The Daily Mail in the UK has published a list of words monitored by department of Homeland Security. Many of them are used on this site quite regularly (and innocently). People have often wondered if the IRS is monitoring the site, perhaps it’s not just the IRS but the DHS, as well.
“The Department of Homeland Security has been forced to release a list of keywords and phrases it uses to monitor social networking sites and online media for signs of terrorist or other threats against the U.S.”
Words include Mexico, disaster, jihad, law enforcement, collapse, plot, closure.
Uh oh, now I’ve done it. I’ve used several all in one post.
Do you think that naming a blog after someone who burnt the White House down may get some attention?
http://orignial4.tripod.com/id7.html
“Uh oh, now I’ve done it. I’ve used several all in one post.”
You think you’re in trouble? I cut and pasted the whole list and sent it out in an e-mail. 🙁
Words include “Mexico, disaster, jihad, law enforcement, collapse, plot, closure??” Wow, what sinister words! This is what we get when we create a Top Secret Homeland security Establishment that is beyond comprehension. Every word is under suspicion, including that “is” I just wrote.
I think we can safely say that those of us following this blog are simply trying to effect change peacefully and lawfully. As I tell my son: It is OK to get angry, but it is not OK to become violent in the process.
But aren’t we supposed to “use our words” when we become angry?
@Laura, better teach your son to check his ‘words’ against the list first!
@All, I at first laughed, and then became appalled, at the list, there are SO many words that are used innocently, and many could be used in combination that could raise red flags with the DHS.
Man, those DHS people must be some busy! Imagine the emails and posts they have to investigate! (especially Em’s since she used them all)
@ outragedcanadian
Actually I was kidding but it’s not a bad idea to keep them busy. It’s kind of a shot gun approach to keep them distracted and less likely to do damage. If we have any safety at all, it’s safety in numbers. More people throwing out more “listed” words will simply bog down their insufferable system.
Interesting that Laura Secord would pop up when she played such an important part in the War of 1812! Yes, Laura, ‘lawfully and peacefully’ as we know,
“The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.”
― Marcus Garvey
Let the US get on with it. Perhaps the terrorists could use some obscure language like in the movie “Windtalkers” when the US military used a native-American’s language so the Japanese couldn’t understand the messages.
At the end of the day unless you’re going to live only with cash, no SS number, like Clark Rockefeller, it’s hard not to leave an electronic footprint somewhere. In the end once they were on to him with good old detective work. However he denied the FBI the ease of just datamining to figure him out – fair dues to him! He strung it alone for over 20 years.
I never could never understand the wife, Sandra Boss, who was last reported to living over here in the UK and working in the City. She graduated from Harvard Business School and was blind to his activities.
Tomorrow I’m going to have a walk around central London, haven’t done that in a long time.
What about “natural law”, “Constitutional rights” and “gold”?
I have an idea: we should make that list of words a signature for every post we do. Better yet, I’ll put the entire list on the side bar as “words to avoid using in every post”.
Like I said in another comment today, the hysteria is going to rip that place apart. Articles like this just ADD to the hysteria. This is nothing but a head job to keep the “threat” in your heads, or really in Americans’ heads.
The words are so basic and so DIRECT. I seriously doubt that they would screen all of these words. If they tried, it would result in way too many false positives. Listening for the Arabic, Farsi, Russian, or Korean equivalents is more effective. BUT they would never publish those foreign language equivalents in a newspaper because it’s foreign, and most native English speakers would identify with it so closely.
This is a head job. There is NOTHING that is said, published, or shown to any audience that doesn’t have a purpose.
Just step back and ask yourself “Why would someone publish this?” That’s America: Dishing Out Daily Doses of Misinformation for a Gullible Citizenry.
Hey, where are those WMDs? 🙂
Did anyone else look for the word ‘renounce? Wonder when the list gets updated next if it will be on there.
@geez, it’s been reported in the media that the next wave of terrorism will be from within, so translating the list to other languages would not be helpful, but perhaps misspelling the ones they have will 😉
Blog’s are 3rd tier sources they are not reported/investigated by DHS unless what is written on one is referenced or corroborated by a 1st tier source. So you have nothing to worry about. http://www.businessinsider.com/youll-be-surprised-by-the-words-dhs-agents-desktop-binder-tells-them-to-look-for-on-your-facebook-page-2012-5?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+businessinsider+(Business+Insider)
@WhoaIt’Steve,thanks. I did see in the binder that blogs need to be verified by another source. However, right up front, the binder says, “The traditional and socialmedia teams review a story or posting from every direction and interest, utilizing thousands of
reporters, sources, still/video cameramen, analysts, bloggers and ordinary individuals on scene.”
