Just because you’re paranoid….

This is a fairly old story, but now that it’s in the LA Times, it’ll be news again. It seems the Maryland State Police decided to infiltrate some of the “social justice” organizations and add some names to the Terrorist Watch List.

Maryland officials now concede that, based on information gathered by “Lucy” and others, state police wrongly listed at least 53 Americans as terrorists in a criminal intelligence database — and shared some information about them with half a dozen state and federal agencies, including the National Security Agency.

Among those labeled as terrorists: two Catholic nuns, a former Democratic congressional candidate, a lifelong pacifist and a registered lobbyist. One suspect’s file warned that she was “involved in puppet making and allows anarchists to utilize her property for meetings.”

“Maryland officials” means the current administration, which of course is Democrat. The program seems to have been started by the Republican administration before the current crop of terrorists running Maryland into the ground. Of course, the ACLU starts their smoke generators up to cloud the discussion;

“There wasn’t a scintilla of illegal activity” going on, said David Rocah, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, which filed a lawsuit and in July obtained the first surveillance files. State police have released other heavily redacted documents.

Investigators, the files show, targeted groups that advocated against abortion, global warming, nuclear arms, military recruiting in high schools and biodefense research, among other issues.

Just because there hadn’t been any illegal or dangerous activity going on doesn’t mean the State police didn’t have a responsibility to investigate – it’s called public safety. If it had been Neo-nazis or the KKK, I doubt anyone, on either end of the political spectrum would have had a problem with the police infiltrating them to make sure the public was going to be safe.

Bill Ayers justifies his activities by telling us he did it to end a war. I’ve heard citizens of Maryland justify Ayers activities with the same argument. Doesn’t Maryland State government have a resonsibility to it’s citizens to insure our safety, too? They can investigate me all they want – I don’t do anything illegal, so I have nothing to worry about.

The LA Times is entitled “Spying on pacificists, environmentalists and nuns” – there have been violence committed by pacificists and environmentalists, haven’t there? Maybe not so much nuns, but still. A member of Code Pink made the list;

Nancy Kricorian, 48, a novelist on the terrorist list, is coordinator for the New York City chapter of CodePink, an antiwar group. She serves as liaison with local police for group protests, and has never been arrested.

“I have no idea why I made the list,” she said. “I’ve never been to the state of Maryland, except maybe to stop for gas on the way to Washington.”

Um, about this little nugget from the Code Pink website, Nance – the missive you wrote describing your activities in the organization;

Direct action is a political tactic of confrontation and sometimes-illegal disruption intended to attract and arouse public awareness and action. The Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955 was an example of direct action that was successful in ending seating segregation on the public buses.

[…]

CODEPINK has used direct action on numerous occasions to make our opposition to the war in Iraq known—during the Democratic and Republican National Conventions, during press conferences in Baghdad, and during the recent Presidential Inauguration. CODEPINK women have been popping up all over the place with our pro-peace message.

Why direct action?

You know the old expression, “The squeaky wheel gets the grease?” Using direct action is a way of being a very squeaky wheel.

Emphasis is mine. Just in case you change it, here’s a screen capture;

I guess promoting illegal activity and the fact that everything in Washington, DC is within walking distance of Maryland makes you a legitimate target for Maryland state law enforcement, doesn’t it?

Another activist complained that he was labeled a terrorist;

Barry Kissin, 57, a lawyer who ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 2006, heads the Frederick Progressive Action Coalition, a group that works “for social, economic and environmental justice,” according to his police file. Their protests “are always peaceful,” it added.

He was labeled “Terrorism — Anti-Government.”

Running for Congress and being doesn’t NOT make you a terrorist. The Frederick Progressive Action Coalition’s website is pretty sparse, but what is there can be construed as dangerous – like “opposing facist forces in the tri-state area…” Considering what the Left has called “facist” in the last few years, they might be talking about me. Workers World ran an article written by the FredPAC;

About 200 citizens of Frederick, Md., and the surrounding area rallied at Baker Park on June 5, then marched through town to a community festival to spread the word about the massive expansion of Ft. Detrick. The expansion includes building BSL-4 labs, used for experimentation with infectious agents for which there exists neither a vaccine nor a cure.

The tax money to be wasted on the Department of Homeland Security’s bio-weapons programs “dwarfs the size of the U.S. program back when [the U.S. was] overtly producing bio-weapons for offensive use,” according to http://www.frederickpac.org. Frederick Progressive Action Coalition spokesperson Chris Stevenson’s call for a halt to all operations at Ft. Detrick was well-received by the predominately young crowd.

Watu Mwariama of the African People’s Socialist Party and a Frederick resident, told of Ft. Detrick’s abuse of prisoners, alcoholics and drug abusers as guinea pigs. Agents of the fort go into prisons and poor neighborhoods, offering a few dollars to people for allowing themselves to be injected.

One federal employee, filled with horror and regret for not knowing what he was doing by injecting people, took a sick ex-prisoner into his home whose health had been ruined by the experimental injections. The skin came off the body of another poverty-stricken Frederick resident who took money in exchange for participating in an experiment, said Mwariama.

He also reported there have been many deaths from mysterious causes of Black custodial workers, whose jobs included handling dead and infected animals at the fort.

Yeah, I’m pretty sure that all happened. But misinformation campaigns like that can incite some unbalanced people (the same type of people who still think that Trig isn’t Sarah Palin’s son and that George W Bush didn’t win the 2000 election).

Another complainee from the list;

Nadine Bloch, 47, runs workshops for protest groups that seek corporate responsibility and builds huge papier-mache puppets often used in street marches. Her terrorism file indicates she participated in a Taking Action for Animals conference in Washington on July 16-18, 2005.

Here’s Nadine’s website where she has some photos of her “puppets”  – animal rights people aren’t the most stabile people on the planet, Nadine – neither are the folks you let on your property to build paper mache puppets for the various protests in DC. Do I think you’re a terrorist? Nope. Do I think there’s been a potential terrorist on your property. Undoutably. Does your property bear watching by police investigators – yes.

On a tip from 1CAVRVN11B.

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