And the Fed Informants Keep Turning Up...

The Feds and their informants on Twitter call themselves computer consultants or radio dee jays or poets.  [On FakeBook/FailBook/FB they refer to themselves as "your friends"].  The mother of a close friend in high school used to always tell us that truth is stranger than fiction.  It certainly is.

I tweet [a.k.a. converse] with a truly diverse bunch on Twitter.  It is fortunate that Twitter is not happening in real-life in someone's living room.  Guns would be drawn and people would die.  My Anonymous friends and the ninjas dislike each other.  The good-time trolls and the anti-cyberbullies can find little common ground.  Even the child abuse and human trafficking folks are divided into camps.

I've written posts about Lori Handrahan and I've written about WWASPS-- I don't like either one of them.  I've discussed the alleged infiltration of the Million Dollar March in D.C. by a poet which some believe to be a Fed [and I believe that too.  I could be wrong.  At any rate, I will not be going to D.C. on November 5th].  I haven't blogged about the PayPal 14 or the PayBack 13 for two reasons.  I think others can tell the tale better than I can.  One of the PayBack 13 is someone that I've never met in real life but I consider him to be a friend.

I've written some about my politics but not much about the political ideologies that I've found on Twitter.  I will do a little bit of that now.  Those who know me know that I am pro-gun, anti-amnesty for illegal aliens, pro-secularism in the public schools, anti-N.S.A., pro-free internet, anti-CISPA and the current exaggeration of copyright "protections" in effect today which pretty much render fair use dead, pro-civil rights for all civils, and anti-Obummer Care.  I don't like the A.C.A. stuff because I found a chart with the rates on the U.S. government site-- a chart with public permissions and a download button-- and even with "rebates," I found that the Affordable Care Act is not affordable for me.  Quite frankly, when my circumstances change, I will have to leave the country in order to afford healthcare if ObummerCare is still the ahem law of the land.  The A.C.A. would have been a better idea if it was not 2300 pages of something that Nancy Pelosi has been quoted as saying that we will have to pass it in order to find out what is in it.  Or something like that.  If it was Open Market [versus tied to the federal government and to the states] and did not penalize the uninsured for not joining up, it might have been less of a disaster than it is.  Universal healthcare is a grand idea but the implementation of it to date has sucked.  Period.  It needs to be re-worked and not just patched.

I can no longer call myself a liberal.  I have refused to join Unite Blue on Twitter.  Although I am an atheist and not a christian, I have found myself a political home of sorts on Twitter with Todd Kincannon and some other conservatives.  I have no desire to argue with christians over their religious and spiritual choices.  I do have a desire to write snarky things at the pope once in awhile [yes, his unholiness is on Twitter along with the apologetics for bad behavior of the roman church].  I will engage in snark with a few muslims who think that we ought to follow islam; and with a few of the more extreme christians who are as obsessed with conversions on Twitter as a transfolk is with mutilation via surgical means.  Besides, Todd and Ashley have a dog named Noodle [who is also on Twitter]. 

Todd's Twitter stream is full of people who randomly attack him for his viewpoints, coarseness, and language.  It is never dull.  He does not seek out targets.  They seek him out.  The results are rather zany.  He's been accused of being a bully and several other things which I won't print here.  Todd has several long-standing adversaries and bunches of folks who find his comebacks too witty and have the sense to depart quickly.  The long-standing ones don't have the sense to use their block button, to drop the endless tweets accusing him of all kinds of things, to accept that not everyone on Twitter has to approve of them or their thoughts or beliefs.  Believing in equal rights-- or in civil rights for all civils-- is not an endorsement of all lifestyles on the planet.  This is something that many folks get mixed up about.  Todd says stuff that an average person may think but doesn't say.

Last night a guy who characterizes himself as a "real brother" and his allies appeared on Todd's stream.  This real brother has been accused of being racist and a drug-runner of sorts in other places on the interwebz.  Todd informed this real bro that Todd wanted him to put away or put down for drug crimes [of the foul nature that the real brother is alleged to have committed, and may or may not be continuing in the present].  A quick search engine search revealed that the real brother was doxed by someone in Anonymous and that the real bro is suspected of having turned fed informant.  Another name to add to the list of people that other people think are fed informants.  Ha!

