Secret Service Seeks “Suspicious Tweets”

“However our sense is that this effort is less about identifying credible threats against U.S. President Barack Obama (or GOP nominee Mitt Romney) and more about gathering information on those whose views diverge from the mainstream.”

You got that right.

You can see they are already profiling potential “terroists” based on the support of certain candidates.

If the opinions you express are controversial(to the establishment) you can bet you’ll eventually be considered an enemy of the state.

So sit down and shut up citizen.

One of the most amazing things about this country is that the professionals (bureaucrats?) who actually run it don’t give a rat’s ass about which political party happens to be in charge.

The Secret Service does a tremendous job and the fact that they’re looking at what people publicly post to determine if there is a threat to either the President or Governor Romney seems like a commonsense move more than a threat. Just think about how many times you would throw around accusations of incompetence if someone publicly tweeted a threat that actually came to pass…

Civil liberties no doubt entitle you to some degree of privacy and we’ve compromised that too much for safety in a lot of areas, but I don’t really think there is a presumption of privacy when you post something on Twitter for the whole world to see. If you post something threatening for the whole world to see, those views are not simply outside of the mainstream, they’re dangerous.