Watch Words-- Things that Make Homeland Security Pay Attention to Social Media Mutterings

Morning Boys and Girls:

We welcome you to our school.  You will surrender your passwords to all social media immediately.  Pay attention.  This is important.
The monitors are passing out a list of Bad Words that you must not use in your mutterings-- I mean blog posts, tweets, e-mail, web searches, or homework.  Evah.  Is that clear, boys and girls?  Use them and you risk immediate suspension and imprisonment in Gitmo.  Got it?

[what follows is an excerpt of the list, taken from the Anal I mean Analyst Desktop Manual recently obtained by Epic.org via a FOIC]:

attack          cops          drill          exercise          mitigation
law enforcement          initiative   gangs             deaths
response     recovery    police       crash              looting
threat          gas            plume       cloud              hazardous
infection     mutation   sick           toxic              wave
strain          power       airport       epidemic        collapse
grid            smart         failure       decapitated    pirates
help           fundamentalism          wildfire          disaster
social media                2600          phreaking       hacker
virus          ice              tornado     plot                 hail
avalanche  snow          terror         extremism      execution
drug          narcotics    cocaine      marijuana       heroin
drug war   bridge        cancelled   port                 dock
service disruption       subway      electric           swine
resistant    bacteria     kidnap        burn               bust

I hereby additionally order that you will not cover any news of or history of the following countries and other places during this school year:

[excerpts from the same list follow...]

North Korea          Listeria (in New Jersey)          Mexico
Tuscon                  El Paso                                     Iraq
Iran                       Afghanistan                              Pakistan
Somalia                Nigeria                                      China

Furthermore, your cameras are being confiscated so that way you don't take any pictures of suspicious devices found on your bicycles.  Agents are right now raiding your homes collecting computers and smart phones and video games and other electronic devices from your parents in a voluntary surrender drive to eliminate subversive cultural influences.  You will be allowed to use word processors at school only.  Any posting to social media must be approved by an agent a school monitor first.  This will occur during recess only.

Again, welcome to our school.  It is our wish that you have a peaceful and prosperous academic year filling with the joy that learning can bring.

                          radical sapphoq



http://epic.org/foia/epic-v-dhs-media-monitoring/Analyst-Desktop-Binder-REDACTED.pdf

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/24/homeland-security-manual_n_1299908.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2079283/Tweeting-word-drill-mean-Twitter-account-read-government-spies.html

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4095372/Twitter-news-US-bars-friends-over-Twitter-joke.html

https://www.socialtext.net/codev2/architectures_of_control

http://keyboardmilitia.com/2012/02/14/u-s-gov-to-test-terrorist-tracking-with-social-media-game/

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/02/schneier-gov-big-data-pose-bigger-net-threat-than-criminals.ars

http://gizmodo.com/5889505/nsa-agents-will-make-all-their-private-calls-with-a-fishbowl

http://www.policeone.com/csi-forensics/articles/5192351-FBI-looks-to-private-industry-for-help-in-fighting-cyber-crime


http://gawker.com/5658671/dont-post-pictures-of-an-fbi-tracking-device-you-find-on-a-car-to-the-internet?skyline=true&s=i

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/10/fbi-tracking-device/

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/06/students-workers-ordered-to-surrender-facebook-passwords/

Re: The Murder of Billy McDermott [and his friend]

Re: my friend Billy McDermott

Dear Chief Gregory Culick, Amsterdam Police Officers, Investigators, and Helpers,

With Respect:

Billy McDermott was my friend.  And I was honored to be his friend.  This is not a matter of "how he lived his life,"or "he had a history."  Some people who are addicted to drugs, even to crack cocaine, do recover.  Did you find drugs in his apartment?  Was there evidence of illicit drugs found in his autopsy, tox report?  I heard there wasn't.  Billy had had a heart attack about four months ago.  That scared him.  That scared him into another period of abstinence.

Oh I know Billy had a damming "history."  But Billy was also a very gentle soul and a sweet man-- whether he was using or not.   Until there is concrete evidence demonstrating that Billy was high at or just before the time of his death, we don't really know that he was high recently.  To blame his death partially or fully on his addiction sucks.  Are you aware that Billy had periods of abstinence as well as periods of time when he was using?  Billy did not just "live his life" high.  He wrestled with his addiction.  He wanted to be clean.  He also loved his parents, his brothers and sisters, his children and grandchildren.  Billy had a true generosity of spirit.  He bought lunch for people who were hungry.  He love kids.  He was always willing to listen, using or not.  Billy was truly a Sweet William.

I hope that Billy's past does not get in the way of finding the animals who perpetrated the double homicide which took his life and the life of Cheryl Goss.  There are other motives for violently stabbing people to death besides drugs.  Two of them are money and jealously on the part of current or ex-lovers.  I know the cops have difficult jobs and that you all put your lives on the line so we can live in relative safety.  I have to trust that you will investigate all leads-- the ones that point to drugs as well as the ones that point to financial greed and revenge. 

I hope you find the people who murdered Billy and Cheryl very very soon.  And I hope that they get put away for the rest of their natural lives without parole, regardless of the motive or motives for the murders.  And I hope that the truth will out.

              

                Yours in the struggle,


                   radical sapphoq



http://www.fox23news.com/news/local/story/Double-homicide-in-Amsterdam/LBWdwh6g70mhN_lbt-Y8mw.cspx