The government was spying on.....vegetarians?!

[RandomKoolzip]

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.

Not sure if this is a dupe or not, but I found this on another site. Apparently, the ACLU has released surveillance photos they gathered from a government file that collected information on vegan and vegetarian groups. They were spying on vegetarians who held some protest. The article has pictures of the people they were spying on (illegally). They sure don't look like Al-Queda to me.


http://www.11alive.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=75151

[LaurenG]

1. That's pretty @*^%#%$*(& scary

I would LOVE to know why they are spying. What are they trying to find out? Our country is such a mess with this extreme political corruption.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Word to the wise

memorize the license plate number, or take a photo surreptitiously.

Yeah, first we're fighting al Quakers, now its al Vegans.

[Ignis]

9. That puts some of us in double jeopardy!

Please send vegan care packages to:

The Reagan Memorial Detention Center
123 Meaty Patriot Avenue
Nowhere, NA 00000

[davidinalameda]

3. this is my WTF thread of the day

:wtf:

damn vegetarians--don't they know how important honey baked hams are to international security

:sarcasm:

[RandomKoolzip]

5. They just don't realize what's at steak here.....

:evilgrin:

[mzteris]

8. well - we know how deadly a steak

through the heart can be. Maybe they fear for cheney's wellbeing.

Or the beef lobby.

[Cassandra]

6. You limit yourself to one a day?

That hardly seems enough these days.

[meganmonkey]

4. don't look like Al-Queda?

Ummm, that guy has a bushy beard! He must be hiding something. He could have a bomb in there!

Why do you hate America?

:sarcasm:

[RandomKoolzip]

10. Hitler was a vegetarian.

And Hitler fought against us in WWII.

Therefore, it's okay for Homeland Secuity to spy on vegetarian groups.

See? No problem!

[friesianrider]

15. Actually he wasn't :)

So even that theory can be shot down!

[Critters2]

24. Hilter loved squab and sausages

Kind of a funny vegetarian, dontcha think? His own cook wrote about how Hitler WASN'T a vegetarian. He actually had members of vegetarian organizations arrested. Why does that sound familiar?

[Angry Girl]

7. Protecting our broccoli is a national priority

No more illegal crop nibblers!
Four out of five Heimat Sekurity experts agree and Gonzie gives it a Two Thumbs UP!

[Angry Girl]

11. Oh, wait, could it be the Texas Beef Cartel?

Remember how hard they came down on Oprah (she won but she was very shaken afterward, as they threatened her family and more)

[Blue Belle]

17. Bush 41 didn't like broccoli....

so those who do are obviously against American values. :eyes:

[aden_nak]

12. Just another argument in favor of writing on your own hand.

[RandomKoolzip]

14. Hadn't thought about that.

Good idea....never use a piece of paper that a HS thug could wrestle out of your hand.

[anarch]

13. refusing to eat good 'merican food is subversive

Next thing you know, people will turn into pacifists or something. Can't have that!


Also, animal rights activism is terrorism. These people are clearly out to destroy our God-fearing, meat-eating, fur-wearing, animal-torturing country...they must be spied on for the sake of freedom.

[FreedomAngel82]

16. Ugh, disgusting

What was on the paper I wonder. :shrug:

[Beaverhausen]

18. Why the hell was Homeland Secuity sent to this protest?

"An undercover DeKalb County Homeland Security detective was assigned to conduct surveillance of the protest and the protestors, and take the photographs."

Oh yeah...they are only doing surveillance on those who have ties to Al Queda. Riiiiiiiiiight!

[RandomKoolzip]

21. Well, we all know how close veganism is to Militant Islam.

I mean, they're kissing cousins! I knew this vegan dude once who saw "Brokeback Mountain" and became a Islamofascist gay tree-hugger with a Volvo and a latte in each hand THE NEXT DAY!

And even though "Brokeback Mountain" came out last year, I'm CONVINCED he was one of the 19 hijackers on 9/11/01. Bank on it!

[SidDithers]

19. Not vegetarians, vegeterrorians....nt

[RandomKoolzip]

20. Zing! Good one.

[flamingyouth]

22. LOL

:D

23. vegetarians are part of a larger movement of

greens, environmentalists, and progressives in general, which a totalitarian type of leader wants to squash, seeing them as a threat.

[Critters2]

28. Makes me feel pretty damned important

And to think, I thought I was just trying to prevent the suffering of animals. The power of tofu!!

[RandomKoolzip]

25. kick

[RandomKoolzip]

26. kickity-kick

[im10ashus]

27. K&R!

:kick:

[dogday]

29. Damn shame I am just reading this now

deserves a reccomendation for sure... Great article, we are losing our civil liberties people...

[renate]

30. I don't understand why this story didn't make national headlines

How is it not news that there is easily understandable, everyday PROOF of this administration violating our civil rights?

This isn't wiretapping to look for terrorists, this is surveillance of people picketing a ham store. It would be absolutely ridiculous if it weren't so scary.

Seriously, would anti-ham activists have been arrested for writing down a license plate number in the Soviet Union? (And if the answer is "yes," what does that tell us about America today?)

[yurbud]

31. have you seen what they do to innocent vegetables?

They boil, broil, fry and EAT them.