Scare Tactics: Family Misled by Local Cops During Questioning About Google Searches

http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/08/daisy-luther/scare-tactics-lies-and-intimidation/

What can we take away from this?

1.) Nothing that you do on the internet is private (especially on a work computer).

Information can be collected and reassembled to paint any picture wanted.  Yesterday, I quoted Cardinal Richelieu: “If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged.”

2.) Citizens have succumbed to a media-fueled mass hysteria.  And if they aren’t hysterical and just want revenge on a former employee, the mass hysteria made that a whole lot easier too. 

3.) Google will rat you out one at a time and sing like a canary on crack.  Alexis Tsotsis from Tech Crunch wrote:

While Google’s, or PRISM‘s, tracking of  Internet activity wasn’t behind this incident, the fact is that Google does comply with law enforcement to hand over user data in general. Can the FBI or local police provide a search warrant to Google, and would Google possibly comply with such a request? Yes, and the company publishes all requests in a report every six months. This is nothing new.

And wider requests, like for the months of search history that would be needed to figure out the pressure cooker and backpack coincidence, may result in a push to narrow the scope of the investigation from Google’s end.

4.) Cops mislead and intimidate people.

If it adds to the intimidation factor and gets people to comply, it appears that police officers have no problem fueling people’s fear.  I have no doubt in my mind that the police in this situation wanted the family to believe they had been NSAd.  Most people are going to be a whole lot more compliant if they think that everything they have done in the past 6 months could be reassembled to paint a picture of them as terrorists.  ”Sure, please search my house and allow me to prove I haven’t done anything wrong.”  The family in this situation was not given the whole story, and I believe that was done purposely.

An Atmosphere of Suspicion

What has been created is an atmosphere of suspicion.

• Folks are suspicious of their co-workers and neighbors. 
• Because of the fear that has been fueled, a completely innocent action can be paired with another innocent action and make anyone look like a terrorist.
• We are rightfully suspicious of the surveillance state.
• People in authority milk these suspicions for all they are worth and use them to control us.

According to Claire Wolfe, this is a step towards the corruption of our culture:

Think of East Germany under the STASI or the old Soviet Union. Literally husbands couldn’t trust their wives. Parents couldn’t trust their children. Brothers couldn’t trust brothers because so many were reporting to the state. Now, some countries that knew the horror of snitch culture forbid or limit the use of snitches. At the same time, formerly free nations are relying on snitches for everything and encouraging every moron in the land to “see something and say something.”

We’re being divided, intimidated and controlled.  And make no mistake…it’s deliberate