Steven Birn
Steven Birn Speaks
The Department of Homeland Security is tracking you if you tweet, Facebook or blog using the following terms: Illegal immigrant, drill, recovery, collapse, deaths, virus, outbreak, etc.
Supposedly DHS is using this information to try and track terrorists. In reality DHS isn’t going to be able to track any terrorists by following the Facebook and Twitter accounts of people who use these words. Why you ask? Because terrorists generally don’t tweet about their activities. Perhaps DHS doesn’t realize it but terrorists aren’t like Powerpuff Girls villain Mojo Jojo who went about Townsville telling everyone his plans in multiple ways so everyone understands.
But beyond the obvious fact that terrorists generally don’t talk about their plans in English on Twitter, don’t you think that following tweets with these words might be looking for a needle in a haystack? How many conservatives talk about illegal immigrant policy on Twitter, Facebook or blogs? How many conservatives have mocked Obama’s recovery summer? How many people tweet when there is an outbreak of some disease or talk about the death virus of the month that hypochondriacs are concerned about? How many people have posted information on Facebook about potential economic collapse because of our $15 trillion deficit?
In other words, who at DHS has time to sift through the tens of millions of benign tweets, Facebook posts and blog posts to make sure none of it is terrorist related? Or is there really something else at play? DHS doesn’t have the manpower or the resources to effectively sift through all of this information and pick out the one nut who is an actual terrorist. What they’re really doing is trying to create a chilling effect on free speech. This goes hand in hand with the Obama campaign’s ridiculous Attack Watch website which was relentlessly mocked when it went online several months ago. What the administration is trying to do is scare people into not posting conservative information or thoughts on Twitter, Facebook or blogs like WordPress.
Don’t believe me? Historically the first thing leftist governments do is ban free speech. The Communists banned free speech immediately in Russia, China, Vietnam, Cuba and North Korea. The Fascists (also products of the left) banned free speech in Italy, Germany, Romania, Spain and Argentina when they took power. Here in the US, progressive Woodrow Wilson banned free speech during World War One.Today progressive leftists in the US are trying to curtail free speech via anti-bullying laws and hate speech laws. There is war against free speech and the progressive left is always standing against freedom.
Obviously the Obama administration isn’t in a position to outright ban free speech. But what they are in a position to do is feed off of conservatives and Americans general fear of big government watching them. Which is why DHS is leaking that they’re following certain words on Twitter, Facebook and blogs. Notice that many of the words they’re following have nothing to do with terrorism. They have to do with current political debates. These words are mixed in with words that DHS imagines the public will believe terrorists will use. But make no mistake the intent here is to have you recognize the words which relate to current events and the intent is to have you afraid of the government watching you.
But afraid we must not be. We cannot allow leftist thugs at DHS to scare us into not discussing illegal immigration or Obama’s failed economic recovery. We cannot be afraid of having the government watch our legal activities, which they aren’t actually doing because they don’t have the manpower. The day the American people stop posting their opinions online because they fear the government watching them is the day we’ve lost all our freedom. If they government can control us on fear alone, we have just as little freedom as we would if they outright banned free speech. We cannot allow the Obama administration or DHS to make us fearful. We must discuss politics because it is our right as Americans.
Steven Birn is an attorney and conservative political junkie and blogger. For more news and commentary visit Steven Birn Speaks.
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Hey America! Wake up and smell the coffee! YOU are the terrorist that the US government is tracking!!!!!
If the DHS is truly looking for the lone nut who is actually a terrorist, I can help them out! He can be found at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, DC!