http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15856195/
A year ago, an NBC News investigation revealed the existence of a secret Pentagon database that included information on antiwar protests and American peace activists. Now, newly disclosed documents reveal new details on who was targeted and which other government agencies may have helped monitor Americans.
The documents provide new details on how anti-war protesters, Universities, and even Quakers and churches came to be labeled "threats" worthy of the attention of the military. The documents also suggest for the first time that agents of the Department of Homeland Security played a role in monitoring American citizens who have not broken the law.
"I fully intend to ask what's in those databanks, because many of them go way beyond any legitimate needs for our security," says Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy. Congress wants to know not just what data was collected, but why and how it was to be used.
2006-11-23 21:46:22 · 10 answers · asked by big-brother 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Public opinion and influential groups are targets for neutralization particularly when their views on issues are against the government.
2006-11-23 21:52:56 · answer #1 · answered by FRAGINAL, JTM 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
These groups are monitored because of potential infiltrators. That has always been the case and guess what? The protest movement during the Vietnam War was heavily infiltrated by communist parties and the Soviets.
Today, recruiting offices receive death threats and have experienced property damage. This is called prudent eye-watching and its nothing more than due dilligence in an effort to inform the local authorities about who the military thinks is a problem. The locals will usually educate the military on the group and then laugh a little.
Your civil liberties are still intact ladies... don't get your panties in a bunch.
2006-11-23 22:05:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
No, the conventional working American is familiar with that the huge banks did what the Clinton administration needed them to do and became into easily threatened by the federal government. most of the human beings that I artwork with understand that that's as much as the guy to greater effective themselves as a substitute of based on the federal government or human beings to furnish for them. a number of those protests are exhibiting is how out of touch with fact the left has been and nonetheless is. additionally, from what u . s . a . immediately reported the different day approximately those protesters, you do understand that maximum workers make from $50,000 to $a hundred,000 a 365 days and are not the prosperous that the protestors are against.
2016-12-10 14:53:22 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They don't. You show a pattern of using mis-information targeting for a response from every group across the spectrum. You lump them alll together in a question like this, throw in a small nugget of accuracy, then give lengthy details as a way of spouting nonsense liberal propaganda. This is a boring misuse of this forum.Start another blog and at least be real about your intentions instead of wasting space on Answers.
2006-11-23 22:14:03 · answer #4 · answered by gettin'real 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Pentagon sees all people who disagree with a super military a threat
2006-11-23 22:56:23 · answer #5 · answered by paulisfree2004 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The only question I have for you is are you really surprised? Of course they watch. They watch everything.
I am personally looking forward to the day all the ideas of 1984 have been implemented by the government. Thinking for myself has simply become too difficult.
2006-11-23 22:18:45 · answer #6 · answered by Perplexed 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, well, well !!!.....
isn't that just another completely blatant piece of proof that the leaders in US Government for the most part are a bunch of paranoid, narrow-minded, self-serving egomaniacs who will stop at nothing to "monitor" people. Shades of the book "1984" see?....big brother IS watching...and HAS been watching for a loooonnnnnggg time....
2006-11-23 21:54:56 · answer #7 · answered by flyboss1107 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Those people are the ones most likely to think for themselves....which is a real threat to big brother.
2006-11-23 23:04:57 · answer #8 · answered by PS Drummer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just goes to show "who can you trust!!!!" And as long as the government is protecting me and mine I dont care about the data banks!!!!!!!
2006-11-23 22:12:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Knowing this...don't you feel safer?
2006-11-24 00:57:18 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