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During the Olympics, The Feds Will Be Reading Your Tweets – And the Blotter
ABC News - the Blotter by Brian Ross ^ | Today | Brian Ross

Posted on 02/13/2010 7:18:08 AM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt

Subtitle: DHS Is Monitoring Social Media and Web Sites for Terror and Disaster Info

As the winter Olympics begin, the Department of Homeland Security has disclosed that it will be monitoring the comments and posts on websites and social media like Twitter for information on possible terror threats. Among the sites listed in a privacy impact statement filed Friday afternoon by DHS are the Drudge Report, the Huffington Post, Twitter, Google and this web site, the Blotter. Photo: DHS Monitors Social Media Websites for Olympic Security Police patrol the area outside of the BC Place Stadium which will host the Winter Olympics opening... Expand Police patrol the area outside of the BC Place Stadium which will host the Winter Olympics opening and closing ceremonies, in downtown Vancouver on Feb. 7, 2010. As the winter Olympics kick off Friday the Department of Homeland Security has disclosed that they will be monitoring a variety of social media networks in the event of an emergency as part of their security efforts for the Winter Games. Collapse (Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images) More Photos

The National Operations Center of DHS will watch the web for information, according to the statement, to "provide situational awareness" in the event of natural disaster, an "act of terrorism, or other manmade disaster."

"The Olympics are a potential target for such events," said the statement. The statement did not list all web sites and social media that the NOC will monitor, but provided 31 examples, many of them, like the Blotter, sites that cover breaking news, security, or terror.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2010olympics; bhodhs; dhs; napolitano; olympics; unbelievable
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1 posted on 02/13/2010 7:18:09 AM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt
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To: onyx; Liz; Republic; ETL

pinging just a few


2 posted on 02/13/2010 7:19:23 AM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt (Ronald Reagan: If American ever ceases to be a nation under God, she will be a nation gone under.")
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt

Hi DHS!!! Olympics suck. Bite me. hee, hee


3 posted on 02/13/2010 7:19:25 AM PST by C19fan
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To: C19fan

I know - I think every single response needs to include,

“HI MOM”


4 posted on 02/13/2010 7:20:00 AM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt (Ronald Reagan: If American ever ceases to be a nation under God, she will be a nation gone under.")
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To: C19fan

what C said!


5 posted on 02/13/2010 7:20:14 AM PST by silverleaf (My Proposed Federal Budget is $29.99)
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt
The Fox is in the henhouse. The Fox is in the henhouse.
6 posted on 02/13/2010 7:21:07 AM PST by Glenn (iamtheresistance.org)
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt

The Drudge Report??? It only links to other articles & reports. No social networking/conspiracy-making on Drudge that I’m aware.


7 posted on 02/13/2010 7:23:02 AM PST by Alissa
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To: holdonnow; andrew

You’re already on their list but wanted to ping you to this also.


8 posted on 02/13/2010 7:23:05 AM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt (Ronald Reagan: If American ever ceases to be a nation under God, she will be a nation gone under.")
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To: Alissa

Oh, but the danger that Matt Drudge has become is series, doncha know.


9 posted on 02/13/2010 7:24:57 AM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt (Ronald Reagan: If American ever ceases to be a nation under God, she will be a nation gone under.")
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt

Blue Horse Shoe Loves Anacot Steel


10 posted on 02/13/2010 7:31:19 AM PST by coaltrain
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt
Lol! Why are you pinging me? I'm not a terrorist. Nor do I have any friends who are. :)

"The charges against [Bill] Ayers were dropped in 1974 because of prosecutorial misconduct, including illegal surveillance. Ayers is married to another notorious Weathermen terrorist, Bernadine Dohrn, who has also served on panels with Obama. Dohrn was once on the FBI's Top 10 Most Wanted List and was described by J. Edgar Hoover as the 'most dangerous woman in America.' Ayers and Dohrn raised the son of Weathermen terrorist Kathy Boudin, who was serving a sentence for participating in a 1981 [Brinks truck] murder and robbery that left 4 people [actually 3: 2 police officers and 1 Brinks truck guard] dead."

