The science of evaluating those elements, and the various criticisms is quite well developed. In graduate school I spent a lot of time learning about contextual criticism, textual criticism and redaction criticism, to name a few.
By examining those you can, in fact, come to a distinct understanding of a persons operative epistemology or how they approach information and communication.
Now you for example have posted this about the President
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023420130#post26
Obama is straight-up lying. Perhaps you can call it "semantics". Or you can call it lying.
Numerous sources - inside and outside government - have confirmed the massive surveillance, the data collection.
I think Obama's specious argument here is that they can "collect" your data, and it's not "spying" until they use it.
Kind of like, they can steal your money, but it's not "stealing" until they "spend" it.
Obama knows just enough Americans are stupid, afraid, and gullible enough to go along.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023420130#post26
Now when I was one of only 3 Americans in Ho Chi Minh City and was there to negotiate with the North Vietnamese Government I was spied on. They were following me and keeping track of me. That is spying. When I send emails to my Muslim relatives (which I do several times a week) and discuss politics of the middle east and Al Queda a record of that goes into a meta data base. That is not spying. That is not even surveillance. If one of the people I communicated with turns out to have a live connection with a person of interest then they would use that data base to generate a subpoena. I would be under surveillance and if I became a person of interest "spied on". You are wrong about the "semantics" of it but you choose to take the most adverse possible position against the President.
or here where you state referring to the President
So what does redaction and criticism tell us about your actions?
Well it is clear that you did not come to the Barack Obama Group to have a friendly give and take discussion about policy.
You came here, clearly to stir the shit.
So like so many others that go out of their way to create unnecessary antagonisms with DUers who support the President and find his courage and honest admirable you will be restricted from the BOG.
Lets be perfectly clear. You are not being restricted because you of differences of opinions or because we expect people to echo their support. You are being excluded because you are intellectually dishonest in your intentions and simply intend to exacerbate division.
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