amy31416
05-30-2011, 03:52 PM
What a great use of our tax money! He's a left-wing anarchist who's politically active in protests and that sort of thing, so many of you may not like him, but certainly he should be left alone.
NYT, being the rag that it is, throws in commentary about the OKC bombing to plant the notion that the surveillance is justified.
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Mr. Crow, 44, a self-described anarchist and veteran organizer of anticorporate demonstrations, is among dozens of political activists across the country known to have come under scrutiny from the F.B.I.’s increased counterterrorism operations since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Other targets of bureau surveillance, which has been criticized by civil liberties groups and mildly faulted by the Justice Department’s inspector general, have included antiwar activists in Pittsburgh, animal rights advocates in Virginia and liberal Roman Catholics in Nebraska. When such investigations produce no criminal charges, their methods rarely come to light publicly.
But Mr. Crow, a lanky Texas native who works at a recycling center, is one of several Austin activists who asked the F.B.I. for their files, citing the Freedom of Information Act. The 440 heavily-redacted pages he received, many bearing the rubric “Domestic Terrorism,” provide a revealing window on the efforts of the bureau, backed by other federal, state and local police agencies, to keep an eye on people it deems dangerous.
More at link about how the gov't justifies this bull$h&1: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/us/29surveillance.html?_r=1&ref=us
NYT, being the rag that it is, throws in commentary about the OKC bombing to plant the notion that the surveillance is justified.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/05/29/us/SURVEILLANCE-1/SURVEILLANCE-1-articleLarge.jpg
Mr. Crow, 44, a self-described anarchist and veteran organizer of anticorporate demonstrations, is among dozens of political activists across the country known to have come under scrutiny from the F.B.I.’s increased counterterrorism operations since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Other targets of bureau surveillance, which has been criticized by civil liberties groups and mildly faulted by the Justice Department’s inspector general, have included antiwar activists in Pittsburgh, animal rights advocates in Virginia and liberal Roman Catholics in Nebraska. When such investigations produce no criminal charges, their methods rarely come to light publicly.
But Mr. Crow, a lanky Texas native who works at a recycling center, is one of several Austin activists who asked the F.B.I. for their files, citing the Freedom of Information Act. The 440 heavily-redacted pages he received, many bearing the rubric “Domestic Terrorism,” provide a revealing window on the efforts of the bureau, backed by other federal, state and local police agencies, to keep an eye on people it deems dangerous.
More at link about how the gov't justifies this bull$h&1: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/us/29surveillance.html?_r=1&ref=us