The maryland ACLU has recently reported on the law enforcement infiltration of anti-war and anti-death penalty groups in MD. Over 200 undercover officers, over a period of 14 months, spied on pacifists, and those against death, presumably to determine if they were terrorists.
This whole operation uncovered 2 illegal activities on the part of the anti-war demonstrators. One was a non-violent sit-in involving juice and cookies(really). The other was a plan to hang pictures of dead american soldiers on the fence around the white house. The terror!
This begs me to ask the question, what did they imagine they’d uncover? Death-penalty activists executing executioners?(I wish), peace activists starting a guerrilla anti-government war? The only activists who are hypocritical enough to “kill for life” are anti-abortionists, and that’s due to their misfiring neurons resulting from religiosity.
2 comments:
This is nothing new. Stuff like that has been going on since the CONINTELPRO days. As for the motivation behind why such surveillance tactics are being used, that's something beyond my clearance level.
this, i believe, is just one of the many unfortunate side-effects of 50 or so years of "cold war" thinking. the desegregation movement was often targeted for surveillance and sabotage due to the fact that the government was of the opinion that any group that wanted "change" must be somehow affiliated with "socialism," and that any and all instances of "socialism" were somehow linked to the "soviets."
replace change with "things that don't suck," "socialism" with "terrorism" and "soviets" with "al-qaeda, et al" and you get more or less what's going on today.
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