*Before this Scrolls off, it seems like there is heavy fighting going on in the threads, so keep your eyes open! see below*
Since the Fillibuster Fight the Daily Kos seems to be getting quite a bit of notice. I have seen many examples mentioned on the site, including I believe a FP post by kos. Pragmatists will say that this is merely a result of the massive and heroic efforts of LeftBlogovia in bolstering the Senate Dems to stand up and fight. I absolutely agree with this statement of fact.
I know this is probably both a Firestorm and a Tempest in a Teapot...dome. Karl Rove is now 99% certain to be monitoring DKos in some fashion, to some degree. To Tinfoil Up even further I would propose that if the NSA spying is as wide a net as we think, and if it being used to spy on political enemies, DKos is the perfect target for this sort of Data Mining
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my point might be being made re the Mohammed cartoon debate now going on and MSOCs diary
Here are two examples and I urge you all to submit others in comments.
http://www.dailykos.com/...
http://www.dailykos.com/...
We need to talk about what this means.
I am not suggesting or inferring any changes to DKos.
I am not trying to be cute or scare people
If not now soon, if we are the/a voice of the left we will be monitored, parsed and attacked. How do we respond.
This has most assuredly been thought through by the OG's here and many of the tinfoil crowd have probably been saying this for years. But I have run into many on the site that get very Claude Rains at Ricks about this. People who had thought About It but not thought it through. Other people have been genuinely shocked at the thought of Karl or his Smitherses reading their comments.
If this does provoke a debate, I will say this. If I sound paranoid I apologize, I really am nopt trying to be alarmist.
I'm 47, I've lived through the Kennedy Assasination, Martin, Malcom, Bobby, CoIntelpro (RIP Fred), Watergate, the overthrow of the Shah of Iran, The Church Commision, Iran/Contra, Panama, and the Bush Regime.
This example seems to be working well lately, you say Tinfoil, I say CIA airlines to secret
torture prisons.
The Point?
DKos will be attacked by Karl and the Rude Foxes. At what level? How hard and how high? How low?
But mainly how do we respond, the Rights tactic is divide and conquer, the left tends to destroy itself from within.
Do we have what it takes to stay united and strong?