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Don...@triangle.sports
up the phone, you don't hear a message warning you
that the NSA is monitoring it.
But they are.
"Anytime, anywhere" is their motto.
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On Being Monitored
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On being black.
African-Americans are a heavily monitored group.
* "Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996
*
* Even while Lyndon Johnson fought for far-reaching civil rights
* legislation and spoke out against racism and government eavesdropping,
* the Johnson White House created a special squad of FBI agents to place
* wiretaps and bugs on most of the African Americans who came to Atlantic
* City during the 1964 Democratic convention.
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A while back, I saw a black ex-police officer take a camera with him in
a car in LA at night. This was somewhere around the time of the Rodney
King beating. I was watching C-SPAN. Some sort of police officers
association meeting...
It was amazing how often he was pulled over, and the cheesy reasons the
officers gave.
"Your tail light was broken"
He got out with the camera still on, showed the tail light was fine, and
asked the officer what he was talking about.
"Oh, you're right. Sorry."
He was pulled over again and again and again.
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The New Jersey State Police admitted they were targeting black drivers.
Pulling them over, and searching their vehicles inch-by-inch.
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* The New York Times, December 14, 1995, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
*
* Six officers - five whites and one Asian-American - have plead guilty
* to corruption charges, including illegal searches, lying under oath
* and planting false evidence.
*
* The guilty pleas have led to a review of more than 1,600 arrests of
* mostly black and Hispanic suspects that were made by the officers
*
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Ga...@triangle.sports
now: same as it
ever was. And his imprisonment had the same slimy quality as the vicious
attack on Qubilah Shabazz, whom the government at first claimed they
"had enough on her to put her away for 90 years".
And just how do domestic civil rights organizations get labelled terrorist
or under the influence of foreign agents? Why was Qubilah Shabazz's father
considered a terrorist?
: "Secret and Sanctioned: Covert Operations and the American Presidency"
: by Stephen F. Knott, 1996, ISBN 0-19-510098-0
:
: Both presidents Johnson and Nixon had been convinced that Communist
: nations were bankrolling or directing the antiwar movement and had
: ordered investigations into this possibility.
:
: The CIA's investigations, which included operation CHAOS, found no
: evidence of external control or funding of the antiwar movement, the
: Black Panthers, or the Students for a Democratic Society.
* "The Rise of the Computer State", David Burnham, 1984
*
* p128: Federal authorities were concerned that foreign governments MIGHT
* try to influence civil rights leaders in the United States. The list
* of Americans monitored ballooned as political groups, celebrities and
* ordinary citizens were added to the 'watch lists'. The NSA surveillance
* was illegal and was instantly stopped [years later] when it appeared
* that Congress might learn about the eavesdropping.
Fear, loathing, suspicion and monitoring of civil rights movements.
All it took was the thought that foreigners were influencing Americans.
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