Blogcritics: Comments on FBI Infiltrates Antiwar Movement

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Sat, 17 Jan 2004 21:31:20 EST

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Comment by jadester

Sun, 23 Nov 2003 08:43:53 EST

sorry, it's not a degeneration into militarism, but a degeneration into a police state. i can only hope here in the uk we manage to hold on to at least some of our civil liberties. anyway, isn't "the right to peaceful protest" meant to be a human right, or something?

Comment by Mac Diva

Sun, 23 Nov 2003 01:49:46 EST

I think we have to expect this. Anytime even the slightest threat to the status quo is perceived, the 'internal security' apparatus, seems to get involved. (National, but also local. One of the funniest things I've seen is the files on 'radicals' kept by the John Birch Society-influenced Portland Police Department through the 1980s. Among the radicals tabs were kept on is our current mayor. She was a supporter of the migrant worker movement.) So, we need to be aware that the person next to us at a rally or meeting may be an infiltrator. One thing I do is try to talk sense to people who are making reckless remarks. They unwittingly provide fodder for the watchers.

Comment by Natalie Davis

Sun, 23 Nov 2003 01:31:49 EST

Oh wow, good job, Mike. I just wrote piece on this bit of new-millennium COINTELPRO for the Open Source Politics that will publish in 24 hours. Scary shit, this is.