Paranoia

I've been told I am a bit paranoid. But I have learned something this morning that gives me real pause. I was just perusing my site stats and ran across a visit from the United States Army Information Systems Command. This is the group tasked with monitoring "chatter" in the internet. The google search string that led them to my blog was "Southern Tragedy". For those of you who don't know, ST is a good friend of mine and a longtime reader, not just here but from the old Lone Star times days. She is very active in the Tea Party. I texted Felicia Cravens and she looked at her stats on the Tea Party Website and discovered something equally disturbing. a similar hit from the same group, looking for Felicia Cravens. Below are the two site stat captures:

Mine:

VISITOR ANALYSIS
Referrer	http://www.google.com/search?q=%E2%80%9CSouthernTragedy%22%2C houston&hl=en&sa=2
Search Engine Phrase	“SouthernTragedy", houston
Search Engine Name	Google
Search Engine Host	www.google.com
Host Name	gnwk91h.nwk.usace.army.mil
IP Address	155.77.2.253 [Label IP Address]
Country	United States
Region	Kansas
City	Kansas City
ISP	Headquarters, Usaisc
Returning Visits	0
Visit Length	0 seconds
VISITOR SYSTEM SPECS
Browser	IE 7.0
Operating System	WinXP
Resolution	Unknown
Javascript	Enabled

Navigation Path

Date	Time	Type	WebPage
September 30th 2010	07:22:08 AM	Page View	www.google.com/search?q=%E2%80%9CSouthernTragedy%22%2C houston&hl=en&sa=2 redinktexas.blogspot.com/2008_09_01_archive.html

and Felicia's:

Domain Name		army.mil ? (Military)
IP Address		155.77.2.# (United States Army Corps of Engineers)
ISP		United States Army Corps of Engineers
Location		Continent : North America Country : United States (Facts) State : Kansas City : Kansas City Lat/Long : 39.1111, -94.6904 (Map)
Language		English (U.S.) en-us
Operating System		Microsoft WinXP
Browser		Internet Explorer 7.0 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; MS-RTC LM 8; InfoPath.2)
Javascript		version 1.3
Monitor		Resolution : 1920 x 1200 Color Depth : 32 bits
Time of Visit		Sep 30 2010 7:26:59 am
Last Page View		Sep 30 2010 7:26:59 am
Visit Length		0 seconds
Page Views		1
Referring URL		http://www.google.co...icia cravens&spell=1
Search Engine		google.com
Search Words		felicia cravens
Visit Entry Page		http://houstontps.org/
Visit Exit Page		http://houstontps.org/
Out Click
Time Zone		UTC-6:00
Visitor's Time		Sep 30 2010 7:26:59 am
Visit Number		146,995

Now remember a while back when they were making noises about the Tea Party being a domestic terrorist group? Also remember that Obama has issued an executive order regarding assassination of US Citizens? And here we have a group tasked with monitoring terrorists on the internet looking for two people I know to be active in the tea party movement.

I'm connecting dots here and I'm not liking the picture I'm seeing develop one bit.