Ted Rall for December 17, 2009
Transcript:
Facebook, CIA, FBI, NSA, NYPD, Warrant-less search. What's in your mind? The government wants to know! Share. Friends Rob Phelps can't believe you left the lid up again. Julie McCoy wonders if throwing away that Obama mailer unopened is a good idea. Barack Obama isn't terribly thrilled that you've been hanging around with the wrong crowd. Leon Panetta likes this. Robert Mueller likes this. Robert Gates likes this. Nancy Pelosi and 434 members of congress likes this. Barack Obama thinks you should seriously reconsider that letter-to-the-editor in light of the weird stuff you look at at night when your spouse is sleeping. Suggestions we can see all. 1984 friendly requests to calm down and watch more TV - streaming rocks! Invitations we can see all. Gitmo concentration camp. Gitmo is moving to Illinois. George W. Bush is a fan, Barack Obama is a fan. Events we can see all. Langley VA, Facebook Intel processing party (with donuts!!!)
Metzengerstein over 14 years ago
Another funny one-panel. And spot on. I appreciate this because I’m on FB and use it to keep in touch with some family and friends, but I never put anything important on there. I’m sure “they” can get to it other ways.
BTW Ted – are you still banking at Citibank? You need to read this right away:
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/25543
and then go to:
http://www.creditunion.coop/cu_locator/quickfind.php
Thanks Ted.
believecommonsense over 14 years ago
^ think I’ll look into the local credit union here too.I banked with a regional bank, thinking good way to invest in area where I live., but it was bought out by Dutch co. I don’t have anything against the Dutch, but it defeats the purpose of why I banked there initially.
edmondd over 14 years ago
I feel like printing this out and putting it in a portrait by my desk. It is quite hilarious!
Oddly enough, I welcome such intrusiveness. I care little if a spook catches me doing weird stuff.
I welcome it because the more knowledge about the gathered intelligence on citizens gets spread through several law enforcement agencies, the less chance it will be taken as a pretext to screw you up and make an example out of you only because they didn’t like whenever you speak truth to power.
Also there’s less chance you will be falsely accused, or even framed by low life spooks to teach you a lesson and alienate you until you cooperate and “get on with the program”. I could walk around with a 360 degree cam on my neck 24/7 that records everything I do.
believecommonsense over 14 years ago
^ you might wanna turn it off when you go shishi or oonko though.
MiepR over 14 years ago
I think it would be patriotic to make your facebook account as weird as possible. Think of all those nice C.I.A. people whose day you would brighten.
I can think of nothing I’d less like to be paid to do than look at zillions of mundane facebook accounts. Poor national security people!
comYics over 14 years ago
Great to know we have fat cabooses, sitting around, so concerned with what your doing in your private spare time instead of fixing pollution. Oh, and eating donuts, none the less :). Answer: On your taxpayer dollar :D hahaha
edmondd over 14 years ago
comyics they are worried that you may be spreading radical ideas that might destabilize the status quo. They don’t even know this, they just follow orders.
All the while the Pentagon bankrupts this nation’s future, while giving free reign to neoconservative ideologues (barely tempered by a feckless Democrat party), that only know how to screw things up.
Herbabee over 14 years ago
Well, sheee-it - they can ‘disappear’ it just as easy as they can mine for it.
White House e-mails, anyone?
mhenriday over 14 years ago
This is beautiful ! Glad I don’t use Facebook, but merely exhibit my subversive tendencies on fora like the present one. Hope the Echelon chaps enjoy my emails….
Henri