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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGovernment reports on 'suspicious activity' by Americans!!
http://www.mercurynews.com/politics-government/ci_24135780/civil-rights-groups-call-an-end-collection-governmentBe careful if you're heading out to buy a lot of bottled water or photograph a California landmark. The government is watching, and it may put details about what you're doing into a giant antiterrorism database, especially if you appear to be Arab or Muslim.
More than 1,800 "suspicious activity reports" collected by law enforcement officers and shared with federal agencies through clearinghouses called "fusion centers" that were released Thursday showed for the first time in California that activities like photographing buildings, flying the U.S. flag upside down, or even just giving the cold shoulder to a neighbor may result in the firm rap of FBI agents on your door and demands that you explain yourself.
This is especially true for Arabs, Muslims and people of South Asian descent, who are more often the subject of the secret reports, the value of which are dubious and have never been shown to have resulted in a terrorism-related arrest, members of civil rights groups said Thursday.
The government "should not be putting us in databases as potential terrorists when we have nothing to hide and haven't done anything wrong," said Linda Lye, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California. "This is wrong and it needs to stop."
More than 1,800 "suspicious activity reports" collected by law enforcement officers and shared with federal agencies through clearinghouses called "fusion centers" that were released Thursday showed for the first time in California that activities like photographing buildings, flying the U.S. flag upside down, or even just giving the cold shoulder to a neighbor may result in the firm rap of FBI agents on your door and demands that you explain yourself.
This is especially true for Arabs, Muslims and people of South Asian descent, who are more often the subject of the secret reports, the value of which are dubious and have never been shown to have resulted in a terrorism-related arrest, members of civil rights groups said Thursday.
The government "should not be putting us in databases as potential terrorists when we have nothing to hide and haven't done anything wrong," said Linda Lye, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California. "This is wrong and it needs to stop."
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Government reports on 'suspicious activity' by Americans!! (Original Post)
KamaAina
Sep 2013
OP
Mark my words. Right after they pass tpp they will call ANY descent terrorism.
OffWithTheirHeads
Sep 2013
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OffWithTheirHeads
(10,337 posts)1. Mark my words. Right after they pass tpp they will call ANY descent terrorism.
G_j
(40,366 posts)3. it's been heading that way for a while
no reason to think otherwise..
hootinholler
(26,449 posts)6. Don't know what the TPP has to do with it
But I will give you that's pretty low.
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)2. K&R America, we have a problem.
WillyT
(72,631 posts)4. HUGE K & R !!!
Octafish
(55,745 posts)5. And if you logon DU...
...you're on a list somewhere.
Demo_Chris
(6,234 posts)7. Along with the contents of every post you have ever made. nt
PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)8. If TPP passes can we
Make that date an annual event? Maybe something like "National kill-an-oligarch day" or something? At least make it a fun day for the masses...
?
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)9. Now, now.
Tarring and feathering will suffice.