Software could help prevent Santorum
Want software to monitor Santorum

"you know, I think pot should be legal"


TERRORISM!

Wasn't the umbrella agency, Homeland Security, formed to eliminate the duplication of effort and save taxpayer dollars?

Obviously it's not working, and should be disbanded.

it's not preventing speech, it's not a prior restraint, but there is an argument to be made that certain rights are being infringed upon as a result of exercising the right to speak freely... I suppose this is where people who focus on this stuff see "chilling effects" and "prior restraint" mixing.

The criminalization of not just free speech, but free speech concerning political discourse - which is supposed to be the heart of the first amendment - it's very disturbing.

Weren't we, at our founding, a country of dissenters?

"Suspicious" is certainly a horsecrap standard. If I'm making threats as to what it seems I may really have the ability to do, that's one thing - but if I'm speaking as a law-abiding citizen, in posts that make clear that I am a law abiding citizen, eh, I mean, I suppose that I suppose they've always kept these sort of files, but it's outrageous.

For example, I support the legalization of marijuana, but I won't smoke - as a future officer of the court, from the day I contemplated law school, I knew/decided that until it is legalized, it's something I can't have. But because I will openly say that the pot laws are bullshit, I get a special file or get tracked?