Counter Blogging
14 01 09 - 00:32
The U.S government is currently employing 330,000 Air Force officers to lurk "insurgent" websites. They are lurking our blogs
with the mission to "counter the people out there in the blogosphere who have negative opinions about the U.S.
government and the Air Force,"-Captain David Faggard. The basic plan is to ensure the government is represented well.
Unfortunately this is a bias considering it is being done by a government organization.
They have created this flow chart (picture) to teach officers how to deal with comments in a wide variety. Comments in
the nature of trolling to truth telling and everything in between have certain protocol that is to be followed while considering
a response. And if I may say it seems quite the bit of effort was put into its conception. Really makes you wonder the motive
for putting so much effort and time into it.
What this all means for we internet folk is that posts that we make are being watched by the U.S government in an attempt
to change public view. So with every comment you make they have a response for you. Regardless of how right you are and
how evil this whole idea is, they have a prefabricated response. They are told to act as civilians so perhaps people will just
see a seemingly intelligent post and not think of the sinister plot beneath. This is much more than a bad way to spend
money or even a simple error in judgment on the Air Force's behalf. It is pure and simple arrogance. Our tax money is
providing a military organization resources to watch and moderate us on one of our last places of free speech.
This show of deviance and scoundrel-like behavior of American authority is but another example of a much too powerful
government. U.S government thinks it's the boss in charge, well last time I checked, it was the people that are supposed to
hold power in a democracy. So what possible use do they have for initializing this program but for reasons of treachery?
In the words of Harry S. Truman "Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition,
it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of
terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear." So here is my question to you, where do
you think American "democracy" is leading?
-winston
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