of good guys?
Because the FBI is willing to risk public lives in order to gain public confidence by allowing dangerous fools to roam free, I have no difficulty at all in believing that it and its kindred 3 letter agencies would use years of PsyOps on a suspected bomb maker they wanted to force into doing something stupid - for the same purpose, public relations promotion.
Power corrupts. Power and non-accountability corrupts completely. Corrupted power protected by law is the epitome of evil. Bad men are still bad men even if they do wear white hats.
Manufacturing FBI terrorist plots hollywood style.
You don't think he was just some blogger...
Well, that's different. If your crystal ball tells you he was a bad guy, then its obvious your crystal ball has been equally efficient in labelling the man the article was about with perfect precision. I bow to your superior methodology. (sarcasm)
For the record, these utter idiots who post their plans of revenge/glory on line, all seek assistance in making bombs and all make claims of what they plan to do with those bombs, and who they plan to kill with those bombs, and always include themselves as victims - that's the perk that attracts such idiots to the whole terrorist shtick in the first place - martyrdom.
How else did you think the FBI finds them?
It is the claims, plans and desires stated by these morons that lets the FBI know how and where and when to set up their entrapment snares - what Terrorist Groups they should pretend to be and what to say when making contact with the idiot cum wanna-be terrorista.
While I think it may indeed be pertinent to entrap them and get them off the street and into some sort of mental institution or at least get them medical treatment for their mental illness, I deny the validity of the FBI claiming to have foiled a Terrorist Plot upon their arrest.
The "plot" was entirely the creation of the FBI.
Methinks it is also a lot harder than you seem to believe, to find and contact a real terrorist group from inside the USA. Real terrorists are never as stupid as these FBI promotional plot patsies.
If it was otherwise, the FBI would be busy trying to foil hundreds, if not thousands of real plots every year and would have no time to entrap morons into playing patsy for their public relations promotional games.
Instead, they are so desperate for real terrorist plots, that half of the "plots" (1 of 2) they claim to have foiled was a taxi-driver sending money overseas to a listed terrorist group.
Methinks you simply want to maintain your fantasy about the FBI being the good guys. Good luck with that.
"Just yesterday a man was arrested driving a van into the Wichita airport with a van loaded with fake explosives supplied by the FBI."
"chatting with an agent pretending to be Al-Qaeda."
While I fail to see the connection between this and the situation in the article above, I cannot help but wonder why you would feel that "this case" you posted about was not an entrapment situation, "like some cases in the past."
The standard FBI entrapment process is to find someone who blogs/speaks-out about their hatred of the US Fed, and then contact him pretending to be a Terrorist Group willing to set him up with bombs and contacts.
Once hooked, the FBI then supplies the fool with a carload of fake explosives and sends the fool to meet with an FBI agent posing as the contact for the Terrorist Group.
Then with great fanfare and public notification, the FBI swoops in on the fool and arrests him, claiming one more terrorist plot foiled.
If you eliminate this type of entrapment arrest from the FBI's total of Terrorist Plots Foiled To Date, you end up with 2 - the same 2 the NSA claims they foiled using their global snoop and scoop programs.
The case you posted about fits this bill precisely.
Is it merely wishful thinking that makes you want this case to not be entrapment?
As an aside. It is highly unlikely that living people actually monitor the Google Search phrase imput of the world, and it is highly likely that a computer program does this task. It is also highly likely that this program flags EVERY search that includes the word "bomb" anb/or the phrase "remote controlled" - among a zillion other trigger words and phrases. Once flagged, it is reported to a human operative who then sets into motion whatever process policy dictates, whether the flag includes more than one instance of the search or not, since one search is all that is needed for a would-be terrorist to get the information desired.
The Federal Government would never condone the use of standard psyop techniques for half a decade on a civilian government employee over a single Google search for remote controlled bombs, at a cost of millions of tax-payer dollars, because...
Oh wait a minute. We're talking about the US Federal Government...
Absolutely. Resident Obama will definitely do something.
a) He will reward the NSA miscreants for a job well done, encourage them to work even harder and to gather even more dirt on everyone alive, and keep on lying to the American People on a regular basis about how he will insure oversight on the NSA and all the other 3-letter agencies, until his stand-in is (s)elected to office by the Cartel of Corporate Concerns. And go to a).
Its nothing personal you understand. Just business as usual.
Methinks the Prendators will soon be following their money, long ago transfered to some nice small country where the US cannot legally chase them.
I cannot imagine a bunch of crooks like these guys NOT having an exit strategy in place, and with the millions they've stolen via legal extortion, they have a damn good reason to disappear.
The courts are so slow to respond to these law-abiding criminals, that they should be able to escape Scott-Free with ease, probably the same day that one of the judges finally turns them over to law enforcement.