Article: Obama worked with terrorist Senator helped fund organization that rejects 'racist' Israel's existence:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=57231
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'Guilty as hell, free as a bird—America is a great country,' he [Ayers] said."
August 2001, Chicago Magazine (article: No Regrets)

http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/August-2001/No-Regrets/
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From the Chicago Sun Times, November 13, 2008:

Ayers: Obama was 'family friend'
New afterword to 2001 book, Ayers describes Barack Obama as 'family friend'

http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/1278532,bill-ayers-barack-obama-book-111308.article#
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"It was at the Chicago home of [Bill] Ayers and [Bernardine] Dohrn that Obama, then an up-and-coming 'community organizer,' had his political coming out party in 1995. Not content with this rite of passage in Lefty World — where unrepentant terrorists are regarded as progressive luminaries, still working 'only to educate' — both Obamas tended to the relationship with the Ayers."
Article: The Company He Keeps:
Meet Obama’s circle: The same old America-hating Left
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YThjYTU1ZDBjNmQ2YzcwNzU1MmYwN2JiMWY0ZGI0NDA=&w=MA==
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Undercover agent Larry Grathwohl discusses the Weather Underground's post-revolution governing plans for the United States:

Larry Grathwohl:

"I asked, 'well what is going to happen to those people we can't reeducate, that are diehard capitalists?' and the reply was that they'd have to be eliminated. And when I pursued this further, they estimated they would have to eliminate 25 million people in these reeducation centers. And when I say 'eliminate,' I mean 'kill.' Twenty-five million people. I want you to imagine sitting in a room with 25 people, most of which have graduate degrees, from Columbia and other well-known educational centers, and hear them figuring out the logistics for the elimination of 25 million people. And they were dead serious."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWMIwziGrAQ
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11 posted on 02/13/2010 7:31:50 AM PST by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: All; Liz

1. I do not plan to watch the Olympics except maybe some of the ski jumping which is a rather amazing thing to see.

2. We are all already on their lists - so do not be afraid to post on FR or to this thread.

3. If you are afraid, that is totally understandable given the fact that this administration views pro-lifers, Tea Party Activists, all conservatives, all who believe in the Constitution and want it upheld and followed, all Christians (well - all who believe that Jesus Christ is Savior, Lord, and soon coming King) = are enemies of the state and potential terrorists!

4. Contact (now) your friends and family and neighbors and fellow Christians and coworkers if you can to let them know exactly who you are, what you believe, and that this government sees you as a threat. Get documentation to them if needed (much can be found here at FR) so that when and if they actually and stupidly begin to act against law abiding, peaceful, non-threatening, non-violent, God fearing citizens for being “potential terrorists” or for whatever other charges they come up with - you will have LOTS of people who can go to the media to defend you! And who can get you a lawyer - fast.

Maybe others have good suggestions...


12 posted on 02/13/2010 7:33:25 AM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt (Ronald Reagan: If American ever ceases to be a nation under God, she will be a nation gone under.")
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Obama Espoused Radical Views in College [advocated communist revolution]
Steve Malzberg - WOR News Talk Radio 710 ^ | February 12, 2010 | Ronald Kessler

Posted on Friday, February 12, 2010 7:33:56 PM by ETL

Dr. John C. Drew, a grant writing consultant in Laguna Niguel, Calif., tells Newsmax he met Obama in 1980 when Obama was a sophomore at Occidental College in Los Angeles. Drew had just graduated from Occidental and was attending graduate school at Cornell University.

During Christmas break, Drew says he was at Grauman-Boss’ home in Palo Alto when Obama came over with Mohammed Hasan Chandoo, his roommate from Pakistan.

“Barack [Obama] and Hasan showed up at the house in a BMW, and then we went to a restaurant together,” Drew says. “We had a nice meal, and then we came back to the house and smoked cigarettes and drank and argued politics.”

For the next several hours, they discussed Marxism.

He [Obama] was arguing a straightforward Marxist-Leninist class-struggle point of view, which anticipated that there would be a revolution of the working class, led by revolutionaries, who would overthrow the capitalist system and institute a new socialist government that would redistribute the wealth,” says Drew, who says he himself was then a Marxist.

The idea was basically that wealthy people were exploiting others,” Drew says. “That this was the secret of their wealth, that they weren’t paying others enough for their work, and they were using and taking advantage of other people. He was convinced that a revolution would take place, and it would be a good thing.”

Drew concluded that Obama thought of himself as “part of an intelligent, radical vanguard that was leading the way towards this revolution and towards this new society.” ..."

Referring to Obama’s quote from “Dreams of My Father” that he associated with Marxist professors, Drew says, “What he’s not saying is that he was in 100 percent total agreement with those Marxist professors. When you understand that, Obama’s later associations and policies make more sense, including why he was taken in by Rev. Wright’s ideology.”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2450298/posts

13 posted on 02/13/2010 7:34:10 AM PST by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: ETL

OH, silly! Of course you are not a terrorist...except to the communists in power who want us all dead or in gulags!!

