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David Rubinson <rubinson@kab.com> wrote:Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 08:22:41 -0500
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Subject: Bushtapo
This is just the beginning folks.
As Bush increasingly loses his popular support, as his media pimps (see O'Reilly, Will etc) continue to desert the sTinking ship, as more of his Cabinet and staff members voice their real feelings (See Powell, et al) and as Chancellor Cheney finds it more and more awkward to scrape the doggie doo off his shoes, Karl Rove will do what he has always done. He will push pedal to the metal, and the repression will escalate.
Rove and Ashcroft will panic, lest their meal ticket get revoked, and Des Moines and Miami will seem like a fond memory compared to what will come.
March 20 will be a test. Unless I miss my guess, we will see much more of the Police violence and employment of truly indefensible obscene futuristic weapons against the dissenters.
Come August, New York will look like Caracas or Baghdad.
The only way Cheney and Rove know how to play is hardball. They have and will continue to promote the Us against Them mentality, mobilizing polarity and difference, setting one of us off against the other.
Most Americans actually BELIEVED their BS about Saddam and Osama and the weapons.
These same gullible citizens will likewise swallow the line that Rove et al will throw out-
--That the dissenters are a fringe pinko bunch of freaks and creeps, who threaten our way of life.
The packaging is in the hands of the Media Pimps, remember.
The days of the past-- with loud and boisterous aggressive demonstrations -- a la 1968 --- are OVER.
The days when we had to be LOUD to be HEARD are gone.
If March 20, 2004 looks like March 20, 1972, then we will gain nothing, except the enmity and dissociation of a large number of voters.
Our model must be Gandhi, not Abbie Hoffman.
We must forego the quick self-gratification of cheap confrontation- what fun it is to fight with a cop --
We must relinquish our need to PROVE that we are DOING SOMETHING- by indulging in onanistic and fruitless showing off.
What we must do, is to come together by the thousands, by the tens and hundreds of thousands, and lie down in the streets of our cities and towns.
Make them come to a total stop.
Silently, patiently, with total dignity.
Lie down, and refuse to move.
Standing around, or marching down the streets, singing about Bush and his Daddy, or what Democracy looks like, is OLD.
And it gets us nowhere.
The next day, all we have to show for it are some lovely scratches or scars, proudly to be exhibited to our admiring friends, and no change.
All it does is satisfy our egos, we feel noticed and like we did something.
The goal of dissent is to inform, convince, and make change possible.
To do this, we must galvanize the sympathy and support of a majority of the witnesses.
To do this, we must stop business as usual.
We must be spontaneous, unplanned, mobile and unpredictable.
Everything the Roves and other pterodactyls are NOT and never will be.
And we take our cue from Gandhi.
Thousands - tens or hundreds of thousands of us- arrive, and simply lie down.
Standing up, or marching, or running, we are targets.
How many police will it take to disperse this ? They cannot.
Can the Bushtapo actually be seen to gas or beat thousands of supine unresistant and totally passive people ?
We don't need another three hours of speeches by an impressively ecumenical parade of speakers or vaguely supportive media stars or singers.
That was then.
Now, the images of what will happen will be on the internet and on TV screens world wide in 30 minutes.
And the image that the world should see- should be one of total passive resistance.
And if, as I suspect, a panicked and angry Rove decides to punish the crowd, then the victory will be ours.
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excerpts. for complete text go to:
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/02/11/cointelpro
Outlawing dissent
Spying on peace meetings, cracking down on protesters, keeping secret files on innocent people -- how Bush's war on terror has become a war on freedom.
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By Michelle Goldberg
Feb. 11, 2004 | The undercover cop introduced herself to the activists from the Colorado Coalition Against the War in Iraq as Chris Hoffman, but her real name was Chris Hurley. Last March, she arrived at a nonviolence training session in Denver, along with another undercover officer, Brad Wanchisen, whom she introduced as her boyfriend. The session, held at the Escuela Tlatelolco, a Denver private school, was organized to prepare activists for a sit-in at the Buckley Air National Guard Base the next day, March 15. Hurley said she wanted to participate. She said she was willing to get arrested for the cause of peace. In fact, she did get arrested. She was just never charged. The activists she protested with wouldn't find out why for months.
