[Daffynition]

These terms and others are “broad, vague and ambiguous” and include “vast amounts of First Amendment protected speech that is entirely unrelated to the Department of Homeland Security mission to protect the public against terrorism and disasters,” stated the Electronic Privacy Information Center in letter to the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence.

The manual was released by the center a week after Homeland Security officials were grilled at a House hearing over other documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit that revealed analysts were scrutinizing online comments that “reflect adversely” on the federal government. Mary Ellen Callahan, the chief privacy officer for the Department of Homeland Security, and Richard Chavez, director for the National Operations Center, testified that the released documents were outdated and that social media was monitored strictly to provide situational awareness and not to police disparaging opinions about the federal government. On Friday, Homeland Security officials stuck by that testimony.

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The Official List – Using these words online will put you in the crosshairs Big Brother’s multi-billion dollar spy machine

 

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Domestic Security
Assassination Attack Domestic security Drill Exercise Cops Law enforcement Authorities Disaster assistance Disaster management DNDO (Domestic Nuclear Detection Office) National preparedness Mitigation Prevention Response Recovery Dirty bomb Domestic nuclear detection	Emergency management Emergency response First responder Homeland security Maritime domain awareness (MDA) National preparedness initiative Militia Shooting Shots fired Evacuation Deaths Hostage Explosion (explosive) Police Disaster medical assistance team (DMAT) Organized crime	Gangs National security State of emergency Security Breach Threat Standoff SWAT Screening Lockdown Bomb (squad or threat) Crash Looting Riot Emergency Landing Pipe bomb Incident Facility

[Dr. Ursus]

I’d hit it! Thank goodness Laz is safe!

[Daffynition]

*Mexicles*??!!??

[Betis70]

Hmm, so posting “Drill Baby Drill” got me some looks by homeland security? I’d rather it got a look by the Energy Dept and DEP.

[P.O.E.]

Don’t see any Arab-sounding words on that list.

They do have a special section on the southern US border - wonder which side they’re watching?

[Hardraade]

ITND

[HiTech RedNeck]

Well that sure sounds like a recipe for getting huge amounts of data that nobody has time to do more than barely skim.

[aruanan]

They really are out of their effing minds, aren’t they? The sooner all these folks get porked in the upcoming election cycles the better off we all will be.

[HiTech RedNeck]

But not “Gun”?

[ThunderSleeps]

I went to the site and read through the lists. What a ridiculous list. From the words and phrases on that I believe that literally every person I know who uses email, Facebook, and/or text messages probably generates at least one if not dozens of "hits" a day on that list. Sheesh, my kids play a lot of FPS games and talk about their "shots fired" stats. Oops, guess their on the list. My wife likes to shop at Target. Dang, she's up for review now. etc. etc.

Years ago, before "domestic surveillance" (oops, am I on the list now?) was even in vogue I had a friend who was concerned about it. Borderline tin-foil hat type, but with a twisted sense of humor. He set his tagline/signature for *all* of his emails to be something like "For my friends at NSA: nuclear Soviet Union submarine ..." Wonder whatever happened to Dave, he disappear a few years later...

[JoeDetweiler]

Contest....who can be the first to use all these words in one sentence?

And the sentence can’t contain a list....that’s too easy.

[blam]

So.....

This thread is getting lots of attention?

[mykroar]

I’ll have to review the list later and make sure I you as many words as possible as often as possible.

[LibWhacker]

Don’t see anything about Allah or jihad on that list. Guess they don’t want to profile anybody, except patriotic Americans who are concerned about their slipping rights.

[Liberty Valance]

eeeh, thank goodness they left off communism, zeta's and Agenda 21.

[saintgermaine]

George Orwell’s 1984 Big Brother is showing up on the horizon. Keep on re-electing the same goons and it will happen sooner than later. We have “One” in power right now who along with his “Kameraden” would just as well substitute the constitution for toilet paper. Just a thought to consider.......

[unixfox]

They left out...

F U B O !!

[Delta 21]

I sure that “Freeper” is at the top of the list.

I was also wondering if they took notice the other day when I called President Obama a SON-OF-A-BITCH upon the disclosure of the Hollywood types being allowed access to TOP SECRET military facilities so they could make a really cool movie and probly not directly related at how the SEAL team that took out Bin Laden was conveniently wiped out.

No black helicopters yet?

[cripplecreek]

I hate to talk about Mexico and the gun running scandal, I’d hate to be targeted and have the marxist government come gunning for me.

[darkwing104]

Viking Kitties are safe....

[altura]

They couldn’t possibly have time to monitor all those words even if they didn’t take smoke breaks.

This is just baseless hysteria.

I only have 60 or so friends on facebook and I see similar words used every day.

Perhaps if they have some other reason to have a person under surveillance, they might check his/her posts for certain words, but this is just silly.