Would love to see a tally of the total capital lost to the US taxpayer due to these guys. I guess I'll have to wait till the movie comes out.
Actually, there's an easier and far more productive way.
Simply list everyone currently holding office in the USA and then, as they each seperately, or in groups, come forward with information about their fellow politicians' crimes, their names are removed from the list.
In the place of their names, a "smiley" should link to the disclosed information they brought to the table.
Make this list publicly known and readily available online and make sure it is heavily archived, as it will be cyber-bombed regularly by the NSA, CIA, and FBI, as well as by most of the high tech american and international corporations that currently run the USFed as a public relations and funding agency.
My thinking is that, if you're a member of government and are not exposing the criminal activity of your fellow politicians, then you too are guilty, whether you personally have committed crimes against the american people or not.
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Just thought I'd say....
....told ye so. :)
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Re: Re: Re: Re: ...something fishy....
I wish that were true. However, humanity's own actions throughout history has insured my realization that stupidity and ignorance are the two most common aspects of human nature world wide. While I place the blame for this squarely at the feet of Society/Culture - programming by the rich for the benefit of the rich - it is nonetheless the most unavoidable aspect of the species.
I simply don't see this situation - the nasty search string - as being caused by stupidity.
Carelessness perhaps - but even that is a stretch.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: ...something fishy....
While it is indeed somewhat suspect that:
a. "Bombs" would be the first selection in a Goodle Search Auto-complete's criteria for possible insertions after "Remote Contolled" and
b. that anyone would actually trust an auto-complete to select the type of remote controlled item to search for and
c. that anyone would hit search after reading the word "Bombs" inserted into their search string...
- the simple fact that the NSA snoop and scoop computers can easily record what you type as you type it, does lend credence to the idea that - IF - the auto-complete added the word "Bombs", there would indeed be a copy made by the NSA S&S system of the search string reading "remote controlled bombs".
I assume that ANYONE, ANYWHERE on earth who would type such a string into a google search box would immediately and automatically be put on the NSA's "bad-guys to watch" list.
Anyone working for the US government would come under special scrutiny and anyone who met certain internal criteria would be open for cointelpro implementation.
The real problem here is that the FBI, NSA, CIA, ETC., have proven themselves to be deceptive to the max, over-reaching in every way possible, irresponsible and incapable of respect for the laws of the land and they have shown that they hold the privacy of their fellow Americans and the citizens of the rest of the world in utter contempt.
There is very little I would not expect them to do to get their way and weasel out of criminal charges.
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Re: This guy has a mental illness
The idea is ancient and effective; make your enemy appear to be a lunatic, and no matter what he says about you or about anything else, nobody will listen because people will think the victim is just crazy. Its even better when the process actually results in driving your target insane.
The bonus here is that the methods used to accomplish this goal will appear to those who hear about them, to be beyond anything anyone would actually do, increasing the public disbelief in the "ravings" of the victim.
This is even moreso when the actions are being done by what is widely perceived as the "Good Guys".
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Re: Re: ...something fishy....
It was indeed the Auto-Complete process itself that got me thinking about whether the spooks can read as you type.
Given that information, it is quite possible that the man saw the auto-complete insertion and deleted the word "bombs", finishing the string properly with "model airplanes", and the computerized snoop and scoop recording of the event would still maintain a copy of the string that included the word "bombs", triggering the cointelpro by the spooks.
Now that's a scenario I can perceive readily.
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Re: Re: ...something fishy....
"Why?"
When typing into a search engine, it is unlikely that anyone would assume that the auto-complete would choose the right insertion when what you're looking for has numerous types - remote control; planes, boats, cars, trucks, toys, helicopters, rockets, home-lighting, garage doors, lawn-lights, etc., and I would assume that even a bad typist like me, who needs to watch the keyboard as they type, would still look at the screen after typing "remote controlled" and notice that the word "bombs" was not the words "model airplanes", before hitting Search.
A really bad typist - one who looks at the screen only after the whole search string was typed in - would likely not notice the auto-complete insertion at all and continue typing the words "model airplanes" after the word "bomb", resulting in a search string "remote controlled bombs model airplanes".
The only reason I can think of to type "Remote Controlled" by itself, and then hit enter/search, would be if I just wanted info on all types of remote controlled items indescriminately and according to the man's claims, he was specifically after a remote controlled model airplane for his son.
While I admit it is possible, I just find the "error" difficult to perceive.
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Re: Re: Vexatious Litigation?
Thank you for the "threaded mode" suggestion. I had not realized such existed. I've always had difficulty following posts on TechDirt as they appear one after the other with no real link to the messages they respond to except the title.
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...something fishy....
When typing into a text field on line, is the text that is typed into the box monitorable prior to hitting Return, or clicking on the Search button??
