said in that interview above

***planting a tree under whose shade you would not sit.” In many ways, I feel like that’s what I’m doing***

So they’re posting al thoose fake 9/11 conspiracy videos and other stuff.

As for visitors info, actually I don’t have any. Whatever the visitor wish to reveal is at his/her own control, not mine. Apart from that I have nothing.

Anyway, internet was never and will never be a 100% secure place for those who want to be hidden. If someone does need to be while using the internet then he/she should think of using some security tools like “Tor” and “Privoxy”.

On the other hand, for being monitored by the big brother, it is not a surprise to me. In fact it is worse than that for me, but it’s not the time yet to talk about it yet. Just to give you a hit, I’ve been denied entry to some countries because of my blog!!!

No body talked about ‘spying’, I think Amira didn’t use the right words to describe the situation.

I don’t care if they are tracking, subscribed to feeds, etc… In fact I will be happy if they follow. What worries me is the lies they spread about blogs such as mine. Saying that we are anti-American is completely false. Yes, I’m anti-Bush and his administration, but I’m in no way anti-American. In fact if you stick around you will notice that most of the readers and supporters here are American and Jews, which I’m proud of.

Bush administration is taking the policy of “either you are with us, or against us” to next level, that is the Internet. Anyone and everyone who is not in their shoes is labeled anti-American. But let me remind my fellow Americans of the millions of Americans who are also anti-Bush. Are they anti-America too? If they are, then I’m proud to be on their line.

But, I have to disagree with the whole ‘spying’ thing… Believe me, I hate this administration more than anyone. But, it’s a public blog. You publish it so people will read it. That’s hardly ‘spying’ and ‘tracking’. You could say that about anyone that subscribes to your RSS feed. If you don’t want to be ‘spied’ upon, don’t publish a blog.
Are they reading it? Probably. But big deal. I wish they read more of them so they could get an idea of what the Arab world really thinks instead of sitting in their bubble consulting neocon think tanks.

As for hiring people to post messages to ‘counter propaganda’… Eh. So what? There’s nothing wrong with that. You and I do it every day. When we see something that we believe is incorrect, sometimes we feel compelled to rebut it. If the US gov’t does the same thing, who cares? One of two things will happen: Either the info _was_ incorrect and they successfully correct it, or they will be exposed for posting their own propaganda. Again, as much propaganda as I’ve seen come out of the US government, I’ve also seen _plenty_ of myths, conspiracy theories, and stuff that is just plain wrong originating from Arab blogs, as well. If we all stick to facts that we can back up with evidence, we’re all better off, instead of making things up to prove a point.

But, truly, keep up the good work, regardless of what the clowns in the State Department do. And, indeed, if they spent half as much effort solving the Israeli-Palestinian problem, there would be peace right now.

Salam,
Shawn