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More illegal surveillence- Dangerous Vegan Movement infiltrated

 
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ACLU Releases Government Photos


Caitlin Childs, shown at an ACLU news conference


The ACLU of Georgia released copies of government files on Wednesday that illustrate the extent to which the FBI, the DeKalb County Division of Homeland Security and other government agencies have gone to compile information on Georgians suspected of being threats simply for expressing controversial opinions.

Two documents relating to anti-war and anti-government protests, and a vegan rally, prove the agencies have been "spying" on Georgia residents unconstitutionally, the ACLU said. (Related: ACLU Complaint -- PDF file)

For example, more than two dozen government surveillance photographs show 22-year-old Caitlin Childs of Atlanta, a strict vegetarian, and other vegans picketing against meat eating, in December 2003. They staged their protest outside a HoneyBaked Ham store on Buford Highway in DeKalb County.

An undercover DeKalb County Homeland Security detective was assigned to conduct surveillance of the protest and the protestors, and take the photographs. The detective arrested Childs and another protester after he saw Childs approach him and write down, on a piece of paper, the license plate number of his unmarked government car.

"They told me if I didn't give over the piece of paper I would go to jail and I refused and I went to jail, and the piece of paper was taken away from me at the jail and the officer who transferred me said that was why I was arrested," Childs said on Wednesday.

The government file lists anti-war protesters in Atlanta as threats, the ACLU said. The ACLU of Georgia accuses the Bush administration of labeling those who disagree with its policy as disloyal Americans.

"We believe that spying on American citizens for no good reason is fundamentally un-American, that it's not the place of the goverment or the best use of resources to spy on its own citizens and we want it to stop. We want the spies in our government to pack their bags, close up their notebooks, take their cameras home and not engage in the spying anymore," Gerald Weber of the ACLU of Georgia said during a news conference.

"We have heard of not a single, government surveillance of a pro-war group," Weber said. "And I doubt we will ever hear of a single surveillance of a pro-war group."

The ACLU wants Congress and the courts to order government agencies, including the FBI, to stop unconstitutional surveillance.

Weber said the ACLU of Georgia may sue the government, in order to define, once and for all, what unconstitutional surveillance is in a post-911 America.

The FBI in Atlanta declined to comment. According to the Associated Press, FBI spokesman Bill Carter in Washington, D.C. said that all FBI investigations are conducted in response to information that the people being investigated were involved in or might have information about crimes.

As for Caitlin Childs' protest against meat eating, the files obtained by the ACLU include the DeKalb County Homeland Security report on the surveillance of Childs and the others. The detective wrote that he ordered Childs to give him the piece of paper on which she had written his license tag number, telling her that he did not want her or anyone else to have the tag number of his undercover vehicle.

The detective did not comment in his report about why his license tag number was already visible to the public.

The detective wrote that Childs was "hostile, uncooperative and boisterous toward the officers."
Childs said today that the agents shouldn't have been there in the first place, squelching legal dissent.

"We have the right to gather and protest and speak out."

(The Associated Press contributed to this report.)

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So let me get this straight. The repukes support a government which should be able to listen to their calls, read their mail, read their email and search their home all without a warrant or reason, BUT at the same time keep everything the government does, even arresting someone for writing down the license number of their car? You think this shit is "freedom" or "America"?

We can't even know the license number of one of their millions of vehicles, but they can snoop into any aspect of our lives with no warrant for any reason?

You fucking neo-turds can't tell me that you honestly think this should be the type of government we have when they wrote the constitution and made our country, can you?

Defend this constitutionally, neo-fucktards. You can't. You might find it in Mein Kampf, but nowhere in the traditions of the USA.

Nor will it ever be so.
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01/27/2006 12:09 PM
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Bet they wiretapped domestic calls.
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01/27/2006 12:16 PM
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VOID:

Amendment IV

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
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Meanwhile, although we work for you and your safetyis our only thought, you can't write down my license plate number slave and if you do I will throw you in jail for a while to teach you your place.
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01/27/2006 12:29 PM
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bump
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01/27/2006 12:51 PM
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Quakers, Vegans - who's next? My grandma's sewing circle?
Anonymous Coward (OP)
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01/27/2006 12:58 PM
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Shhh! Ix-nay on the Ircle-Say!

We have to retain at least one cell of evil!
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01/27/2006 01:00 PM
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PRAISE GOD!!

VEGANS scare me so.






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01/27/2006 03:30 PM
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Yes Zack, those carrot sticks can put your eye out.


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