Posted on 8/5/2012, 8:25:52 PM by 2ndDivisionVet
Just when you thought the Obama campaign couldn’t get any weirder, along comes its latest high-tech gift. Meet the Obama for America app for iPhone, a tool that allows you to spy on your neighbors to determine which of them are naughty (read: not Obama supporters) and which are nice. What you do with that information is entirely up to you.
The website ProPublica explains how the app works. The end-user types in his current location. The app returns a Google map of the area that flags households with one or more registered Democrats. Clicking on one of the blue flags reveals the first name, last initial, age, and gender of Democratic voters who live there. Not creepy at all.
ProPublica’s Lois Beckett notes that this information is publicly available and that canvassers for political campaigns have long had access to it. The question is why Obama for America thinks the average man on the street should have it at his fingertips.
An Obama spokesman is quoted as saying:
The campaign is strongly committed to ensuring the safety and privacy of the public and follows up with appropriate action, including alerting appropriate authorities if necessary, in any case of abuse or inappropriate behavior. Any voter who requests not to be contacted again is immediately removed from any provided to volunteers.
The assurances about “safety and privacy” might be easier to swallow if the campaign hadn’t previously come out with other online gems, including: •its AttackWatch website; •an online form where “Texans who have experienced Gov. Rick Perry’s failed policies firsthand” could rat him out; •a Truth Team website; •a variation on the above theme “outing” Romney donors.
Careful readers will recall that the Obama campaign’s efforts to get voters in other voters’ faces predates his presidency, finding expression in then-candidate 2008 Obama’s “Neighbor to Neighbor” campaign.
Big Bro and Big Sis knows everything about each of us so they can use their database for their Death Panels to determine who lives and who dies. Kind of the Obama Gestapo at work, IMO.
Yo-yo obo is one sick mofo . . .
I agree.
Of course, it's what they do with it that counts!
Designed to help his activists threaten or intimidate those who do not do as they are commanded. Support Oboma - or else! (They learned this tactic from the NAZI's.)
If ANYONE is the least bit intimidated by these people, please report their actions to the police. That will get the complaint on record. In fact, call the police anyway, and tell them the brown shirts "frightened" you. That way, you may be able to save one of your elderly neighbors who truly may be frightened by these "overzealous" activists.
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NOw they can “flash mob” and check for republican dominated precincts and trash those polling places.
These are the new digtial brownshirts. this is just andother weapon in their arsenal of intimidation and voter suppression.
You watch, there will be polling places that are flash mobbed and destroyed. With the electronic voting machines there will be no record of who voted for whom when the polling place is destroyed.
Expect to see this in the suburbs...not in the city.
Please come to my door so I can verbally beat you silly and then piss on you.
"Officer..... It was self defense."
In order to use the canvassing part you need to sign up via Facebook, or with an e-mail account. No way I could live with an Obama for America showing up on my FB account. Delete.
So here’s a question for our braintrust. My husband has gotten 2 ‘polling’ calls on his cell in the past 2 days asking for my 19 year old daughter. They are very obviously Obama campaigners.
I asked him how they got the number and associated is from my daughter. The only thing we can come up with is that he listed his cell on her college FAS.
Is it legal to release this information?
Now take it one step further. An app that tells you which home “doesn’t” own a weapon. How useful is that?
Also do your best to make sure the ballot cant be traced back to you.
Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.
Like sending a message to his “domestic army” about whose house to hit if and when shtf
I don't suppose this would ever be used to deny someone federal or other govt employment...nah (sarc)
Maybe we need to register as democrats, then go to Tea Parties and vote conservative
That would sure screw everybody up ... which is excellent
Also do your best to make sure the ballot cant be traced back to you.
Really? Real patriot, eh?
-Both parties sold out long ago to the ruling elite. They simply take turns stealing for their own corporate sponsors while supposedly blaming each other for the decline. 50% of the country blames the other 50% while they all rob us blind.
-The main reason I vote R is because more of their sponsors actually provide useful products and services. The ‘rats are more likely to throw our money into complete holes. Also, Obama is proving very bad at hiding his meaningless personal socialist beliefs (which is scaring the producers/tax slaves too much). He goes off the teleprompter too much and thinks he can run things his way. The real rulers will make sure he sinks in November by using their main tool - the media.
-I live in NYC on the DMZ - 90-95% Obama territory. If I put down R on my registration, it's almost like hanging a huge “F... Obama” banner in front. I keep a very low profile by blending my home's exterior into the neighborhood and never going in/out if I see someone suspicious on the block. Giving the ‘rats my address would negate all my efforts.
That's understandable but still, there comes a time... How will it ever change? How many others are there like you? I say be loud, proud and defiant. Be obnoxious. When they yell,"Racist!" you yell, "Communist!"
Fighting or arguing with most of these ferals in the street is a pointless risk. They are so brainwashed that even if I posted indisputable evidence that Obama personally killed thousands of baby “brothers” and ate them, they would kill me, the “white boy”, for speaking badly of him.
They are not inherently stupid, IMO. If you speak to them about music, sports, sneakers, cars, women, etc, they can do so with incredible knowledge. They’ve just been brainwashed to not be interested in much else and hostile towards anyone that’s different. A huge part of reversing it is really working on their kids from day 1 to reject this ghetto culture. That would require removing this culture from the protection of ‘political correctness’.
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