The US Department of Homeland Security has released a list of the keywords and phrases the agency monitors online to find potential threats. Obviously posting "Al Queda" and "dirty bomb" online will get the government to start looking at you real closely, but "pork" and other oddly normal words are also on the list.Given that high school policy debaters are a curious lot, I expect them to use all of the terms that the department's Analysts Desktop Binder lists under it Infrastructure Security section. Further, most affirmative plans will be met with a argument that will claim that enacting the plan will cause extinction or nuclear war. The story follows the format of a DirectTV commercial so closely that I'm convinced the creator of this series was a policy debater.
Next fall, students will probably make Department of Homeland security analysts earn their pay as debaters type in "infrastructure," "collapse," "airplane," and "extinction."

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