All Hail the corptocracy! Mark Ruffalo on terror advisory list !

[Champion Jack]

Actor Mark Ruffalo has been placed on a terror advisory list by U.S. officials after organizing screenings for a new documentary about natural gas drilling.

The “Zodiac” actor arranged showings for “GasLand” earlier this year and voiced his concerns about the practice in relation to the national water supplies.


http://blog.sfgate.com/dailydish/2010/11/23/mark-ruffalo-on-terror-advisory-list/

[Smarmie Doofus]

1. Somebody saw "The Kids are Alright." n/t

[orpupilofnature57]

2. Thats a Patriotic act, Hail Mark Ruffalo !!!

[Champion Jack]

3. Ab so fucking lutley

[villager]

4. Hope! Change! Feeling Safer Already!

Yes We Can!

[Champion Jack]

10. for what its worth

But his efforts to raise awareness and demand a stop to natural gas drilling reportedly attracted the attention of officials from Pennsylvania’s Office of Homeland Security – and he recently discovered it had landed him on a terror alert watchlist.

[villager]

11. Right -- but does the Executive Branch have any suasion over the DHS? Why or why not?

What can a President do to mitigate such routine abuses?

What's the role of a bully pulpit? Etc.

[Champion Jack]

12. I don't know, I mean it's not like he has anything else to do...

[villager]

13. Right. He should just ignore routine violations of citizens' rights.

Being a constitutional scholar, and all.

[Champion Jack]

14. Like I said

I doubt if he has anything more important to attend to, seems to me he just goofs around playing basketball . Maybe you have some insight I don't?

[dflprincess]

39. He did take an oath to "preserve, protect and defend the Consitution"

Be nice if he did a little of that.

[tblue]

35. Constitutional scholar

Boy did that buy him a lot of mileage.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

22. Actually, Obama is helpless. He can't even stop TSA employees from giving free, unwanted feel-ups.

[tblue]

36. You and your expectations.

You have no right to expect anything. Haven't you learned?

[wtmusic]

5. Is that what it's come to?

Holy shit.

[Champion Jack]

7. It's what big gas wants

[Lindsay]

9. Exactly what it's come to.

All commerce is a matter of national security, and any speech or act criticizing any part of commerce means you're threatening national security.

Welcome to the Security State.

[wtmusic]

15. Harrassment.

There's a &%!!?# lawsuit here.

[alsame]

6. Good, I feel

safer now

[AndyA]

31. I always thought Mark Ruffalo was sinister!

He just has that look. Nice to know our government is hard at work protecting us from *actors*.

[n2doc]

8. The Thing is, the Bush gang was incompetent

Obama is not. He took the whole crooked apparatus that the Bushies dreamed up and made it efficient.

[snagglepuss]

17. BINGO

[tblue]

33. It's all set for President Jeb or Rubio

who I am sure would never abuse it.

[truebluegreen]

37. And maybe used his training to give it constitutional underpinings....

technicalities that might get it through the courts once it gets there.

[limpyhobbler]

41. Also Obama is able to get away with more because liberals don't complain when Obama does it. nt

[niyad]

16. don't forget that idiot in TN who said that anyone who even questioned water quality is a terrorist

[Champion Jack]

26. Yep

[Babel_17]

18. It's funny, in a way, until you think about what it would mean to me or you

We might experience a devastation of our finances, and credit rating, and employability.

The take home lesson being to avoid doing anything to get yourself on a list.

Heck, I had my background checked when I signed an application for a lease on an apartment.

How would some regular Joe or Jane deal with this intimidation. Most of us don't have lawyers on retainer nor can we afford to do so.

[Babel_17]

19. Wait, google is showing this as a rumor from 2010. :)

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2010/11/29/mark-ruffalo-gq-watch-list/

Lol

[Curmudgeoness]

27. Well, PA is saying it is a rumor, but

there is a watch list, and it is compiled in Pennsylvania. Not federal. It is known because it was leaked.

In response to a story by Patriot-News reporter Donald Gilliland, a shame-faced Gov. Ed Rendell held news conferences saying, “This is ludicrous. And I apologize to any of the groups who had this information disseminated about their activities. They have the right to protest.”

At the center of this mess was Pennsylvania’s Office of Homeland Security, a quiet division within the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency.

The director resigned, but there were a lot of questions about how this office and the private group it hired were able to get away with such outlandish activity on the public dime. The bulletins put out by ITRR also were being shared with private corporations, another huge red flag.

http://www.pennlive.com/editorials/index.ssf/2011/11/watchful_eye_state_agencies_mu.html

I realize that the link is to an editorial article, but the truth is that there was/is a PA Office of Homeland Security, and it did list a large number of fracking opponents, as well as other protest groups including gay rights and tea parties.

[Just Saying]

20. Ruffalo: I was never on a terrorist watch list

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/mark-ruffalo-terrorist-watch-list-story-fantastical-article-1.469270

[TakeALeftTurn]

21. This just confirms that anyone the government doesn't like will be placed a terror watch list

Gives the excuse for the NSA to go through their surveillance file.

[Bluenorthwest]

23. Story is really old and was never actually true....

just saying....

[JEB]

24. Phony war on terror is nothing

but a clamp down by corporate powers.

[MannyGoldstein]

25. "People will die as a result of his actions"

Or something.

[silvershadow]

28. This needs to be bumped to the top. Think about this for just a minute. Or as long as it takes.

Reference our ship of state, our democratic republic, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore. That means, also, that it is possible some or many DU'er could be as well. We are a group of people who don't know each other, but communicate over the internet. Ooooooh. We have common interests and are passionate. This is where we exchange yadda yadda. The whole narrative that they can come up with is endless. It's whatever they want or need it to be. Many Du'ers, I am sure, have posted stuff about fracking, Peak Oil, and all manner of stuff- 9/11, conspiracy stuff, on and on, so it's likely they view us lefties as some kind of "watchable" group. For no other reason, except that they can. Now, do they? Who knows for sure. But I do know this: It has been revealed, recently, that they are basically mass-vacuuming the internet, for storage. For later use. So, they basically have everything they need to control everything, and all the information they need to distort the narrative to fit any particular need at all. That, and some shady lawyers is all they need.

[Billy Pilgrim]

29. I'm pretty sure everyone who speaks in this forum is on that list.

It's a long list.

And it's funny how most people didn't care when we knew that private companies were storing and tracking our personal internet communications (and to a much greater extent than the NSA) for use in advertising. But now that it's the NSA, we care.

And to justify our prior apathy we say to ourselves, "Well, private companies can't enforce Federal law like the NSA can." And that is correct, but in response I say this - not yet. Not yet, but likely soon.

We are witnessing the birth of our oligarchy, one day at a time, and at an exponential rate.

[truebluegreen]

38. Yep.

Some of my LTTE and love notes to the White House could get me there too.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

40. Including the apologists?

[Manifestor_of_Light]

30. But he played a good guy in his latest movie!!

He's an FBI agent in Now You See Me.

[blkmusclmachine]

32. I have seen the enemy.

And he is us.

[cprise]

34. K&R

[limpyhobbler]

42. Those watch lists are tools of intimidation. Everyone knows Ruffalo is no terrorist.

But if you are a regular person and end up on a list like that, it could have bad effects on your life. Nobody knows exactly what that could lead to.

Nobody wants to be on a list like that. So it's probably going to have a chilling effect on activism.