Thirty miles south of me, Melbourne's finest, and the Brevard County Sheriff's Office, are accused of working a little
overtime filming protesters at a local anti-Bush Rally ... and setting up surveillance and secret files on Bush protestors ...
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Melbourne police secretly made the tape, taking close-ups of the protesters and their vehicles. They kept records of the event and kept watch with several officers.
After the City Council objected, police erased the tape and changed their policy. But now it's clear the sheriff's office was also watching and keeping records, and Sheriff Jack Parker is not backing down."
"Rebecca Boettcher's son, a former Marine, was serving in Iraq when Baghdad fell. Her niece remains deployed there with the Missouri National Guard.
The 57-year-old Indialantic grandmother said she considers herself patriotic -- and was upset to learn the Brevard County Sheriff's Office targeted her as a "person of interest" in connection with an anti-President Bush rally Jan. 20 at Melbourne City Hall. Officials secretly gathered information about her."