Homeland Security behind racist messages

Now that the Department of Homeland Suckyurity has been caught making racist Internet posts, is this an outrage? Certainly.

A surprise? Hardly.

After the Wayne County Star in upstate New York reported that border officials had detained several immigrants, the newspaper found its website vandalized by heaps and heaps of inflammatory posts in its public comment section. Many of these posts were downright racist. Others made personal attacks against the journalist who reported the story.

The paper traced several of these posts to IP addresses that just happened to belong to Homeland Suckyurity. Then the paper discovered other incendiary DHS posts dating back at least as far as last year.

If it was just 3 posts within a few minutes of each other about the same topic, this would at minimum be a case of a DHS employee abusing computers at work.

But the posts date back at least to last year, came from several different DHS computers, and appeared following several different articles. So it's obvious that this was an official government effort.

None of this is surprising. Bush put countless right-wing patronage employees on the federal payroll. And this is what they do. They use their positions for propaganda projects like this.

When you see a comment section of a newspaper website freeped with right-wing diatribes, don't discount the possibility that it's an organized project by a government agency to manipulate public opinion.

(Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/25/nyregion/25immig.html)