We’re Being Watched

[limpyhobbler]

2. We must spy on people with ideas, because ideas could lead to activism, and activism could lead to

terrorism

From the article

“What changed after 9/11,” the ACLU’s German says, “was the lowering of the threshold for FBI investigations and the promulgation of these radicalization theories that while specifically written about Muslim extremists – the same theory that people move from ideas to activism to terrorism – justified increased surveillance against activists and against people who were just part of the environmental rights movement but had no association with violence or criminal acts.”

http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/eij/article/we_are_being_watched/


They're using the terrorism scare to intimidate eco-activists. Much the same way they used the communism scare to intimidate labor and civil rights activists in the 20th century. It's crap I tell ya.

It's straight out of 1984. "Big Brother is watching you". So watch what you say and try not to draw attention to yourself.

Thought police be gone.