[Alia]

Each of those lemmings is frightened.

[stopem]

So are they taking pictures of the criminal illegal aliens showing their faces with their non-stop demonstrating?

Will they take pix and videos of the illegal aliens on communist May 1 day demonstration while they are shutting down our ports, nothing important?

I'm just asking.

[frogjerk]

Such practices, he said, could chill citizens from exercising their First Amendment rights.

Or openly break the law by rioting and exersizing other such "rights"

[singfreedom]

Bautista: "We feel they were acting like spies." No lady, they were photographing potential spies.

[steve-b]

This sort of Big Brother crap only lends undeserved credibility to the leftie moonbats, and should be stopped for that reason alone.

(A more basic reason, obviously, is that such things have no place in a free republic.)

[ChadGore]

They tell the press that "hundreds" will show up at their whining sessions. The press arives to find a dozen people, half of which are cops.

funny stuff.

[ishabibble]

There is a video somewhere on the Internet that shows a young black girl, with her face covered like a Palestinian fighter, at an ant-war rally. When the frames in the video were captured, and the angle of the camera drawn back and expanded to show a wider shot, it shows that the girl is one of many being led by an Asian woman in a black, Commie slogan T-shirt, holding a bullhorn and organizing the kids into what appeared on front pages of national papers as a dramatic "caught on tape" moment.
Looking at all the frames reveals that this was a carefully organized shot. Does anyone else remember seeing this?

Otherwise, do I care if some pantywaist protester named Keith, who has had nothing better to do for the last 17 yrs. than get out in the streets and bellow his opinions, gets his picture taken by LEO? No. Absolutely not.
Wiretapping? If someone is calling the Osama Cave HQ, and talking in code to an AQ customer service rep, Yes. Absolutely. I want the gov't to protect me. The revelations re McCarthy/Priest prove that there are people here, American citizens, who want to destroy us, too.

I don't see the ACLU protecting my right to be safe from a terrorist attack. I see them trying to hamstring the LEO, and trying to take away the tools necessary to protect American citizens.

[paddles]

USSS does countersurveillance, but only when a protectee is involved. They won't reveal themselves to anyone, and won't take any action unless it's warranted. If things get out of hand, they're more likely to truncate an event or some other "passive" reaction, rather than remain in a situation that could spiral out of control.

[nopardons]

bttt