I have not heard any discussion so far on the fact that people make and are contacted mistakenly. What if your phone number is somewhat like a person the NSA is interested in and people that are identified as part of their pattern of contacts call you repeatedly, does this concern you?
Over 25 years ago, I would get, on a repeated basis, phone calls from the friends and associates of Dennis Banks. Here below the fold is some history on Dennis Banks:
American activist, organizer, and protest leader Dennis Banks helped found the influential American Indian Movement (AIM). Under his passionate leadership in the late 1960s and early 1970s, AIM championed Native American self-sufficiency, traditions, and values. Its demand for federal recognition of century-old treaty rights led to violent clashes with authorities, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) branded AIM an extremist group. In turn, illegal actions by the FBI led to Banks's acquittal on charges stemming from his role in AIM's occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in 1973. While heightening national awareness of Native American issues, Banks faced prosecution several times. He spent nearly a decade as a criminal fugitive, receiving a form of political asylum in California from then governor Jerry Brown before surrendering in 1984 and serving a shortened prison term.
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In early 1973, a turning point occurred in Banks's life and the direction of AIM. On February 6, he led an AIM protest two hundred strong in Custer, South Dakota, after a white man accused of killing an Indian in a barroom brawl was charged with involuntary manslaughter. Banks met with local officials, but when the slain man's mother, Sarah Bad Heart Bull, tried to enter the courthouse, she and other Native Americans were beaten by the police. A riot ensued, in which AIM members set fire to police cars and the chamber of commerce office. For his role in the Custer incident, Banks was charged with arson, burglary, and malicious damage to a public building, all of which he denied. But his radicalization was complete. "We had reached a point in history where we could not tolerate the abuse any longer," Banks later explained, "where mothers could not tolerate the mistreatment that goes on on the reservations any longer, they could not see another Indian youngster die."
Three weeks later, Banks, Means, and other AIM members took over the town of Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. For Native Americans, the town has a bitter place in history: it is the site where, in 1890, three hundred unarmed Sioux men, women, and children were massacred by the Seventh Cavalry of the U.S. Army. Banks and Means hoped to invoke this symbolism by seizing the town by armed force and issuing new demands. They wanted the federal government to investigate the BIA and to address treaty violations, and they denounced recent tribal elections as corrupt manipulations by white U.S. citizens. As national attention focused on the growing army of some three hundred FBI agents and U.S. marshals, and the armored personnel carriers surrounding the militants' fortifications, gunfire was frequently exchanged. Over seventy-one days, while the government ordered surrender without amnesty, the town was held. "We laid down our weapons at Wounded Knee," Banks told the press from within the stronghold, recalling the 1890 massacre. "Those weapons weren't just bows and guns, but also a sense of pride."
The takeover ended on May 9, 1973. Pentagon documents later revealed that the U.S. Army had readied a vast military arsenal to clear out AIM members, including over 170,000 rounds of ammunition, grenade launchers, explosives, gas, helicopters, and jets. In the end, however, casualties were limited: two Native Americans were killed and several wounded; three members of the government forces were wounded, including one agent who was paralyzed. As a condition of surrendering, AIM was once again promised a federal investigation of its demands, but none was forthcoming.
Banks and Means were prosecuted on ten felony counts each in a dramatic eight-month trial in St. Paul, during which federal marshals used Mace on courtroom spectators. The defendants alleged that their takeover of Wounded Knee was justified by the government's violations of the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie--a pact in which the Sioux Indians had been promised government protection for ending their armed resistance. But the case against Means and Banks foundered on revelations that the FBI had used illegal wiretaps and had changed documents, among other illegalities, in mounting its prosecution. On September 16, 1974, all charges were dismissed
Dennis Banks, while living in California, was still a person the FBI was interested, as were the AMI and other Native American groups. Dennis Banks lived near or in Davis, California. Prior to his arrival in Davis, students and professors in the Native American and Chicano Studies Departments at U C Davis banded together to try and establish a college that honored their beliefs and traditions. Here is what happened:
Nov. 3, 1970, in the cold before sunrise, a group of about 25 Native Americans and Chicanos scaled a 7-foot cyclone and barbed-wire fence to occupy an Army communications site west of Davis.
The group wanted to build an indigenous college on the site, which had been deemed surplus government property. The city had briefly considered creating a landfill there while the Early Bird Lions wanted to develop a motorcycle track, lake and park. The indigenous college and a UC Davis proposal emerged as the final contenders.
Before the application deadline, the U.S. Department of Health Education and Welfare decided to give the land to UCD for rice research and primate center expansion. In protest, the native group climbed over the fence, set up a teepee and refused to leave. Eventually, the land was granted to the group and D-Q University was established.
What I had heard from students and Professors regarding this time, was that they knew they were being watched by the FBI. One professor said that they knew their phones were being tapped during the occupation of the land.
Dennis Banks arrived in California due to then Gov. Jerry Brown's amnesty. He was made President of D Q University after 1976.
I never met nor spoke to Dennis Banks, but I would get some of his phone calls. I just want to bring up this question, because people could be linked to call patterns mistakenly.
What do you think?