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Big Brother USA Admits Monitoring These 377 Words

One of breakout standup routines from the late, great George Carlin was his 1972 monologue “Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television.” In the presence of polite company, I shall not repeat them… but rest assured, the routine is still hilarious to this day.

I wish I could say the same about the Department of Homeland Security… I wish I could say this is all a big joke… that the government’s “377 words you can never use online” is just some stupid comedy routine.

But it’s not. And you just can’t make this stuff.

After vigorous resistance, the Department of Homeland Security was finally forced into releasing it’s 2011 Analyst’s Desktop Binder. It’s a manual of sorts, teaching all the storm troopers who monitor our Internet activity all day which key words to look for.

Facebook, a.k.a. the US government’s domestic intelligence center, is the primary target for this monitoring… though it’s become clear so many times before that various departments, including the NSA and FBI, are monitoring online activity ranging from search terms to emails.

Domestic spying is typically denied in public and swept under the rug. After all, it’s legality has always been questionable… if not entirely Unconstitutional.

Yet month after month it seems, there is new legislation introduced to deprive Internet users of their privacy and make the open collection of data a natural part of the online landscape.

Homeland Security’s key word ‘hotlist’ is really no surprise… they’re just the ones to get caught.

So now we know, at least, what these goons are looking for. Sort of.

According to the manual, DHS breaks down its monitoring into a whopping 14 categories ranging from Health to Fire to Terrorism. It’s a testament to how bloated the department’s scope has become.

Afterwards there is a list of 377 of key terms to monitor, most of which are completely innocuous. Exercise. Cloud. Leak. Sick. Organization. Pork. Bridge. Smart. Tucson. Target. China. Social media.

Curiously, in its ‘Critical Information Requirements’, the manual decrees that analysts should also catalog items which may “reflect adversely on DHS and response activities.”

Absolutely unreal. Big Brother is not just watching. He’s digging, searching, reading, monitoring, archiving, and judging too.

Have you hit your breaking point yet?

