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Exercise your 1st Amendment 'rights', expect to be spied on?!

by G
Rule Of Law is a Farce.

The ACLU has published a list; victims of spying while exercising the 1st Amendment.

https://www.aclu.org/maps/spying-first-amendment-activity-state-state

Santa Cruz is on the list.

Santa Cruz Police Infiltration of DIY New Year's Parade. When the city of Santa Cruz decided to cancel their annual 'First Night' New Year's Parade, community activists decided to create their own parade, the Do It Yourself (DIY) New Year's Parade. Police found out about parade plans in late October 2005 and decided to spy on the group by infiltrating their parade planning meetings. Police Chief Howard Skerry promised a complete investigation but tapped Deputy Chief Vogel - the very person who authorized the infiltration - to determine whether the authorization was appropriate. Not surprisingly, Vogel's report cleared the Santa Cruz Police Department of any wrongdoing.
(http://www.aclusantacruz.org/node/76)

Military Monitors Campus Anti-Recruiting Protests. Two Department of Defense (DOD) Threat and Local Observation Notices (TALON) from April 2005 describe anti-recruiting protests by students at the University of California campuses of Berkeley and Santa Cruz. The source for both TALON reports, a 'special agent of the federal protective service, U.S. Department of Homeland Security,' relayed protest information he received through email alerts.
(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/sections/news/DODAntiWarProtestDatabaseTracker.pdf and http://www.aclu.org/national-security/statement-konstanty-hordynski-target-illegal-spying)

Military Collects Information on Student and Community Peace Groups. The Department of Defense (DOD) Threat and Local Observation Notice (TALON) database included information on numerous anti-war and counter-recruitment protests, including campus demonstrations by UC Santa Cruz Students Against War and the UC Berkeley Stop the War Coalition, a Sacramento protest organized by military veterans, and a San Francisco demonstration organized by local activists. The TALON database also designated the level of concern posed by the protest activity. (pg. 10, http://www.aclunc.org/issues/government_surveillance/asset_upload_file714_3255.pdf and http://www.aclu.org/safefree/spyfiles/24142res20060214.html)

Military Lists Georgia Peace & Justice Coalition as a Threat to DOD. A Department of Defense (DOD) Threat and Local Observation Notice (TALON) report listing Atlanta-area protests organized by the Georgia Peace and Justice Coalition (GPJC) contends that the Students for Peace and Justice Network poses a threat to DOD personnel. Citing a DHS source, the TALON supports its claim by listing prior acts of civil disobedience in California and Texas, including a protest at the University of California Santa Cruz campus, a sit-in, and street theatre. (pg. 5, http://www.aclu.org/safefree/spyfiles/27988pub20070117.html)

I doubt that list is exhaustive.

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