My Gosh. The Countdown bit on the Pentagon Spying is like F911

[liveoaktx]

the little harmless looking peace group-QUAKERS.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. Just goes to show you that a free and democratic nation will turn

on its citizens in a heartbeat.... 'splain that one gw... 'splain that one.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. It's deja vu all over again...

Same shit as during the Vietnam war, when Hoover's FBI infiltrated and spied on antiwar and civil rights activists.

[Nay]

10. Yep. Exactly the same. College campuses had undercover FBI

all over them. It's obvious the masses didn't learn anything during the Vietnam era. Today is a hyped-up, more dangerous version of then.

[WhiteTara]

4. "that's the good part about being

president, I don't have to spain anything" nah nah nah
Quote George Bush
on some bad day

[LiberalArkie]

3. but they have to protect Merica from those commie peaceniks

[bloom]

5. the Quakers are one of the most active peace groups I know of...

Not that they need to be spied on. :)

Just saying.

[Nimrod2005]

6. That was amazing....

[FreedomAngel82]

7. That's nothing new

So much for the first amendment eh? I still need to buy "1984."

[malaise]

8. Mind-blowing

but given the Quaker history from the 18th century, they will not take this quietly. They are slowly waking up everyone and this too will backfire. These fascists have gone completely mad but they will meet their waterloo.

Rememeber the Quakers were the first known protest group following the industrial revolution and the first to fight for the rights of others. They used that printing press to make very famous posters exposing slavery. There was also that very popular medallion made by Josiah Wedgewood which became the seal of the abolitionist movement.

"When the famous one-legged pottery entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood joined the committee, he had one of his craftsmen make a bas-relief of a kneeling slave, in chains, encircled by the legend "Am I Not a Man and a Brother?" American anti-slavery sympathizer Benjamin Franklin, impressed, declared that the image had an impact "equal to that of the best written Pamphlet." Clarkson gave out 500 of these medallions on his organizing trips. "Of the ladies, several wore them in bracelets, and others had them fitted up in an ornamental manner as pins for their hair." The equivalent of the lapel buttons we wear for an electoral campaign, this was probably the first widespread use of a logo designed for a political cause. It was the 18th century's "new media."

Edit - update picture and add.

[lonestarnot]

9. They better leave the boss man alone! He'll sue... LOL

[pdxmom]

11. This appalled me when I saw it. And my biggest fear is that so

many average citizens have either drunk the Kool-Aid or become so complacent that they will get away with it.

This should never be happening.