DALLAS, February 28, 2012 — When a facebook user posted a negative comment about a presidential candidate to a private page, he found himself in a whole mess of trouble, with authorities showing up at his workplace and later arriving at his home to interrogate him.
According to Jason Brashear of Citizen Wars who reported Sunday that the facebook user, also named Jason, had contacted him with the story, a local police officer and two sheriffs showed up at his home, explaining, “We are here because of a possible threat to Senator Santorum based on your Facebook comment.”
The comment in question? “I wish there was a magic wand to make Senator Santorum disappear,” which Jason had posted to a private political thread.
The officer explained he had made his appearance at Jason’s house,
“..to view the home and make sure that there were no pictures of the former Senator Rick Santorum or evidence that Jason was planning something against the former Senator."
The officer explained the US Government has a system to monitor and scan all social sites like Facebook for key words that might raise suspension of ill intent. The officer stated that Jason was ‘flagged due to his post on Facebook.’
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ReplyDeleteI'm waiting for all the sheeple to come on here and start telling us how the government NEEDS to do this "for our safety", or for that ever-so-patriotic "to protect the President". You know (and they do, too) that it's wrong.
ReplyDeleteDo people ever actually express ill intent on social sites,or something that may be interpreted as ill intent?If one person in a million made a threat of some sort on a social site that would not appear to justify monitoring everyone.
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