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(avian2005)— War Protesters to " Turn Themselves In " to Federal Agents.

 

 

 

 

" Once a government is committed to the principle of Silencing the Voice of

Opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is Down the path of increasingly

Repressive Measures, until it becomes a Source of Terror to all its citizens and

creates a country where Everyone Lives in Fear. "

~ Harry S. Truman.

 

 

 

War Protesters to " Turn Themselves In " to Federal Agents,

http://www.commondreams.org/news2006/0330-05.htm

 

 

 

For other Turn Yourself In actions visit:

http://www.commondreams.org/news2006/0328-04.htm

 

 

War Protesters to " Turn Themselves In " to Federal Agents,

 

Stand Up for First Amendment Food Not Bombs and its co-founder Keith McHenry are

subjected to FBI spying

 

Friday, March 31st, 9:30 am,Tucson FBI Office, 1 S. Church Ave, Tucson, Arizona.

 

Free-speech advocates and war protesters all across the United States

will turn themselves in to the FBI this Friday, March 31st.

— Through this action, participants will ease the workload of federal spies,

freeing them up to engage in legitimate law-enforcement activities that will

keep our country safer. Participants will also save taxpayer money, thereby

demonstrating the patriotism of war opponents.

 

Through satire and humor, Food Not Bombs volunteers are calling attention to the

serious issue of domestic spying by the Pentagon, NSA and FBI. In particular,

the group is highlighting the recently revealed FBI has included

 

Food Not Bombs on its “Terrorist Watch List”

 

The FBI has been notified of this action and will have a duty agent on hand.

 

The local office of the FBI indicated that Mr. McHenry is in fact

under surveillance. Mr. McHenry co-founded Food Not Bombs

which is an all-volunteer movement dedicated to non-violence

that shares vegetarian meals to the hungry in hundreds of cities

all over the world. (http://www.foodnotbombs.net)

As the movements co-founder he felt it was important to turn himself in along

with the many other non-violent terrorists under investigation by the U.S.

government.

 

The purpose of the " turn yourself in " action is to counter the chilling effect

caused by government surveillance and to maintain a safe space for dissent.

By embracing the title of " dissenter, " protesters will defuse the Bush

administration's campaign to discredit its foreign policy critics

and will show that opposition to the war will not be silenced.

 

Protesters will also highlight the hypocrisy of the Bush Administration's policy

of fighting for freedom abroad while squelching it at home - both through FBI

spying on law-abiding peace groups and NSA eavesdropping on American citizens

without obtaining warrants.

 

" The government's message has been 'trust us - we're only spying

on terrorists and if you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear,' "

stated Michigan Peaceworks' program coordinator Joseph Kuilema.

 

" But obviously, since they're also spying on law-abiding peace activists, that

message is not true. The Bush Administration has betrayed our trust. "

 

Last week a law student in Austin, Texas reported that the FBI has placed Food

Not Bombs on the “Terrorist Watch List.” The ACLU has discovered a number of

FBI memos stating that Food Not Bombs

is under investigation by the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force

in California, Colorado, Missouri and a number of other states.

— Food Not Bombs co-founder Keith McHenry lives in Tucson, Arizona

and recent Pentagon documents state that a protest against torture that he

helped plan in November 2004 is considered an “ongoing credible terrorist

threat.”

 

— Two Food Not Bombs volunteers in Arizona were arrested on terrorism charges

this past December. One volunteer, Bill Rodgers, was found dead in his jail

cell in Flagstaff, Arizona.

 

Shades of COINTELPRO?

 

The Food Not Bombs case is the latest in a series of revelations

of government surveillance of peaceful social change organizations,

such as the — American Friends Service Committee in Denver, Colorado;

— Patriots for Peace in Melbourne, Florida; and Merton Center.

 

It raises fears among free-speech advocates that the Bush Administration

may be initiating a modern-day version of COINTELPRO

(short for Counterintelligence Program) - the secret FBI operation

in the 1960s and 1970s that gathered information on and attempted

to destroy the anti-Vietnam War movement, the civil rights movement,

and its leaders (most notably Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.).

 

 

 

FBI Keeps Watch on Activists

 

Antiwar, other groups are monitored to curb violence, not because of ideology,

agency says. http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0327-04.htm

Food Not Bombs on Terrorist Watch List in Texas

http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/1725460.php

Is the Pentagon spying on Americans?

By Lisa Myers, Douglas Pasternak, Rich Gardella and the NBC

Investigative Unit Dec. 14, 2005 A secret Pentagon database

indicates the U.S. military is collecting information on American

peace activists and monitoring Iraq war protests.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10454316/

 

For other Turn Yourself In actions visit:

http://www.commondreams.org/news2006/0328-04.htm

 

 

 

Online Activism is Under Attack by America Online.

http://action.freepress.net/campaign/dearaol

Reporting on Government Surveillance Illegal

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11769643/

Information Warfare on the Internet

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~alb/misc/infowarDistraction.html

 

 

 

 

Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we.

They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country

and our people, and neither do we. "

~ George W. Bush (August 5, 2004)

 

 

" In a time of universal deceit, speaking the truth

is a revolutionary act. " - George Orwell, 1984

 

 

 

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