I'm glad that Ed Snowden did what he did. He demonstrated great courage. He risked all in order to tell us something that he believed we needed to know. Ed Snowden remains an hero to my way of thinking. I presume that he is still in Russia somewhere learning Russian and perhaps working by now. I hope that he is safe from those who want to bring him back to the United States in order to prosecute him while the true criminal-- the entire N.S.A.-- remains free to spy on everyone everywhere all the time.
Yes I made it myself from a photo that I took and the legally included fonts in my legally obtained digital art/photograph editing program. Yes you can download it and use it on the Internet. Hot-linking is frowned upon. Right-click and save to "My Computer" if you want it. Copyright conglomerates, your presence is not welcome here.
The media continues to release documents and information which makes it quite clear to the average aware citizen exactly how powerful and how bloated the agency has become. There is outcry on Twitter and throughout the Internet. Away from the computer, there is a certain rage lacking in the commoners that I happen across on any given day. Anecdotally speaking only, most of the folks that I run into on a day to day basis have no idea about the extent of the information-gathering that the N.S.A. has been [insert legal word] allegedly doing. That the N.S.A. has been conducting itself in an underhanded fashion [in my opinion] and continues to do so in spite of the revelations [in my opinion] is no longer a newsflash in the Twitter streams.
Why doesn't the populace know about it?
radical sapphoq says: Do this, if you want to. Every day tell one person about the N.S.A. and what has been revealed. Tell that one person why he or she should care. Tell that one person why you care. In order to change this stuff, more people have to know and reach beyond their self-imposed walls of apathy to respond. Up the radicals!
I bear no love for Big Government. Big Government allows for the existence of the N.S.A. with neither meaningful oversight nor accountability to the American people. In my opinion, the United States should not get to bully other nations with threats of trade sanctions because someone spoke up. Seeking asylum is an honorable act. If the American government had its' way, Ed Snowden would be arrested and brought back here to face charges of espionage. If the American government had its' way, another Bradley Manning would be born. Bradley Manning has existed in solitary confinement and is now facing the judgement of a kangaroo court. Both men saw something and said something. I don't know whether or not Bradley Manning can be saved from the injustices perpetrated upon him. I am hopeful that Ed Snowden will be able to flee to freedom. Whether or not he succeeds in darting past those that would kill him or torture him in the name of justice, Ed Snowden will go down in the tomes of learned historians as a hero. He is certainly my hero.
radical sapphoq
Ed Snowden said the quotes which were collected at: http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/27-edward-snowden-quotes-about-u-s-government-spying-that-should-send-a-chill-up-your-spine. Talented other person made the original Ed Snowden hero poster which is posted here http://i.imgur.com/ouUHvyC.png in tiny form and here by Anti-Federalist http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?417348-Get-your-Ed-Snowden-quot-HERO-quot-avatar-here/page2 under #37 in larger form. I altered colors and added the quotes. Right-click to save to your computer if you want any of them.
The original list appeared with categories. This list is alphabetized. I suspect that the list that has been published was not a completed list because the first letter of every word appearing after the "Enter" key had been hit was capitalized. In the original list "agriculture" appeared as "Agriculture," "bridge" was "Bridge," "car bomb" read as "Car bomb" and so forth. The simplest explanation is that the program was set to capitalize the first letter of the first word on each line and this wasn't corrected in the settings. I suspect that the list that has been published is a draft. The possibility exists that the list was intended to have more words on it-- or that there is in existence a finished list which may indeed have more words on it.
It is possible that in transposing the list, I may have erased or neglected to type some words. That would be my error alone and I regret it if such an error in fact occurred.
One "solution" that a buddy of mine suggested was "Don't use any of the list words in any e-mails." I consider that workaround to be impractical. Attempting to implement such a strategy means that folks would not be able to use certain medical words, geographical locations, weather descriptors, or talk about recovery from narcotics in their correspondence.
Although I found many of the target words to be an obvious choice, there were a few whose inclusion gave me pause-- "artistic", "Red Cross", and "wave". The mystery phrase is "Basque separatists." I was saddened to see "2600" and "phreaking" included as worthy of suspicion. The problems that the magazine 2600 has had with authorities in the past have been extensive and legendary. The phone phreakers were the original hackers [back in the days when Ma Bell was still a conglomerate]. I have known and loved a few of them in my past.
