The USPS is running a 'covert' program to monitor Americans' social media posts
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Re: The USPS is running a 'covert' program to monitor Americans' social media posts
#2Weird, and scary.
But maybe I can kind of see it. Here's a protest. Let's say it's Proud Boys, and Antifa shows up. And here's a mail carrier out trying to deliver the mail, who drives (or worse, walks) right into the middle of it. The Post Office might have a legitimate reason for wanting to know, so they can keep their on-duty employees from harm.
Is that what's going on? Is that all that's going on? I don't know.
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#3I read that in the 60s to the 80s, a lot of civil unrest was taking place and there were so many “protest” bombings (whatever that means) that it became a almost normal in some cities (according to articles I found). This might have been a precaution against something like that, considering the current political climate in the USA?
https://time.com/4501670/bombings-of-america-burrough/
Edited to add a reference and correct a detail
Re: The USPS is running a 'covert' program to monitor Americans' social media posts
#4Weird, and scary. But maybe I can kind of see it. Here's a protest. Let's say it's Proud Boys, and Antifa shows up. And here's a mail carrier out trying to deliver the mail, who drives (or worse, walks) right into the middle of it. The Post Office might have a legitimate reason for wanting to know, so they can keep their on-duty employees from harm. Is that what's going on? Is that all that's going on? I don't know.
> Is that what's going on? Is that all that's going on? I don't know.
Doesn't sound like it. Maybe they are trying to shift money to surveillance with all the packages going around because of Covid (I.E: USPS trying to get rid of that "surplus")? Either way, it sounds crazy.
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#5Hah, remember this story? https://apnews.com/article/1e42c1a6fd324f5784c414fcd2adbd17
> The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives lost track of most of the guns, including two found at the scene where a U.S. Border Patrol Agent was fatally shot in the Arizona desert. The operation sparked a political backlash against the Obama administration.
> Attkisson left CBS in 2014 and is now the host of “Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson,” a weekly Sunday news program broadcast by the conservative Sinclair Broadcast Group.
> In her lawsuit, Attkisson says that two computer forensics teams identified an unauthorized communications channel opened into her laptop was connected to an IP address belonging to the U.S. Postal Service, “indicating unauthorized surveillance.”
> Government lawyers argue that Attkisson’s lawsuit does not include any evidence that Holder and Donahoe had direct involvement in spying on her.
> “At best, plaintiffs’ complaint suggests a mere possibility that Holder and Donahoe could have participated in developing or enforcing policies concerning electronic surveillance generally; there are no allegations that they conducted or ordered the particular incursions about which plaintiffs complain,” Justice Department lawyers argue in a legal brief filed in the 4th Circuit.
The Obama administration used USPS to spy on journalists investigating Fast and Furious. It sounded ridiculous at the time -- "The USPS is spying on journalists, and not the NSA, and not the FBI, and not the CIA? Suuure."
Not so ridiculous anymore.
I'm tired of being angry about this, I've been asking for change for most of my adult life. Our constitution isn't worth anything anymore. The federal government needs to shrink. Asking nicely to not be spied on does not work.
On a more silly note, this whole scenario reminds me of this Seinfeld clip. https://youtu.be/On3cQ0sPvSY?t=46
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#6Hah, remember this story? https://apnews.com/article/1e42c1a6fd324f5784c414fcd2adbd17 > The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives lost track of most of the guns, including two found at the scene where a U.S. Border Patrol Agent was fatally shot in the Arizona desert. The operation sparked a political backlash against the Obama administration. > Attkisson left CBS in 2014 and is now the host of “Ful…
Not too much to ask at all. Every American should be outraged.
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#7This is a power grab by the USPS to inject themselves into the industrial surveillance complex.
It most likely tries to tie a social media profile to a physical address and provides a pen register of all the mail sent and received by that citizen along with a collection of the "inflammatory opinions".
It is unconstitutional and folks at the USPS and organizations they shared the data with should go to jail.
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#8This is a power grab by the USPS to inject themselves into the industrial surveillance complex. It most likely tries to tie a social media profile to a physical address and provides a pen register of all the mail sent and received by that citizen along with a collection of the "inflammatory opinions". It is unconstitutional and folks at the USPS and organizations they shared the data with should go to jail.
Go to jail? Who is going to make them? You have a centralized compartmentalized military and society where one literally controls many. The top has been corrupted by over a hundred years of printing money out of thin air and the use of usury to control everything. Wake up and smell the new world order. It reeks.
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#9News flash: people read things that you make public on the Web.
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#10I bet FedEx could operate a domestic intelligence agency for like a quarter of their budget.