Anti-War Activists Targeted as 'Domestic Terrorists'

[damnedifIknow]

"Anti-war activists who were infiltrated and spied on by the military for years have now been placed on the domestic terrorist list, they recently discovered. The shocking revelation comes as the activists prepare to sue the U.S. military for unlawful spying.

"The fact that a peaceful activist such as myself is on this domestic terrorist list should be cause for concern for other people in the US," declared Brendan Maslauskas Dunn, plaintiff in the lawsuit. "We've seen an increase in the buildup of a mass surveillance state under the Obama and Bush Administrations."

The discovery is the latest development in a stunning sauga that exposes vast post-9/11 spying networks in which military, police, and federal agencies act in cahoots."

https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/06/24-9

[liberal_at_heart]

1. When you are afraid to protest your own government something is very wrong.

[BehindTheCurtain76]

22. defused

I believe this is our fault because we took the pressure off when Obama took the helm...dems have rolled over and I bet the military is much happier with Obama as president because the effectively have no opposition any longer (regardless of the McCrystal comments). Pretty smart move to let Obama win so we all assume things are fine.

[cantbeserious]

2. The End State Of The Surveillance State Is Upon Us

eom

[RainDog]

8. I wish I could be so optimistic n/t

[cantbeserious]

10. The End State In My Mind Is Quite Orwellian - Wish It would Become A Non-Existent State

eom

[RainDog]

13. ack. I misread your post.

as in "this is the end of this period of overreach."

Your version is more like "late-stage capitalism," with all the nastiness of empire-crumbling that implies.

I'm not too optimistic about our govt. at this point. This entire surveillance apparatus is out-of-control and, if allowed to stand, will lead to a horrid future.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. Dangerous people those pacifists. Undermining the (economic..MIC) foundations of the country.

[FirstLight]

4. need to watch this lawsuit

then again, i wonder if it will even make a difference anymore

[idwiyo]

5. It's OK, really. Government knows best. It's all for your own good.

Also, if they had honour, they wouldn't be talking about this in public. Because I am sure its all highly classified and now everyone knows about it, including bad guys.

[Warren DeMontague]

6. The "terrorism" powers of the PATRIOT Act have mostly been used to go after drug users.

Is anyone surprised?

[blkmusclmachine]

20. Does Ru$h know?

[Warren DeMontague]

23. Rush loves the drug war.

http://www.buzzflash.com/analysis/03/10/ana03004.html

The bloviating windbag is also a giant hypocritical fuckturd. Who knew?

[HiPointDem]

24. +1

[indepat]

7. Big brother must take a dim of anti-war activists, seeing them as domestic terrorists

rather than as lawful citizens who have exercised their 1st Amendment right to express their grievances to government. One wonders if the plethora of gun-toting domestic right-wing extremist/militia groups generally make the cut as domestic terrorists. Nah, probably not since big brother is not gonna hassle those who exercise their 2nd Amendment rights which are both sacrosanct and absolute and probably not worry about piffles such as sedition, anarchy, and the like.

[xiamiam]

9. this makes me sick

I'm trying to not be any more disgusted than I already am but gheezh. I don't know, but I'm beginning to think I should have just left when I had the opportunity.

[jberryhill]

11. How is he filing a lawsuit from Gitmo?

[WillyT]

12. K & R !!!

[DirkGently]

14. We're just spying on scary, scary terrorists. We swear. n/t

[Zorra]

15. K&R

[L0oniX]

16. Fuck the NSA ...and fuck the police state ...up against the wall muthafuckas!

Should I tell you how I really feel?

[marmar]

17. Empires become extremely paranoid in their end stages.

[silvershadow]

21. And then they fall. Wonder if I will live in The Great Lakes? Or will I be Heartlandia? nt

[yodermon]

18. Peace=Terror. n/t

[blkmusclmachine]

19. I have seen the enemy.

And he is us.

The drones are coming.

[Eleanors38]

25. "Round up the usual suspects." I feel like I'm IN the 60s & not in my 60s.

[Democracyinkind]

26. Notice how the apologists always steer clear of these threads?

No, no, there isn't a problem with a national security state/industry gone wild.

No, no, the US isn't going the way of every empire before it...

This is all legal. Other countries do it too. Why are you so un-american to only post stories about infiltration of Americans? You damn well know that the Iranians and Chinese are doing it too!

Those protesters planned their protests. That is premedeated. There's no excuse for that. They're aiding our red /and brown) enemies.

Protestors have no honor. They had it coming. I mean, what do they expect.

And Duh. As long as we spy on protestors democracy is safe - you may have a point, but only after there aren't any protestors anymore. Until that date, stop BEING OUTRAGED!!!

"Apologist", dear apologists, is used here in its most descriptive sense, please don't read it as normative (i.e. a call out). It's just that I miss you folks in these threads.

[damnedifIknow]

27. Chilling

"The breadth and intensity of the spying by U.S. Army officials and other law enforcement agents is staggering," said Larry Hildes, National Lawyers Guild attorney who filed the lawsuit in 2009. "If nonviolent protest is now labeled and treated as terrorism, then democracy and the First Amendment are in critical danger."