caly rzad USA do Hagi

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globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO311D.html

[Gość: Sabotny]

Popieram albo od razu to hell

Skad biora sie bzdury

[Gość: felusiak]

Doczytalem tylko do miejsca, gdzie jest napisane, ze Rumsfeld pozwolil Sharonowi..
Dalej tych bzdur nie warto czytac. Juz w tym zdaniu kryje sie podstawowy blad.

Szkoda, ze kanadyjczycy nie rozumieja struktury rzadu a maja tak blisko. Rzad
USA to 545 osob. Rumsfeld jest czlonkiem gabinetu prezydenta ale nie czlonkiem
rzadu.
Taka mala roznica pomiedzy europejskim parlamentaryzmem a amerykanskim systemem
checks and balances.

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The FBI's Anti-Terrorist Activities
by ANSWER
23 November 2003

Faced with growing opposition to the war and occupation of Iraq, the Bush
Administration has unleashed the FBI against its political opponents. Ten days
before the October 25 demonstration that drew 100,000 people in Washington DC
marching under the slogan, "Bring the Troops Home Now!" the FBI circulated an
internal bureau memorandum documenting a far reaching campaign against anti-war
organizations and leaders who have been involved in mobilizing large and legal
mass actions.

"Under Bush and Ashcroft the exercise of First Amendment rights has become
synonymous with terrorism. Today's front page report in the New York Times
revealing that the FBI was targeting the recent national anti-war
demonstrations in Washington and San Francisco must be understood as the tip of
the iceberg," said Mara Verheyden-Hilliard attorney with the Partnership for
Civil Justice and the National Lawyers Guild. The Partnership for Civil Justice
and the NLG are litigating First Amendment cases against the FBI, Secret
Service and Washington DC police as well as other law enforcement authorities
for their unconstitutional disruption actions against political demonstrators.

"Under the banner of the war on terrorism, Bush and Ashcroft are resorting to
J. Edgar Hoover's COINTELPRO tactics of the 1950's and 1960's against the
rising anti-war movement of today," stated Brian Becker of the A.N.S.W.E.R.
Coalition, the initiator and co-sponsor of the October 25 demonstration. "This
is the domestic parallel of Bush's doctrine of endless war. Internationally,
the administration has carried out war, invasion and occupation of Afghanistan
and Iraq. On the homefront the government has cynically manipulated its so-
called war on terrorism to illegally use the FBI as a tool aimed at stifling
dissent. The movement will defend its rights, and will never be intimidated by
the FBI's illegal targeting campaigns. Confronted with a rising tide of
opposition, the Bush Administration is using its secret police against the
people of the United States," Becker continued

"The FBI's so-called anti-terrorism efforts have intensely focused on political
dissent since the resurgence of the U.S. social justice and peace movement. The
big lie being foisted on the public is that these are post-September 11 counter-
measures, when in fact we have uncovered in litigation that the FBI's Joint
Terrorism Task Force as well as the District of Columbia police department have
been conducting illegal domestic spying operations against political groups and
activists since well before September 11, 2001," stated Verheyden-
Hilliard. "This has nothing to do with terrorism and everything to do with
using the repressive apparatus of the state as a political tool," she said.


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FBI scrutinizes Antiwar Rallies
by Eric Lichtblau
New York Times, 22 November 2003

WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 — The Federal Bureau of Investigation has collected
extensive information on the tactics, training and organization of antiwar
demonstrators and has advised local law enforcement officials to report any
suspicious activity at protests to its counterterrorism squads, according to
interviews and a confidential bureau memorandum.

The memorandum, which the bureau sent to local law enforcement agencies last
month in advance of antiwar demonstrations in Washington and San Francisco,
detailed how protesters have sometimes used "training camps" to rehearse for
demonstrations, the Internet to raise money and gas masks to defend against
tear gas. The memorandum analyzed lawful activities like recruiting
demonstrators, as well as illegal activities like using fake documentation to
get into a secured site.

F.B.I. officials said in interviews that the intelligence-gathering effort was
aimed at identifying anarchists and "extremist elements" plotting violence, not
at monitoring the political speech of law-abiding protesters.

The initiative has won the support of some local police, who view it as a
critical way to maintain order at large-scale demonstrations. Indeed, some law
enforcement officials said they believed the F.B.I.'s approach had helped to
ensure that nationwide antiwar demonstrations in recent months, drawing
hundreds of thousands of protesters, remained largely free of violence and
disruption.

But some civil rights advocates and legal scholars said the monitoring program
could signal a return to the abuses of the 1960's and 1970's, when J. Edgar
Hoover was the F.B.I. director and agents routinely spied on political
protesters like the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"The F.B.I. is dangerously targeting Americans who are engaged in nothing more
than lawful protest and dissent," said Anthony Romero, executive director of
the American Civil Liberties Union. "The line between terrorism and legitimate
civil disobedience is blurred, and I have a serious concern about whether we're
going back to the days of Hoover."

Herman Schwartz, a constitutional law professor at American University who has
written about F.B.I. history, said collecting intelligence at demonstrations is
probably legal.

But he added: "As a matter of principle, it has a very serious chilling effect
on peaceful demonstration. If you go around telling people, `We're going to
ferret out information on demonstrations,' that deters people. People don't
want their names and pictures in F.B.I. files."

The abuses of the Hoover era, which included efforts by the F.B.I. to harass
and discredit Hoover's political enemies under a program known as Cointelpro,
led to tight restrictions on F.B.I. investigations of political activities.

Those restrictions were relaxed significantly last year, when Attorney General
John Ashcroft issued guidelines giving agents authority to attend political
rallies, mosques and any event "open to the public."

Mr. Ashcroft said the Sept. 11 attacks made it essential that the F.B.I. be
allowed to investigate terrorism more aggressively. The bureau's recent
strategy in policing demonstrations is an outgrowth of that policy, officials
said.

"We're not concerned with individuals who are exercising their constitutional
rights," one F.B.I. official said. "But it's obvious that there are individuals
capable of violence at these events. We know that there are anarchists that are
actively involved in trying to sabotage and commit acts of violence at these
different events, and we also know that these large gatherings would be a prime
target for terrorist groups."

Civil rights advocates, relying largely on anecdotal evidence, have complained
for months that federal officials have surreptitiously sought to suppress the
First Amendment rights of antiwar demonstrators.

Critics of the Bush administration's Iraq policy, for instance, have sued the
government to learn how their names ended up on a "no fly" list used to stop
suspected terrorists from boarding planes. Civil rights advocates have accused
federal and local authorities in Denver and Fresno, Calif., of spying on
antiwar demonstrators or infiltrating planning meetings. And the New York
Police Department this year questioned many of those arrested at demonstrations
about their political affiliations, before halting the practice and expunging
the data in the face of public criticism.

The F.B.I. memorandum, however, appears to offer the first corroboration of a
coordinated, nationwide effort to collect intelligence regarding demonstrations.


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San Francisco Chronicle
23 November 2003

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