Watching You – MFer!
According to Department of Defense training manuals, protest is also now considered “low-level terrorism”
ITRR (Institute of Terrorism Research and Response) may have also tracked and disabled “activist groups that planned to protest the 2009 Group of 20 economic conference in the city”
Source: WashingtonsBlog
Also,…
Big Brother, Come Clean: The FBI is Misusing “Community Outreach” Programs for Intelligence Gathering
The FBI, in true Big Brother fashion, is secretly and deliberately collecting information about innocent Americans for its intelligence files, and illegally recording information about their speech, beliefs, and First Amendment-protected activities. This is bad enough. But to make it worse, the FBI is doing this intelligence collection under the guise of community outreach programs — programs that are supposed to build trust and rapport with the public — without telling community groups or their members what it is doing.
Source: ACLU
Also,…
Section 215 of the Patriot Act authorizes the government to obtain “any tangible thing” relevant to a terrorism investigation, even if there is no showing that the “thing” pertains to suspected terrorists or terrorist activities. This provision is contrary to traditional notions of search and seizure, which require the government to show reasonable suspicion or probable cause before undertaking an investigation that infringes upon a person’s privacy.
Section 206 of the Patriot Act, also known as “roving John Doe wiretap” provision, permits the government to obtain intelligence surveillance orders that identify neither the person nor the facility to be tapped. This provision is contrary to traditional notions of search and seizure, which require government to state with particularity what it seeks to search or seize.