In other words, can the text I type into a text field be read remotely as I type it, or do I have to "enter" the finished text before it can be read by a computerized monitor?
It just occured to me that even if the Auto-Complete process did indeed place the word "bombs" after the words "remote controlled", the typer would still need to enter the words "model airplanes" to complete his query prior to hitting the search button.
Even if he did not notice the Auto-complete insertion of the word "bombs", his finished query string should have then read "building remote controlled bombs model airplanes".
There is no apparent circumstance where he would have hit enter or clicked the search button immediately after the auto-complete addition of the word "bombs" and thus the only way the Spooks could have read "building remote controlled bombs" would be if they could read the input as it was typed into the box, or if the man had indeed typed "building remote controlled bombs" and then clicked on the search button.
Methinks I might have to retract my defense. :)
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Re:
Believing the man to be a would be bomber, allows the agency to use any and all means to force him into doing something they can use against him.
Pschological warfare is designed to cause your enemy to make mistakes they would otherwise not make. It is literally a process designed to drive someone or some group crazy.
Since the American Public has been reclassified as the enemy, it is now perfectly legal to use these methods on american civilians, just as it is now perfectly legal for a federal agency to kidnap an american citizen and ship him off to a foreign country and then torture him and even eventually kill him, all without due process.
Those of you who are paying attention may have noticed that on quite a few occasions now, federal spook agencies have literally told the courts to shove their demands where the sun doesn't shine, when they are told to obey the law.
As long as the fed considers itself at war with its domestic adversary, it will only get worse for the US citizenry.
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Vexatious Litigation?
I'll assume this, because the response does not answer the query, but instead directs me to read a description of a common legal "shenanigan".
The Wiki page you posted a link to referenses Vexatious Litigation.
"Vexatious litigation is legal action which is brought, regardless of its merits, solely to harass or subdue an adversary. It may take the form of a primary frivolous lawsuit or may be the repetitive, burdensome, and unwarranted filing of meritless motions in a matter which is otherwise a meritorious cause of action. Filing vexatious litigation is considered an abuse of the judicial process and may result in sanctions against the offender."
Copied directly from the Wiki site.
The man's efforts are meant to reign in an out-of-control federal agency that he claims has used psyops on him for years after a Google Search Auto-fill process placed the word "bomb" instead of the words "model airplanes" (as he had intended) after his imput of the words "building remote controlled".
He is not attempting to harrass or subdue the agency via meritless motions.
The only way to prevent the agency from continuing the program of psychological warfare is to have the laws that make such attacks on American citizens legal, changed or removed.
Do you claim that Google Search is NOT perpetually computer monitored by federal spooks, specifically hoping to catch precisiely this sort of search input by would-be terrorists??
The American Military has used psychological warfare on its enemies since it made its first enemies. Today, the american public has been re-classified as the "adversary" - look that up on Wiki.
For real vexatious litigation, see the articles here on the copyright trolls, Prenda Law.
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Re: Re: can't say
Methinks it is the inability of the population to admit that they have been invaded and conquered by the nastiest members of their own population, that will spell the utlimate dissolution of the United States.
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Re: Nah.
I must have missed all the other incidents where folks sued a mazillion officials and asked for federal laws to be overturned....
Can ye refresh me memory a tad??
Just the number of such occurences in the last ten years would suffice methinks.
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Re: Re: Manufacturing FBI terrorist plots...
There was absolutely nothing stopping law enforcement from removing this guy from circulation after any of his many foolish endeavours - such as being caught at an airport with a gun.
The only reason this dipshit was still walking the streets and planning his plots against the monster, was because he was the perfect patsy for another FBI public relations scam.
The FBI and other law enforcement officials allowed this man to remain at large after numerous incidents of mal-intent, specifically so they could use him for their own benefit.
Now which is the more nefarious - a moron trying to bomb his way into fame and glory, or a law enforcement agency willing to allow such morons to run loose so they can use them as promotional photo-ops to make a corrupted agency appear as though it was still made up of good guys?
Because the FBI is willing to risk public lives in order to gain public confidence by allowing dangerous fools to roam free, I have no difficulty at all in believing that it and its kindred 3 letter agencies would use years of PsyOps on a suspected bomb maker they wanted to force into doing something stupid - for the same purpose, public relations promotion.
Power corrupts.
Power and non-accountability corrupts completely.
Corrupted power protected by law is the epitome of evil.
Bad men are still bad men even if they do wear white hats.
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Manufacturing FBI terrorist plots hollywood style.
Well, that's different. If your crystal ball tells you he was a bad guy, then its obvious your crystal ball has been equally efficient in labelling the man the article was about with perfect precision. I bow to your superior methodology. (sarcasm)
For the record, these utter idiots who post their plans of revenge/glory on line, all seek assistance in making bombs and all make claims of what they plan to do with those bombs, and who they plan to kill with those bombs, and always include themselves as victims - that's the perk that attracts such idiots to the whole terrorist shtick in the first place - martyrdom.
