Not sure if many of you heard of this story. But I think it’s worth your time.
Brandon J. Raub, Former Marine, Detained After Anti-Government Facebook Postings
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/21/brandon-j-raub-marine-detained_n_1817484.html
Former Marine Detained for ‘Ominous’ Facebook Posts Speaks Out for the First Time: ‘It Made Me Scared for My Country’
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/former-marine-detained-for-ominous-facebook-posts-speaks-out-for-the-first-time-it-made-me-scared-for-my-country/
Former marine held involuntarily over Facebook posts now plans to sue FBI
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/29/former-marine-facebook-sue-fbi
All this reminded me what my friend Bill had posted awhile back, and it lead me to dig deeper on this.
Dec. 28 2011 Protecting Americans or Invading Privacy?: Group Sues DHS Over Plans to Monitor Social Media Sites
Homeland Security watches Twitter, social media
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/11/us-usa-homelandsecurity-websites-idUSTRE80A1RC20120111
”The document adds, using more plain language, that such monitoring is designed to help DHS and its numerous agencies, which include the U.S. Secret Service”
January 29, 2012
FBI to monitor Facebook, Twitter, Myspace
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/fbi-to-monitor-facebook-twitter-myspace/8119
“Ability to instantly search and monitor key words and strings in all “publicly available” tweets across the Twitter Site and any other “publicly available” social networking sites/forums (i.e. Facebook, MySpace, etc.).”
Step 9 of 10 “Espionage”
February 26, 2012
Blurred Line Between Espionage and Truth
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/27/business/media/white-house-uses-espionage-act-to-pursue-leak-cases-media-equation.html
Mar 16, 2012
The CIA wants to spy on you through your dishwasher
http://news.yahoo.com/cia-wants-spy-dishwasher-185203816.html
“While the CIA has “a lot of legal restrictions against spying on American citizens,” reported Danger Room, the collection of “ambient geolocation data from devices is a grayer area, especially after the 2008 carve-outs to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.”
March 16, 2012
New Details on NSA‘s ’Spy Center‘ and Secrets From Domestic Eavesdropping Operation ’Stellar Wind’
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/new-details-on-nsas-new-spy-center-and-secrets-from-domestic-eavesdropping-operation-stellar-wind/
March 21 2012
Martial Law by Executive Order
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-garrison/martial-law-under-another_b_1370819.html
Also see Reichstag Fire Decree
May 29, 2012
Avoid these words to prevent Homeland Security from spying on your social networks
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/technology-blog/avoid-words-prevent-homeland-security-spying-social-networks-211947512.html
“Whatever you do, don’t use these words online”
June 18, 2012
NSA: It Would Violate Your Privacy to Say if We Spied on You
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/06/nsa-spied/
“The surveillance experts at the National Security Agency won’t tell two powerful United States Senators how many Americans have had their communications picked up by the agency as part of its sweeping new counterterrorism powers. The reason: it would violate your privacy to say so.”
Ironic? NSA Won’t Reveal Number of Americans Spied Upon Citing…Privacy Protection
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/ironic-nsa-wont-reveal-number-of-americans-spied-upon-citing-privacy-protection/
August 22, 2012 The Program “Stellar Wind”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/23/opinion/the-national-security-agencys-domestic-spying-program.html?_r=2
Aug 27 2012
Russian Expert Predicts Obama Will Declare Martial Law in America by End of 2012
http://www.eutimes.net/2012/08/russian-expert-predicts-obama-will-declare-martial-law-in-america-by-end-of-2012/
Before I began digging , I asked myself “ If this happened to a former marine on facebook , could it happen to me , or someone I know?”
I have no doubt it can now. It only takes a flagged status . It only takes one person that doesn’t know you well to say they are concerned for your mental health and make a phone call /send an e-mail to the police. Those of you that read my posting for a long time . You may remember when I talked about how the “See Something, Say Something” and the Nazi denunciation were very similar. I warned you all then of it’s impact.
As everyday goes by and I read the news , the America I grew up in, seems to keep fading faster and faster.
When I wake up tomorrow will it be gone ?
When I wake up tomorrow will there be a start of a civil war ?
Will tomorrow my family and friends as well as I be placed on a list?
Oct. 17th 2012
US Citizen (Wade Hicks) Says He’s Stranded In Hawaii By No-Fly List Because Of His Controversial Views
http://www.businessinsider.com/american-stranded-hawaii-ndaa-2012-10
Detained?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD1T61oTrR8
Taken out by my government?
Dec 12 , 2011
Obama insists on indefinite detention of Americans
http://rt.com/usa/news/obama-detention-defense-levin-635/
Dec 31, 2011
With Reservations, Obama Signs Act to Allow Detention of Citizens
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/12/with-reservations-obama-signs-act-to-allow-detention-of-citizens/
Sept 16 2012
Indefinite Detention Blocked: District Judge Rules On Controversial Provision Of NDAA
Sept. 17 2012
Appeals court unblocks indefinite detention law
May 29, 2012
Secret ‘Kill List’ Proves a Test of Obama’s Principles and Will
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/world/obamas-leadership-in-war-on-al-qaeda.html
“Several were Americans.”
I can’t stop thinking about what I read over the last few years.
Fascist America, in 10 easy steps
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/apr/24/usa.comment
Warning for America By Hilmar von Campe
http://www.voncampe.com/monthlyarticles/Warnings%20for%20America%20by%20Hilmar%20von%20Campe.htm
Not even I wanted to believe where we were headed. I kept telling myself naaahh it would never happen here. THIS IS AMERICA ! The people would never let it happen!
Yet here we are , letting it happen.
I have decided for the sake of my family that I will no longer post on the Internet. My family needs me more then my government does.
