We are being monitored by our own government right now.

[originalpckelly]

Either some freeper reported those two dorks who posted the threats, agents routinely view hotbeds of al-Qaeda terrorists (you know like DU) or the government has some sort of keyword searching technology which acts like spell and grammar check, but looks out for select and unmentionable phrases.

It might be all three of those, but the last two have implications which are quite frightening.

Our own government has so little trust in its people, that they monitor our communications online. Now, admittedly, they are public. But it is a very weird thing to have happening. They expect us to say something wrong or do something wrong. Instead of presuming innocence, they presume guilt.

People aren't perfect, but I don't think everyone in America should be under a cloud of suspicion. In a way they are treating us all like we are terrorists, when quite frankly I highly doubt many of us could fight our way out of a wet paper bag.

We haven't done anything wrong, yet we are treated like we have.

The government has put you and I under investigation for a crime you have yet or may never commit. It isn't right, it is fundamentally un-American.

There has to be a better way than to make us all suspects. You can't tell me in the 21st century, that the wizards of technology at the NSA and other government agencies can't create a system or methodology which doesn't presume guilt.

We are living in a low security digital prison, welcome to America in the 21st century.