ACLU Releases Government Photos (vegan rally)

[norml]

ACLU Releases Government Photos

Jon Shirek Reports



A government photo shows Caitlin Childs protesting.


Caitlin Childs, shown at an ACLU news conference


Web Editor: Michael King
Reported By: Jon Shirek
Web Editor: Tracey Christensen
Last Modified: 1/25/2006 9:41:15 PM


The ACLU of Georgia released copies of government files on Wednesday that illustrate the extent to which the FBI, the DeKalb County Division of Homeland Security and other government agencies have gone to compile information on Georgians suspected of being threats simply for expressing controversial opinions.

Two documents relating to anti-war and anti-government protests, and a vegan rally, prove the agencies have been "spying" on Georgia residents unconstitutionally, the ACLU said. (Related: ACLU Complaint -- PDF file)

For example, more than two dozen government surveillance photographs show 22-year-old Caitlin Childs of Atlanta, a strict vegetarian, and other vegans picketing against meat eating, in December 2003. They staged their protest outside a HoneyBaked Ham store on Buford Highway in DeKalb County.

An undercover DeKalb County Homeland Security detective was assigned to conduct surveillance of the protest and the protestors, and take the photographs. The detective arrested Childs and another protester after he saw Childs approach him and write down, on a piece of paper, the license plate number of his unmarked government car.

"They told me if I didn't give over the piece of paper I would go to jail and I refused and I went to jail, and the piece of paper was taken away from me at the jail and the officer who transferred me said that was why I was arrested," Childs said on Wednesday.


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[The_Casual_Observer]

1. I hope she sues for false arrest

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. The government's new definition of a "terrorist"

anyone who impedes commerce. The vegans were picketing a ham store so maybe perhaps some customers didn't go in! Horrors of horrors! Off to Gitmo! :sarcasm:

[norml]

12. Anyone protesting HoneyBaked Ham in Georgia must be a terrorist.

[toymachines]

3. Fascism

They are clearly crushing dissent. It pisses me off that they are so dam blatent about it, they have no intention of reversing course.

[norml]

13. Ja!

[daleanime]

4. Hello CNN...

the world is watching.
Yeah, right.

[norml]

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[fooj]

5. They fucking arrested her because she wrote a license plate number down?

OMG!

[GetTheRightVote]

6. These are sad days in our nation, deeply depressing .......

:kick:

[Squatch]

7. Bush is "confident" this is legal.

[AzDar]

9. I am "confident" he has brain-damage...lol n/t

[Beaverhausen]

8. K&R

for anyone who still doubts that this surveillance has nothing to do with terrorists and everything to do with facism.

[norml]

17. Ja!

[Terran1212]

10. Sister works for georgia homeland

Not a completely kosher set of people

[Maru Kitteh]

14. they're coming to take me away ... he he ha ha ho ho........ they're

coming to take me away. I hope I can get DU in club Gitmo.

[norml]

15. You're either with HoneyBaked Ham, or you're with the terrorists.

[Maru Kitteh]

16. Maybe they mistook our hummus for hammas?

:shrug:

[Warren DeMontague]

18. Boy, they must have a huge file on Michael Stipe.

although I don't think he's a vegetarian anymore.