It can’t happen here.
On the contrary. Such activity will be identified as an uptick in ‘terrorist chatter’ and used as further justification for increased surveillance and bigger budgets.
Am I the only one who noticed her husband travels to China and Korea, and that they were looking to speak with him? He’s already on a list just for his travel. Not loving the whole “what you googled” connection, but there’s a lot more than shopping for pressure cookers going on here.
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That’s what I always disliked about George Carlin. He was always so credible right until he cursed. Oh wait, then he was just being authentic. Cursing doesn’t mitigate or diminish what she wrote. If I had had this happen to me and everyone told me that surely it’s a hoax or I must be joking, I’d be uttering a few choice words too.
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Well, not the way I phrased my search, which was, precisely:
“I’m googling pressure cookers and backpacks, because this is still a free fucking country, you NSA assholes”.
I realize it’s the other spooks (FBI) watching our googles. I was angry.
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https://plus.google.com/112961607570158342254/posts/FWAVRVaN64h
Looks like there’s more to this story than just googling pressure cookers. Michele Catalano’s husband posted pictures of explosives BEFORE the visit from the police.
Not saying it vindicates the whole thing by a long shot, but it changes the story.
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I don’t have any enemies…yet, hehehe.
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Issuing vulgarities for doubting you instead of issuing evidence never enhances your argument whether you’re George Carlin or Mahatma Gandhi. Reasoned evidence shouts far louder.
An appeal to popularity (ask my followers what they think of me) is also not evidence of any sort.
As it appears more data is coming to light, i.e. her husband’s travels to China and Korea, I am willing to state that I do not think we have the whole story here just yet and that there might be more depth to her story than her emotions are permitting to be examined at present.
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“He … was asked if they could come in. Sure, he said.”
Never ever ever do this. Make them come back with a warrant. Especially if you have nothing to hide.
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But the author is one scant degree of separation away from even more esoteric Internet personalities who advocate close attention to government wrongdoing and finance radical journalism of government whistleblowers.
Fairly begging for it really.
Vulgarity does not diminish veracity among twitter followers.
I agree that swearing should not be the first action when people don’t believe you, but I understand why she would in this case, if her story is true. I think being calm and measured in your communication, and calm in the face of disbelief is best, but I will not ding her for cursing. Other people were raised differently.
Also, asking about her husband’s travel doesn’t mean that that was the precipitating factor either. It could be they found out about the travels once they started looking.
First they came for the whistleblowers…
I’ve always found that getting butthurt over certain words for no other reason than that someone who’d never actually reasoned it out told you to feel butthurt over those words rather diminishes one’s credibility.
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I’ll risk the Feds for a free pressure cooker, like. Mmmmm, fried chicken…
A (Muslim) coworker of mine was fired (actually escorted off site immediately), apparently for looking up information about bombs at work in the week after 9/11…
Of course everyone who looked at the BoingBoing front page today ran a TCP stream that included “presure cooker” and “backpack” somewhere there’s a spook with a very full in box
Oh, NO! Vulgarities! And from a woman, no less?!
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Uh-oh. I have The Anarchist Cookbook and the Army WII demolition and sabotage how-to book, and I recently asked MIT if they could help me dispose of some cyanide. I’ll just hold my wrists out in front of me while they slip the cuffs on.
