DoJ Visits Bring It On!

[The Bastard1]

I suggest anyone with a blog check their site meters and see if they are being probed. Does the Matrix ring a bell? As Dusty suggests I think everyone should be tagging their posts with "FOIA."

http://www.teambio.org/2006/07/doj-visits-bring-it-on/

Dusty was right. In her July 26th post, she mentions that the Department of Justice visited her blog because she used the term FOIA (Freedom of information Act). She teased that if you wanted to get them to visit you, just use the Technorati tag ‘FOIA.’ Well, it’s not a joke anymore. Today they visited Bring it On.



I’m not a conspiracy theorist. I don’t wear a tin hat but I am more than a bit unnerved that the Department of Justice has suddenly taken an interest in anyone mentioning the Freedom of Information Act. Why would they be monitoring and most likely logging blogs that tag that phrase? It’s chilling to know they are ‘curious’ about one of the few tools Americans have to force a little light on the murky backroom dealings of politicians.

If the DoJ was tagging sites that mentioned something related to terrorism then I could understand. If we had written that we wished the President was dead (which we do not, btw) then I would agree they need to keep tabs. That is not what happened as you can see. Dusty mentioned the FOIA, not something subversive, but they came anyhow. Unless of course asking questions is now subversive. Unless demanding that OUR government follows the law and is accountable to the people is suspicious activity now.

Somehow, in this America, that might qualify.

[QuettaKid]

1. I can't believe you are surprised by this.

My god have you not been paying attention to the past 6 years?!?!?

[The Bastard1]

2. Not surprised

But felt that it gets very little attention. So I chose this forum to bring some light to it.

[KoKo]

3. Tagging words to see what folks are up to....if there's new info or some

kind of movement building in support of whatever words "the gubbmit" has decided are subversive.

Sort of like massive Google searching forever for any snippit that can be used as evidence against which ever American or group of Americans work to uphold the Constitution and our Bill of Rights ...plus any other laws "they" deem inconvenient.

[obreaslan]

4. So we shouldn't use, War on Terror, Government Spying, FOIA then...

Ok, so from now on I won't use the terms War on Terror, Government Spying, or FOIA in any of my posts. Because if I use War on Terror, Government Spying, or FOIA I might attract the attention of the DoJ. And I don't want a visit from them just for saying War on Terror, Government Spying, or FOIA.

I understand now.

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