Report: NYPD tracked RNC-bound activists
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This is disturbing as all hell.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070325/ap_on_re_us/nypd_convention_surveillance
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070325/ap_on_re_us/nypd_convention_surveillance
Undercover NYPD officers traveled around the U.S. and even to Europe to observe activists who planned to protest at the 2004 Republican National Convention — including hundreds who showed no sign of illegal intent, a newspaper reported.
Posing as activists or sympathizers, the officers attended meetings of political groups in at least 15 states and filed reports with the police department's intelligence division, The New York Times reported on its Web site Saturday.
The officers involved in the "RNC Intelligence Squad" then identified certain groups as potential threats, the Times reported, citing hundreds of still-secret reports it had viewed from the police department's intelligence division. The police often shared information with departments in other cities.
Police spokesman Paul Browne said the activities were legal. He said the operation was an essential part of preparations for the huge crowds that came to the city during the convention.
"Detectives collected information both in-state and out-of-state to learn in advance what was coming our way," Browne told the Times.
The secret digests said some of the groups planned acts such as blocking intersections and hacking into Web sites. But the Times reported that the vast majority of the reports it viewed described people who gave no obvious sign of wrongdoing, such as members of the satirical performance-art group "Billionaires for Bush" and a group that had planned concerts peppered with political speeches.
Donna Lieberman, the executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, said the revelations of "spying" were shocking.
"The New York Civil Liberties Union condemns this operation and is considering legal action against the police department," she said in a statement.
More than 1,800 people were arrested at the four-day convention at Madison Square Garden, where President Bush accepted his party's nomination for a second term in office. The convention was policed by as many as 10,000 officers.
Pending civil rights lawsuits have challenged the legitimacy of the arrests. Documents released under a court order in January showed that arrested protesters were held before their initial court appearances for up to six times longer than those arrested on charges unrelated to the convention.
The documents also show that the 2001 terrorist attacks heavily influenced the city's decision to detain and fingerprint hundreds of protesters at the convention.
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A: You had your chance in Tacoma a couple of weeks ago.
Q: I was up to the task, but it was all about the peace, you know.
A: The description you gave of what you saw that night didn't leave much to the imagination.
Q: It was what it was. It was so absurdly one-sided in favor of the snipers and the riot cops that it was actually funny to me. If Tacoma had their shit together they could have sent out Andy and Barney from Mayberry, and that would have been enough. It was the City of Tacoma trying to incite violence, not the protesters. And they got violent.
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It is always the cops fault. Right. The thing about peace loving activists is that they ironically hate the leaders of war. That hate then manifests itself when they are in a large crowd together, and when "the man" shows up. Violence and destruction of property usually ensues.
You liberals are so funny. You want the government to provide you with all of this protection, but when the government does what it needs to do in order to provide that protection, you get pissed off.
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I'm completely free. Completely. I feel 0% government intrusion in my life. You are all a bunch of fucking whiners who do not know how good you have it.
Call me what you will, I'm no liberal. In the instance of the Port of Tacoma protest of which I partook one night, there were some feelings I picked up among the protesters having been abused with tear gas and rubber bullets over the previous nights. They were a little on edge, and pissed off. The protesters didn't carry those devices, the cops did. And it isn't the cops I have a problem with, it is those giving them orders I wanna have a look at.
Of course, I just replied to a dipshit, so what difference does it make?
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Who the fuck is whining? As a non-American I think it's ridiculous how many Americans seem to be in some state of denial or something. I think they need a reality check.
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3,000 + American dead, billions of taxpayers dollars (and that means you) all for an illegal war. If that's freedom to you, well then here's some anal lube, just slide it in.
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Rape me!
Q: You want bootlegger to rape you?
A: C'mon man, I don't mean it that way, besides, he would have to have the force of dozens of riot cops and snipers with rubber bullets to subdue me for the act. Even then, I don't think he could pull it off.
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And the New York Police Department has reportedly ended a policy of videotaping peaceful protesters at demonstrations. The New York Civil Liberties Union says the videotaping has been dropped in response to its lawsuit against the NYPD following the 2004 Republican National Convention. Police officials have apparently restored what are known as the Handschu guidelines that dictate how the police carries out political investigations. The NYCLU says the guidelines were changed last year, but it wasn’t informed until last month.
Finally somebody came to their senses.
Peace
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
(lmao @ post #10)
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
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