well in maryland apparently that's EXACTLY what terrorists do; promote bike lanes, promote peace, protest a 70%+ utility rate hike, promote human rights, protest weapons and killing and wars (and get branded white supremacists for NO reason). dirty rotten terrorist humanitarian HUMANS!!!
this is un effing believable and you guessed the ending of the story (so far), NO ONE IS BEING HELD ACCOUNTABLE
More Groups Than Thought Monitored in Police Spying
New Documents Reveal Md. Program's Reach
By Lisa Rein and Josh White
Washington Post Staff Writers
The Maryland State Police surveillance of advocacy groups was far more extensive than previously acknowledged, with records showing that troopers monitored -- and labeled as terrorists -- activists devoted to such wide-ranging causes as promoting human rights and establishing bike lanes. Intelligence officers created a voluminous file on Norfolk-based People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, calling the group a "security threat" because of concerns that members would disrupt the circus. Angry consumers fighting a 72 percent electricity rate increase in 2006 were targeted. The DC Anti-War Network, which opposes the Iraq war, was designated a white supremacist group, without explanation. .......
//////////////Sachs's review, released in October, condemned the Maryland spying as a severe lapse in judgment. No one has been reprimanded or fired, and the undercover trooper has been promoted twice. /////////////
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Without seeming to propose that abuse which is hardly unprecedented is not reprehensible - and I hardly know what to cite, from Joe McCarthy, FBI spying on Martin Luther King, or actions at the GOP National Convention - I thought an appreciation of the pervasiveness of this activity should be available. The ACLU is of course the 'go to' source for decent reporting. Here is one article I thought worth noting
http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/30/the-history-of-breaking-up-protests-before-they-can-happen-how-cops-have-spent-years-squashing-the-right-to-assembly-and-free-speech/
even though it's firedoglake, i do thank you (for some reason or another i have an aversion to that site and huffpost as well. i do stop by on occasion BUT i do NOT like it)
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