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"PagCal" |
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14 Mar 2006 10:39:32 PM |
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FBI going after peace groups - AGAIN |
J. Edgar Hoover went after MLK for his anti-war activities.
Trouble was, MLK should have investigated Hoover for his cross dressing
as well as such muntaine activities as abrogating American civil rights.
But hey, MLK's star still shines brightly, while the government is
removing J. Edgars name from buildings.
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FBI Took Photos of Antiwar Activists in 2002
By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, March 15, 2006; A05
An FBI agent in Pittsburgh photographed members of an antiwar activist
group in 2002, according to documents released yesterday by the American
Civil Liberties Union, which said the disclosure marks the latest
incident in which the FBI has monitored left-leaning groups.
An FBI report from November 2002 indicates that an agent photographed
members of the Thomas Merton Center as they handed out leaflets opposing
the impending war in Iraq. The report called the group a "left-wing
organization advocating, among many political causes, pacifism."
The same memo notes that one of the leaflet distributors "appeared to be
of Middle Eastern descent" but that no other participants appeared to be
from the Middle East.
"All we were doing was handing out leaflets, which is a perfectly legal
way to spend an afternoon," said Tim Vining, the center's former
executive director, who said he participated in the Nov. 24, 2002,
protest monitored by the FBI. "All we want to do is exercise our First
Amendment rights . . . Is handing out fliers now considered a terrorist
activity?"
The FBI said in a statement that the agent was "acting with all
appropriate investigative authorities" as part of an ongoing terrorism
probe. The photos were destroyed once the agent determined that a person
under investigation was not in attendance at the event, the FBI said.
The incident is the latest disclosure by the ACLU involving antiwar
protesters, environmental groups and religious organizations that have
been monitored by FBI agents or other anti-terrorism investigators.
Another memo from February 2003 said the center was "opposed to the
United States' war with Iraq" and described its Web site and activities.
That letter was a draft that was never included in an investigative
file, the FBI said.
Heavily censored documents from 2005 also refer to information about the
center from an unidentified source. An FBI official said those reports
were from a separate probe that did not involve terrorism.
© 2006 The Washington Post Company
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| User: "effty" |
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| Title: Re: FBI going after peace groups - AGAIN |
15 Mar 2006 12:54:27 AM |
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"PagCal" <pagcal@runbox.com> wrote in message
news:9UMRf.299$nO1.244@fe02.lga...
J. Edgar Hoover went after MLK for his anti-war activities.
Trouble was, MLK should have investigated Hoover for his cross dressing as
well as such muntaine activities as abrogating American civil rights.
But hey, MLK's star still shines brightly, while the government is
removing J. Edgars name from buildings.
Let's hope our groups do as well as the ones the FBI went after in Hoover's
time.
~e.
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