new	all
articles	0	1808
headlines	35	15041
videos	0	50
links	0	314
users	18	13797
blogs	32	21943
forum	59	35814
store	*	*

H07808

Headlines : Civil Liberties

Summary:

It’s unclear whether information about local political activists has been collected in the database intended for military installations to use to share intelligence. The Pentagon did not make itself available to answer the question.

Activist Quakers and grandmothers are by far the most serious threat the United States, and indeed the entire world, has ever faced… right? Right.

[Posted By ShiftShapers]

By Mike Barber and Paul Shukovsky
Republished from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Authorities keep tabs on non-violent Seattle activists in hunt for al-Qaida.

In the post-9/11 world, some unlikely figures have attracted the attention of local police and federal agents: the Raging Grannies, known for musical satire, and Quaker peace activists, known for non-violence.

Recently disclosed FBI files show that in Seattle in recent years, federal agents and local police looked for signs of civil disobedience among activists preparing to protest Navy ships arriving for Seafair:

• Local anti-war groups such as the Raging Grannies, Not in Our Name and Ground Zero were watched for intent to disrupt Navy ships through civil disobedience such as chaining themselves to ships. It never happened.

• A Navy criminal investigator traveled to Eugene, Ore., to find out if anarchists blamed for violence at Seattle’s 1999 World Trade Organization conference might return to protest the fleet. They never did.

• A law enforcement agent conducted surveillance as two small, Peace-Fleet boats were launched in West Seattle.

Authorities argue that they had a duty to protect Navy ships. They don’t want to happen in Puget Sound what happened six years ago in Yemen when a small suicide boat blew a hole in a Navy destroyer, killing 17 sailors.

As the Bush administration and Congress argue about how far domestic spying to protect the nation…

[end excerpt]

Click here to read the rest of the article

Posted by ShiftShapers
Warning: Anyone who takes this blog seriously will be shot. Anyone who does not take it seriously will be buried alive by a Mitsubishi bulldozer. YOU ARE UNDER SURVEILLANCE This blog is not approved by the Department of Homeland Security. Proceed at...

H07808

Peace Groups Under Watch

RELATED ITEMS