man oh man those quakers are in the thick of it once again

rabble-rousers and upstarts, all of them. except for richard nixon (yes, he was a quaker), i would generally TRUST a quaker. since when are people who want peace and don't want their daughters and sons shipped off to an unjust war (based on lies) considered 'threats'? i have to keep reminding myself this IS america. i am becoming more and more afraid with each passing day and i'm NOT just saying that. we have people in office who have been PROVEN liars and cowards, we have big businesses stealing and lying and killing and getting away with it, we have our OWN CITIZENS being spied on, NOT because they are terrorists, but because they have brains, we have a nominee to the supreme court with selective memory especially about his being a member of an organization who discriminated against both women and people of color (and his wife who is a GREAT actress) and we have bushwhacked who thinks our constitution is JUST A PIECE OF PAPER.

Pentagon Spied on Concerned Peace Moms in Atlanta
By Sarah Epting, Staff Writer, Atlanta Progressive News (January 10, 2006)
(APN) ATLANTA--"DonÂ’t they have anything to do? I am just a mom of a teenage son. I just donÂ’t want my son or anyone else go to a stupid war," Susan Keith told Atlanta Progressive News.
Last week, Keith learned the Pentagon has been spying on her protests against public schools participating in military recruitment.
"I think it is a big waste of our money and [the governmentÂ’s] time to be spying on citizens," Keith said.
She said she doesnÂ’t know why the government would see their protest as a threat, "unless they thought we were going to do some terrorist activity, but weÂ’re the Peace coalition."
On December 14th, 2005, NBC released a report concerning a secret 400 page Pentagon document they obtained listing more than 1,500 "suspicious incidents" across the country. In a recent span of 10 months, these incidents had all been under surveillance by the Pentagon.
Among the few pages of the database published by NBC–the rest of the pages have not been released--was a meeting and protest held by the Georgia Peace and Justice Coalition (GPJC) in Atlanta.
The document listed the organizationÂ’s open monthly meeting held on March 28, 2005 as a "threat."
The meeting took place at the downtown Piedmont Avenue office of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a Quaker organization committed to peace, social justice, and humanitarian service. ..............