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'''Political profiling''' is an activity certain "watchdog" organizations engage in on various computer bulletin boards, chat rooms and wikis. A internet user's postings under either their real life identity of psydonym may be "profiled" for their ideoplogical convictions based upon editing patterns, interests, subject matter, common references, or declared beleiefs. The profile is then pigeon-holed into predetermined character assessments published by the watchdog organizations. Poltical profiling has been refereed to as the rough equivalent of surveilling all Black males on the grounds that a certain percentage may commit violent crimes. In the sense that targeting minorities for special surveillance is called “racial profiling,” the watchdogs engage in “political profiling.” Some watchdog groups hold law enforcement conferences, seminars and training sessions on this “profiling” behavior.
Daniel Brandt, founder of the Wikipedia-Watch website describes watchdog organizations that promote political profiling as "private intelligence agencies", and remarks,
{{Cquote|As a private agency" they enjoy "no oversight, no requirements for probable cause prior to political spying, and no Privacy Act or Freedom of Information Act responsibilities to the public. By contrast, the FBI, CIA, and some major police departments in the U.S. are held accountable by various hard-won legal restrictions. <ref>[http://www.namebase.org/news02.html Cyberspace Wars: Microprocessing vs. Big Brother], by Daniel Brandt, ''NameBase NewsLine'', No. 2, July-August 1993.</ref>}}
Walter O'Brien refers to them as "civilian agencies." <ref>[http://www.rjayco.com/obrien/nazism.pdf ''Nazism, the Internet and Culture of Violence,] A preliminary survey toward preventing a third world war'', Walter James O'Brien, 1999, pgs. 3,6-9, 12,14,61,63,68. </ref> And Laird Wilcox uses similiar language in dicussing their activities,
{{Cquote|Any citizen can obtain their FBI files through the Freedom of Information Act....There is no such mechanism by which a private American citizen can obtain their files compiled by private Watchdog organizations.... You cannot correct errors... they may have obtained information that government agencies cannot legally collect on its own. This... is something that goes on all the time and represents a serious civil liberties issue. <ref>[http://spencer.lib.ku.edu/exhibits/wilcox/5.htmlLaird Wilcox], ''The Watchdogs: A Close Look at Anti-Racist "Watchdog" Groups'', Editorial Research Service, 1999, pg. 15. ISBN 0-993592-96-5. </ref>}}
The Wikipedia project has worked in close collaboration with several alleged humanitarian "watchdog" groups to manage it's political content. The "Notable Wikipedians" entrusted with this venture are immune to all Wikipeidia's published policies, Attribtution, No self promotion, Experts do not hold a place of privilege, Citing self, No personal attacks, Civility, and Wikipedia is not a battleground are the most often cited complaints that go unenforced against these private smear factories. <ref>[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=10352 Leftist Lie Factory], By Chris Arabia, ''FrontPageMagazine.com'', October 16, 2003.</ref>
The Wikipedia project has worked in close collaboration with several alleged humanitarian "watchdog" groups to manage it's political content. The "Notable Wikipedians" entrusted with this venture are immune to all Wikipeidia's published policies, Attribtution, No self promotion, Experts do not hold a place of privilege, Citing self, No personal attacks, Civility, and Wikipedia is not a battleground are the most often cited complaints that go unenforced against these private smear factories. <ref>[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=10352 Leftist Lie Factory], By Chris Arabia, ''FrontPageMagazine.com'', October 16, 2003.</ref>