FBI: Peace Groups = Terrorists

August 30th, 2005 at 16:59 Björn Hallberg

Because dissent is unpatriotic?

The American Civil Liberties Union today released an FBI document that designates a Michigan-based peace group and an affirmative action advocacy group as potentially “involved in terrorist activities.” The file was obtained through an ongoing nationwide ACLU effort seeking information on the FBI’s use of Joint Terrorism Task Forces to engage in political surveillance.

“Labeling political advocacy as ‘terrorist activity’ is a threat to legitimate dissent which has never been considered a crime in this country,” said Kary Moss, Executive Director of the ACLU of Michigan. “Spying on people who simply disagree with our government’s policies is a tremendous waste of police resources.”

May be a waste but it is the basis for a development towards a totalitarian state. The US already has its expansionistic ideals, to shape the world in its image at gun point if need be, so this is really the only piece of the puzzle that is still missing.

I’m just waiting for someone to build up enough guts to form another Weatherman Underground. Which also brings us to another FBI hickup, namely the COINTELPRO, which used illegal activities to gather evidence so that even when the FBI had assembled a case, that evidence was inadmissible in court.

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