Take a Click on the Dark Side

There is a deadly serious side to the the beguiling encoded playground we call "the Internet" - and our nonchalant browsing borders on the fatal.

 Like a city park - sunny, green and inviting during your lunch break, but possibly the most evil, hideously-dangerous place at a given moment after dark that very same day ...

Take a click on the dark side - and keep your free finger out of your nostril and near the computer's off-switch.

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What sort of government organization publishes a terrorist manual?? They should be thrown in jail, right? The authors of the manual and their masters hunted down and prosecuted, right? Talk about evil empires!
Right!! Go get 'em - and bomb the heck out of their country, too!

Sometimes you find a website offering free info - and you're afraid to click. The no-nonsense one-page website reads like an Internet get rich sales pitch - but it's not selling Google Adsense videos, or SEO.

"I hate to tell you, but it’s a whole new ball game out there folks. And if you are still trying to defend yourself with fancy kicks, corner Karate, or  "tournament" submissions that take more than a fraction of a second to complete ... bring on the body bags, because you’re MEAT on the street my friend."

JUST when I'm ready to sign up, Sarge, I get this weird yellowish chicken feeling at the words in this final urging (see image 2)
Well, off you go to get "squared away"


Enjoying your Internet Explorer popups? The rules have changed recently, dummy. Organized crime is on your (browser's) doorstep. "... the evil programmers of CoolWebSearch ... the browser hijacker that won't stop, the Trojan from hell ..."
Merijn.org ~ The CoolWebSearch Chronicles

Across the darkened street inside a windowless van an antenna peers through a fiberglass panel at office windows on the third floor. The CEO outlines his strategy for a hostile takeover of a competitor, oblivious that information on his computer monitor is being captured, displayed, and recorded in the van below.
The unofficial TEMPEST web site: Another little storm in a spook teacup

"History shows many abuses when government agents can demand your papers. In the USA, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) plans to search credit records, previous travel history, criminal records, motor vehicle records, banks, web searches, and companies that collect personal information from consumer transactions.

ID The Creep - online game Your life history will be gathered and scanned, using secret criteria, whenever you book a flight or arrive at an airport.

Airlines, without identifying actual regulations, will prevent you from flying - following unwritten, frequently changing oral Government secret communiqués.

Headsup! Gilmore -vs- The State: on your behalf

If your world view is based on a secure and loving childhood in a wonderful free society it probably cannot accommodate this. For the rest of us, the sour, ugly adults we've grown into easily dismiss it with a shrug (while the child within gapes in horror).

Al-Qa'ida beheaded an American civilian in Iraq and vowed more killings in revenge for the "Satanic degradation" of Iraqi prisoners. Masked men in the video push the 26-year-old Nick Berg to the floor and shout "God is greatest" above his screams, as one of them (allegedly al-Zarqawi himself), saws off Berg's head with a large knife and then holds it aloft for the camera. God is Greatest ~ unlike his demented fleshed minions.

But wait, was it all a hoax? The the unfortunate Nick Berg is dead and beheaded is no hoax, just the tremendous cyclone of allegations and conspiracies swirling around his now overlooked life and death. The tides.carebridge web site that linked directly to the slaying video is now strangely mute, if not strangely an entirely different web site altogether.

Like every issue of moment on the Internet, claims and counter-claims muddy the waters to such an extent that, like mixed play dough, brown becomes the average color of life.

Nick Berg beheading a hoax? - As with the famous r50rd, you simply cannot believe what you read on SheepOverboard the Internet. Tread carefully and read between the lines

Everything you wanted to know, in fact waaay too much information, on poor Nick

We miss the http://cobalt.carebridge.org/~tides/ that originally inspired this subject. Amazingly the Berg video is still linked by this archived ghost of a website.

"Imagine a peasant halfway across the world. If you could push a button and kill him without getting caught, would you do it for a million dollars?"
Salon.com ~ Dot-com noir: When Internet marketing goes sour
The men who ran Web site Results, an Internet marketing company, had a unique test for gauging the moral fiber of their employees.
** Note: Salon.com occasionally prevents 'deep linking' to this article. If so, search their web site for key phrase"dot-com noir"

Beware the pedophile lynch mobs, whipped to a frenzy each night by the noble-minded six o'clock corporate-driven newstainment. They've taken to the web and, like any mindless run-away train, will destroy anything in their path. Or worse, like a crazed malicious animal, turn on and destroy the lives of anyone crying 'foul' - guilty or not.

We cautiously choose, therefore, to let you find your own way to the vigilante web site at http://www.perverted-justice.com - Note the previous is not a link, you need to paste the string into your browser's URL (We're not hot-linking to these people). The critics of perverted-justice, who now have nothing to lose in this ferocious and literally-deadly slinging match, live at http://www.corrupted-justice.com

Strangely, SO - who fears not even the grim reaper - fears people like this. Even more frightful than terrorists or mafia, vigilantes are the most ignorant and malevolent of misleds.

Other vigilante foolishness sneaking up on us? My Yahoo Mail account allows me to capriciously tag email as spam, blacklisting any sender to Yahoo - anyone. My Blogger now lets me tag blogs as offensive. Legitimate blogs will randomly suffer vandalistic tags and, though the mainstream consensus of 'offensive' will prevail, innocents will suffer for no sensible, discernable good.

We at SO see red with the endless erosion of freedom by stealth, and this is another mindless little theft. Anyhows, to lighten our load, and the way, ruminate here pen-to-paper.blogspot.com and here haystacks37643.blogspot.com

Explain to the vigilantes stoning your front door you are listed IN ERROR by the privately-maintained database at this 'watchdog' web site. Nothing to fear if you're honest? Sure, you mightn't be a sex offender but no matter how 'clean and normal' you are, someone in your neighborhood will hate you for apparently innocent preferences, and has plenty of "friends" gathering out front to remind you. Awaiting next step: Find non-christians in your street, or pot smokers, beer drinkers .. anyone you don't like!

This is village square gossip gone mad.

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