terrorists promoting the establishment of bike lanes?

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. /////////////

this is maryland

if you don't think it happens in YOUR state or nationally, THINK AGAIN

(pssssst, it DOES)
(pssssssssssssttttttttttt, this USED to be america. the land of the FREE and home of the brave. we used to be able to protest. it was among our many rights. we used to be able to speak up, speak out, speak against if we felt unjustices or wrongdoings - it was among our many rights. )

oh you think this is ok? well wait until YOUR name appears on a list

Md. Police Put Activists' Names On Terror Lists

Surveillance's Reach Revealed

By Lisa Rein

Washington Post Staff Writer
The Maryland State Police classified 53 nonviolent activists as terrorists and entered their names and personal information into state and federal databases that track terrorism suspects, the state police chief acknowledged yesterday.

Police Superintendent Terrence B. Sheridan revealed at a legislative hearing that the surveillance operation, which targeted opponents of the death penalty and the Iraq war, was far more extensive than was known when its existence was disclosed in July.

The department started sending letters of notification Saturday to the activists, inviting them to review their files before they are purged from the databases, Sheridan said......

this would be funny

except for the fact that it's not. of course we know this goes on all the time, everywhere, not just maryland. we know that's it's gone on for decades. it's nothing new.

one would think they would learn by now. usually peace groups and death penalty opponents DO NOT COMMIT VIOLENT CRIMES.

is it me or shouldn't the police (or fbi or cia or whomever) be spending their money and resources on REAL crime and REAL criminals?

Police Spied on Activists In Md.

Officers Infiltrated Groups During Ehrlich Years

By Lisa Rein

Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, July 18, 2008; Page A01

Undercover Maryland State Police officers conducted surveillance on war protesters and death penalty opponents, including some in Takoma Park, for more than a year while Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. was governor, documents released yesterday show.

Detailed intelligence reports logged by at least two agents in the police department's Homeland Security and Intelligence Division reveal close monitoring of the movements as the Iraq war and capital punishment were heatedly debated in 2005 and 2006.

Organizational meetings, public forums, prison vigils, rallies outside the State House in Annapolis and e-mail group lists were infiltrated by police posing as peace activists and death penalty opponents, the records show. The surveillance continued even though the logs contained no reports of illegal activity and consistently indicated that the activists were not planning violent protests........