Spies

So,
I am not sure how many of you remember awhile ago I wrote about a colleague that got in trouble for circulating an email about a protest in favor of Category Five levees.

Well, it appears that the government has a cyber snoop program that reads all our emails and those with certain words get forwarded to the FEMA police. The FEMA police then contact the person’s supervisor and the person gets in trouble or gets fired. Evidently, words "Bush" and "protest" together get flagged and the censors intervene. Meanwhile, words like, Abortionists are murderers and welfare rewards the lazy, are perfectly fine free speech.

I say this because the person that got in trouble only forwarded emails to a few friends. None of her friends were offended so it does not make sense that they would lodge a complaint. Furthermore, the person that intervened was based in xxx city. We are all in Biloxi and there would be no reason for us to file a complaint in xxx city, even if we were so inclined.

I am tempted to pretend there is a protest and send a pretend invitation to a friend to see if it gets snagged. Then send a second one replacing the words, "Bush" with "Senator Landrieu"

Of course, it would probably get me fired even though it was a pretend protest.