How else did you think the FBI finds them?
It is the claims, plans and desires stated by these morons that lets the FBI know how and where and when to set up their entrapment snares - what Terrorist Groups they should pretend to be and what to say when making contact with the idiot cum wanna-be terrorista.
While I think it may indeed be pertinent to entrap them and get them off the street and into some sort of mental institution or at least get them medical treatment for their mental illness, I deny the validity of the FBI claiming to have foiled a Terrorist Plot upon their arrest.
The "plot" was entirely the creation of the FBI.
Methinks it is also a lot harder than you seem to believe, to find and contact a real terrorist group from inside the USA. Real terrorists are never as stupid as these FBI promotional plot patsies.
If it was otherwise, the FBI would be busy trying to foil hundreds, if not thousands of real plots every year and would have no time to entrap morons into playing patsy for their public relations promotional games.
Instead, they are so desperate for real terrorist plots, that half of the "plots" (1 of 2) they claim to have foiled was a taxi-driver sending money overseas to a listed terrorist group.
Methinks you simply want to maintain your fantasy about the FBI being the good guys. Good luck with that.
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Re:
"chatting with an agent pretending to be Al-Qaeda."
While I fail to see the connection between this and the situation in the article above, I cannot help but wonder why you would feel that "this case" you posted about was not an entrapment situation, "like some cases in the past."
The standard FBI entrapment process is to find someone who blogs/speaks-out about their hatred of the US Fed, and then contact him pretending to be a Terrorist Group willing to set him up with bombs and contacts.
Once hooked, the FBI then supplies the fool with a carload of fake explosives and sends the fool to meet with an FBI agent posing as the contact for the Terrorist Group.
Then with great fanfare and public notification, the FBI swoops in on the fool and arrests him, claiming one more terrorist plot foiled.
If you eliminate this type of entrapment arrest from the FBI's total of Terrorist Plots Foiled To Date, you end up with 2 - the same 2 the NSA claims they foiled using their global snoop and scoop programs.
The case you posted about fits this bill precisely.
Is it merely wishful thinking that makes you want this case to not be entrapment?
As an aside. It is highly unlikely that living people actually monitor the Google Search phrase imput of the world, and it is highly likely that a computer program does this task.
It is also highly likely that this program flags EVERY search that includes the word "bomb" anb/or the phrase "remote controlled" - among a zillion other trigger words and phrases.
Once flagged, it is reported to a human operative who then sets into motion whatever process policy dictates, whether the flag includes more than one instance of the search or not, since one search is all that is needed for a would-be terrorist to get the information desired.
Did this point cross your mind at all?
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PsyOps
The Federal Government would never condone the use of standard psyop techniques for half a decade on a civilian government employee over a single Google search for remote controlled bombs, at a cost of millions of tax-payer dollars, because...
Oh wait a minute. We're talking about the US Federal Government...
Never mind.
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No escape from reality...
Mission accomplished.
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Business as usual...
==========================================================
Absolutely.
Resident Obama will definitely do something.
a) He will reward the NSA miscreants for a job well done, encourage them to work even harder and to gather even more dirt on everyone alive, and keep on lying to the American People on a regular basis about how he will insure oversight on the NSA and all the other 3-letter agencies, until his stand-in is (s)elected to office by the Cartel of Corporate Concerns. And go to a).
Its nothing personal you understand.
Just business as usual.
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Prendators and Prey
I cannot imagine a bunch of crooks like these guys NOT having an exit strategy in place, and with the millions they've stolen via legal extortion, they have a damn good reason to disappear.
The courts are so slow to respond to these law-abiding criminals, that they should be able to escape Scott-Free with ease, probably the same day that one of the judges finally turns them over to law enforcement.
Would love to see a tally of the total capital lost to the US taxpayer due to these guys. I guess I'll have to wait till the movie comes out.
On the post: Feds: Even Though We've Been Ordered To Reveal Secret Interpretation Of The PATRIOT Act, We're Not Going To Do That
Re: We need a list
Simply list everyone currently holding office in the USA and then, as they each seperately, or in groups, come forward with information about their fellow politicians' crimes, their names are removed from the list.
In the place of their names, a "smiley" should link to the disclosed information they brought to the table.
Make this list publicly known and readily available online and make sure it is heavily archived, as it will be cyber-bombed regularly by the NSA, CIA, and FBI, as well as by most of the high tech american and international corporations that currently run the USFed as a public relations and funding agency.
My thinking is that, if you're a member of government and are not exposing the criminal activity of your fellow politicians, then you too are guilty, whether you personally have committed crimes against the american people or not.
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