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Big brother at the USDOJ is watching

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I found this very interesting tidbit from my sitemeter:

Domain Name   usdoj.gov ? (United States Government)
IP Address   149.101.1.# (US Dept of Justice)
ISP   US Dept of Justice
Location  
Continent  :  North America
Country  :  United States  (Facts)
State  :  Maryland
City  :  Potomac
Lat/Long  :  39.023, -77.1993 (Map)
Distance  :  2,059 miles
Language   English (United States)
en-us
Operating System   Microsoft WinXP
Browser   Internet Explorer 6.0
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; DOJ3jx7bf; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.1)
Javascript   version 1.3
Monitor  

Resolution  :  1024 x 768
Color Depth  :  32 bits

Time of Visit   Dec 1 2006 5:11:13 am
Last Page View   Dec 1 2006 5:11:13 am
Visit Length   0 seconds
Page Views   1
Referring URL http://www.topix.net/us/atf
Visit Entry Page   https://blog.joehuffman.org/2006/11/30/don-t-drop-your-guard/
Visit Exit Page   https://blog.joehuffman.org/2006/11/30/don-t-drop-your-guard/
Out Click    
Time Zone   UTC-5:00
Visitor’s Time   Dec 1 2006 8:11:13 am
Visit Number   116,927

http://www.topix.net/forum/us/atf gathers news and blog mentions of ATF and people at the US Department of Justice (hi!) visit those websites. I wonder what they thought of me saying “The ATF has no constitutional authorization to even exist let alone enforce illegal laws.”

Of particular interest to me is that the “User Agent” string of the browser included the unusual item “DOJ3jx7bf”. This item looks like it might be a unique identifier for a particular Department of Justice computer. If so then one can find out what that particular computer/user has been viewing on all websites that you have access to the logs file for.

Hence, with the proper tools and a bit of smarts, one can watch the watchers. To that effect here is a sample which includes the search terms “harvey milk gay activist”, “guns & jenny price”, “john+pepper+ipsc”, “dirty+gun+barrel+picture”, “tannerite”, and the always popular “how to make a bomb”. We can also see some of the other sites our “friend” has been visiting. Examples include http://nfttu.blogspot.com/, http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=229822, and http://www.alphecca.com/mt_alphecca_archives/001891.html.

One must not get too paranoid about being watched. This applies to both webmasters as well as our “friend” at the DOJ. As I was reminded by a fellow blogger at the Gun Bloggers Rendezvous a couple months ago, there are known friendlies in the government. I don’t have any particular hostility toward any of the government workers I have met (certain politicians are different story–I would like to invited Schumer, Clinton, Feinstein, and some others to permanently leave the country with nothing more than the clothes on their backs). But no matter how friendly they are most Federal workers are doing jobs that have no constitutional authority.

Note to my guests from the USDOJ and/or the ATF: You are quite welcome to leave a comment, send me an email, or get a legitimate job.

Etiquette

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I wouldn’t normally mention this sort of thing on my blog. I’m not into bathroom humor, like some people I know. And this video is nearly ten minutes long which is way too long for most blog readers. But the police marksman and the total breakdown of civil society make it good enough to warrant my mention. Via Samantha.

The Brady Campaign and me

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Say Uncle noticed before I did but we are both getting Brady Campaign ads via Google on our blogs. Cool. Check out the “Sensible Gun Laws” in the third ad down:

If you were to see their ad on the sidebar and click on the link it would transfer another penny or two from them to my pocket for my campaign against the anti-gun bigots. That could be fraud if you didn’t really have an interest in them–but it would be ironic if it happened.

Rapid evolution

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My blog evolved from a Crawly Amphibian to a Flappy Bird in just two days and in the process pegged out the inbound link-o-meter:

Actually most of this rapid evolution was due to some sort of bug in the TLB ecosystem. I’ve had 50 some odd inbound links for quite some time but they weren’t showing up right. After the Gun Blogger Rendezvous everyone started linking to everyone else and the dam sort of burst on my inbound links.

