Warning to all Americans: If you want to remain safe and out of the crosshairs of Homeland Security, do not under any circumstances attempt to pay off your credit cards. That makes you a terror suspect. I wish this were a joke, but some retired folks actually did get investigated by DHS for trying to pay off their JC Penney card. This is really, really getting out of hand. I'm all for protecting us from terrorist attacks, but the threat to our civil liberties is very real, and potentially greater than the direct damage from a terrorist attack. It almost makes you wonder if the terrorists out there are having a good laugh as they watch us turn into a repressive society.
Most people don't realize the full range of Homeland Security's activities, and I'm not sure they even realize where their boundaries are. They've even made the news recently for busting a major porn ring. Well, not too major. And, actually it wasn't really a 'ring'. Ok, fine, they told people in a public library that surfing for titties was verboten. Yep. A bajillion dollars in federal funding, a mandate to defend us from terrorism and they go after a guy looking at T&A on a library computer.
It gets worse. Last year Homeland Security busted a movie piracy ring which made Star Wars Episode 3 available on the internet. Too bad they couldn't have stopped its release altogether. They've also gone after pirated software as well, targeting bit-torrent related websites and cracking groups. Maybe if we could get an Al-Jazeera employee to deliver a pirated copy of Photoshop to Osama's cave, we'd finally have some serious and concerted effort to nail his ass. Forget the WTC and Pentagon, don't steal our fucking software! And don't put a payment on your Al-Qaeda Express card, or you're seriously in deep shit.
People, stand up for your rights, for God's sake. Otherwise, they're headed straight down the tubes under the guise of security. Once that happens, we're no better than the terrorists.
