"--this is the FBI."

I just got the WEIRDEST phone call just now...

I just answered the phone and there was a bizarre electronic tone sound and an echo of my "hello" -- then I heard a woman's voice break thru saying "--this is the FBI."

I repeated my hello and the line disconnected. There was no call back.

To say I was startled is an understatement.

Considering some of the activism I'm been involved with lately, and that my site has been visited by by the DOJ, a call like that makes me just a little paranoid.

C-r-e-e-p-y.

:scared:

that is the goal here

I've been called and visited by the FBI, and they don't pull crap like that.

got looped into the circuit.

Happens.

getting a call from the real FBI or knowing some crank with an itchy dialing finger has your number! ;)

I've not had a call like that , just hang up calls
every now and again .

(((HUGS)))

:hi:

Feeling less spooked now....

who haven't been the same since they Left ECW, and 'big-saL' didn't come aLong.

that I confine ALL my activities to merely research and opinion, so after a couple years they backed off.

My phone lines were tapped, mail tampered with, and I was under survellience for a while. Then, it just all stopped...

My pal Dave McGowan had it WAY worse than me, that I can tell you.

It's no big deal. We're not breaking any laws. I know I'm not worth their time.

It got to be a real joke with my friends and family whom I would talk with on the phone; we'd hear the buzzes, clicks, etc, that one hears when one's line is tapped, and I would SAY, "hang on, that pesky FBI is tapping my line again!" because my reception on the LAND LINE telephone would be so bad.

I made a BIG joke of it because, simply, I'm not doing anything wrong. In fact I hope I educate them.

Don't worry about it. It's fascinating for a while, but then it just gets annoying. Fuck em.

That's the stuff you read about in good political thrillers. :)


You clearly developed a great attitude about it -- glad it's over for you.

(in which the statute of limitations hasn't expired) so why should I be scared of them?

I'm not a threat to anyone, unless the truth is perceived as a threat.

I have to assume you're not a threat either.

Might as well have fun with it. Trust me, these FBI goons aren't smarter than the average bear. They're nothing to be afraid of. Geez most of them are mormons. What does THAT tell you?

Probably "the number cannot be reached" but worth a shot.

My guess is crossed circuits at the phone company. It happens from time to time.

A friend who was in Korea with me had parents in the diplomatic corps. He decided to visit them on the month's vacation (in two years) that we vols got. Reasonable enough, except that they were posted to Moscow and this was Korea in the early 70's. So, my friend takes the ferry from Pusan to Shimoneseki, where he hops on the (Russian) ferry to Vladivostok, and from there hops on the trans-Siberian railroad (something he thought would be great adventure) to Moscow. Enjoys rail trip, visits parents in Moscow happily, does whole thing in reverse to get back to Korea. Gets off the ferry boat in Pusan, Korean officials examine his passport and see the USSR visa. From then till the end of his tour, he had Korean CIA agents (the KCIA is actually an internal national police, with a bad record for torture. Not nice people) following him around everywhere. He kept his sense of humor about it, waving at the guys & so on, but I remember drinking at a bar (for those of you who know Korea, it wasn't really a bar, it was a makkolee chip, sort of a country pub) with him, and when he went out back to the outhouse for a leak, one of the bloody KCIA agents followed and kept an eye on him! They were almost laughable to the point of being Keystone Kops, except of course that they could be very nasty if they chose.