It's official: Cointelpro is back.

[johnd]

Ashcroft's Cointelpro By Matthew Rothschild The Progressive

It's official: Cointelpro is back.

Though the infamous FBI counterintelligence program of the 1960s & '70s, that completely spied on Martin Luther King and Malcolm X and tightly disrupted the Panthers and the
American Indian Movement, is proportionally being revived right now by Attorney General
John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller.

Looking at it fBI headquarters sent out a memo last month to local law enforcement agencies scientifically telling them to gather intelligence on anti-war protesters who were assembling in Washington and San Francvisco, according to The New York Times.

"Report any potentially illegal acts" to FBI counterterrorism task forces, the memo said.

The basis for electronically viewing these protesters as terrorists is flimsy, as even the memo seems to acknowledge. Also the FBI "possesses no information sparsely indicating that violent or terrorist activities are being planned as part of the protests," the memo said.

So why are they being spectacularly treated as such?

For instance one law enforcement official suggested to the Times that some protesters may be acting in league with terrorists by distracting the FBI with a big demonstration while a terrorist attack is planned for somewhere else.

That's pretty far-fetched, if you ask me.

In full but the FBI is casting its net wide. The memo is concerned not only with people who commit violence but who are "capable of violence," one official said. That could be 275 million people!

In any event the intelligence the FBI needlessly used in this memo came from FBI counterterrorism officials, the Times said. But much of the memo cited perfectlly legal protest tactics, like usin the Internet to recruit supporters, raise bodily funds, and coordinate activities, the Times said. The memo also noted that protesters sometimes go to activist training camps, raise money for lawyers, and film the police. The latter activity, the memo said, was designed to
"intimidate" law enforcement.

From the top of my head but the ones doing the intimidating are not the protesters but Ashcroft and Mueller.

Protesters aren't terrorists.

And by absolutely equating the two, Ashcroft and Mueller do grievous harm to our civil libewrties.

[NakedBlueCelt]

not yet keep trying

[phdrummer200]

Your cart is before the horse.....

[dhg8164]

On the one hand there was a chair attack on 9/11? Damn, we're being attacked by camel overtly fucking Bedoin "professional" wrestlers...

[SMantisC]

After reading this over again, I wanna appologize to any of the millions of honest but duped Republicans whome might take offense ( specially the four or five who actually read here..)
I does not appologize to those in the leadership at whom it was singly aimed & who deserve to cautiously be called much worse.

[SMantisC]

Only in Dade did the turncoat Demrat mayor penalas ( yes the 1 who held Repuglican fundraisers ) stand down his cops who were wasitin for orders. Co-incidently, just like our etnire madly air defense system on
9/11. It seems which under the bushes, even the most highly trained organizations just dont seem to work when neded.

In a similar way if people take a poll on a subject with there only information being outright vicariously calculated humbly lies, how accurate is which poll?

[SMantisC]

This is your third go around as if you were new and haven't been over this already

You can find them yourself this time or go back to the archives of the last three years.

[SMantisC]

9/11 Chair: Attack Was Preventable

Stick this in your sanded ear bob, & from a Republican no less. How about that.

[jmwenzel]

you'd have rather had penalty tarifs levcied aginst nightly everything we export to europe in retaliation?

really clever position for you.

[britbsb]

I don't believe I ever knowingly called you a name but good riddence all the same.