Then we all heard from an anti-bullying coalition of sorts.  Calling names is bad m'kay.  One guy pointed out that cyberbullying is a bit of fakery as we all have the choice to step away from the computer or go do something else online.  In response, another guy inferred that anyone who finds Todd's stuff to be witty has a mental deficiency.  I snarked back in fun that the latter guy just insulted me and my kin, and that we are hashtag MentallyDivergent.  The anti-bullying coalition account retweeted my snark-- perhaps not realizing that I was having fun.  And so on.  Hanging with Todd and other conservatives on Twitter is never boring.  It is a nice break from the drama of current news and current political disasters and reports of earthquakes in places that I may have never heard of.

So last night resulted in the outing of yet another possible Fed informant to add to the list that I keep in my head.  I enjoyed my time on Twitter last night.  It's nice to be nice.  Sometimes we can be too nice.  In my life I certainly have been too nice.  I learned from Todd Kincannon what to do when people attack me with name-calling and their supposes of my character rather than arguing with my ideas in a logical manner.  I retweet them, being careful to add a period before the enclosed a and their twitter handle.  Sometimes I favor their tweet.  Because I can laugh at myself today.

If I have thoughts of suicide, something is wrong with me and I ought to make an appointment with a health care professional.  If I am that fragile that I think some mean comments on the internet can push me over the edge, then I better take up crocheting washcloths and watching soap operas for a hobby instead of social media.  Getting faux-fended is my problem, not the problem of the big meanie poo-poo head who rocked my unself-esteem with their words.  If a stranger from the interwebz shows up uninvited to my home and neighborhood, then it is time for cops and guns and dogs with sharp teeth. 

radical sapphoq


p.s.  A final word to parents with kids and teens.  They're your rat bastards.  You parent them.  You are responsible to know what they are doing on their computers and cell phones.  The computer should be out in the open like in the living room.  You should be monitoring what they do on-line as well as off-line.  There are ways to do this.  Find those ways.  Learn the technology.  Supervise your children.  They are your responsibility until they become adults.

p.s.s.  "Twitter" refers to http://www.twitter.com.  By using the word Twitter, it is not my intention now or ever to take over, cybersquat, make profit from, or otherwise defame the Twitter name.  I am not affiliated in any way with Twitter other than being a tweeter.  And the staff and owner or owners of Twitter probably have no idea who I am and don't care who I am as long as I am not being mean to them on the interwebz which I am not.

 

Interesting Reads

https://data.healthcare.gov/dataset/QHP-Individual-Medical-Landscape/ba45-xusy
It's listed as public permissions and there is a download button too.  These are prices for
the healthcare plans it seems.




http://www.libertynews.com/2012/04/radio-host-theron-k-cal-berates-insults-and-harasses-black-female-caller/

http://rbradioshow.blogspot.co.uk/

http://realbrother.wordpress.com/

www.facebook.com/Realbrother0003

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z604WbTJQmY

http://twicsy.com/i/b8UjP

http://thewordfortheherd.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/an-open-letter-to-theron-k-cal.html

http://pastebin.com/qE2tMxLp

http://pastebin.com/MMwQhrds

http://twitpic.com/6hxbro

https://twitter.com/REALNIGNOG0003

https://twitter.com/REALBROTHER0003

https://twitter.com/REALBRONY0003

https://twitter.com/REALSPOOK0003

https://twitter.com/Realsister0003



http://whosarat.com/aboutus.php

http://whoisthesnitch.com/



http://www.zpub.com/notes/fbi-shame.html

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=613521

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/08/counterterrorism-glossary

http://www.snitching.org/

http://november.org/Snitch/

http://www.shouselaw.com/informants.html

Twitter Rolls Over Beethoven Mini Surf Up

Well, well.  Larry the Twitter bird was forced to tweet the I.P. addys of Guido Fawkes, @p0isAn0n, @OccupyBoston and all of the folks who #BostonPD during a short week in December.  One wonders how many folks retweeted anything identified as #BostonPD.  Kudos to the ACLU for speaking out though.

On top of that, a twit who stated that he wanted to have S&M sex with a woman named Michele [why oh why?] will have his identity turned over to a grand jury.  If he had merely stated his intense infatuation with her and that he wanted to marry her, would his 140 word claim to fame had been adjudged a possible threat?

Lamar Smith's "Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act" is up, just biding its' wait time until the House of Rep can get to it.  And yes, it is just another way for the Government et. al. to spy on Joe Average or Not-So-Average Citizen.  Much as demanding the e-mails of the #BostonPD hash tag users who were either actively participating or retweeting a conversation under the guise of looking for possible criminals, this Act is just another witch hunt without any specific suspects being targeted.

