10-10) 16:43 PDT BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) --
FBI investigators trailed a 1960s student protest leader for more than a decade despite having no evidence he broke any federal laws, a newspaper reported Sunday.
Hundreds of pages of FBI files, obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle, showed that investigators collected personal information about Mario Savio, including documents on his marriage and divorce, without a court order. The FBI also obtained copies of Savio's tax returns in violation of federal rules.
According to the files, the FBI feared the Free Speech Movement that Savio helped lead at the University of California, Berkeley in 1964 would spread to other college campuses across the country.
The movement started in response to the college's ban of political activity on campus. Savio led a massive sit-in in December 1964 to protest the move, resulting in 800 student arrests. <snip>
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/10/10/national1943EDT0582.DTLIf * "wins" again (and I don't see how he could, fairly), we'll need to remember the lessons of the past as as we face serious government repression when organizing against the next wave of Bushista power grabs ...