Chris Hurley was just one of many cops all over the country who went undercover to spy on antiwar protesters last year. Nonviolent antiwar groups in Fresno, Calif., Grand Rapids, Mich., and Albuquerque, N.M., have all been infiltrated or surveilled by undercover police officers. Shortly after the Buckley protest, the Boulder group was infiltrated a second time, by another pair of police posing as an activist couple.
Meanwhile, protesters arrested at antiwar demonstrations in New York last spring were extensively questioned about their political associations, and their answers were entered into databases. And last week, a federal prosecutor in Des Moines, Iowa, obtained a subpoena demanding that Drake University turn over records from an antiwar conference called "Stop the Occupation! Bring the Iowa Guard Home!" that the school's chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, a civil libertarian legal group, hosted on Nov. 15 of last year, the day before a protest at the Iowa National Guard headquarters. Among the information the government sought was the names of the leaders of the Drake University Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, its records dating back to January of 2002, and the names of everyone who attended the "Stop the Occupation!" conference. Four antiwar activists also received subpoenas in the investigation.
On Tuesday, after a national outcry, the U.S. Attorney's Office canceled the subpoenas. Still, says Bruce Nestor, a former president of the National Lawyers Guild who is serving as the Drake chapter's attorney, "We're concerned that some type of investigation is ongoing."
(see story, below....DR)
In the early 1970s, after the exposure of COINTELPRO, a program of widespread FBI surveillance and sabotage of political dissidents, reforms were put in place to prevent the government from spying on political groups when there was no suspicion of criminal activity. But once again, protesters throughout America are being watched, often by police who are supposed to be investigating terrorism. Civil disobedience, seen during peaceful times as the honorable legacy of heroes like Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., is being treated as terrorism's cousin, and the government claims to be justified in infiltrating any meeting where it's even discussed. It's too early to tell if America is entering a repeat of the COINTELPRO era. But Jeffrey Fogel, legal director of the Center for Constitutional Law in Manhattan, says, "There are certainly enough warning signs out there that we may be."
As a new round of protests approaches -- including worldwide antiwar demonstrations on March 20 and massive anti-Bush actions during the Republican National Convention in August and September -- experts say the surveillance is likely to increase. "The government is taking an increasingly hostile stance toward protesters," says Michael Avery, president of the National Lawyers Guild and a professor of constitutional law at Suffolk University. In the run-up to the Republican Convention, he says, "I'm sure the government will be attempting to infiltrate political groups. They may send agent provocateurs into political groups. They're no doubt compiling reports on people. We have to stand up against that."
The U.S. Attorney's Office confirms that the investigation is a collaboration between the FBI, the Polk County Sheriff's Department and the U.S. Attorney's Office -- all of whom, Nestor notes, serve on the JTTF. It focuses on a case of misdemeanor trespassing on government property that took place on Nov. 16, near the antiwar protest. According to Nestor, the case involves someone who "walked up to a closed gate" outside the National Guard's armory, "had a conversation with the guards and got charged with trespassing." The police and FBI are now investigating whether people at the antiwar conference entered into some kind of conspiracy to break the law -- in other words, whether they planned acts of civil disobedience.
"They appear to be taking the stance that if any individual, as part of or in relation to a protest, commits an act that might be a violation of federal law, that they can subpoena and investigate any records of any meeting that person may have gone to in the days or even months proceeding," says Nestor.
Avery suggests that such investigations will have a chilling effect on the planning for future protests. "The risk is that if there's some kind of demonstration or protest activity that involves trespassing, [the JTTF] is saying they can ask people what political meetings have you been to lately, who was there, what did you talk about," says Avery. "People are allowed to meet and talk and debate political issues without being spied on by the government." At least, they used to be.