Complete list of DHS monitoring keywords

  1. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
  2. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
  3. Coast Guard (USCG)
  4. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
  5. Border Patrol
  6. Secret Service (USSS)
  7. National Operations Center (NOC)
  8. Homeland Defense
  9. Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE)
  10. Agent
  11. Task Force
  12. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
  13. Fusion Center
  14. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)
  15. Secure Border Initiative (SBI)
  16. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
  17. Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (ATF)
  18. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS)
  19. Federal Air Marshal Service (FAMS)
  20. Transportation Security Administration (TSA)
  21. Air Marshal
  22. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
  23. National Guard
  24. Red Cross
  25. United Nations (UN)
  26. Assassination
  27. Attack
  28. Domestic security
  29. Drill
  30. Exercise
  31. Cops
  32. Law enforcement
  33. Authorities
  34. Disaster assistance
  35. Disaster management
  36. DNDO (Domestic Nuclear Detection Office)
  37. National preparedness
  38. Mitigation
  39. Prevention
  40. Response
  41. Recovery
  42. Dirty bomb
  43. Domestic nuclear detection
  44. Emergency management
  45. Emergency response
  46. First responder
  47. Homeland security
  48. Maritime domain awareness (MDA)
  49. National preparedness initiative
  50. Militia Shooting
  51. Shots fired
  52. Evacuation
  53. Deaths
  54. Hostage
  55. Explosion (explosive)
  56. Police
  57. Disaster medical assistance team (DMAT)
  58. Organized crime
  59. Gangs
  60. National security
  61. State of emergency
  62. Security
  63. Breach
  64. Threat
  65. Standoff
  66. SWAT
  67. Screening
  68. Lockdown
  69. Bomb (squad or threat)
  70. Crash
  71. Looting
  72. Riot
  73. Emergency
  74. Landing
  75. Pipe bomb
  76. Incident
  77. Facility
  78. Hazmat
  79. Nuclear
  80. Chemical spill
  81. Suspicious package/device
  82. Toxic
  83. National laboratory
  84. Nuclear facility
  85. Nuclear threat
  86. Cloud
  87. Plume
  88. Radiation
  89. Radioactive
  90. Leak
  91. Biological infection (or event)
  92. Chemical
  93. Chemical burn
  94. Biological
  95. Epidemic
  96. Hazardous
  97. Hazardous material incident
  98. Industrial spill
  99. Infection
  100. Powder (white)
  101. Gas
  102. Spillover
  103. Anthrax
  104. Blister agent
  105. Chemical agent
  106. Exposure
  107. Burn
  108. Nerve agent
  109. Ricin
  110. Sarin
  111. North Korea
  112. Outbreak
  113. Contamination
  114. Exposure
  115. Virus
  116. Evacuation
  117. Bacteria
  118. Recall
  119. Ebola
  120. Food Poisoning
  121. Foot and Mouth (FMD)
  122. H5N1
  123. Avian
  124. Flu
  125. Salmonella
  126. Small Pox
  127. Plague
  128. Human to human
  129. Human to Animal
  130. Influenza
  131. Center for Disease Control (CDC)
  132. Drug Administration (FDA)
  133. Public Health
  134. Toxic Agro
  135. Terror Tuberculosis (TB)
  136. Agriculture
  137. Listeria
  138. Symptoms
  139. Mutation
  140. Resistant
  141. Antiviral
  142. Wave
  143. Pandemic
  144. Infection
  145. Water/air borne
  146. Sick
  147. Swine
  148. Pork
  149. Strain
  150. Quarantine
  151. H1N1
  152. Vaccine
  153. Tamiflu
  154. Norvo Virus
  155. Epidemic
  156. World Health Organization (WHO) (and components)
  157. Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  158. E. Coli
  159. Infrastructure security
  160. Airport
  161. CIKR (Critical Infrastructure & Key Resources)
  162. AMTRAK
  163. Collapse
  164. Computer infrastructure
  165. Communications infrastructure
  166. Telecommunications
  167. Critical infrastructure
  168. National infrastructure
  169. Metro
  170. WMATA
  171. Airplane (and derivatives)
  172. Chemical fire
  173. Subway
  174. BART
  175. MARTA
  176. Port Authority
  177. NBIC (National Biosurveillance Integration Center)
  178. Transportation security
  179. Grid
  180. Power
  181. Smart
  182. Body scanner
  183. Electric
  184. Failure or outage
  185. Black out
  186. Brown out
  187. Port
  188. Dock
  189. Bridge
  190. Cancelled
  191. Delays
  192. Service disruption
  193. Power lines
  194. Drug cartel
  195. Violence
  196. Gang
  197. Drug
  198. Narcotics
  199. Cocaine
  200. Marijuana
  201. Heroin
  202. Border
  203. Mexico
  204. Cartel
  205. Southwest
  206. Juarez
  207. Sinaloa
  208. Tijuana
  209. Torreon
  210. Yuma
  211. Tucson
  212. Decapitated
  213. U.S. Consulate
  214. Consular
  215. El Paso
  216. Fort Hancock
  217. San Diego
  218. Ciudad Juarez
  219. Nogales
  220. Sonora
  221. Colombia
  222. Mara salvatrucha
  223. MS13 or MS-13
  224. Drug war
  225. Mexican army
  226. Methamphetamine
  227. Cartel de Golfo
  228. Gulf Cartel
  229. La Familia
  230. Reynosa
  231. Nuevo Leon
  232. Narcos
  233. Narco banners (Spanish equivalents)
  234. Los Zetas
  235. Shootout
  236. Execution
  237. Gunfight
  238. Trafficking
  239. Kidnap
  240. Calderon
  241. Reyosa
  242. Bust
  243. Tamaulipas
  244. Meth Lab
  245. Drug trade
  246. Illegal immigrants
  247. Smuggling (smugglers)
  248. Matamoros
  249. Michoacana
  250. Guzman
  251. Arellano-Felix
  252. Beltran-Leyva
  253. Barrio Azteca
  254. Artistic Assassins
  255. Mexicles
  256. New Federation
  257. Terrorism
  258. Al Qaeda (all spellings)
  259. Terror
  260. Attack
  261. Iraq
  262. Afghanistan
  263. Iran
  264. Pakistan
  265. Agro
  266. Environmental terrorist
  267. Eco terrorism
  268. Conventional weapon
  269. Target
  270. Weapons grade
  271. Dirty bomb
  272. Enriched
  273. Nuclear
  274. Chemical weapon
  275. Biological weapon
  276. Ammonium nitrate
  277. Improvised explosive device
  278. IED (Improvised Explosive Device)
  279. Abu Sayyaf
  280. Hamas
  281. FARC (Armed Revolutionary Forces Colombia)
  282. IRA (Irish Republican Army)
  283. ETA (Euskadi ta Askatasuna)
  284. Basque Separatists
  285. Hezbollah
  286. Tamil Tigers
  287. PLF (Palestine Liberation Front)
  288. PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization
  289. Car bomb
  290. Jihad
  291. Taliban
  292. Weapons cache
  293. Suicide bomber
  294. Suicide attack
  295. Suspicious substance
  296. AQAP (AL Qaeda Arabian Peninsula)
  297. AQIM (Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb)
  298. TTP (Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan)
  299. Yemen
  300. Pirates
  301. Extremism
  302. Somalia
  303. Nigeria
  304. Radicals
  305. Al-Shabaab
  306. Home grown
  307. Plot
  308. Nationalist
  309. Recruitment
  310. Fundamentalism
  311. Islamist
  312. Emergency
  313. Hurricane
  314. Tornado
  315. Twister
  316. Tsunami
  317. Earthquake
  318. Tremor
  319. Flood
  320. Storm
  321. Crest
  322. Temblor
  323. Extreme weather
  324. Forest fire
  325. Brush fire
  326. Ice
  327. Stranded/Stuck
  328. Help
  329. Hail
  330. Wildfire
  331. Tsunami Warning Center
  332. Magnitude
  333. Avalanche
  334. Typhoon
  335. Shelter-in-place
  336. Disaster
  337. Snow
  338. Blizzard
  339. Sleet
  340. Mud slide or Mudslide
  341. Erosion
  342. Power outage
  343. Brown out
  344. Warning
  345. Watch
  346. Lightening
  347. Aid
  348. Relief
  349. Closure
  350. Interstate
  351. Burst
  352. Emergency Broadcast System
  353. Cyber security
  354. Botnet
  355. DDOS (dedicated denial of service)
  356. Denial of service
  357. Malware
  358. Virus
  359. Trojan
  360. Keylogger
  361. Cyber Command
  362. 2600
  363. Spammer
  364. Phishing
  365. Rootkit
  366. Phreaking
  367. Cain and abel
  368. Brute forcing
  369. Mysql injection
  370. Cyber attack
  371. Cyber terror
  372. Hacker
  373. China
  374. Conficker
  375. Worm
  376. Scammers
  377. Social media

By Simon Black, Sovereign Man;

About the author: Simon Black is an international investor, entrepreneur, permanent traveler, free man, and founder of Sovereign Man.