Since 9/11, peaceful activists with dissident views have increasingly been swept up into terrorist watch lists and are surveilled by the federal government and law enforcement agencies. Such developments not only raise civil liberties issues, but also raise questions about how open our supposedly open system of government really is, with over-classification becoming policy. Antiwar.com, yours truly, got caught up in the mess of being targeted by the government for exercising free speech when it was revealed that we were assessed by the FBI.
Read about these developments in a recent piece from Alternet.
FBI: Fascist Bozo Idiots (that can't get a real job).
FBI – Federal Bureau of Idiots
FBI – Fumbling Bumbling Idiots
Its always been that way — don’t feel pregnant. In 1981 after my political action committee got a law passed in Wisconsin stopping the jailing of homeschool fathers — I was given a cracked rib on a lonely country road. In 1990 after my divorce trauma support group exposed that Wisconsin judges were getting a third of the attorney fees under the table — income tax problems unending and again beat-up in an isolated country park.
“He who speaks the truth breaks his own neck.” Hess
“First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out because I was not a communist. Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.” Martin Niemöller
Your job as a dissident is to force the darkness to give way. To differ openly against the rich and powerful such that truth exposes their pretense of good, their intend to be enriched upon our misery becomes clear to all, and you end up being persecuted.
So, if what your doing does not get you jail time, a bank account raided by the IRS, fired by employer, divorced by wife, disowned by kids, court-martialed by military, bad looking photos in evil newspapers or illegal tickets by legalized killers, then as they say in Montana — if you own less then a thousand acres your all hat.
This would not happen if all Americans stood up against there corrupt tyranicel government.People sit back and could care less untill its there right being violated.If people don't stand togeather they will lose the government is corrupt and except for the few stand togeather.Police and the military will stand with the government when only small amonts of people are standing up for there rights.If millions did many police and military would stand with there fellow citizens and uphold the comstitution against enemys foreign or domestic.The criminals at the top will continue to support the evil commited on its countrys own people and people in others.