Paranoia in the Pentagon, Fascism in the FBI

NBC news recently revealed that the Pentagon maintains a secret database on "suspicious" domestic groups. Instead of the Pentagon bending its efforts toward protecting America, they monitor peaceful anti-war and counter-military recruitment groups.

Christopher Pyle, a former Army intelligence officer, blew the whistle on the Defense Department for monitoring and infiltrating anti-war and civil rights protests during the Vietnam War. Pyle says, "The documents tell me that military intelligence is back conducting investigations and maintaining records on civilian political activity. The military made promises that it would not do this again."

On December 9, 2005 the Colorado Springs Gazette reported that the FBI puts the names and license plates of protestors into domestic-terrorism files. ACLU legal director Mark Silverstein said, "This kind of surveillance of First Amendment activities has serious consequences. Law-abiding Americans may be reluctant to speak out when doing so means that their names will end up in an FBI file."

So, in a time when we *know* that there *are* real terrorists, the Pentagon and the FBI are wasting time and money looking for terrorism in all the wrong places. Maybe they're following the example of George Bush looking for WMDs under tables in the oval office. And with as little success.

Susan D


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