Read post #7 then read the entire contents of where the link brings you.Read post #30,go to every link and read the entire contents of where the links bring you.Theres no need to try to clear yourself of anything.Become aware thats all.The gooberment isnt the angel you may think it is.Youre working for puppets,theyre working for the banksters.Theyre bought and paid for,how about yourself?(no insult intended).
It will take me a while to go through all of those links, but I suspect that we may be talking past each other. I have no doubt that electronic communications are being logged and even examined, if certain triggers are present. I don't believe that any of those triggers are oriented at treasure hunting. I'm not even sure that such a thing would be necessary. As I mentioned before, there are some very nice finds that are posted in various subforums here. These finds are not in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, but some of them are definitely up into the thousands of dollars category - enough to show a blip on the IRS's radar if they were watching closely. As these fortunate individuals continue to post pictures of finds like this, I'm inclined to believe that they're being left alone. This indicates that there is some threshold present for action if things are actively being monitored. That makes me wonder. If I were to earn a few thousand dollars that I didn't report on my taxes, and then send an email to the IRS reminding them of this, I would expect some sort of response, but these folks are getting no such response. If they're keeping track of this one little corner of the internet, they don't seem to be very interested. (Alternative theory: they're watching it very closely and they're just screwing it up. Such is the way of things with any organization that reaches a certain size.)
As for myself, I look at it the same way that I looked at it when I wore a uniform: they paid me to do a job that I agreed to do, so that's what I did. These days, they pay me more to fix ships, which I also agreed to do. I was never particularly concerned about the ethics of it. Someone decided that we need all of these ships and they need to be fixed, so that's what I do now. I will state for the record that this is far better than being shot at, and I'm finding that a hardhat suits me better than a Kevlar. This may be part of the aging process.
The government as an angel? That's a tricky one. As you may have noticed, I post under my real name here. I cannot discuss certain things. I will say that I don't believe that the federal government always does the right thing, but I don't believe that they're up to many of the things that they're accused of here, and elsewhere - but not for the reasons that most think. I'll go a bit further to state that there are a variety of agencies involved that don't talk to one another (you would have thought that they'd get over that post-9/11, but it still gets reported in the news), and those agencies often have very different missions. The National Park Service is not worried about the same things that the Postal Service is, and the DoD is watching other things entirely. Be careful when lumping it all together as "the government." The animal control people are not monitoring your emails, nor are the teachers. Certain agencies do certain things. The IRS would certainly be interested in my financial dealings, but they're not the ones gathering the intel. Can they get that information? Have you ever observed different federal agencies attempting to work together? My God.
So is the government aware of this post? Yep. Did a human see it? Maybe, but probably not. That's about where I sit on it, and I have far more reason to be paranoid about my online doings than most.
