BooTribbers: Is this a breach of civil liberties or a federal agency taking precautionary measures to safeguard national political conventions?
The Washington Post reports tomorrow that
The ACLU says the documents — released “in response to a lawsuit filed by a coalition of civil rights, animal rights and environmental groups” — are “evidence that the Bush administration has reacted to the [9/11 attacks] by blurring the distinction between terrorism and political protest.”
Is this a breach of civil liberties or a federal agency taking precautionary measures to safeguard national political conventions?
This is a breach of civil liberties. They have no business wiretapping (monitoring web sites) organizations planning political protest unless they have had some specific information that such an organization is planning violence or other illegal activities.
It is a fine line and law enforcements job here is a difficult one. But it is clear that the Bush Administration has used such agencies as badly as they have the military and intelligence agencies… to promote their own plutocratic political agenda.
Of course it’s a breach of civil liberties! I’m irate, f*#kin’ irate. Not a bit surprised at these motherf*#kers, but still irate! G*ddamn Nixon administration all f*#kin’ all over again! (Actually worse; at least Nixon signed some good environmental laws…) They’re not gonna stop until we have urban rioting all over again, are they?
Hmmm… Better up the blood pressure medicine dosage in the morning…
Just what I needed to see before bed – NOT.
🙁
If that got your blood pressure up, don’t read this then.
Pax
Thanks soj. I really needed that this morning. Goes nicely with that 5-year-old in Florida. The “Just Say No” brownshirts on steroids…
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not a suprise, of course they were.
Not only a breach of civil liberties but a shameful waste of manpower and money for partisan political reasons, ignoring real threats.
Of course as they also are wasting a lot of time monitoring the ACLU and Greenpeace, it kind of figures, right?
Who cares about keeping an eye out for real terrorists when there is a possibility of smearing or framing a political thorn in the administrations side?
I really need a nightcap now….
… to say, “Hello!” to the fine agent(s) monitoring the BooTrib. I hope it is an educational experience and you are having a good time.