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Secret Service Raids Home of Twitter User for... Critical Tweets About Obama?I do not know the reason for the Secret Service interrogation. I know the Twitterer himself, Tom Francois, says this of it: On April 11, 2013, he heard relentless pounding on his door shouts of "Police!" The officers introduced themselves as members of The Secret Service and asked if they could "take a look around." I would suggest a strong dose of the 24 hour rule. This is such an enormous and frightening allegation it's especially critical to know the truth of it -- whether there is some understandable, permissible reason for the Secret Service interest, or whether there was not. I'm attempting to get someone in a position of authority to take a look at this, and report to us whether we should be very worried right now, or whether this is something less. I'm tempted to think "There is no way the Secret Service would do this" but until recently I thought there was no way the IRS would target the Tea Party, either. Again, 24 hour rule. A Couple of Cognitive Biases... One reason I've been a little skeptical of this NSA disclosure is the Summer of Sharks phenomenon -- that when a certain type of story is in the news (like the shark attacks in the summer before the 9/11 disaster), each new incidence of that type of story gets seized upon with greater interest and greater alarm that would otherwise attach to it. That doesn't mean the NSA story is nothing. It means I'm just aware that this happens, and I'm on patrol against it. Maybe too much. I don't know. I still don't understand precisely what the NSA is doing (or even what the NSA claims it's doing, which is likely entirely different from what it's actually doing). This new story is a Major Shark Attack but we don't really know the circumstances of the attack. We don't know much at all, really. We have one side of a story only. Another cognitive bias, leaning the opposite way, is this: I sure hope this story is not true. Because if it is true, we have well and truly entered a truly dark and dangerous period of post-American history. So as for now, I'm hoping. I'm hoping very strongly that this story is not true, and that the Secret Service is not raiding people on the theory that pungent political commentary may encourage a lunatic to do something violent, and thus pungent political commentary is now effectively a crime against the state. I sure hope that's not the case. Incidentally... The "Examiner.com" here is not the Washington Examiner. The latter is a real online newspaper. The former, the "Examiner.com," is... I'm not sure what it is, really. I have seen some egregiously dumb leftwing stories on there, and some dumb rightwing ones too. I get the feeling it's a halfway thing between a "forum" (anyone can post) and a "newspaper" (genuine editorial oversight). I don't think anyone can post Whatever, but I don't think there's the sort of background checking that you'd generally expect in a "published story," either. Honestly I don't know either way, but I wouldn't assume that it has a newspaper's editorial screening going on behind a story.
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