Bloggers Beware!! The Government is Watching You!

Yes, many of us did hope that Big Brother would slow down after Donald Trump took office!  But it appears that once that info-gathering ball got rolling...it's just gaining more momentum.

I'm guessing if they started reading my blog and looking into the previous 10 years of postings they might conclude that I'm an, "Islamophobic, racist, bigoted hater who is also homophobic and intolerant of any other lifestyle and/or religious beliefs.  He is also a fundamentalist Christian and has stated many times that his religious beliefs are the ONLY valid beliefs required for heaven.  Everyone else is going to hell.  For these reasons we have classified this blog in Homeland Security as "Religious extremist/terrorist watch list"

Think I'm kidding?

Many were hoping that once Barack Obama was out of office we would see less of this Big Brother surveillance nonsense, but instead it seems to be getting even worse.  

In fact, the Department of Homeland Security has just announced that it intends to compile a comprehensive list of hundreds of thousands of "journalists, editors, correspondents, social media influencers, bloggers etc.", and collect any "information that could be relevant" about them.  

So if you have a website, an important blog or you are just very active on social media, the Department of Homeland Security is going to put you on a list and will start collecting information about you.  

The DHS has already announced that it will hire a contractor to aid in monitoring media coverage, and they will definitely need plenty of help because it is going to be a very big job...

As part of its "media monitoring," the DHS seeks to track more than 290,000 global news sources as well as social media in over 100 languages, including Arabic, Chinese and Russian, for instant translation into English. 

The successful contracting company will have "24/7 access to a password protected, media influencer database, including journalists, editors, correspondents, social media influencers, bloggers etc." in order to "identify any and all media coverage related to the Department of Homeland Security or a particular event."

"Any and all media coverage," as you might imagine, is quite broad and includes "online, print, broadcast, cable, radio, trade and industry publications, local sources, national/international outlets, traditional news sources, and social media."

If this sounds extremely creepy to you, that is because it is extremely creepy.

If you find yourself skeptical of this proposal of mass state monitoring of the press, consider yourself a bonafide member of the "tinfoil hat wearing, black helicopter conspiracy theorists," DHS representative Tyler Houlton said Friday. It's all very routine, he argued, casting the project as an innocent means of "monitoring current events." Just shut up and let us do this, crackpots.

That kind of response should make all of us very angry.

If the government is going to monitor us and put our information in a database, we should have the right to ask questions.

Freedom of speech is one of our most foundational rights, and many are concerned that "monitoring and tracking" are initial steps that could lead to a significant crackdown on Internet activity.  Just check out what is about to happen over in Europe.  

The Internet has made it possible for ordinary people to communicate with one another on a massive scale, and any efforts by national governments to interfere with that must be challenged.

Unfortunately, it appears that this new Department of Homeland Security program is moving ahead rapidly and seven different companies have "already expressed interest" in participating.

Read more at http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=2309#wEqPUfwd04peawIH.99

We watch the devastation happening in Europe as people are bullied into silence and fined for being critical of Islam, but we can already see it coming here as the leftists have rolled out their bullying/shaming accusatory word of "Islamophobic!"

When THEY gain full control of the US Government, you can bet your bottom dollar they will head the way of their lost-leftist friends in Europe.