Peace group under FBI surveillance

[IndianaGreen]

Issue Date: August 11, 2006

Peace group under FBI surveillance

By LINDA COOPER and JAMES HODGE

School of the Americas Watch, a faith-based peace organization that seeks to close a U.S. military school that has advocated the use of torture and assassination, finds itself under surveillance by the FBI’s counterterrorism unit.

Fr. Roy Bourgeois, a Maryknoll priest who founded the organization, recently told members of the U.N. Human Rights Committee in Geneva that the spying has been going on for years.

And he has the documents to prove it.

With help from the American Civil Liberties Union, Bourgeois obtained FBI records showing it has been targeting his organization, which monitors the U.S. military school for Latin American officers, now called the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. The group organizes an annual November protest against the school in Fort Benning, Ga.

What is chilling, Bourgeois said, is that the surveillance continues despite the fact the FBI’s own documents conclude that SOA Watch is a peaceful group.

http://ncronline.org/NCR_Online/archives2/2006c/081106/081106o.php

[lisainmilo]

1. Our civil liberties remain uncertain...check this out!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/domestic_spying;_ylt=AgkZTPECkMy0_NTzkfwBFlvB4FkB;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
Check this article out. Scary times we live in! Feels like Nazi Land!

:dem:

[IndianaGreen]

2. "police infiltration of anti-war groups"

I am old enough to remember when the local constabulary infiltrated our antiwar groups during the Vietnam conflict. They were easy to spot! They were the most militant and the ones that always spoke of violence.

[Stargazer99]

3. About as bad as spying on the Quakers and their peace march

As if the Quakers would be a threat to the US....so damned obvious that our country has become like Nazi Germany that it isn't in funny anymore.