So, how does this translate to blogs not being read or investigated? I am interested in your interpretation of this.
Yes Whoa, “Don’t worry, nothing can go wrong… go wrong…go wrong…”
But look at this part of that same article …
Agents looks[sic] to CNN and Fox as the first two news sources in their First Tier credible sources for corroboration.
LOL My first attempt to cut & paste that little excerpt from The Business Insider gave me a paste which included …
Email Sent!
You have successfully emailed the post.
If I did I wonder where it went?
Even though we have visions of 1984 in our heads it is quite simply an impossible task. Which is why they created the tiers to start with. There is not enough time nor manpower to investigate every single statement written by just American internet users let alone the entire online World. The US has over 200 million internet users, you would need a staff of considerably more than 216,000 (DHS’s reported total staff for 2010 according to Wikipedia) solely dedicated to investigate a fraction of the crap people write on blogs, which is why it’s mostly throw away.
@whoa ‘you have nothing to worry about’. First of all it should be ‘we’ as you are a regular contributor, unless you of course you are attempting to distance yourself from other commenters here. Secondly, who has anything to ‘worry’ about here? There is nothing going on here other than individuals exercising their right to free speech. As far as I know, no one has conspired to engage in unlawful activity. I wouldn’t want to associate myself with any group that did (for the record!).
@bubble Hahah too true. You’re right but I don’t feel like I have anything to worry about either. I indulge in some conspiracy theory’s from time to time (government, Echelon, store loyalty cards “tracking us,”) but in reality my life is boring and not worth the time and resources the government would need to expend in order to work up a file on me, I’m guessing it’s the same for most of you all too, the grocery store may be tracking us for marketing purposes but nothing nefarious can come out of them knowing my Ben & Jerry’s habit or at least I hope not, lol.
I will say there is some scary stuff happening, the worst thing to be in the US right now is a Muslim, especially one that has current links or ties to the Middle East, they are under extreme scrutiny, and I’m not sure exactly how I feel about that, it makes me sort of uneasy.
@Whoa, yes a lot of us feel uneasy about discrimination and the government targeting one group of people based on religion!
Heed these words:
“First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out – because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me – and there was no one left to speak out for me.”
Why do you think that there is NEVER a single day goes by without at least 1 reference to terrorism somewhere in the US media?? They have to keep the “enemy” in the mind. There’re some interesting studies on how people react to fear… Before it was communism; now it’s terrorism.. maybe in 30 years it will be atheism.. who knows with that place.
The common theme is that the government propaganda offices throw out a news piece or two. The major media picks up on it. It never stops, nor do I believe it will EVER stop.
The US is becoming unjust.
Law enforcement’s jihad against workers from Mexico who toil in farmers’ plots brings economic collapse and disaster, not closure of the issue.
Vin –
You just beat me to it. Here’s one more, as terse as possible.
Collapse of the law enforcement disaster brought closure to the jihad plot in Mexico.
PS That is the kind of clarity you find in IRS sentences.
List courtesy of http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-post-uncle-sam-admits-monitoring-you-these-377-words
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Coast Guard (USCG)
Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
Border Patrol
Secret Service (USSS)
National Operations Center (NOC)
Homeland Defense
Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE)
Agent
Task Force
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Fusion Center
Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)
Secure Border Initiative (SBI)
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (ATF)
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS)
Federal Air Marshal Service (FAMS)
Transportation Security Administration (TSA)
Air Marshal
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
National Guard
Red Cross
United Nations (UN)
Assassination
Attack
Domestic security
Drill
Exercise
Cops
Law enforcement
Authorities
Disaster assistance
Disaster management
