NSA Joke: US Military Intervene over Facebook Event ~ SPIEGEL ONLINE
The Feds will come a knockin' when a German is a jokin'. Kinda proves the US is spying on EVERYBODY, doesn't it?
He [Daniel Bangert] invited his [Facebook] friends on an excursion to the top secret US facility known as the Dagger Complex in Griesheim, where Bangert is from.
Whoa, the fact that the NSA has a top secret facility in Germany is mind boggling in and of itself. The US is spying on Germans and storing the data
in Germany?! No wonder Detroit went bankrupt!
Isn't there a golden rule of spookdom? Spy unto others as you would have them spy unto you? Does Germany have a top secret facility here in America, where they store data on us?
And just what was the nature of that faux field trip that got the NSA's panties in a twist?
He described the outing as though it were a nature walk. He wrote on Facebook that its purpose was to undertake "joint research into the threatened habitat of NSA spies." He added: "If we are really lucky, we might actually see a real NSA spy with our own eyes." He suggested that those interested in coming should bring along their cameras and "flowers of all kinds to improve the appearance of the NSA spies' habitat."
Hey! How dare that German guy refer to our NSA spies as though they were animals in a zoo?
How about a little respect?
Well, my fellow Americans, we showed that foreigner who was boss!
Just four days after he posted the invitation, his mobile phone rang at 7:17 a.m. It was the police calling to talk about his Facebook post.
Bangert's doorbell rang at almost the exact same time. The police on the telephone told him to talk with the officers outside of his door. Bangert quickly put on a T-shirt -- which had a picture of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden on it along with the words "Team Edward" -- and answered the door. His neighbor was outside too so as not to miss the fun.
The US Military were the ones who discovered Bangert's Facebook posting. Gee, I wonder how? Did Bangert "friend" them?
The US Military Police contacted German officials to question Bangert and local police handled the first phase of the investigation.
Soon after the police left, Bangert was called again. This time he was asked
to report to Central Commissariat 10 of the German federal police. They too then sent an officer to his home. "They wanted to know if I had connections with (anarchist groups) or other violent people," Bangert says. He told the officers that he didn't, repeating over and over that he "just wanted to go for a walk."
The local police "smirked" while questioning Bangert, but the German federal police called him a "smart aleck," urged him to register the NSA nature walk as a "demonstration," and told him not to write about their interrogation on the internet.
The intimidation backfired, because Bangert, who never intended to go any further with his NSA safari, actually did register it, but disobeyed their orders by posting their visit on his Facebook news feed:
How much more proof do you need? Everyone says that they aren't affected. But then I invite people for a walk and write obvious nonsense in the invitation and suddenly the federal police show up at my home.
News of the travesty traveled fast and 70 people attended the NSA trek, which never would have transpired in the first place had they not made a federal case out of it.
Bangert's followers were disappointed that they did not spot any spies, but had so much fun seeking them that they would like to make a second trip.
Who knows? This walk could catch on and the NSA Dagger Complex could become a major tourist attraction in Griesheim.