Whether or not a Joint Terrorism Task Force was behind the Iowa investigation, JTTFs have already been implicated in political spying. In a three-ring binder from the Denver Police Department Intelligence Unit obtained by the Colorado ACLU, a section labeled "Colorado and Local Links: JTTF Active Case List" contained printouts made in April 2002 from the Web sites of the Colorado Campaign for Middle East Peace, American Friends Service Committee, Denver Justice and Peace Committee and the Rocky Mountain Independent Media Center. One of the printouts, a copy of which is available on the ACLU's Web site, is the American Friends Service Committee's calendar of upcoming antiwar events.
..."Now, ...if there is a rally of people who are criticizing the United States and its policies and saying that the United States will someday perhaps be destroyed because of that, the FBI agent can go and listen to what's being said," Ashcroft told CNN's Larry King in May of 2002. In other words, merely arguing that U.S. policies may result in the country's destruction justifies FBI snooping. This gives the FBI investigative license far beyond even that it enjoyed during the COINTELPRO period...
..."It's equating dissent with terrorism," says DeGraff. "It's saying if you dissent, you're a terrorist."
In fact, that's exactly what some law enforcement officers have said.
...Mike Van Winkle, spokesman for the California Anti-Terrorism Information Center, issued a remarkably broad definition of terrorism. "You can make an easy kind of link that, if you have a protest group protesting a war where the cause that's being fought against is international terrorism, you might have terrorism at that protest," he said. "You can almost argue that a protest against that is a terrorist act."
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February 11, 2004
Subpoenas on Antiwar Protest Are DroppedBy MONICA DAVEY
ES MOINES, Feb. 10 ­ Facing growing public pressure from civil liberties advocates, federal prosecutors on Tuesday dropped subpoenas that they issued last week ordering antiwar protesters to appear before a grand jury and ordering a university to turn over information about the protesters.
The protesters, who had said they feared that the unusual federal inquiry was intended to silence and scare people who disagreed with government positions, declared victory.
"We made them want to stop," Brian Terrell, executive director of the Catholic Peace Ministry here and one of four protesters who received subpoenas, told a crowd at the federal courthouse. "We're here to make them want to never let it happen again."
...Civil liberties advocates here and nationally said they had questions about the intent of the investigation and whether it might signal a broader worry for antiwar protesters here and others elsewhere. The Iowa Civil Liberties Union intends to investigate the investigation, said its executive director, R. Ben Stone.
"Despite any retreat by the Iowa U.S. Attorney," Mr. Stone said, "there remain serious questions about the scope of this particular investigation. If it was just a trespassing investigation, why seek the membership records of the National Lawyers Guild? If this was an attempt to chill protests through the aggressive policing of a run-of-the-mill crime, we've got a serious problem in America."
Twenty-one people attended a training session on nonviolent protest at the Nov. 15 antiwar forum, organizers said. On Tuesday, a far larger group, more than 100, stood outside the federal courthouse beside Mr. Terrell in bitter cold, holding a new set of protest signs that said, "Say no to political grand juries," "You can subpoena us, but you will not silence us" and "Investigate Halliburton not Iowans."