Without further ado, here then is The List, alphabetized:
2600
+ H1N1
Abu Sayyaf
Afghanistan
agent
agriculture
agro
aid
air marshal
airplane (and derivatives)
airport
Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (ATF)
Al-Shabaab
Al Qaeda (all spellings)
Ammonium nitrate
AMTRAK
anthrax
antiviral
AQAP (AL Qaeda ArabianPeninsula)
AQIM (Al Qaeda in theIslamic Maghreb)
Arellano-FelixBeltran-Leyva
artistic
assassination
assassins
attack
authorities
avalanche
avian flu
Azteca
bacteria
barrio
BART
Basque separatists
biological
biological infection (or event)
biological weapon
black out
blister agent
blizzard
body scanner
bomb (squad or threat)
border
Border Patrol
botnet
bridge
brown out
brush fire
brute force / brute forcing
burn
burst
bust
Cain and Abel
Calderon
cancelled
car bomb
cartel
Cartel de Golfo
center
Center for Disease Control(CDC)
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
chemical
chemical agent
chemical burn
chemical fire
chemical spill
chemical weapon
China
CIKR (Critical Infrastructure& Key Resources)
Ciudad
closure
cloud plume
Coast Guard (USCG)
cocaine
collapse
Colombia
command
communications infrastructure
computer
Conficker Worm
consular
consulate
contamination
conventional weapon
cops
crash
crest
critical infrastructure
Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
cyber
cyber attack
cyber security
cyber terror
DDOS (dedicated denial of service)
deaths
decapitated
delays
Denial of Service / denial of service
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
dirty bomb
disaster
disaster assistance
disaster management
Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT)
DNDO (Domestic Nuclear Detection Office)
dock
domestic
domestic security
drill
drug
Drug Administration (FDA)
drug cartel
Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)
drug trade
drug war
earthquake
ebola
e. coli
eco terrorism
electrical failure or outage
El Paso
emergency
Emergency Broadcast System (EBS)
emergency landing
emergency management
emergency response
enriched
environmental terrorist
epidemic
erosion
ETA (Euskadi ta Askatasuna)
evacuation
execution
exercise
explosion or explosive
exposure
extreme weather
extremism
facility
FARC (Armed Revolutionary Forces Colombia)
Federal Air Marshal Service (FAMS)
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
first responder
flood
food poisoning
Foot and Mouth (FMD)
forest fire
Fort Hancock
fundamentalism
Fusion Center
gang
gangs
gas
grid
Gulf Cartel
gunfight
Guzman
H1N1
H5N1
hacker
hail
Hamas
hazardous
hazardous material
Hazmat
HAZMAT & Nuclear
health concern
help
heroin
Hezbollah
home grown
Homeland Defense
Homeland Security
hostage
human to animal
human to humanhurricane
ice
illegal immigrants
Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE)
Improvised Explosive Device, IED
incident
industrial spill
infection
influenza
infrastructure
infrastructure security
initiative
interstate
Iran
Iraq
IRA (Irish Republican Army)
Islamist
jihad
Juarez
keylogger
kidnap
lab
laboratory
La Familia
law enforcement
leak
lightening
listeria
lockdown
looting
Los Zetas
malware
magnitude
Mara
marijuana
Maritime Domain Awareness(MDA)
MARTA
Matamoros
meth
methamphetamine
meth lab
Metro
Mexican Army
Mexicles
Mexico
Michoacana
militia
mitigation
MS13 or MS-13
mud slide or mudslide
mutation
my sql injection
my SQL injection
narco banners
narcos
narcotic
national
National Guard
nationalist
national infrastructure
National Operations Center (NOC)
national preparedness
national security
NBIC (National Biosurveillance Integration Center)
nerve agent
New Federation
Nigeria
Nogales
North Korea
Norvo Virus
nuclear
nuclear detention
nuclear facility
nuclear threat
Nuevo Leon
organized crime
outbreak
Pakistan
pandemic
phishing
phreaking
pipe bomb
pirates
plague
PLF (Palestine Liberation Front)
PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization)
plot
police
pork
port
Port Authority
powder (white)
power
power lines
power outage
prevention
Public Health
quarantine
radiation
radicals
radioactive
recall
recovery
recruitment
Red Cross
relief
resistant
response
Reynosa
Reyosa
ricin
riot
rootkit
salmonella
salvatrucha
San Diego
sarin
scammers
Secret Service (USSS)
Secure Border Initiative (SBI)
security
security breach
service disruption
shelter-in-place
shooting
shootout
shots fired
sick
Sinaloa
sleet
small pox
smart
smuggling (smugglers)
snow
social media
Somalia
Sonora
southwest
southwest border violence
spammer
spillover
SQL
SQL Injection
standoff
state of emergency
storm
strain
stranded/stuck
subway
suicide attack
suicide bomber
suspicious device
suspicious package
suspicious substance
SWAT Screening
swine
symptoms
Taliban
Tamaulipas
Tamiflu
Tamil Tigers
target
task force
telecommunications
temblor
terror
terrorism
threat
Tijuana
tornado
Torreon
toxic
trafficking
transportation
Transportation Security Administration (TSA)
tremor
trojan
tsunami
TTP (Tehrik-i-TalibanPakistan)
tuberculosis (TB)
Tucson
twister
typhoon
United Nations (UN)
U.S.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS)
vaccine
violence
Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
virus
warning
watch
water/air borne
wave
weapons cache
weapons grade
wildfire
World Health Organization(WHO) /and its' components
WMATA
Yemen
Yuma
