Hmm... Do they expect a civil war?

[GoldenRivet]

Well im here to tell you....:hmm:

if you have never seen an AT&T communications hub its pretty impressive.

almost all means of communication which pass through such a hub are in a digital format, this means that a computer with very high tech voice recognition software could scan thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of pre-recorded phone calls per minute.

this software could be programmed to listen for key words in various languages, 24 hours a day 7 days a week 365 days a year.

words like assassinate, Government, hijack, weapons, nuke etc etc

once the computer program has isolated "calls of interest", it is given an ID number and forwarded to a department where it can then be processed and further analyzed by various individuals to determine the validity of the "threat statements".

this is very easy to do and it happens every day - of that im sure.

most calls - in fact nearly all calls - are benign. It could just be cletus and billy bob discussing "taking those plane hijacking anti government terrorists sons of bitches out into the desert and dropping a nuclear weapon on them" for example

or it could be a little less flamboyant - two college students talking about a government class assignment for example.

God knows i have had a lot of conversations with people about the war on terror and weapons of mass destruction and hijacking planes etc etc. im sure some of my phone calls have been placed into the "call of interest" bucket.

- and i dont think the government has any right whatsoever to be doing any of this either.