The rise in the number of viewers late last month is probably due to all the links Say Uncle has been sending my way recently.

First time deletion of a comment

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I get lots of spam which I delete, but today was the first time I deleted a real comment.  It was for this post.  Kind of ironic I suppose, but I’m including the comment here:

Sender: ANTI -GUNNERS WORST NIGHTMARE
Url:
IP Address: 207.43.195.202
re: Pathetic anti-gun turnout

YOU LIBERALS ARE RETARDED! DO U REALLY BELIEVE EVERYTHING U READ OR HEAR?! YEAH I HAVE A 2000 CHEVY TRUCK THAT CAN FIRE 1,000,000 ROUNDS A MINUTE AT A TARGET THAT IS GOING 800 MPH! FUCKHEADS GET A CLUE, GET A LIFE,AND PULL YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR FUCKING ASS!!!!!!!GUN CONTROL IT’S NOT ABOUT GUNS, IT’S ABOUT CONTROL, AND I THINK YOU SHEEPLE AKA SHEEP ARE TOTALLY IN THAT CUNT SARAH BRADY’S CONTROL!!!! YOU ARE FUCKING BRAINED WASHED BY A BUNCH OF U.S. HATEING SELF PROCLAIMED COMMIE BASTARDS, WHO WANT TO TAKE ALL, YES ALL OF YOUR CIVIL RIGHTS AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

While I suspect the anonymous poster and I share some political opinions our approach to the problem is quite different.  Foul language and name calling do not improve your standing with the public at large or the people that make law and policy.  If you feel it does put it on your own site or someone else’s that agrees with your mythology.  It won’t be hanging around on my blog for long.  The IP address above resolves to Overland Park, Kansas.  I’ve spent enough time in Kansas to know that there are some bright, articulate people there.  The person that left the comment above does not represent the people of Kansas that I know.

Google gets a letter on ethics

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I just sent Google essentially the same letter I sent to the ACLU:

—–Original Message—–
From: Joe Huffman
Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2004 11:06 AM
To: ‘Google AdSense’
Subject: RE: Google AdSense Account Status

Because of the U.S. Justice Departments recently released memo clarifying that 2nd Amendment, despite some misunderstanding by certain parties, is in fact an individual right other than a “collective right” I would like to suggest Google reevaluate it’s policy on firearms related ads.  Please see http://www.justice.gov/olc/secondamendment2.pdf for more details.

See also the position of Alan Dershowitz:

Foolish liberals who are trying to read the Second Amendment out of the Constitution by claiming it’s not an individual right or that it’s too much of safety hazard don’t see the danger of the big picture.  They’re courting disaster by encouraging others to use the same means to eliminate portions of the Constitution they don’t like.

 Alan Dershowitz
 Quoted in Dan Gifford
 The Conceptual Foundations of Anglo-American Jurisprudence in
 Religion and Reason
 62 TENN. L. REV. 759 (1995)

And that of Lawrence Tribe in “American Constitutional Law”, Vol. 1, pp. 901-902

If you persist in maintaining a policy of no ads for firearms or related products then you are subject to the same claims of bigotry that you would if you had a policy against ads for Christian, Islamic, or Jewish books.  The right to keep and bear arms is an individual right guaranteed by the Bill of Rights no different than the right to religious expression.

Regards,

Joe Huffman
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https://blog.joehuffman.org
http://www.boomershoot.org

I decided to allow Google AdSense

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As you can see there are now Google ads on my blog.  I decided I made a poor gamble and lost my ‘bet’ so now I need to “pay up”.  I can terminate them at anytime so if I get too annoyed with them I will do that.  With the latest news on the Second Amendment being considered an individual right by the Justice Department and there not being any evidence that gun control prevents crime I think I will try pushing for a removal of there no firearms or ammunition policy again.