As for the so-called documents...Any dimwit can make up that crap on Word and pass it off as legit....Let them take it to court and prove it to a Judge.
Posted on 01/30/2006 6:44:43 PM PST by Thunder90
UW-MADISON STUDENTS RESPOND TO PENTAGON MONITORING:
“SURVEILLANCE OF ANTIWAR ACTIVISTS MUST END NOW!”
MADISON, WI – Antiwar activists at the University of Wisconsin at Madison are responding to President Bush’s recent justifications for surveillance along with released Pentagon documents which label student protesters as a “threat” and news of our campus administration’s cooperation with FBI counterintelligence programs. The UW-Madison antiwar student organization, Stop the War! is hosting a press conference to defend ourselves against the Pentagon’s libelous allegations. The press conference will be immediately followed by a protest to counter recruitment by US Marines on our campus.
What: Stop The War! Press Conference
Where: Front Steps of the Memorial Union (800 Langdon St, Madison, WI)
When: 12 Noon, Tuesday January 31st
Non-violent, legal & constitutionally protected speech is being monitored by the Pentagon and has been labeled a threat to national security (reported by MSNBC: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10454316/). The document shows that eight university’s antiwar organizations have been monitored by the Pentagon for countering the presence of military recruiters on their campuses. (http://www.uwire.com/content//topnews012406001.html)
Last week, a New York Times/CBS News poll showed that 28 percent of the American population would support the eavesdropping on “ordinary Americans.” 68 percent support such surveillance of “Americans that the government is suspicious of.” The Pentagon document proves that those “that the government is suspicious of” are, in fact, “ordinary Americans.” This raises serious concerns among civil libertarians and especially among those targeted.
Recent revelations that UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley, is sitting on an FBI education panel to “establish lines of communication on national priorities pertaining to terrorism, counterintelligence and homeland security” are unsettling. Previous “counterintelligence” programs (COINTELPRO) led by the FBI have monitored, infiltrated and disrupted student activist organizations in the past.
We, in Stop the War!, are ordinary Americans who - like the majority of Americans - oppose the military occupation of Iraq. This is our response to these allegations:
All surveillance of antiwar activists must end immediately.
Poor Americans shouldn’t have to kill, and risk being killed, for an education.
Responsible for untold destruction and countless deaths, the military should not be allowed to recruit on our campuses.
The University of Wisconsin must uphold its own anti-discrimination policies, which Chancellor John Wiley has admitted are violated by the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy.
Our protest is constitutionally protected and legal speech.
We are ordinary Americans being monitored by our government.
We are in the majority
They accused me of being one of the spies :)
They oughta be hung for treason, IMO.
The wackies at UW madison are at it again...
To all antiwar activists at University of Wisconsin at Madison, the heat knows where you are.
They are hung for other things. For treason, they should be hanged. :-)
See post 2
Hmmmmm.....me thinks they ascribe too much importance to themselves.....until now, they were probably ignored....now that they've outted themselves as allies to Al Quaida....well, let's start monitoring!
"Skulls full of mush...."
Classic case of LNM, or Liberal Narcissistic Martyrdom.
They claim they're being "surveyed" in a paranoid fantasy about becoming righteous martyrs who "are being persecuted for daring to stand up for what they believe in."
They need to grow up.
You'd think they'd be embarrased after their sycophantic love-fest with that Galloway or Garroway or whatever that guy's name was who was caught in a photo humping Uday Hussein's leg...
Their own press release show the FBI's wisdom in keeping an eye on these lunatics
OK. Firing squad then (only after a quick trial of course).
We have the same problems at UW in our state but we're over half way across the country. U of Washington.
We should all watch them MORE.
Any group who sings praises to those who would have my Son's heads sawed off with dull butcher knives should be more than surveilled, though.
I feel for you having to have THIS much to do with them. I'd lose it.
Clothes are hung, traitors are hanged!
As for the so-called documents...Any dimwit can make up that crap on Word and pass it off as legit....Let them take it to court and prove it to a Judge.
Not only are they dumb, they all think that groups like FreeRepublic and ProtestWarrior are paid to counterprotest them by the US government.
"Stop the Traitors NOW!"
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