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<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 08:22:41 -0500<BR>To: (Recipient list suppressed)<BR>From: David Rubinson <RUBINSON@KAB.COM><BR>Subject: Bushtapo<BR><BR><FONT size=3>This is just the beginning folks.<BR>As Bush increasingly loses his popular support, as his media pimps (see O'Reilly, Will etc) continue to desert the sTinking ship, as more of his Cabinet and staff members voice their real feelings (See Powell, et al) and as Chancellor Cheney finds it more and more awkward to scrape the doggie doo off his shoes, Karl Rove will do what he has always done. He will push pedal to the metal, and the repression will escalate.<BR>Rove and Ashcroft will panic, lest their meal ticket get revoked, and Des Moines and Miami will seem like a fond memory compared to what will come.<BR>March 20 will be a test. Unless I miss my guess, we will see much more of the Police violence and employment of
truly indefensible obscene futuristic weapons against the dissenters.<BR>Come August, New York will look like Caracas or Baghdad.<BR>The only way Cheney and Rove know how to play is hardball. They have and will continue to promote the Us against Them mentality, mobilizing polarity and difference, setting one of us off against the other.<BR>Most Americans actually BELIEVED their BS about Saddam and Osama and the weapons.<BR>These same gullible citizens will likewise swallow the line that Rove et al will throw out-<BR>--That the dissenters are a fringe pinko bunch of freaks and creeps, who threaten our way of life.<BR>The packaging is in the hands of the Media Pimps, remember.<BR>The days of the past-- with loud and boisterous aggressive demonstrations -- a la 1968 --- are OVER.<BR>The days when we had to be LOUD to be HEARD are gone.<BR>If March 20, 2004 looks like March 20, 1972, then we will gain nothing, except the enmity and dissociation of a large number of voters.<BR>Our
model must be Gandhi, not Abbie Hoffman.<BR>We must forego the quick self-gratification of cheap confrontation- what fun it is to fight with a cop -- <BR>We must relinquish our need to PROVE that we are DOING SOMETHING- by indulging in onanistic and fruitless showing off.<BR>What we must do, is to come together by the thousands, by the tens and hundreds of thousands, and lie down in the streets of our cities and towns.<BR>Make them come to a total stop.<BR>Silently, patiently, with total dignity.<BR>Lie down, and refuse to move.<BR>Standing around, or marching down the streets, singing about Bush and his Daddy, or what Democracy looks like, is OLD.<BR>And it gets us nowhere.<BR>The next day, all we have to show for it are some lovely scratches or scars, proudly to be exhibited to our admiring friends, and no change.<BR>All it does is satisfy our egos, we feel noticed and like we did something.<BR>The goal of dissent is to inform, convince, and make change possible.<BR>To
do this, we must galvanize the sympathy and support of a majority of the witnesses.<BR>To do this, we must stop business as usual.<BR>We must be spontaneous, unplanned, mobile and unpredictable.<BR>Everything the Roves and other pterodactyls are NOT and never will be.<BR>And we take our cue from Gandhi.<BR>Thousands - tens or hundreds of thousands of us- arrive, and simply lie down.<BR>Standing up, or marching, or running, we are targets.<BR>How many police will it take to disperse this ? They cannot.<BR>Can the Bushtapo actually be seen to gas or beat thousands of supine unresistant and totally passive people ?<BR><BR>We don't need another three hours of speeches by an impressively ecumenical parade of speakers or vaguely supportive media stars or singers.<BR>That was then.<BR>Now, the images of what will happen will be on the internet and on TV screens world wide in 30 minutes.<BR>And the image that the world should see- should be one of total
passive resistance.<BR>And if, as I suspect, a panicked and angry Rove decides to punish the crowd, then the victory will be ours.<BR>
<HR>
<IMG height=48 alt=2bdffb.jpg src="cid:6.0.0.22.2.20040211071852.05b85630@mailhost.kab.com.0" width=184><BR></FONT><FONT face="times new roman" color=#999999 size=3>excerpts. for complete text go to:<BR></FONT><FONT size=3><A href="http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/02/11/cointelpro" eudora="autourl">http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/02/11/cointelpro<BR><BR></A></FONT><FONT face="times new roman" size=5>Outlawing dissent<BR></FONT><FONT face="times new roman" size=3><B>Spying on peace meetings, cracking down on protesters, keeping secret files on innocent people -- how Bush's war on terror has become a war on freedom. <BR></B></FONT><FONT face="times new roman" color=#999999 size=2>- - - - - - - - - - - -<BR></FONT><FONT face=Verdana size=2><B>By Michelle Goldberg<BR></B>Feb. 11, 2004 | </FONT><FONT face="times new roman" size=3>The undercover cop introduced herself to the activists from the Colorado Coalition Against the War in Iraq as Chris Hoffman, but her real name
