Domestic spying on anti-war groups forces ACLU into action
Something to get you going this morning - see you after class!
Monica Zucker and three other members of Seattle's Raging Grannies, a peace group of older women who dress in outrageous hats and sing protest songs, lifted up their voices in response Tuesday to recent Seattle P-I disclosures that they were in federal anti-terrorism files."Oh, we're a gaggle of grannies, urging you off of your fannies," they sang at a news conference in the downtown Seattle offices of the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington.
Acting on behalf of the Raging Grannies and 10 other peace groups across the state, the ACLU of Washington is demanding to know whether and why federal government anti-terrorism units are spending time and money spying on peace organizations.
by MG at 8:10 AM
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I can't believe they were spying on Raging Grannies WTF?!?
Ok this is frickin rediculous. We must have "the right of the people peaceably to assemble" without the fear that our government is going to monitor us, take pictures of us, and create files on us. If they will do this are we to believe they aren't wiretapping us too? This administration really has have foresaken the core principles that this nation was founded on, not to mention this is an outrageous waste of our tax dollars and FBI manpower. If this is not the outrageous abuse of unchecked power and complete waste of money and FBI manpower I say it is, answer me this. How many anti-war protesters have been arrested and found guilty of the terror related charges that might justify this program? It's been 4 1/2 years since 9-11. How fucking many?
If it's none, or even just a few on petty charges, then every single person in this administration who signed off on it and any FBI agent who would take part in this program without whistleblowing every last detail they know about it to the media or the ACLU is a goddamned traitor to this country.
What a Headline.
Sensationalism!
This could simply mean “observing” them.
There is no evidence presented in the article written by this leftist nut.
A pie in the sky accusation.
It’s is a matter of public safety that all protesters be monitored.
Monitoring and observation for public safety and “domestic spying” are not the same
You're a goddamn idiot iggy. What is spying then? If it's not observation what is it?
spy [spī]
n (plural spies)
secret observer of others: somebody who watches other people in secret
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Bill of Rights
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
We have the right to peacably assemble, means we also have the right to not be targetted and labeled as a threat, and SPIED on for doing so.
You're a goddamn traitor to this country if you think not.
It’s is a matter of public safety that all protesters be monitored.
-iggynoramous
Did you just make that law up on your own or is it published in some obscure legal journal?
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