DNDO (Domestic Nuclear Detection Office)
National preparedness
Mitigation
Prevention
Response
Recovery
Dirty bomb
Domestic nuclear detection
Emergency management
Emergency response
First responder
Homeland security
Maritime domain awareness (MDA)
National preparedness initiative
Militia Shooting
Shots fired
Evacuation
Deaths
Hostage
Explosion (explosive)
Police
Disaster medical assistance team (DMAT)
Organized crime
Gangs
National security
State of emergency
Security
Breach
Threat
Standoff
SWAT
Screening
Lockdown
Bomb (squad or threat)
Crash
Looting
Riot
Emergency
Landing
Pipe bomb
Incident
Facility
Hazmat
Nuclear
Chemical spill
Suspicious package/device
Toxic
National laboratory
Nuclear facility
Nuclear threat
Cloud
Plume
Radiation
Radioactive
Leak
Biological infection (or event)
Chemical
Chemical burn
Biological
Epidemic
Hazardous
Hazardous material incident
Industrial spill
Infection
Powder (white)
Gas
Spillover
Anthrax
Blister agent
Chemical agent
Exposure
Burn
Nerve agent
Ricin
Sarin
North Korea
Outbreak
Contamination
Exposure
Virus
Evacuation
Bacteria
Recall
Ebola
Food Poisoning
Foot and Mouth (FMD)
H5N1
Avian
Flu
Salmonella
Small Pox
Plague
Human to human
Human to Animal
Influenza
Center for Disease Control (CDC)
Drug Administration (FDA)
Public Health
Toxic Agro
Terror Tuberculosis (TB)
Agriculture
Listeria
Symptoms
Mutation
Resistant
Antiviral
Wave
Pandemic
Infection
Water/air borne
Sick
Swine
Pork
Strain
Quarantine
H1N1
Vaccine
Tamiflu
Norvo Virus
Epidemic
World Health Organization (WHO) (and components)
Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
E. Coli
Infrastructure security
Airport
CIKR (Critical Infrastructure & Key Resources)
AMTRAK
Collapse
Computer infrastructure
Communications infrastructure
Telecommunications
Critical infrastructure
National infrastructure
Metro
WMATA
Airplane (and derivatives)
Chemical fire
Subway
BART
MARTA
Port Authority
NBIC (National Biosurveillance Integration Center)
Transportation security
Grid
Power
Smart
Body scanner
Electric
Failure or outage
Black out
Brown out
Port
Dock
Bridge
Cancelled
Delays
Service disruption
Power lines
Drug cartel
Violence
Gang
Drug
Narcotics
Cocaine
Marijuana
Heroin
Border
Mexico
Cartel
Southwest
Juarez
Sinaloa
Tijuana
Torreon
Yuma
Tucson
Decapitated
U.S. Consulate
Consular
El Paso
Fort Hancock
San Diego
Ciudad Juarez
Nogales
Sonora
Colombia
Mara salvatrucha
MS13 or MS-13
Drug war
Mexican army
Methamphetamine
Cartel de Golfo
Gulf Cartel
La Familia
Reynosa
Nuevo Leon
Narcos
Narco banners (Spanish equivalents)
Los Zetas
Shootout
Execution
Gunfight
Trafficking
Kidnap
Calderon
Reyosa
Bust
Tamaulipas
Meth Lab
Drug trade
Illegal immigrants
Smuggling (smugglers)
Matamoros
Michoacana
Guzman
Arellano-Felix
Beltran-Leyva
Barrio Azteca
Artistic Assassins
Mexicles
New Federation
Terrorism
Al Qaeda (all spellings)
Terror
Attack
Iraq
Afghanistan
Iran
Pakistan
Agro
Environmental terrorist
Eco terrorism
Conventional weapon
Target
Weapons grade
Dirty bomb
Enriched
Nuclear
Chemical weapon
Biological weapon
Ammonium nitrate
Improvised explosive device
IED (Improvised Explosive Device)
Abu Sayyaf
Hamas
FARC (Armed Revolutionary Forces Colombia)
IRA (Irish Republican Army)
ETA (Euskadi ta Askatasuna)
Basque Separatists
Hezbollah
Tamil Tigers
PLF (Palestine Liberation Front)
PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization
Car bomb
Jihad
Taliban
Weapons cache
Suicide bomber
Suicide attack
Suspicious substance
AQAP (AL Qaeda Arabian Peninsula)
AQIM (Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb)
TTP (Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan)
Yemen
Pirates
Extremism
Somalia
Nigeria
Radicals
Al-Shabaab
Home grown
Plot
Nationalist
Recruitment
Fundamentalism
Islamist
Emergency
Hurricane
Tornado
Twister
Tsunami
Earthquake
Tremor
Flood
Storm
Crest
Temblor
Extreme weather
Forest fire
Brush fire
Ice
Stranded/Stuck
Help
Hail
Wildfire
Tsunami Warning Center
Magnitude
Avalanche
Typhoon
Shelter-in-place
Disaster
Snow
Blizzard
Sleet
Mud slide or Mudslide
Erosion
Power outage
Brown out
Warning
Watch
Lightening
Aid
Relief
Closure
Interstate
Burst
Emergency Broadcast System
Cyber security
Botnet
DDOS (dedicated denial of service)
Denial of service
Malware
Virus
Trojan
Keylogger
Cyber Command
2600
Spammer
Phishing
Rootkit
Phreaking
Cain and abel
Brute forcing
Mysql injection
Cyber attack
Cyber terror
Hacker
China
Conficker
Worm
Scammers
Social media
I notice that “Canada” has not been included the list. As a Canadian I am very sensitive to when the United States is ignoring us. They have included a number of countries including Mexico in this list, but have once again forgotten to mention the nice neighbor to the north.