Everything Old is New Again
Posted: Jan 6th 2006, 1:52 am
Hey all,
So have you been keeping on all the news about domestic spying by the Executive branch on such subversives as PETA, Greenpeace and the Catholic Workers Group? Catholic workers group does charitable work with the poor.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... Id=5063305
When I think subversives I think Catholic Workers Group.
From the FBI:
"...the Catholic Workers Group advocates a communist distribution of resources."
Oh yes, because communism is a threat to the US. Oh wait, communism hasn't been a threat to the US since 1991 when the Soviet Union collapsed.
The Department of Defense meanwhile has been spying on antiwar protestors and keeping files on them as part of their project TALON. This includes keeping files on Quaker anti war protestors.
You know when I think terrorists I think: Quakers.
Also leads to the question: What the -blank- is the DOD doing spying on US citizens?
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... Id=5055412
The sad thing is that this isn't really news to us on the left. My mom's Freedom of Information Act file showed that in the 80s the FBI spied on the Peace group that she was a part of. What is news is the sheer scale of the spying: not just the NSA but also the FBI and the Department of Defense.
Interestingly enough some of the very same people who served Nixon and Ford are part of the new wave of justifications for destroying what remains of the US Bill of Rights, may it rest in peace.
(Que Lee Greenwood's "Proud to be an American"
-LanceMan
So have you been keeping on all the news about domestic spying by the Executive branch on such subversives as PETA, Greenpeace and the Catholic Workers Group? Catholic workers group does charitable work with the poor.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... Id=5063305
When I think subversives I think Catholic Workers Group.
From the FBI:
"...the Catholic Workers Group advocates a communist distribution of resources."
Oh yes, because communism is a threat to the US. Oh wait, communism hasn't been a threat to the US since 1991 when the Soviet Union collapsed.
The Department of Defense meanwhile has been spying on antiwar protestors and keeping files on them as part of their project TALON. This includes keeping files on Quaker anti war protestors.
You know when I think terrorists I think: Quakers.
Also leads to the question: What the -blank- is the DOD doing spying on US citizens?
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... Id=5055412
The sad thing is that this isn't really news to us on the left. My mom's Freedom of Information Act file showed that in the 80s the FBI spied on the Peace group that she was a part of. What is news is the sheer scale of the spying: not just the NSA but also the FBI and the Department of Defense.
Interestingly enough some of the very same people who served Nixon and Ford are part of the new wave of justifications for destroying what remains of the US Bill of Rights, may it rest in peace.
(Que Lee Greenwood's "Proud to be an American"
-LanceMan