In the interest of convenience to mili police departments everywhere and perhaps also to giant advertising corporations, Facebook's timeline will be mandatory by this time next week.  No opting out of that one.  Six days remain to purge anything that you don't want included on your timeline.  I sneer at Facebook.

Two Louisiana State University students weigh in on Anonymous-- one pro and one con-- for their school e-pub Isureveille.  Both students can be followed on Twitter of course. [ @TDR_dscheu and @TDR_ccrockett ]. 
     I don't think Anonymous deserves the National Security Agency designation of "terrorist organization."  Furthermore, the fact that a script kiddie can help bring down a website via a tool that he or she can download from the internet (without knowing a bit of code) is total FAIL on the parts of the folks who are in charge of making sure their company websites are not prone to attacks.  The problem is security vs. privacy.  Even large brand name companies have been found to be lacking in following common sense ideas.  Paypal's usage of plain text to store their customers' passwords springs easily to mind.  And I am supposed to trust that my ISP, Google +, and other sites are good at keeping my wallet info secure?  Uh, no.  That is ridiculous.   
     Comparing the hacking of websites to burning down a building is a bit of a stretch.  I find that to be a piss poor analogy.  Not too many revolutions are accomplished without bloodshed and destruction.  Many people have died for freedom.  And many more will.  I am willing to die for freedom.  Freedom is under attack these days.  The freedom that is under attack is much bigger than the sharing of information being circumscribed.  We need information in order to create change.  The status quo is against the free flow of information because the status quo wants to remain the status quo.  Business as usual is not okay.  Legislating morality: shoving the morality of corporations such as the Roman Catholic Church down the throats of their secular employees is not okay.  Corporate "personhood" should never trump an individual's conscience.  We the people need to know what the higher ups are doing.  Business as usual allows government figures to wiretap offices for their own purposes.  Business as usual does not want us to know about it.
     Over protests by business as usual, the Pentagon papers were published in book form designed for consumption by the general public.  Wikileaks gives anyone with access to a computer the ability to read what some governments and agencies would rather us not see.  Anonymous is a meme that points out the flaws in a system that very often divides people up on the bases of who they are and who they know and how much of the local currency they have been able to amass.

Against this backdrop of fouled tweets and bad legislation hiding under the coats of "oh but we must save the children" and the sharing of the poisoned NSA sacrificial well water, there arises songs for freedom as beautiful as those composed by Beethoven and his pet starling.  My own atheist non-soul was immediately won over by The Church of Reality website.  How refreshing it was for me to find this bastion of wisdom in the midst of other internet clutter!  The bird of freedom flown by the Church of Reality does not bear the first name of Larry.

This morning I also found the EFF's https add-on for Firefox and a list from 2007 of hosting sites that will stand by freedom of speech.  Although the list is old, I do plan to go through it with the idea toward finding a place to mirror my blogs and to move my blogs should that ever become necessary.

radical sapphoq says: radical sapphoq already said it today.  Scroll up.

Today is March 2, 2012.  Don't forget to participate in Black March:

Don't buy any books, cds, movies during the month of March.  Send a clear message to Big Hollywood that we resist any attempts to control where we go and what we do here on the Internet. 

Kudos to my s.o. who has decided to join the boycott in spite of not knowing what I am talking about most of the time.  Love ya, sweetie.

http://blog.sfgate.com/crime/2012/02/29/tweeter-cant-stay-anonymous-judge-rules/?gta=commentlistpos#commentlistpos

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20220302twitter_surrenders_data_in_hack_probe/

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9224668/Advocacy_group_takes_aim_at_anti_porn_bill_requiring_ISP_data_retention?taxonomyId=144

http://www.lsureveille.com/news/facebook-timeline-to-become-mandatory-1.2693873

http://www.lsureveille.com/opinion/head-to-head-civil-disobedience-is-not-an-act-of-terrorism-1.2709146

http://www.lsureveille.com/opinion/head-to-head-anonymous-is-evil-and-threatens-freedom-1.2709190

http://www.churchofreality.org/wisdom/welcome_home/

https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere

http://whdb.com/2007/free-speech-hosting-11-web-hosts-that-wont-dump-you-at-the-first-sign-of-controversy/