Terrorism & the mockery from Madison Avenue By Douglas J. Hagmann

Late yesterday, a colleague of mine provided me with the name and direct telephone number of a representative of a large New York City based Internet in-text advertising company. To those who don’t know what such advertising is, it is billed as an unobtrusive form of creating cash flow for a web site. I’m sure you’ve seen this in practice. When you pass your mouse over a specific highlighted word in an article, a dialogue box pops up and offers a link to another site. The web site owner earns money when the reader follows the link to the designated web site – in our case, money that can be used to offset the cost of operating and maintaining this site.

The following is based on written notes I made during our conversation, a practice I’ve done as an investigator for the last 2 decades:

Representative: Oh yes, I’ve been expecting your call. Let’s see what we can do. Give me the address of your web site again?

DJH: HomelandSecurityUS.com

Representative: Okay, let me have a look. Hmmm. Is this a terrorist web site?

DJH: Excuse me?

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