Dave Zirin, writing for the Huffington Post, tells a harrowing story of our government spies in action.
"...I have been a target of state police surveillance for activities - in my case against the death penalty -- that were legal, non-violent, and, so we assumed, constitutionally protected. In classified reports compiled by the Maryland State Police and the Department of Homeland Security, I am 'Dave Z.' This nickname was given by an undercover agent known to us as 'Lucy.' She sat in our meetings of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty, smiling and engaged, taking copious notes about actions deemed threatening by the Governor of Maryland, Robert Ehrlich. Our seditious crimes, as Lucy reported, involved such acts as planning to set up a table at the local farmer's market and writing up a petition. ...
"Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act and the ACLU, we now know that 'Lucy' was only one part of a vast, insidious project. The Maryland State Police's Department of Homeland Security devoted near 300 hours and thousands of taxpayer dollars from 2005 and 2006 to harassing people whose only crime was dissenting on the question of the war in Iraq and Maryland's use of death row."
A "vast, insidious project" indeed!
One cannot help but wonder how many other police departments around the United States, working in cooperation with the Nazi-ish Department of Homeland Security are "investigating" liberals, Democrats, vegans, war protesters, and other "suspicious" and "dangerous" terrorists.
The DHS is probably at this moment training operatives to learn how to knit so they can infiltrate grandma's knitting club meetings where "terrorist" ladies might be planning to hold a protest in front of a local rag shop against the high cost of knitting needles. We all know knitting needles in the hands of angry, elderly women are dangerous weapons and thus an immediate threat to our well-being as a society!
All of Mr. Zirin's article can be retrieved here. Read it and weep!
1 comment:
Why are we so frightened that we spare precious resources on harmless people that publicly disagree with things that do have more than one side? There are spies in the USA, of course, let's concentrate on them. It might help if more of our counter intelligence people spoke some or more of the many Arabic dialects. Arabic has many and they are quite different from each other. We need more Arabic speakers and more people that know and understand the culture of that very diverse world.
Bob Poris
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