Topic: Family is visited by 6 armed men after Googling backpacks and pressure cookers - page 2. (Read 2649 times)

Welcome to pre-crime, the real goal of the whole Snowden affair. We are watching you and we will violate your rights if we think you MIGHT do something, regardless of evidence.

You were right to be sceptical. It turns out the man did his search for "pressure cooker bombs" from his work computer, shortly after being fired, and his boss, who was no doubt shitting himself at the prospect of a disgruntled ex-employee blowing up the office, did the only sensible thing and called the cops on him.

Next week on World's Dumbest Non-Criminals: An unarmed man is shot by police... after sticking his finger in his jacket and shouting "I have gun!"

The photo isn't of the occurrence, and they mixed up federal agents with...well, whoever they think made the visit, now.  Commenters are just gobbling this shit up.  I'm normally skeptical about anything, but come on; they could have just a tiny bit of doubt.

Anyway, lets take a look into my imaginary crystal ball.  The next presidential election is going to feature a man (literally two men, but they'll be the same guy) who promises clean the country up and get rid of all this debt and can the NSA, and protect all your freedoms and liberties and privacy, and shortly after he gets into office (doesn't matter if he's a repub or demo, they're basically the same thing, but chances are it'll be a repub 'cos they have 8 years to bitch about now) there will be another war, and the problems he aimed to solve will have seemingly gotten better on the surface to distract from this war, through manipulation of the press and what have you, but will have gotten far, far worse to anyone who can take the time to read more than a headline or do some research outside of the liberal/conservative journal fuckfest.  The republicans will bitch about the democrats and the democrats will bitch about the republicans, the debt will pile up, the government will ask for more power to solve their problems (and by ask I mean, take, since not even the NSA can be touched by the wonder of representative democracy; and by their problems, I mean theirs, not mine or yours) and anyone with any sense left will take that redneck's advice and get the hell out of his country, because the only patriots left in America by then will be saying a new version of "Sieg heil!" or supporting them through the quasi-socialist regime (likely to be named alongside freedom or liberty) brought about as a response to this war, which nobody, especially not the people who want to war, can afford, but fuck it, Americans couldn't stand against this war, why would they stand against the next?

TEAM AMERICA, WORLD POLICE!
That movie perfectly describes whats happening.
These American Gov. Officals know what they're trying to do, but they don't know what they're actually doing

Tons of people let cops search without a warrant.  The cops rely on this.

The question is -- if you refuse 6 guys would they just come back at 3AM with 60 guys and a battering ram?

Good points. I would never even consider letting them in my house without a warrant. Then we would have a record with a judges name on it, and the name of the requesting authority.

I really dislike these attempts to enforce ignorance. I have known how to make bombs since childhood. I studied chemistry and physics and I know what quinoa is. WTF do they want me to do, unlearn everything?

Absolutely frightening!

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/08/government-knocking-doors-because-google-searches/67864/