Sure it seems pretty outrageous and stupid, but take a good look at the picture of them. It’s like if Godzilla and King were British. They could totally wreck the whole southern California area easily. XD

I had to read this story twice when I came across it before I could grasp the sheer Orwellian idiocy of it. In a world awash with useless, meaningless dumbness this takes the c**e. Similarly absurd things were done by the Soviets and the Nazis. The Austrian Nazis even got Sigmund Freud to sign a statement that he had been well treated by the Gestapo before they released him. Freud wrote on the bottom of the statement: ‘I can heartily recommend the Gestapo to anyone.’ He was joking of course, but the Gestapo were much too thick to get the joke.

@ monkeymind - Yes.

Take a look at this for a minute:  Chris Hedges just wrote about “borders” and capitalism having no borders. In a still wider view, no radical “over-the-top” system of thought or behavior acknowledges borders; each thinks it is the only, the best, the essential orthodoxy.

Radicalisms inevitably set about to “conquer” each other and reign supreme. In the process they are willing to do anything.  Life itself is sacrificed to a cause believed to be “righteous,” or “necessazy”, whether it is or not. This characteristic is what makes radicalisms of all kinds dangerous and abusive.

“National security surveillance” is no exception. The other side of its face is the radicalism called “terrorism.”

The much-praised “founding fathers” understood those rational old Greeks and their “Nothing too much.”  They planted in the fresh political soil of “America” the moderating limits of democracy in the form of a Constitution. Now that very Constitutional foundation is under deadly threat from
the tyrannical forces of limitless economic exploitation.  What happens next is our duty to moderate, our problem of how to, and our opportunity
to restore.Democracy itself is at stake here and now.
What we do and how we do it are equally important.

These same fine people are monitoring website comments according to a release
from a couple of weeks ago that designated Huffington’s as a Homeland Security
monitoring site, and stated that there were others in addition to the list. 

The brownshirts descend!  Oops, I meant white shirts.  Sorry.

Homeland security seems to be all muscle and no brain.

Insane!  Leaves the Red Queen grovelling in the dust!

So, I know I am not the sharpest tool in the shed but isn’t anyone else concerned, interested, mildly inquisitive, about how the gov. got the tweets… or are we just resigned now to the fact that every toot, tweet, Facebook, email, is scanned by one big arse brother?

If “p******” people off on Hollywood Blvd means “pushing
people off on Hollywood Blvd,” that would be an act of
terrorism.  I mean how would you like someone to push you
off on Hollywood Blvd?  A guy could get hurt!  On behalf
of all the adults here I say, “Mission accomplished and
good *uck to you.”