Google Pressure Cookers and Backpacks: Get a Visit From the Feds 923
An anonymous reader writes "Massachusetts resident Michele Catalano was looking for information online about pressure cookers. Her husband, in the same time frame, was Googling backpacks. Wednesday morning, six men from a joint terrorism task force showed up at their house to see if they were terrorists. Which raises the question: How'd the government know what they were Googling?"
Bush (Score:5, Funny)
If only we could get this Bush guy out of office this stuff wouldn't happen.
Re:Refuse the search? (Score:5, Funny)
This is why I always answer the door wearing a balaclava.
They can't get all of us (Score:5, Funny)
I know what I am doing when I get home (Score:5, Funny)
$i = 0
while $i = 0
wget ”http://www.google.com/search?q=Pressure+Cooker"
wget ”http://www.google.com/search?q=backpack"
'Nuff Said
Re:How'd the government know what they were Googli (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, god. Now I really want to Google 'stewpit', but I'm worried it's some keyword for a terrorist cannibal org.
Re:How'd the government know what they were Googli (Score:4, Funny)
You really need to ask this question? Or you just playing stewpit?
Honestly! Redundant questions like that really get me steamed up.
Proof! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I know what I am doing when I get home (Score:2, Funny)
Pick up that can, citizen.
Re:Wireshark (Score:5, Funny)
.I thought it was common knowledge that the search engines and the feds are all buddy buddy?
But, but...the NSA head and several Congressmen have assured us that they aren't blanket monitoring everyone. And surely they wouldn't lie!
Re:Refuse the search? (Score:5, Funny)
This is why I always answer the door wearing a balaclava.
Answer the door eating baclava too if you want to get a real reaction.
Re:Refuse the search? (Score:5, Funny)
I had to look up balaclava on Google -- hmm, someone banging on my door
Re:Refuse the search? (Score:5, Funny)
Ooh, madlibs!
Re:Bush (Score:5, Funny)
In short "Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos"
Re:How'd the government know what they were Googli (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, I got the memo, but too much of it was redacted to know what it said.... ;-)
You're being delusional (Score:2, Funny)
First, Obama is FAR too far to the left for the modern GOP, which has become radical leftists relative to where it was in 1980... so there's no possible WAY Obama could have been like an earlier gen of the GOP. The modern GOP is too far to the left to tolerate what used to pass for a shining example of a left-wing Democrat: JFK (the modern GOP supports higher taxes and bigger government and a smaller military than JFK did, and while JFK NEVER supported gays in the military, gay marriage, publicly-funded abortions, or women in combat, some modern Republicans do.) Modern Democrats have moved so far left that they would DETEST FDR (opposed unionized govt workers), Truman (dropped atom bombs on people), JFK (see preceeding sentences), and LBJ (Vietnam...). I'm sorry if the Democrats have not YET, PUBLICLY, moved far enough left to elect Karl Marx and this makes you unhappy... just wait a few more years and they'll get there; Shortly thereafter, establishment Republicans will move to the left of today's Obama and liberals will again say the GOP (which will still be to their re-positioned right) is "too conservative for Ronald Reagan" .... rinse...repeat...get confused about why the country is further melting-down...
Obama as an economic pragmatist?????? go back to your water pipe dude! Obamanomics are a nightmare. Have you LOOKED at the number of people who are now on foodstamps (highest in US History and nearly double the Bush numbers) the number of people who have given up on work and gone on disability (highest in US History) the massive boost in difference between the incomes of the rich and the middle class (worse than under Bush) and so forth? A pragmatist would do some practical things and NOT the pure left-wing ideological dung Obama had been shoveling (largely through unelected bureaucrats issuing regulations that the leftist press never reports on but businesses get buried under). When Obama took office, Bush had run the national debt to $10Trillion... Obama has taken it to $17Trillion in only 4.5 years! (and the Bush part of the debt includes the Bush debacle of bank and initial car company bailouts... Obama has little excuse) there's nothing "pragmatic" about this no matter WHO does it. There is NOTHING pragmatic about Obama.
Obama's "aggressive user of military force where he perceives an imminent threat to national security"???? You're KIDDING, right? The only things "aggressive" about his military policies are: [a] aggressive cuts to active forces and withdrawl from warzones that lack any realistic plan to prevent collapses of any gains made by shed blood, (while transferring money to "green" activities like $50/gallon biofuels and conversion of military base land into habitats for plants and animals) [b] aggressive attacks on any remnants of traditional culture in the military being replaced by propaganda for perverts (I refuse to be any more politically correct toward lefties about their dysfunctions and proclivities than the left is toward the right when they attack normal heterosexuals as "breeders" and label any religious person on the right as an anti-science moron who thinks the world is 6000 years old and believes Jesus rode on dinosaurs) [c] aggressive use of drones to kill-off anybody Obama personally chooses to kill (this is automated murder, not warfare... he is NOT targeting an enemy force or an enemy machine, but rather a specific named individuals)
Liberals got behind Obama in 08 for the same reason they will push Hillary in 16... because the ends justify the means, and ANY dirtbag that will further the cause of tearing down the greatest nation in history will get the rabid support of the fevered left. The U.S. with its religious not-leftist not-Marxist culture in 1969 put a man on the moon, and has always been visual proof to the argument that free markets and free people trump managed economies, central planning, and national or international socialism every time. When a religious America with a free-market economy leads