Pentagon removes UCSC protest from threat database

[Newsjock]

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/13843421.htm

Bay City News Service

SANTA CRUZ - University of California-Santa Cruz officials announced today that the Defense Department has removed a reference to a campus protest against military recruiters from its threat database.

The revelation late last year that the April 5, 2005, protest had been listed as a ``credible threat'' by the Pentagon on its Threat and Local Observation Notice (TALON) database drew widespread media attention and raised concerns from California Sens. Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein.

Boxer arranged a Jan. 31 meeting between UC-Santa Cruz Chancellor Denice Denton and a Pentagon representative that resulted in the protest being removed from the database, according to a letter sent to Denton this week by Boxer and Feinstein.

[Dunvegan]

1. What's it doing there in the first place?

This all explains why O'Sama bin Billy flung his rabid fatwa at San Francisco's vote to remove recruiters from inner-city (mostly disadvantaged neighborhood) high-schools.

It is a major problem for Rummy...stop-loss can't hold up forever...he needs bodies.

Frickin' zombie.

[rodeodance]

2. this should tell people that is this Univ can be listed, then anyone can

be listed as a ``credible threat''

[Daphne08]

3. Honestly there's so much spying in this country

these days that my head is spinning.

This is not the country in which I was raised.

[freefall]

6. We become more like the old Soviet Union every day. Next they'll

have children turning their parents in for speaking against the state. Come to think of it that has probably already happened somewhere.

[zann725]

7. Nor I. And I fear we don't even know half of what is going on.

With all electronic advances, and even "tracking devices" on new cars as well as cell phone tracking, our exact "coordinates", as well as all our conversations (including on-line...internet as well as phone) are easily public knowledge.

BIG BROTHER "is" watching, and lisening...unfortunately.

[Wordie]

4. If they were on the threat database, what did it mean for them? Wiretaps?

email dumps? no-fly lists? (all secret and in the name of national security?)

That's what I'd like to know.

[ecoalex]

5. How about the Quaker peace groups?

Four Quaker peace groups are still on the "threat" list.How many other domestic groups are listed as "threats" ? Americans don't know half of the spy program. Gonsales would not even admit to opening first class domestic mail.Wake up people, the MSM is holding back on the totality of the spying, we all were spied on. How does that feel? Do you care?