NY Times reports on Pentagon spying on UCSC anti-war group

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Saturday January 14, 2006 · 10:15 PM PST

2006/01/14 · 22:15

A Protest, a Spy Program and a Campus in an Uproar (5th most e-mailed story of the day!)

By SARAH KERSHAW
Published: January 14, 2006

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. - The protest was carefully orchestrated, planned for weeks by Students Against War during Friday evening meetings in a small classroom on the University of California campus here...

More comments and most of the article (few hundred words) reprinted below...
my thoughts: It doesn't surprise me that a college anti-war group involved in counter-recruitment of the military is being spied on by the Pentagon, especially when military recruitment is becoming increasingly difficult, and especially when there is a growing realization that the death toll on U.S. troops isn't going to drop anytime soon, and when a study shows that many deaths are due to the poor body armor

It was widely reported recently, including in an article by Kos, that the Pentagon was spying on UCSC because of gays. This is NOT accurate.

Spying on Gays? No, spying on counter-military recruitment

Bogus story spreads that Pentagon labeled a gay kiss-in a "credible threat"

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Saturday December 24, 2005 · 2:24 PM PST

2005/12/24 · 14:24

Robert Dreyfuss wrote Iraq: Game Over describing a post December 15th Iraqi election situation where fundamentalist Shiite parties backed by the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, a 20,000 paramilitary force called the Badr Brigade (The armed wing of SCIRI), Iranian intelligence services and Revolutionary Guard corps, will sustain a "theocratic bastion state" which will continue to keep Sunnis out, more Shiite militia incorporated into the "Iraqi" army and the resistance further radicalized and violent.

...Next stop: civil war...

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Thursday December 22, 2005 · 2:10 PM PST

2005/12/22 · 14:10

A few days ago, Kos wrote an entry called "Spying on the new terrorists: gays"

A UC-Santa Cruz "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" protest, which included a gay kiss-in, was labeled as a "credible threat" of terrorism.

And we're supposed to trust King Bush will only use his self-appointed god-like powers for good?

The UCSC group which organized this protest was NOT a "gay group" or a LGBT group, though it was obviously tolerant and welcoming of LGBT members. This was a group called STUDENTS AGAINST WAR. And the goal of the protest was to prevent military recruiters, who were on campus that day at a job fair, from recruiting on campus. If you look at the pictures, the "kiss-in", composed of at least 10 queer couples, was held at a job fair while surrounding military recruiters.

*correction update* thanks to the SAW member for the clarification...the queer kiss-in wasnt revealed as a "credible threat". An April 05 protest which kicked off military recruiters, was. (NY Times article on this)

More pics and analysis below.

by Evan Branigan:

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Monday December 19, 2005 · 8:45 PM PST

2005/12/19 · 20:45

This post is partly inspired from lipris who wrote "Domestic Spying is NOT About Terrorism. It is About Dissent UPDATED" on how domestic spying is not about terrorism but about monitoring, intimidating and squelching constitutionally protected dissent. Why do we care about spying? Besides the obvious fact that Bush is overriding laws, making things up about getting congressional approval for warrants, etc. why should we care?

I learned after reading Major Danby's post that using spying for political purposes (squashing dissenters and political opponents) is nothing new. He shows how former director and founder of the FBI J. Edgar Hoover abused his power to spy on Americans...Afterwards I'll show an article on how spying affects us directly in the modern day...especially for those of us brave enough to speak out against injustice (ex: Rove outing Joe Wilson's wife as a CIA agent). In fact, Rove has relied on blackmailing political enemies ever since he helped Bush run for governor. Imagine what he could do with the NSA. Read More

STOP THE WAR. Say NO to military recruiters! w/poll

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Sunday October 23, 2005 · 3:17 PM PDT

2005/10/23 · 15:17

The Campus Antiwar Network Conference in Berkeley was awesome...There were more than 600 students, from different states across country....some also from New York and the East coast. There were rumors Cindy Sheehan was going to be there..but forget her.

Today I understood more the connections between how the "war machine" is only as good as the government and military recruiters can persuade individuals to join it. And that we all should be the ones supporting and encouraging students (especially High School students) to go to college and find a career...just NOT a career which involves the military and killing others. Read More

Secret Service visits blogger after a prayer for G.W.'s death

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Sunday November 07, 2004 · 4:29 PM PST

2004/11/07 · 16:29

This blogger got a Secret Service visit after another blogger "reported" the blog to the FBI. I'm not sure what to think about this.

A couple of weeks ago, following the last presidential debate, I said some rather inflammatory things about George W. Bush in a public post in my LJ, done in a satirical style. We laughed, we ranted, we all said some things. I thought it was a fairly harmless (and rather obvious) attempt at humor in the face of annoyance, and while a couple of people were offended, as is typical behavior from me, I saw something shiny and forgot about it, thinking that the whole thing was over and done and nothing else would come of what I said.

I was wrong.

