List Of Americans Who Have Been Individually Spied On Will Soon Be Released "biggest disclosure yet"

[Leopolds Ghost]

23. Um...

Difficult to say.

I mean, it's difficult to convey, but I seem to have met a couple people who are activists, so...

What this is really useful for is isolating activists in a sort of virtual McCarthy blacklist.

A couple of the people I know who was in the newspaper stating they had been put on a
state anti-terror watchlist was a Quaker peace activists. Little old ladies.

So the implicit message is, don't associate with these people. Don't associate with
anyone who might be a left-libertarian, or a peace activist, or even just a rabble-rouser in general.

I've been told that I really shouldn't associate with so-and-so because, although they are a nice person, they are a little too out-there and will get me in trouble later. This coming from people who argue with me when I say that NSA spying is real. The problem is that the only reason I associate with activists (including some I disagree with, such as center-right Dems on DU) is because I believe in liberal discourse, and some of them (including many leftists, especially single-issue leftists) no longer do not.

I remember it being a problem (not for me, but discussed in liberal zines) way back when... now a whole generation has come of age in an era when all you have to do to be considered liberal is vote for the right candidate and subscribe to certain side in the culture wars. There's no room for freedom of thought.