LOL


14 posted on 02/13/2010 7:34:35 AM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt (Ronald Reagan: If American ever ceases to be a nation under God, she will be a nation gone under.")
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To: coaltrain

That is great.


15 posted on 02/13/2010 7:35:19 AM PST by C19fan
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt

Administration DESPERATELY trying to convince Americans it is REALLY, REALLY on top of the terrorist threat thing.

Interesting isn’t it that after removing the word “terrorist” from “government speak” it is now back and prominent?

Pathetic bastards would be laughable if they weren’t so dangerous.


16 posted on 02/13/2010 7:35:38 AM PST by 101voodoo
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To: 101voodoo

Yes indeed.

Very few Americans are paying any attention to this administration’s weak attempts to pretend to be trying to stop terrorists - REAL KILL ALL AMERICANS - terrorists any longer.

We had all better be prayed up.

May I recommend John 15, and all the verses about “JOY”.

Such as “Count it all joy when others say vile things about you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice and be exceeding glad...for great is your reward in heaven.”


17 posted on 02/13/2010 7:40:37 AM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt (Ronald Reagan: If American ever ceases to be a nation under God, she will be a nation gone under.")
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt

what makes you think they dont do it all the time every where on a whim.


18 posted on 02/13/2010 7:41:08 AM PST by gibtx2 (keep up the good work I am out of work but post 20 a month to this out of WF Check)
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"Dig It. First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, they even shoved a fork into a victim’s stomach! Wild!"
-Weather Underground leader and wife of Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, referring to the Manson murders

Article: Allies in War -by David Horowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, September 17, 2001
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=63512670-BF7C-42A0-B41D-5D0FB9E09C09
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"Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at"
--Bill Ayers (1970), quoted in New York Times, September 11, 2001:

Article: "No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1
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The Center for Public Intellectuals & The University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC)
April 19th-20th, 2002, Conference

[Participants include: William/Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Sen Barack Obama]

April 19th-20th, 2002
Chicago Illini Union
828 S. Wolcott

This conference is part of the Center's mission of helping to create a more engaged civil society, working towards social change, fostering coalitions between theorists and activists, and combating anti-intellectualism in contemporary culture. It will be both a celebration of ideas and a rigorous examination of the roles and responsibilities that intellectuals play in society.

I. Why Do Ideas Matter? (a keynote panel)

We introduce the “meta” theme of the conference by hearing “success stories” from diverse voices discussing their experiences intervening intellectually.

Timuel Black, Chicago activist; Prof. Emeritus, City Colleges of Chicago
Lonnie Bunch, President, Chicago Historical Society
Bernardine Dohrn, Northwestern University Law School, Children and Family Justice Center
Gerald Graff, UIC, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Richard Rorty, Stanford University, Philosophy

III. Lunch and Public Encounters

Alternative breakout tours led by Chicago activists. Tours of Bronzeville and other communities, and visits to organizations that are working on partnering theorists with activists.

IV. Intellectuals in Times of Crisis
Experiences and applications of intellectual work in urgent situations.

William Ayers, UIC, College of Education; author of Fugitive Days
Douglass Cassel, Northwestern University, Center for International Human Rights
Cathy Cohen, University of Chicago, Political Science
Salim Muwakkil, Chicago Tribune; In These Times
Barack Obama, Illinois State Senator
Barbara Ransby, UIC, African-American Studies (moderator)

The Center for Public Intellectuals
University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC):
http://www.uic.edu/classes/las/las400/conferencealt.htm
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"It was at the Chicago home of [Bill] Ayers and [Bernardine] Dohrn that Obama, then an up-and-coming 'community organizer,' had his political coming out party in 1995. Not content with this rite of passage in Lefty World — where unrepentant terrorists are regarded as progressive luminaries, still working 'only to educate' — both Obamas tended to the relationship with the Ayers."
Article: The Company He Keeps:
Meet Obama’s circle: The same old America-hating Left
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YThjYTU1ZDBjNmQ2YzcwNzU1MmYwN2JiMWY0ZGI0NDA=&w=MA==

19 posted on 02/13/2010 7:42:13 AM PST by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: gibtx2

I have no doubt they do.

However, in this article they have openly admitted to doing so!

(As they have recently about other “monitoring” of innocent and law abiding citizens such as the Prolifers in Wisconsin - the link is here on FR somewhere)


20 posted on 02/13/2010 7:44:49 AM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt (Ronald Reagan: If American ever ceases to be a nation under God, she will be a nation gone under.")
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