was Chris Hurley. Last March, she arrived at a nonviolence training session in Denver, along with another undercover officer, Brad Wanchisen, whom she introduced as her boyfriend. The session, held at the Escuela Tlatelolco, a Denver private school, was organized to prepare activists for a sit-in at the Buckley Air National Guard Base the next day, March 15. Hurley said she wanted to participate. She said she was willing to get arrested for the cause of peace. In fact, she did get arrested. She was just never charged. The activists she protested with wouldn't find out why for months. <BR><BR><B>Chris Hurley was just one of many cops all over the country who went undercover to spy on antiwar protesters last year. Nonviolent antiwar groups in Fresno, Calif., Grand Rapids, Mich., and Albuquerque, N.M., have all been infiltrated or surveilled by undercover police officers. Shortly after the Buckley protest, the Boulder group was infiltrated a second time, by another pair of police
posing as an activist couple. <BR><BR></B>Meanwhile, protesters arrested at antiwar demonstrations in New York last spring were extensively questioned about their political associations, and their answers were entered into databases. And <B>last week, a federal prosecutor in Des Moines, Iowa, obtained a subpoena demanding that Drake University turn over records from an antiwar conference called "Stop the Occupation! Bring the Iowa Guard Home!" that the school's chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, a civil libertarian legal group, hosted on Nov. 15 of last year, the day before a protest at the Iowa National Guard headquarters. Among the information the government sought was the names of the leaders of the Drake University Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, its records dating back to January of 2002, and the names of everyone who attended the "Stop the Occupation!" conference. Four antiwar activists also received subpoenas in the investigation. <BR><BR>On Tuesday, after a
national outcry, the U.S. Attorney's Office canceled the subpoenas. Still, says Bruce Nestor, a former president of the National Lawyers Guild who is serving as the Drake chapter's attorney, "We're concerned that some type of investigation is ongoing." <BR>(see story, below....DR)<BR><BR></B>In the early 1970s, after the exposure of COINTELPRO, a program of widespread FBI surveillance and sabotage of political dissidents, reforms were put in place to prevent the government from spying on political groups when there was no suspicion of criminal activity. But once again, protesters throughout America are being watched, often by police who are supposed to be investigating terrorism. <B>Civil disobedience, seen during peaceful times as the honorable legacy of heroes like Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., is being treated as terrorism's cousin, and the government claims to be justified in infiltrating any meeting where it's even discussed. It's too early to tell if America is entering a
repeat of the COINTELPRO era. But Jeffrey Fogel, legal director of the Center for Constitutional Law in Manhattan, says, "There are certainly enough warning signs out there that we may be." <BR><BR></FONT>As a new round of protests approaches -- including worldwide antiwar demonstrations on March 20 and massive anti-Bush actions during the Republican National Convention in August and September -- experts say the surveillance is likely to increase. "The government is taking an increasingly hostile stance toward protesters," says Michael Avery, president of the National Lawyers Guild and a professor of constitutional law at Suffolk University. In the run-up to the Republican Convention, he says, "I'm sure the government will be attempting to infiltrate political groups. They may send agent provocateurs into political groups. They're no doubt compiling reports on people. We have to stand up against that." <BR><BR></B><FONT face="times new roman" size=3>The U.S. Attorney's Office
confirms that the investigation is a collaboration between the FBI, the Polk County Sheriff's Department and the U.S. Attorney's Office -- all of whom, Nestor notes, serve on the JTTF. It focuses on a case of misdemeanor trespassing on government property that took place on Nov. 16, near the antiwar protest. According to Nestor, the case involves someone who "walked up to a closed gate" outside the National Guard's armory, "had a conversation with the guards and got charged with trespassing." The police and FBI are now investigating whether people at the antiwar conference entered into some kind of conspiracy to break the law -- in other words, whether they planned acts of civil disobedience. <BR><BR><B>"They appear to be taking the stance that if any individual, as part of or in relation to a protest, commits an act that might be a violation of federal law, that they can subpoena and investigate any records of any meeting that person may have gone to in the days or even months
