Yes, terrorists are bad. Terrorists are evil and will come crawling in the night to eat your children. But there is a far more insidious threat to our American way of life, to our American freedoms and American dreams. A threat that demands constant vigilance, and the unlimited use of our national security apparatus to guard and protect us against
The ACLU of Georgia released copies of government files on Wednesday that illustrate the extent to which the FBI, the DeKalb County Division of Homeland Security and other government agencies have gone to compile information on Georgians suspected of being threats simply for expressing controversial opinions.
Two documents relating to anti-war and anti-government protests, and a vegan rally, prove the agencies have been “spying” on Georgia residents unconstitutionally, the ACLU said. […]
For example, more than two dozen government surveillance photographs show 22-year-old Caitlin Childs of Atlanta, a strict vegetarian, and other vegans picketing against meat eating, in December 2003. They staged their protest outside a HoneyBaked Ham store on Buford Highway in DeKalb County.
The worst thing the ACLU could ever have done was to publicize our secret government surveillance of these dangerous Vegans, with their vegetarian agenda. Don’t they care about our children, terrorized by the thought of carrots and peas, spinach and sprouts, or even (gasp!) broccoli? How damned Unamerican these liberal “civil liberties” groups like the ACLU really are!
Thank God we have a President who knows that our children need protecting from dangerous, vegetable loving ideologues like this:
Cross posted at Daily Kos.
