Document shows FBI monitored cars near meeting of war protesters

[struggle4progress]

By The Associated Press Thursday, March 30, 2006

DENVER (AP) -- The FBI recorded the license plate numbers of a dozen vehicles spotted "in the vicinity of" a Denver bookstore where anti-war demonstrators gathered before a rally, according to an agency document released by the American Civil Liberties Union Tuesday.

Surveillance of the now-closed Breakdown Books in February 2003 raises questions about whether the FBI treats public dissent as "potential terrorism," said Mark Silverstein, legal director of the ACLU in Colorado.

"Why is the FBI conducting surveillance of a bookstore, monitoring the persons who gather there, and keeping files with lists of license plate numbers?" Silverstein said in a news release. <snip>

FBI report on ACLU site: http://www.aclu-co.org/docket/200406/Colo.Springs.antiwar.demo.Feb.2 003.pdf <snip>

http://www.jacksonholestartrib.com/articles/2006/03/30/news/regional/201fb1486da02aa38725713f0065564b.txt

[niyad]

1. sounds like a good reason to take a bus!

[Warren DeMontague]

2. Your link is broken, but I fixed it for ya--- no charge.

http://www.aclu-co.org/docket/200406/Colo.Springs.antiwar.demo.Feb.2003.pdf

And, from reading it, it's clear to me that those people were obviously dangerous terrorists. Who but America-haters would drive such sensible, good mileage vehicles?

[struggle4progress]

3. Thanks!

:)

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. This is clearly intended to discourage dissent and intimidate

american citizens. This is fundamentally wrong.

[Bozita]

5. Pissing away more taxpayer $$$ -- Do you feel any safer?

I sure as hell don't.

[cboy4]

6. And in a related story, FBI monitored struggle4progress' DU post

of FBI monitoring cars near meeting of war protesters. :crazy:

[struggle4progress]

8. Yah, me expect dat, cuz me been doin dis stuff a while: me has ..

.. had friends who wuz bugged & followed & photographed in the 40s and 50s and 60s and 70s and 80s ...

[rodeodance]

7. Repugs say the PA has never been abused. umm...

[silverojo]

9. Yet the pro-illegals protesters are never spied upon

It's just a matter of whether you're for Bush (letting in illegals to get votes) or against him (objecting to the war).

Think, folks...when you're on the same side of an issue as Dumbya, it's time to rethink your position.

[gimama]

10. if HE's fer it.. I'm agin it! e/m