Family is visited by 6 armed men after Googling backpacks and pressure cookers

[Bitware]

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/08/government-knocking-doors-because-google-searches/67864/

[T]hey were peppering my husband with questions. Where is he from? Where are his parents from? They asked about me, where was I, where do I work, where do my parents live. Do you have any bombs, they asked. Do you own a pressure cooker? My husband said no, but we have a rice cooker. Can you make a bomb with that? My husband said no, my wife uses it to make quinoa. What the hell is quinoa, they asked. ...

Have you ever looked up how to make a pressure cooker bomb? My husband, ever the oppositional kind, asked them if they themselves weren’t curious as to how a pressure cooker bomb works, if they ever looked it up. Two of them admitted they did.

[BCB]

Absolutely frightening!

[RodeoX]

I really dislike these attempts to enforce ignorance. I have known how to make bombs since childhood. I studied chemistry and physics and I know what quinoa is. WTF do they want me to do, unlearn everything?

[RodeoX]

I'm skeptical about the truth of this article ...

Good points. I would never even consider letting them in my house without a warrant. Then we would have a record with a judges name on it, and the name of the requesting authority.

[cp1]

I'm skeptical about the truth of this article ...

Good points. I would never even consider letting them in my house without a warrant. Then we would have a record with a judges name on it, and the name of the requesting authority.

Tons of people let cops search without a warrant.  The cops rely on this.

The question is -- if you refuse 6 guys would they just come back at 3AM with 60 guys and a battering ram?

[Fiyasko]

TEAM AMERICA, WORLD POLICE!
That movie perfectly describes whats happening.
These American Gov. Officals know what they're trying to do, but they don't know what they're actually doing

[Mike Christ]

The photo isn't of the occurrence, and they mixed up federal agents with...well, whoever they think made the visit, now.  Commenters are just gobbling this shit up.  I'm normally skeptical about anything, but come on; they could have just a tiny bit of doubt.

Anyway, lets take a look into my imaginary crystal ball.  The next presidential election is going to feature a man (literally two men, but they'll be the same guy) who promises clean the country up and get rid of all this debt and can the NSA, and protect all your freedoms and liberties and privacy, and shortly after he gets into office (doesn't matter if he's a repub or demo, they're basically the same thing, but chances are it'll be a repub 'cos they have 8 years to bitch about now) there will be another war, and the problems he aimed to solve will have seemingly gotten better on the surface to distract from this war, through manipulation of the press and what have you, but will have gotten far, far worse to anyone who can take the time to read more than a headline or do some research outside of the liberal/conservative journal fuckfest.  The republicans will bitch about the democrats and the democrats will bitch about the republicans, the debt will pile up, the government will ask for more power to solve their problems (and by ask I mean, take, since not even the NSA can be touched by the wonder of representative democracy; and by their problems, I mean theirs, not mine or yours) and anyone with any sense left will take that redneck's advice and get the hell out of his country, because the only patriots left in America by then will be saying a new version of "Sieg heil!" or supporting them through the quasi-socialist regime (likely to be named alongside freedom or liberty) brought about as a response to this war, which nobody, especially not the people who want to war, can afford, but fuck it, Americans couldn't stand against this war, why would they stand against the next?

[Foxpup]

I'm skeptical about the truth of this article considering that nobody knows who these law enforcement people are, and that her husband, "ever the oppositional kind", made no attempt the validate them, and he even allowed them to search his home.

You were right to be sceptical. It turns out the man did his search for "pressure cooker bombs" from his work computer, shortly after being fired, and his boss, who was no doubt shitting himself at the prospect of a disgruntled ex-employee blowing up the office, did the only sensible thing and called the cops on him.

Next week on World's Dumbest Non-Criminals: An unarmed man is shot by police... after sticking his finger in his jacket and shouting "I have gun!"

[TECSHARE]

I'm skeptical about the truth of this article considering that nobody knows who these law enforcement people are, and that her husband, "ever the oppositional kind", made no attempt the validate them, and he even allowed them to search his home.

You were right to be sceptical. It turns out the man did his search for "pressure cooker bombs" from his work computer, shortly after being fired, and his boss, who was no doubt shitting himself at the prospect of a disgruntled ex-employee blowing up the office, did the only sensible thing and called the cops on him.

Next week on World's Dumbest Non-Criminals: An unarmed man is shot by police... after sticking his finger in his jacket and shouting "I have gun!"

Welcome to pre-crime, the real goal of the whole Snowden affair. We are watching you and we will violate your rights if we think you MIGHT do something, regardless of evidence.

[greyhawk]

Well the logical reaction is of course to outlaw pressure cookers.

[RapidCoinz]

We're being watched peeps   

[tiberiandusk]

This was his company reporting him. It wasn't the NSA spying on him but it will be soon.

[john_nalpa]

They are lucky that they didn't searched "Child" and "Porn" .

lol

[J603]

The only source in that article is the family themselves...

Found other articles, all of which (even Huffington Post) only cite the woman herself. I could believe that someone talked to her, but I think that she's exaggerating a little.

Edit: Huffington Post says that no one actually visited her:

A FBI spokeswoman told The Huffington Post that the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force was not involved in the matter and said the incident was handled by The Nassau County Police Department. A Nassau County Police spokesman told HuffPost he had no record of any officers visiting Catalono's home.

Also, Obama visited me the other day. That's how I know she's lying. Here's the source that proves that he came here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=266411.msg2855413#msg2855413

[gbl08ma]

The story, from a more or less first-person point of view: https://medium.com/something-like-falling/2e7d13e54724

[Ekaros]

The story, from a more or less first-person point of view: https://medium.com/something-like-falling/2e7d13e54724

You know that records from his previous job were also included makes the thing really scary...

Maybe someone should do something about this..

[Schleicher]

[Dougie]

Scary stuff. Makes me want to use a vpn for everything. Then I'd be trusting my privacy with them though...

[J603]

Where is that? I'm on their site and the only press releases for august 1st are

"Body found in Blackhawk Marina"
"Copiague man arrested for having 69 license suspensions"
"man arrested for multiple burglaries"

http://apps.suffolkcountyny.gov/police/morepress.htm

And that image has the wrong font, and does not have the usual information that their press releases have, such as time and the author of the press release.

[FreedomCoin]

Scary stuff. Makes me want to use a vpn for everything. Then I'd be trusting my privacy with them though...

Xkeyscore can crack VPNs now.