Have You Altered Your Phone Habits Now That The NSA Is Data Mining?.,,,

[global1]

It would be interesting to note if the American people have altered their telephone conversation now that we know that the NSA is potentially listening in. I know Randi talked a bit about this today. Somebody should do a poll - Gallup, MSNBC, CNN,etc.

[Whoa_Nelly]

1. Have made it a habit since 2001

to say "Fuck you, Bush!", and/or, "I hate you, George Bush! You're an asswipe idiot!", every chance I get during conversation.

on edit:
Started doing this in 2001 because I figured it woul dbe part & parcl of the BushCo admin. to listen in on Americans. Gosh...I was right!

Also, from the date that asswipe stoile office, have been carrying my pasport with me at all times in case I need to leave the country due to his arrogant stupidity.

[hobbit709]

4. Yep

I say a lot of "jihad", mention our coward-in chief,and every other derogatory comments I can come up with. If they want to come after me, I'll give them plenty of good reasons

[adwon]

22. Same here

Over the last five years, I've made it a habit to say "Hi NSA!" on a regular basis when using my cell phone.

[mike_c]

2. yes-- I use the pay phone on the corner...

...whenever I call up terrorists now. You just can't be too careful these days!

[LeftyMom]

3. No, I already assumed that listening/data mining were occuring

I didn't think it was on such a broad scale, but I wasn't terribly surprised either.

[mcscajun]

5. Nah, I've been saying a big hello the FBI, et al, for years now.

As long as Bush has been occupying our WH, I've been saying the occasional FU to Ashcroft (when he was around), to the FBI, NSA, and anyone else listening. And "Helllllllllllloooooooooooooooo! Agent Mike!"

It amuses the hell out of the folks on the other end of the line. I can't speak for the reactions of those intercepting my calls. :evilgrin:

[Nederland]

6. Hell no

The NSA doesn't have time to spy on me.

[Vickers]

7. Yes, I end every call with my fundy brother with "Later, ammonium

nitrate rental truck flight school!"

I wish I was kidding. You should see the email footers to him.

[ihelpu2see]

9. Yup, do the Mr. Subliminal message (dirty bomb) guy from SNL (anthrax) nt

[Vickers]

13. lol, I'll incorporate that, too.

:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[Catchawave]

8. No.

[fedupinBushcountry]

10. Yep

I answer every call with "can you hear me now, Bush".

[chaumont58]

11. Nah, I begin every phone conversation with Seig Heil

That ought to please them.

[MrSlayer]

12. No, I just mention that the NSA can go fuck themselves.

At some point during the conversation.

[serryjw]

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[morgan2]

15. I stopped pranking the nsa switchboard

[never_get_over_it]

16. If I remember

I will say something like - excuse me NSA can you hear me - just want to let you know I still think GW Bush is a criminal and believe he belongs in prison - have a nice day. I also might add that I think you haven't gotten rid of the 1st amendment quite yet so I felt I should use it while I still can.

[tirechewer]

17. No.....

I had a sneaking feeling that they were listening to us and watching us early on. It didn't come as much of a surprise when it went public. The only thing that surprised me was how brazen and self righteous they were, as if they had done something LOVELY! Besides if they want to hear me talk about how much I dislike Bush or Iraq or discuss my sister's bad feet with her, they can go for it.

I know they watch forums like DU, and I've had several interesting visitors to my peace board. The most recent one is the State department who came to visit me twice in a couple of days. I took screen caps of their visits from my site meter, and posted them. If you want to say, "Hi," you can visit this link.

http://platypuspool.com/blog/platypuspool/?p=84#more-84

If you want to also greet their Federal Brothers from the CIA, DOJ and their blood brothers from Halliburton, simply click the "Merry Pranksters" category to the right of the board for the screen caps which showed their comings and goings. They have all been there too.

My email? I don't even want to think about it. I hope they enjoyed it.

[Javaman]

18. Yep, I swear more. nt

[sentelle]

19. Jack?

I started calling everyone jack....

"Mind if I call you Jack?"

"Hi, Jack"

[Fiendish Thingy]

20. I changed my outgoing phone message...

at home and on my cell, to this:

"You have reached xxx-xxxx, the xxxxxxxxx residence.

Please note that due to illegal orders by George W. Bush, any message you choose to leave, as well as any return calls, may be monitored by the National Security Agency.

Should you choose to risk it, please leave your name and number, and we’ll get back to you, assuming we haven’t been rendered to a CIA prison somewhere...

After you hang up, please call or write your representative and urge them to impeach Bush and Cheney.

Have a nice day, and remember, it’s up to all of us to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States."

Well, whaddya think?

[sentelle]

21. I did something along that lines

back in '97 I had a message on my voicemail at work that told people "your call may be monitored by the KGB for quality assurance purposes".....
now my home phone says "your call may be monitored by the NSA for quality assurance purposes"

When did the USA become a soviet joke?

(you know, in the US the people own the government, in the Soviet Union, the government owns the People).... except now the government wants to OWN us....

Sad.

[Roland99]

23. Ayup, I answer the phone in a way to give Agent Mike the shivers >>>>>

"Thanks for calling the Al Qaeda House of Holy Jihad Against the Great Satan Bush, how many I help you?"

[primative1]

24. No

Screw them

[Joe Fields]

25. Yes. I have gone back to a Quaker Oats box and string.

[styersc]

26. I call random phone numbers in Pakistan and Kuwait...

and when someone answers I slowly say- "The fuzzy yellow dogs has fleas but not ticks". And then hang up.

Let them figure that one out.

[bdamomma]

27. the NSA is committing a crime

we should make it very clear that they are breaking the law.

[Scoody Boo]

28. My life is so incrediby boring...

NSA agents would volunteer to monitor mine just to catch up on some sleep.

[mtnsnake]

29. Whenever I pick up the phone, the first thing I say is "Hello, Karim?"