At 9:35 PM, up to 117,000 hits. Still 42,000 short of the “Sunset Route” thread, although it’s up to 95 pages since 2008 and the TSA thread is only two pages since the 4th of March…
Went in and did a fast search for the Don Phoillips by-lined article and found a copy of Don’s TRAINS bty-line dated 03/07/2011 and it has a video embedded in it of the TSA VIPR TEAM searching a group of "Dangerous Passengers" at Savanah’s Train Station (emphasis is mine).
Amazing that those TSA types can do that with a straight face.[oX)]
It sure is amazing how a couple of lines on Drudge attracted so many folks to this FORUM.
At 1630 rs CST the numbers are around 149,900_ views and they pulled the link last night between 2030 and 2100 CST. Noticed a few first time commenters here as well.
But the speed here seems to be better tonight than it was last night! Maybe we need to buy the Web dudes and dudettes some beers! [B][B][B][B][D][D] [swg]
It is pretty obvious, if one thinks about it, that one of the forum participants tipped off Drudge. It seems unlikely that Drudge and his staff would be lurking in a Trains forum.
I certainly can’t say how Drudge got a prompt to post the link, but I doubt that was the sole source of the hits on the thread. Using Google search, I found about 40 sites that referenced the article.
No doubt there are many sites, and people who write or run the sites that have an interest in digging up dirt on the activities of the TSA. All they have to do to find items on the subject is to run a frequent search of the internet. No lurking necessary.
Matt Drudge does sometimes dredge up some interesting muck but it’s unfortunate that Trains.Com is hot linked on Prisonplanet , a site that belongs to Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones who believes that George W. Bush blew up the Twin Towers (he has both Lefty and Rightist followers as he also promotes conspiracy theories about Obama and the Clintons). The same Alex Jones that is Charlie Sheen’s good buddy…
I would think most of his followers would mainly be interested in Trains.com for stories related to “FEMA shackle boxcars” (Jones has promoted that theory as well)…
And reminded me of a YouTube video a guy shot of a single head searchlight signal. As he walked around it, he postulated about how it was supposedly part the control system for trains (undoubtely made up of those white boxcars with shackles…) taking people to one of the many internment camps the conspiracy theorists are certain exist around the country.