[Public] Journal Entry: Jake Jensen

[om_backlash]

We have something to tell everyone and we're sorry for not saying it until now. Jensen found out by accident a while ago and would have told you all sooner, but Tessa bought his silence with blackmail. There is no other way to put it.

Up until she left the school, Tessa had been monitoring all of the students. Every email and IM, every Google search, every saved document… You name it; she’s probably been reading it.

This might not matter to some of you. Maybe you already knew, or maybe you’re glad someone was watching. And that’s fine. But, it matters to us. We know Tessa meant well. We know she had good reasons for doing it, but, to us, that doesn’t make it any less of an invasion of privacy. Or a betrayal of the students’ trust. There was no discussion or agreement about monitoring the students. She wasn’t elected to this position. She just took it upon herself to do it.

We're not telling everyone this because we want them to pick up their pitchforks and go all angry mob on Tessa. We get why she monitored the students. We don’t agree with how she went about doing it, but we totally get it. The world we live in is dangerous and we need to be careful. The reason we're telling everyone is just because we feel like they deserve to know. That’s all.

In that same spirit, you should all know that Barbara, who is now in charge of the school's e-security, is not taking the same measures.

Thanks for taking the time to read this. We’ll try to answer any questions if you have any.

- Jensen and Simon B.

Comments

[om_hawkeye]

This thing is hell to read and I'm letting my little speech to text thing post this for me but here it goes. I gotta say that you guys are a barrel of laughs if you think there's such a thing as privacy because they are all out to get you. Governments been watching you from day one and I bet they don't care about firewalls or shit like that either. Okay maybe thats an exaggeration but if this chick or whoever is she hot? Was helping people then maybe it wasn't such a bad thing. The blackmail part is ******* stupid though cause what was she gonna do tell the authorities and do the right thing? You're an idiot for leaving your sister with those sick *****. You aren't keeping your sister safe you're just telling yourself lies. How the **** do I turn this ******* filter off. ****.

[om_vector]

Yeah, go fuck yourself, buddy.

[om_hawkeye]

Hey I'm flexible but that's just dreaming big! Can you show me how?

[om_backlash]

Excuse me? Who the fuck do you think you are? You don’t know me. You don’t know a fucking thing about me, my sister, or my parents. I did the right thing and I would never do anything to put my little sister in danger. She’s safe and she’s loved and that is the only fucking reason I never turned my dad in. The foster system is fucked and I refuse to subject her to that if there are better options.

It’s real fucking easy to sit there and judge when you weren’t in the situation I was in. Fucking choke on it, asshole.

[om_hawkeye]

I don't know a ******* thing about you, your sister, or your parents, but I do know a **** ton about the situation. And no thanks, I'll swallow slow.

[om_quicksilver]

Barton sometimes I wonder how you've even survived this long. You have all the intellect and sensibility of a box of hair, dude. >.<

I mean you're right about the surveillance but on that other shit--damn dude.

[om_hawkeye]

Yeah? Which part don't I know about? I bet I know more than the ******* idiot leaving his sister with an abusive father who is gonna end up taking his anger out on someone now that that kid is gone. ******* bull****.

[om_quicksilver]

No, that's cool, keep proving my point. I'll just chill here with some popcorn, doing zero work.

[om_hawkeye]

He posted it. I can tell him it's ****** up.

[om_quicksilver]

No one is saying you're not allowed. I would be the LAST to complain about airing a public opion.

I'm just saying you have all the intellect and sensibility of a box of hair.

[om_hawkeye]

Tell me that if your sister was still in that house.

[om_quicksilver]

Yeah, ha, no one gets to drag my family's names around like that just to prove a point, okay. I'll do you a favor and forget you went there.

Though you did just accidentally prove mine AGAIN by trying it. Good job.

[om_hawkeye]

Proved mine too. Hey, wanna show me that **** yourself thing? CDC-boy is stingy.

[om_quicksilver]

You just keep thinking that, Boy Genius.

I'm sure you'll figure it out if you try hard enough and believe in magic.

[om_hawkeye]

Go****it, now you've got that song in my head.

[om_magik]

So because the government's doing it, it's okay??

Also, that was just sereously serius REALLY crappy to say. Whats' his name has the guts to say all that, and you come back with That?? Whats' your problem??

[om_hawkeye]

Pick one, sweetheart. Glad we had that dance.