At 9:45 last night, the Secret Service showed up on my mother's front door to talk to me about what I said about the President, as what I said could apparently be misconstrued as a threat to his life...

link to anniesj's livejournal

On Slashdot

On the Inquirer

UPDATE - She prayed to God that Dubya would die Read More

Motivated more than ever

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Wednesday November 03, 2004 · 12:32 PM PST

2004/11/03 · 12:32

At this point, I refuse to believe that Bush is going to be in office for the next four years. We need to finish counting the votes and know what the HELL is up with this electronic voting that is screwing with our system. I did NO homework last night, I stayed up until 4 am switching between channels, browsing the net, trying to find some glimmer of hope.

I woke up saying "SHIT". I don't think Republicans have any idea what kind of fury they will get from the liberal and Democratic base in the next four years. For the next four years, this day will probably be etched into my mind as the driving force behind what I study and what I choose as a career. Like how 9/11 drove me to study Politics and learn as much as I can about the Middle East. Funny how a disaster can drive people to do things.

"be the change you wish to see in this world" -gandhi

This morning I just walked by a lawn at my college where volunteers were setting up crosses, each with a picture and details of a soldier that has died in Iraq... Read More

FREEP ALSO: Get A Perfect Circle's kickass Anti-War Video on MTV Now!

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Monday October 25, 2004 · 10:43 PM PDT

2004/10/25 · 22:43

I apologize for reposting this, but since everybody is going crazy freeping Eminem's Mosh video, I think they should freep this one too...

The music video for the remake of John
Lennon's "Imagine" by A Perfect Circle.

In my opinion it is AMAZING. Though this song was written more than thirty years ago and was played in an era protesting a different war, the message of "Imagine" still gets praise from another generation of music listeners.

However, according to a Perfect Circle band member, "this is footage that has been available on network TV and yet I guarantee you it won't get played". So let's help him out shall we?

Watch the video on Launch.yahoo.com and then remember to FREEP it there. Get this video on the Yahoo top 100 list

Or go directly to A Perfect circle's main site then go to the music section .

Lyrics to Imagine

MTV.com: A Perfect Circle Album Preview: Politics? They've got it covered." (10/19/04)

Do you think linking these two together would be in our best interests?
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"Protect our Civil Liberties" T-shirt sways longtime Republican at Bush rally 2 vote Kerry

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Monday October 25, 2004 · 12:25 PM PDT

2004/10/25 · 12:25

This story was first posted here but I thought it deserved a second chance.

From Sierra Times

THE LAST STRAW
Carl F. Worden

That's it, I've had it.

I've been a registered Republican since I pulled my first lever in a voting booth, and I've voted as a loyal Republican for Republican candidates consistently every year. I am 55 years of age. I am considered a right-wing Christian conservative and strict constitutionist who knows the Framers of the Constitution expected strict adherence to that original document unless and until it is amended.

You don't get much more conservative and constitutionally-minded than I am, and that is why I just cast my Oregon vote-by-mail ballot for Democrat John Kerry as the next president of the United States. So did my wife -- and she's a very independent thinker. I know there are thousands of lifelong Republican/Independent conservatives who are going to do the same thing on November 2nd, because they've written and told me so...
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Insecure borders + weapons = Insecure President

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Monday October 25, 2004 · 4:00 AM PDT

2004/10/25 · 04:00

INSECURE WEAPONS

Here is what conservative columnist Andrew Sullivan had to say: CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE, CTD: This blog has been on the case of vanished and missing explosives and infrastructure from Iraq weapons sites for some time...the fact that large amounts of potentially deadly materials have been looted under the eyes of the American occupation is Exhibit A in the case for this administration's incompetence... In terrorist-ridden Iraq, the possibility of serious weaponry falling into the hands of the enemy and being deployed against American troops and conceivably American citizens is unforgivable. The whole point of the invasion was to prevent this kind of transfer from taking place. Yet, thanks to this administration, it may have precipitated it. Sure, we have enough troops. Sure. "

+... Read More

CNN QuickVote now: Do you pay attention to newspaper endorsements of political candidates?

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Sunday October 24, 2004 · 3:57 PM PDT

2004/10/24 · 15:57

The current CNN Quickvote is:

Do you pay attention to newspaper endorsements of political candidates?

Yes - 27%
12674 votes

No - 73%
34735 votes

Total: 47409 votes

Hopefully this doesn't mean most people will dismiss newspaper endorsements. If people can't believe that journalists and editors can't have a greater awareness of the elections after all the press conferences they've been to, the papers they've read, interviews they've covered, the research they've done, etc., then we might as well join the suckers watching all the televised lies and propaganda.

Go to CNN and vote Or take the poll here.

Anti-war message in IMAGINE remake by A Perfect Circle

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Sunday October 24, 2004 · 9:00 AM PDT

2004/10/24 · 09:00

The music video for the remake of John Lennon's "Imagine" by A Perfect Circle is absolutely AMAZING. Though this song was written more than thirty years ago and was played in an era protesting a different war, the message of "Imagine" still gets praise from another generation of music listeners.

However, according to a Perfect Circle band member, "this is footage that has been available on network TV and yet I guarantee you it won't get played". So let's help him out shall we?

Watch the video on Launch.yahoo.com and then remember to FREEP it. Get this video on the top 100 list and make sure more of the public sees it.

Or go directly to A Perfect circle's main site then go to music.

Lyrics to Imagine

MTV.com: A Perfect Circle Album Preview: Politics? They've got it covered." (10/19/04)

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