Gyroscopic Investing

Apparently the govt is scanning the internet for the usage of certain words.  It appears that this comes from some sort of handbook for analysts.  If this is legitimate, it is quite unnerving.

The government has a list of bad words they don’t want you to use in your “open source media”?:

The Department of Homeland Security has been forced to release a list of keywords and phrases it uses to monitor social networking sites and online media for signs of terrorist or other threats against the U.S

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I saw that and was distressed to discover that I have been using some of those words on this very forum.

MediumTex wrote: I saw that and was distressed to discover that i have been using some of those words on this very forum.

It's like half of the English vocabulary.

For all patriotic Americans who want to make sure that their vocabulary is fully compliant with current Department of Homeland Security guidelines, here are the words you should avoid using so that the government can more easily identify and track the evil-doers:



Dang!  It looks like I used the very first word on the list in this post.

Why not just stop with George Carlin's "seven words you can never say on TV" from the 70's.
Look up on Wikipedia.

It would be fun to write a short story using every single word on the list.

Unfortunately, such a story might get you a free trip in a government sedan to a nondescript building for a meeting about your creative writing interests.

I can almost guarantee that during this meeting one of the hosts would ask "Do you think this is a joke?"  It would be very hard not to reply by saying "I guess I was just hoping that it was, because if it's not this is often the point where the battery cables and pliers come out."

Gentlemen, I share your concern that we can no longer discuss topics such as p0rk, ex3rcis3, r3li3f and g@s.  Or the g@s that the p0rk gave us.  Or the r3li3f we felt when said g@s subsided.

But I implore you to recognize when the glass is half full.

First, it's nice that all you perverts are no longer permitted to discuss smutty, unwholesome topics such as "d1rty b0mbs", "mysql inj3ction" and "Mexicle$".  *shudder*

Topics still permitted, at least on a provisional basis:

• Leather chaps
• Gold coins (how'd this one slip by??)
• Harry Browne (whom you must NEVER refer to as "Harry Brown 0ut")
• Government bonds and their greatness
• How benevolent our government and its Great Leaders are to allow us this fine range of topics to discuss

I thought Jam Echelon Day was a blast.  Basically this was the day everyone decided to add all of those bad words to every email and post they made on the Internet, thus hopefully overwhelming the government monitoring systems and proving to them how futile this type of monitoring actually is:

http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/1999/10/32039