BREAKING: Google "pressure cookers" and "backpacks"? Get a visit from the feds.

[ArcadiaGP]

There needs to be a major explanation on this immediately. This is unreal.


Google Pressure Cookers and Backpacks, Get a Visit from the Feds - Philip Bump - The Atlantic Wire

There had better be more to this that prompted a visit by the JTTF than a Google search.

We're living in a thought-police state now.

 

[Rookie]

That's awesome. Brb, gotta google...

 

[Birds Away]

There will be no mention of this in the MSM.

 

[eldirector]

Huh. Maybe I should try Bing.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Huh. Maybe I should try Bing.

Humorous as that is, Microsoft also works with the NSA.

 

[eldirector]

Humorous as that is, Microsoft also works with the NSA.

Pretty sure a good deal of the NSA's infrastructure runs on MS products.

I would search on Yahoo!, but they give a lot of money to anti-freedom folks, too.

They all work with the NSA. Those that don't, still get requests for records and have to comply.

You'd figure with the stuff I "google" and buy from various places, I'd have a "nondescript white van with tinted windows and way too many antennas" parked out front by now. I swear in the same evening I've shopped for canning stuff (pressure cookers), ammo, camping gear, etc.... more than once.

 

[printcraft]

This thread has to be a giant magnet by now.

Needs more key words. Bomb. Explosive. Grenade. Fireworks. Marathon. Bridge.

 

[Rookie]

A SALAMI I LIKE EM!

 

[printcraft]

A SALAMI I LIKE EM!

Allahu Snackbar!!

 

[navarre1095]

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[Llamaguy]

Don't forget to look up who the president is eating lunch with, just so you know what to make for lunch as well.

 

[printcraft]

Don't forget to look up who the president is eating lunch with, just so you know what to make for lunch as well.

Think I can get in a round of golf with him as well?

 

[hoosierdaddy1976]

smoke detectors, fissionable material, and (for daniel tosh fans) why won't my parakeet eat my diarrhea?

 

[rambone]

This is not a police state... this is not a police state...

 

[JetGirl]

Don't worry... the article says:

"One hundred times a week, groups of six armed men drive to houses in three black SUVs, conducting consented-if-casual searches of the property perhaps in part because of things people looked up online.
But the NSA doesn't collect data on Americans, so this certainly won't happen to you."

See there? Nothing to fret about...

 

[pudly]

"consented-if-casual"? What does that mean? That they don't have warrants? So, they arrive in what appears to be full SWAT gear and ask for permission to enter? Something is very wrong between the picture and that statement.

 

[SaintsNSinners]

Sparkler Bomb, Cannon, Peroxide, Military uses of bleach and ammonia

 

[rambone]

"I'm scared. And not of the right things," said Michele Catalano.

My family's Google searching got us a visit from counterterrorism police | Michele Catalano

New York woman visited by police after researching pressure cookers online

 

[hooky]

"consented-if-casual"? What does that mean? That they don't have warrants? So, they arrive in what appears to be full SWAT gear and ask for permission to enter? Something is very wrong between the picture and that statement.

The picture is from the search for the Boston bomber in April. They footnote it at the bottom of the article.

Photo: Massachusetts police search a home after the Boston bombings.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

This story is really taking off, getting a ton of attention.

Can likely expect a Gov response sometime soon.