Watch What You Say Online

Now it seems the government has nothing better to do then to watch for those on line that use certain words. 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 terrorists or other threats against the U.S.
The list inclueds obvious choices such as "attack", "Al Qaeda", "terrorism" and "dirty bomb"...but also includes words that are used everyday in the English language! Some examples are "pork", "cloud", "team" and "Mexico". Guess no one should talk about taking their team to Mexico to eat pork LOL.
The list was released under a freedom of information request, the information sheds new light on how the government analysts are instructed to patrol the internet searching for domestic and external threats.

The list is included in the departments 2011 Analyst's Desktop Binder, which is a handbook or manual that workers at the National Operations Center uses. They were foreced to release the manual following a House hearing over documants obtained through a Freedom of Informations Act lawsuit which revealed how the montitoring of social networks and media organizations operate.

So be careful you don't use any normal words on the internet. This is just one example of how the government is working to control more and more of what we say and do! Remember we are suppose to be free to say whatever we like, 1st Amendment..I think this is being taken away from us slowly.