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December 20, 2005
If we can't test eyeshadow on rabbits, the terrorists win
FBI counterterrorism investigators are monitoring domestic U.S. advocacy groups engaged in antiwar, environmental, civil rights and other causes, the American Civil Liberties Union charged yesterday as it released new FBI records that it said detail the extent of the activity.The documents, disclosed as part of a lawsuit that challenges FBI treatment of groups that planned demonstrations at last year's political conventions, show the bureau has opened a preliminary terrorism investigation into People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the well-known animal rights group based in Norfolk.
The papers offer no proof of PETA's involvement in illegal activity. But more than 100 pages of heavily censored FBI files show the agency used secret informants and tracked the group's events for years, including an animal rights conference in Washington in July 2000, a community meeting at an Indiana college in spring 2003 and a planned August 2004 protest of a celebrity fur endorser.
National security rests on whether or not Pamela Anderson is wearing fur.
In the name of keeping America safe from the terrorists...W has to spy on Americans who participate in anti Iraq War and peace activism.
After all, if we have peace...Bush is out of a job.
Posted by Carla at December 20, 2005 09:29 AM