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Tuesday, November 15, 2005

uh oh i'm vegan too

there is NOTHING to surveill with me though. i am not in a commune, i don't travel, i pay my taxes, i work, i vote, i even have been called (SEVERAL times) for jury duty (i was never selected of course). i DO hate hummers but i would NEVER destroy one (i just YELL like mental at the owner). i'd never bomb anything. hell, i'm afraid of butane lighters. i would rather protest with words and NON violent actions than causing anyone or anything PHYSICAL harm. i wouldn't even throw paint on someone with a fur coat. it's THEIR choice not mine. what goes around comes around and i don't have to do a thing. it will all work itself out eventually.

mmmmmmmm then why is it i think my phone is being tapped???

Profiling: How the FBI Tracks Eco-Terror Suspects
Newsweek
Nov. 21, 2005 issue - The FBI collected detailed data on political activities and Web postings of suspected members of a tiny environmentalist commune in southern California two years ago as part of a high-profile counterterrorism probe, bureau records show. Facing further new disclosures about the matter, the bureau last week agreed to settle a lawsuit and to pay $100,000 to Josh Connole, a 27-year-old ex-commune member who had been arrested—and later released—on suspicions he was one of the eco-terrorists who had firebombed SUV dealerships in the summer of 2003. But the bureau's rare concession of error, expected to be publicly announced soon, could bring new attention to what civil-liberties groups say is a disturbing trend: the stepped-up monitoring of domestic political activity by FBI counter-terror agents.
Connole, an anti-Iraq-war protester, had been living in a Pomona, Calif., vegan commune when a Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) targeted him after arson attacks on four nearby Hummer dealers—acts blamed on the shadowy Earth Liberation Front (ELF), which the bureau considers a domestic terror group. The case was considered serious enough that Director Robert Mueller briefed President Bush. After concluding Connole looked like a lanky, goateed suspect caught on surveillance tape, agents arrested him at gunpoint on Sept. 12, 2003, then raided the commune. After being interrogated and held for four days, he was released. Another suspect with no connection to the commune was later arrested and convicted..........

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