reminds me of George Carlin's seven words which you
can't say on television -- we just don't say 'em! but,
with these, a casual conversation about a Coastie
friend might get you trapped. -- j

Clearly it is to collect information on people interested in those subjects... and all the people to whom they write. Build a net of connections to track all members of a conspiracy. Come to think of it, why is "conspiracy" not on the list?

So I think this list means we can't discuss Breaking Bad?

kh, you're in trouble now. Your comments [complaints] about the lack of a certain substance on this list is clearly a sign that someone [a close relative, perhaps?] should keep a careful eye on you for suspicious activities. Such activities might include drinking ice water, having a nice iced margarita, or icing down that twisted ankle.
tsk, tsk

=impedance of free space, too, as I recall.. :)

A nice even number 2 * pi * 60 = 377, which crops up all the time in the parts of the world (most of the Americas) on 60 Hz power.

I doubt the article b/c the words are so common as to flag almost any communication. They're not odd words like rare chemicals or names of weapons parts but rather everyday words that appear in every newspaper. If it's true, it's just a backdoor way of saying they monitor *everything*. The only way it could be any more general is if they added a, an, the, and all forms of "to be".

Your statement: "Your Privacy is also protected:" begs the comparison to other things that occur, but shouldn't. I hope you are correct with "reporting is limited to," but I don't believe the Constitution is being used very frequently in this era.

Not a valid comparison.

Another relevant fact would be the IRS CANNOT be used as a political instrument.

I used to do that, mentioning at least one of the trigger words Echelon checked for during Clinton, whenever I made a phone call. My friends did it also.

I have some words for them... some of George Carlin's seven words come to mind.

I use quite a number of those words here in the Gulch. All the scathing emails I send to the Congressional Senators and Representative I use a lot more of those words. I will continue to do so. I refuse to be politically correct. The Constitution is very important to me, infringing upon the freedom of speech by our own govt is insane. This scenario is paranoia run amok! I really pray to God that an asteroid would fall upon the NSA facility in Utah and make it one big hole in the ground!

Sorry, you left out relevant facts. The search words used for "Items of Interest" (IOI) reporting is limited to:

2.1 Incidents that Warrant an IOI
 Terrorist incidents (including foreign countries)
 Major natural disasters (e.g., floods, tornadoes, earthquakes)
 Transportation incidents where major bottlenecks may occur or chemical/explosive
hazards exist
 Incidents that could result in injury to a local population (e.g., fire at a chemical
production facility releasing toxic fumes)
 Incidents that result in damage to critical infrastructure
 Safety issues (e.g., aircraft emergency)
 Certain crimes (e.g., snipers, mall/school shootings, major drug busts, illegal
immigrant busts, etc).
 Policy directives, debates, and implementations related to DHS

So even though the list contains some regularly used words. unless they relate to the items above, they are ignored.

Your Privacy is also protected:

3 Personally Identifiable Information (PII) Guidance:
PII refers to information that can be used to uniquely identify, contact, or locate a single person
or can be used with other sources to uniquely identify a single individual. Before sending out
ANY reports, including IOIs, ]\al33l analysts must ensure that if there is any PII included in a
media article, that information must be removed, due to privacy issues! (Figure 6, IOI Example
)
Generally, both MMC and SN must never send out any IOIs with PII included except in
“extremis situations”. An extremis situation occurs when there is an imminent threat of loss of
life, serious bodily harm, or damage/destruction to critical facilities or equipment (in these
circumstances, the appropriate DHS OPS authority must approve PII, in which case, TSI
management would need to be made aware of the situation). Note: The DHS OPS authority
includes OPS Senior Executive leadership and the SWO.
The following are cases in which PII must be removed from all MMC reports:
1) Names, positions, or other information that would enable someone to determine the
identity of a particular person
a. The Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) allows for certain exemptions in which PII
may be included to identify spokesmen, government officials and reporters. Note:
Refer to section 3.1 and the current PIA for more information
2) Names of known or suspected terrorists, DTO leaders, or other individuals who are a
threat to homeland security, regardless of whether a U.S. citizen or non-U.S. citizen
3) Links to the actual articles or postings referenced provided the links themselves do not
contain PII. In this case the analyst would use “No Link Due To PII” instead of the
actual link.
4) Addresses that would reveal where a person lives. In this case the analyst would either
delete the street address completely generalize it to the street block. Example: instead of
using “1345 John Doe Avenue”, the analyst could use “the 1300 block of John Doe
Avenue”.
Note: The MMC watch may provide the name, position, or other information considered to be
PII to the NOC over the telephone when approved by the appropriate DHS OPS authority. But
that information must not be stored in a database that could be searched by an individual’s PII.

Read for yourself:
http://epic.org/foia/epic-v-dhs-media-mo...

If we all included those words in the header or footer of our messages snooping would soon become more trouble than it's worth. Imagine 300M people mailing 10-20 notes per day with the 377 word list included.

Yes, taxpayers $$. If was the Establishment's $$ at risk, then there wouldn't be any monitoring going on at all.

Don't need people to do it - it's all done via various intercept programs automatically - if you hit a certain percentage srcore, then it gets forwarded to an analyst. Been that way for over a decade already.

Sorry, but big brother set up shop while everyone was busy trying to decide whether to put a new flag on their car antenna or not.

Can't close the barn door now, no more than you can on ebola after you send thousands to get infected and bring it back. (Oh yeah, that was an al queda plan - get a group infected with some nasty disease, and bring them back into airports. Why is our government following that plan??)

Hmm...Cut and paste the lot as a warning to others and encourage them to share....

Wouldn't be a bad e-mail signature either.

Let's see....did I use any of the "wrong" words in this post?

I find that I've used very few of those words. I'll have to do much more.

remarkable that there are people who take the job of monitoring their fellow citizens. it must pay quite a bit to get people do actually do this.
home of the brave and land of the free exists no more!

I think that every email I send from this point forward will contain at least one of these words.

If they are formally releasing the list, then (a) it isn't important, (b) it's disinformation/distraction, and/or (c) it's another method to intimidate innocent patriotic civilians.
Real terrorists would be far too careful for this to matter.

I think I'll FB every word it that list and challenge the bastards to come to investigate.

Hah! There are so many loopholes around that, what a waste of time and MONEY.