According to a DHS document, the agency is maintaining a lengthy list of “Items of Interest”—in other words, words. The words are categorized by subject, such as those falling under “Domestic Security,” “Southwest Border Violence,” “Health Concern + H1N1,” “Terrorism” and more.
Besides the obvious ones like “Al Qaeda (all spellings),” “weapons cache,” “meth lab” and “jihad,” the words being monitored on Facebook and Twitter include:
· airport
· sick
· gas
· cloud
· mud slide or mudslide
· canceled
· interstate
· recovery
· home grown
· marijuana
· incident
· police
· infection
· symptoms
· North Korea
· China
· Tucson
· San Diego
· pork
· help
and, of course,
· social media.
http://www.infowars.com/list-of-words-homeland-security-tracks-on-facebook-and-twitter/
The above is just a short word list that attracts DHS' attention...
...go to this link to see how many other words set off their tyrannical alarm bells:
The Department of Homeland Security Is Searching Your Facebook and Twitter for These Words (by Joel Johnson, Animal New York)
And, if you still think this is a joke...
...you can read it here from the horse's own rearend:
Analyst’s Desktop Binder (Department of Homeland Security) (pdf)