http://www.iww.org/en/node/1832It seems that if you simply READ something, the FBI will be looking at you very close up! Older story, but good to know info.
America's Least Trusted - How a Clermont stripper ended up under FBI surveillance
Submitted by intexile on Sat, 12/31/2005 - 4:32pm.
By Coley Ward - creativeloafing.com, December 28, 2005
Tabby Chase works nights as a dancer at the Clermont Lounge, so she was asleep the morning of Thurs., March 17, when she says FBI Special Agent Dante Jones called her.
Chase says she didn't know what the FBI wanted. When she awoke, it was late afternoon, and she had five messages from three numbers. She says each was from Jones, telling her the FBI needed to ask some questions.
Chase is tall and thin, with hair buzzed to about a quarter-inch, except for long blond bangs that routinely fall in her face. She describes herself as a flaky anarchist, somebody who has an inherent distrust of government and big business but who is "terrible at outreach" and "not involved in any organizing."
She says she has never been arrested, and her FBI file confirms that. The file, which CL obtained from the ACLU, is five pages long, but three pages were withheld. It reads like a rap sheet with no raps. Chase's age, Social Security number, and history of participation in various human rights groups is detailed.
The FBI declined to talk to CL about its investigation.
After Chase received the messages from Jones, she called her friend Ken Driggs, a lawyer with the DeKalb County public defender's office, who set up a meeting with the FBI. The next day, Chase and Driggs went to the FBI's Atlanta field office in Decatur. Three agents - Jones and two other men - met them.
Driggs says the meeting lasted for an hour-and-a-half.
"When it broke up," he says, "the language was, 'You have not satisfied our concerns; you are likely to hear from us again.'"
Chase says it took awhile to get to the point. "First they brought out a sheet that they were filling out with my personal information. They wanted to know my full name. Where do I live? Do I have any tattoos? Then they started asking me who I date and who I live with."
After questioning her for 20 minutes about her personal life, Chase says the agents finally told her that somebody had informed them she was planning a trip to Iraq. They said they were concerned she might be a domestic terrorist.
Chase isn't alone. In July 2003, Marc Schultz, who was an Atlanta bookstore employee at the time, wrote a first-person account published in this newspaper about being questioned by the FBI after somebody reported him for reading an article titled "Weapons of Mass Stupidity" in a Caribou coffee shop. Since Sept. 11, 2001, local human rights groups such as Atlanta WAND, the Georgia Peace & Justice Coalition, and School of the Americas Watch have complained about increased monitoring. And earlier this month, President Bush confirmed that in 2002 he authorized the National Security Agency to conduct wiretaps without first acquiring a warrant.
FULL story at link above.