Poll: Did Operation Spy On Everyone™ really end at midnight?

[MannyGoldstein]

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	Yes. There is no longer a legal argument to be made for it.
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	LOL. It probably secretly continues under a new cockamamie secret legal argument.
	16 (100%)
	Manny, your support for Bernie is very telling. Better Believe It!
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	Other.
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[NaturalHigh]

1. I imagine the NSA read this OP before I did.

[JDPriestly]

12. The reality of the possibility that we might be spied upon because of our political views

is of course cause for a lot of paranoid thoughts on very bad days. Like when I open my Yahoo account and instead of showing the temperature in Los Angeles where I live, it shows it in I think Herndon, VA. (VA I think). Also, I recently signed up for Facebook and received notices that my account had been accessed from Herndon, VA.

Just now, I checked Yahoo and I got the Los Angeles temperature.

My paranoid thoughts may be silly. I'm not seriously worried because the worst I do in my life is express my harmless opinions on DU and coo over my grandchildren and those of others in my family. But, hey, it's a crazy world, and I am a nonconformist, so who knows?

But the change in the Yahoo temperature report may indicate that the surveillance is on hiatus.

Or it may indicate that I and probably many like me are overly paranoid. Who knows? Anyway, I try to behave myself and not say anything too offensive. And I suppose that is the purpose of the surveillance. To make us behave ourselves and to chill any naughty speech we might indulge in (as if I would).

[delrem]

16. It's about having a secret gov't repository of all electronic transactions.

It's about how that reality, and it is a reality, is regulated.

How that regulation is enforced.

[JDPriestly]

17. Yes. And it leaves me wondering why Yahoo gave me the weather report in Herndon, Va.

and now, tonight, has switched back to Los Angeles where I live. It may be a pure coincidence. But I think it is very funny. I'm about the most nonviolent, harmless person you could ever know. At just over 5 feet (used to be 5 feet 2 inches), female and over 70, I really don't pose much of a credible threat in any respect. I can't believe I am on some list, but what is the explanation for the Herndon, Va confusion on my Yahoo and Facebook accounts. Do I have a secret admirer at the age of 72? If so, that is material for a major work of romantic fiction. It's got to be a joke.

And maybe it is just an internet mistake.

I am not making this up. Thanks.

[delrem]

18. I can't explain your troubles either.

[delrem]

15. Look, you're just getting tabulated. It doesn't hurt.

[backscatter712]

2. Hmmm. The American Stasi, giving up its toys?

I haven't seen pigs flying lately either.

[grasswire]

4. MANNY! You shoulda put a warning in the topic.

GEEZ.

[NYC_SKP]

5. Yes. No need for them once Operation Fema Camps starts tomorrow.

We're done with the Patriot Act, we're ready to round everyone up!

[xocet]

8. Aren't Texas and the Southwest to be secured by Operation Jade Helm first?

[delrem]

6. The same bunch who got us up the creek are going to find a f'ing paddle, now?

And since when do laws have any meaning for the gov't and the 0.1%?

Replace the politicans, fast.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center

[scarletwoman]

7. You forgot this option: "The Patriot Act is not dead, it's just pining for the Fjords."

[Blue_Tires]

10. Well the Snowald Cabal is celebrating, so that must mean it's over...

[delrem]

13. Congratulations on the portmanteau.

[peecoolyour]

11. Don't spend all your freedom in one spot, Winston.

[delrem]

14. I don't identify MannyGoldstein with Winston.

They are different characters in the book.

[etherealtruth]

19. Executive Order 12333

https://www.aclu.org/cases/executive-order-12333-foia-lawsuit

The executive order, signed by President Reagan in 1981 and modified many times since, is the authority relied upon by the intelligence agencies, including the NSA, to conduct surveillance of foreigners outside of the United States. According to recent reports, however, the government relies upon the executive order to sweep up the international communications of countless Americans. For example, it collect billions of records every day containing the location information of mobile phones, including Americans' phones; to harvest the address books of email users; and to sweep up the information of users of Google and Yahoo as it travels between those companies' data centers abroad.

[Wilms]

20. ^

[Javaman]

21. the single most controling aspect of the patriot act is certainly not dead.

do you think the biggest tool these crooks have is going magically vanish because of the showboat routine by paul?

Have a bridge to sell you cheap.

[onyourleft]

22. I seriously...

...doubt we are free of this. Does anything of this magnitude ever really go away?

[Iggo]

23. IXNAY! IXNAY!