Reply #18: I'd ask: "What makes you so sure of that?" [View All]

How certain are they that they haven't been reading the wrong books, visiting the wrong websites, attending the wrong church, etc., etc.? Remind them that what is "wrong" is by no means straightforward when you're dealing with a paranoid regime. Just because you think you're Leave-it-to-Beaver whitebread church-going America doesn't mean that you're not on The List. As another member pointed out a week or two ago the computers that we think might be monitoring email, web use, library use, etc., are not aware of your thoughts -- they just look for key words -- so don't be so sure that the osama bin laden joke you forwarded last month didn't send up a red flag at the NSA. Many freepers have a Montana Freemen mentality when it comes to the inviobility of Their Property. They'll applaud when the gummint arrests some queers for fornicating in the privacy of their own home, but they'll raise holy hell if they think anyone has violated THEIR sovereignity. To rip off a theme from John Prine, their W sticker isn't gonna keep them offa surveilence anymore.