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Ask Slashdot: How To Determine If One Is On a Watchlist?
An anonymous reader writes: On Slashdot, we joke about it all the time: 'I did a Google search for 'pressure cooker' and I connected a bunch of times to the Tor network to download some Linux distribution .torrent files... I must be on some sort of watchlist now.' There have been news articles about people being questioned in airports and given special attention for being political activists. How can one determine is one is on a watchlist of some sort? Are there any Slashdot users who are knowingly on a watchlist? What sort of suspicious special attention have you received?
Yes exactly. On the other side of the coin you can always make a phone call and mention president, jihad, airplane and bomb in a single conversation and that will sum things up a bit. The automated speech to text engine will flag your call for recorded audio review and bam! Your on a watch list! Never lonely because uncle Sam will always be there to tuck you in at night watching you through your webcam and consistently pulling screen shots from your phone and your PC. That part kind of sucks if you don't have enough bandwidth though, but it is certainly worth while to see you are home in Nazi Germany run by the banksters and the Catholic church. Same batch of assholes that installed an individual with a rather well defined mustache and brought about WWII. Have no fear about the cold winters, WWIII with todays nuclear war technology it should be nice and toasty, no worries there if that should fail because substandard lowest bidder style construction of nuclear power plants a melt down is right around the corner near you! Never worry about the watchers being watched by a batch of closet case superstitious thieving nazi pedophiles that are wiping their ass with the constitution and rubbing the declaration of independence in your face after they robbed their own bank of your gold which they suckered you into with the federal reserve in 1944.