proceeding," says Nestor. <BR><BR></B>Avery suggests that such investigations will have a chilling effect on the planning for future protests. "The risk is that if there's some kind of demonstration or protest activity that involves trespassing, [the JTTF] is saying they can ask people what political meetings have you been to lately, who was there, what did you talk about," says Avery.<B> "People are allowed to meet and talk and debate political issues without being spied on by the government." At least, they used to be. <BR><BR></B>Whether or not a Joint Terrorism Task Force was behind the Iowa investigation, JTTFs have already been implicated in political spying. In a three-ring binder from the Denver Police Department Intelligence Unit obtained by the Colorado ACLU, a section labeled "Colorado and Local Links: JTTF Active Case List" contained printouts made in April 2002 from the Web sites of the Colorado Campaign for Middle East Peace, American Friends Service Committee, Denver
Justice and Peace Committee and the Rocky Mountain Independent Media Center. One of the printouts, a copy of which is available on the ACLU's Web site, is the American Friends Service Committee's calendar of upcoming antiwar events. <BR><BR>..."Now, ...if there is a rally of people who are criticizing the United States and its policies and saying that the United States will someday perhaps be destroyed because of that, the FBI agent can go and listen to what's being said," Ashcroft told CNN's Larry King in May of 2002. In other words, merely arguing that U.S. policies may result in the country's destruction justifies FBI snooping. This gives the FBI investigative license far beyond even that it enjoyed during the COINTELPRO period...<BR><BR><B>..."It's equating dissent with terrorism," says DeGraff. "It's saying if you dissent, you're a terrorist." <BR><BR></B>In fact, that's exactly what some law enforcement officers have said. <BR><BR>...Mike Van Winkle, spokesman for the
California Anti-Terrorism Information Center, issued a remarkably broad definition of terrorism<B>. "You can make an easy kind of link that, if you have a protest group protesting a war where the cause that's being fought against is international terrorism, you might have terrorism at that protest," he said. "You can almost argue that a protest against that is a terrorist act." <BR>
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<H2><B>Subpoenas on Antiwar Protest Are Dropped</B></H2><FONT size=2><B>By MONICA DAVEY<BR><BR></FONT><IMG height=33 alt=360510.jpg src="cid:6.0.0.22.2.20040211071852.05b85630@mailhost.kab.com.6" width=30><FONT size=3>ES MOINES, Feb. 10 ­ Facing growing public pressure from civil liberties advocates, federal prosecutors on Tuesday dropped subpoenas that they issued last week ordering antiwar protesters to appear before a grand jury and ordering a university to turn over information about the protesters.<BR><BR>The protesters, who had said they feared that the unusual federal inquiry was intended to silence and scare people who disagreed with government positions, declared victory.<BR><BR></B>"We made them want to stop," Brian Terrell, executive director of the Catholic Peace Ministry here and one of four protesters who received subpoenas, told a crowd at the federal courthouse.<B> "We're here to make them want to never let it happen again."<BR><BR></B>...Civil liberties advocates
here and nationally said they had questions about the intent of the investigation and whether it might signal a broader worry for antiwar protesters here and others elsewhere. The Iowa Civil Liberties Union intends to investigate the investigation, said its executive director, R. Ben Stone.<BR><BR><B>"Despite any retreat by the Iowa U.S. Attorney," Mr. Stone said, "there remain serious questions about the scope of this particular investigation. If it was just a trespassing investigation, why seek the membership records of the National Lawyers Guild? If this was an attempt to chill protests through the aggressive policing of a run-of-the-mill crime, we've got a serious problem in America."<BR><BR></B>Twenty-one people attended a training session on nonviolent protest at the Nov. 15 antiwar forum, organizers said. On Tuesday, a far larger group, more than 100, stood outside the federal courthouse beside Mr. Terrell in bitter cold, holding a new set of protest signs that said, <B>"Say
no to political grand juries," "You can subpoena us, but you will not silence us" and "Investigate Halliburton not Iowans."<BR><BR></B>
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