Rising Hegemon
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 - Counterterrorism agents at the Federal Bureau of Investigation have conducted numerous surveillance and intelligence-gathering operations that involved, at least indirectly, groups active in causes as diverse as the environment, animal cruelty and poverty relief, newly disclosed agency records show...
...One F.B.I. document indicates that agents in Indianapolis planned to conduct surveillance as part of a "Vegan Community Project." Another document talks of the Catholic Workers group's "semi-communistic ideology." A third indicates the bureau's interest in determining the location of a protest over llama fur planned by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
It's not just the violations of the 1st and 4th Amendments that are so troubling, although they are quite troubling -- it is the sheer waste of time and resources devoted to this. Greenpeace and the Catholic Workers are about a damn site farther away from what happened on 9/11 than say, the REPUBLICAN PARTY!
For years now the Bush Administration has been trying to social protest they disagree with into "terrorism". Spiking trees, or invading labs to free lab rats are easily prosecuted under existing laws, nor are they hard to ward against and investigate when they occur. But it would be an amazingly ironic day when Greenpeace or PETA threatens somebody with "jet fuel" or an atomic bomb. What are vegans going to do, pelt you with lentils?
What incredible idiocy.
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