New Column

[LowerCaseRepublican]

http://lennybrucefan.tripod.com/id65.html

 

Just wanted to let the ST faithful have a chance to advance read my column that'll be running in the Herald next Friday.

 

Lemme know what you think of it. Feedback appreciated (obviously)

[kapkomet]

Again, the quakers reference. dammit... i never really did get to study that and I don't want to hunt for it, or is that in the GWB admits to wiretapping thread.

[LowerCaseRepublican]

Again, the quakers reference.  dammit... i never really did get to study that and I don't want to hunt for it, or is that in the GWB admits to wiretapping thread.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/15/155223

 

From the Sun Sentinel in Florida:

South Florida's anti-war activists are few in number. Many are retirees, veterans or students. They carry puppets, wave placards or hand out pamphlets to potential military recruits.

 

But these activities have been labeled a "threat" by the Defense Department. Local peace-mongers, like many around the country, have come under surveillance by the Pentagon.

 

"I'm disabled, I'm 59 and if I'm a credible threat to the government of the United States, then either the government is terribly paranoid or terribly weak," said Rich Hersh of Boca Raton, whose group, the Truth Project, has come under federal scrutiny.

 

The military's domestic surveillance was disclosed this week in a report on NBC Nightly News, which obtained a 400-page Department of Defense document outlining the surveillance of peace groups. Acting on a complaint from the Truth Project, Florida Sen. Bill Nelson posted a letter Wednesday to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, demanding an accounting.

 

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Many in the group are Quakers and they even meet at the Quaker House.

 

http://www.afsc.org/news/2005/government-spying.htm -- The Quakers commenting on it themselves.

 

Historical note as well, the Quakers were among many groups in the 1960s and 1970s that were targeted by the FBI/COINTELPRO where they were infiltrated with agent sabateurs and other tactics to try to "neutralize" their supposed threat.