Spying on VEGANS?!!! Are you freaking KIDDING me?

[im10ashus]

This has to be the most asinine thing I have heard in quite some time. What next?

A government photo shows Caitlin Childs protesting.



Caitlin Childs, shown at an ACLU news conference

The ACLU of Georgia released copies of government files on Wednesday that illustrate the extent to which the FBI, the DeKalb County Division of Homeland Security and other government agencies have gone to compile information on Georgians suspected of being threats simply for expressing controversial opinions.

Two documents relating to anti-war and anti-government protests, and a vegan rally, prove the agencies have been "spying" on Georgia residents unconstitutionally, the ACLU said. (Related: ACLU Complaint -- PDF file)

For example, more than two dozen government surveillance photographs show 22-year-old Caitlin Childs of Atlanta, a strict vegetarian, and other vegans picketing against meat eating, in December 2003. They staged their protest outside a HoneyBaked Ham store on Buford Highway in DeKalb County.

cont'd...

http://www.11alive.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=75151

[medeak]

1. is there a link for story please? ;-)

[im10ashus]

5. Sorry!

I added the link.

:-)

[rocktivity]

9. link

http://www.11alive.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=75151

For example, more than two dozen government surveillance photographs show...a strict vegetarian, and other vegans picketing against meat eating...outside a HoneyBaked Ham store...in DeKalb County.

An undercover DeKalb County Homeland Security detective was assigned to conduct surveillance of the protest and the protestors, and take the photographs. The detective arrested Childs and another protester after he saw Childs approach him and write down, on a piece of paper, the license plate number of his unmarked government car.
...The government file lists anti-war protesters in Atlanta as threats, the ACLU said.

:headbang:
rocknation

[havocmom]

15. Dept of Homland Security! Protecting ham sales!

Hey, does Osama eat ham? Thinking he doesn't. ;)

THERE ya go!
Protest ham = connected to 'terrasts'

[rocktivity]

21. Don't laugh--the beef industry took Oprah Winfrey to court for saying

"This has stopped me cold from ever eating another hambuger." You see, they got their buddy Dubya to write a law against slandering them! But Oprah didn't bat an eyelash--she just did her show from Texas and was acquitted.

:headbang:
rocknation

[havocmom]

24. I know that & I'm not laughing.

The junta is using the US version of SS to squelch free speech and protect corporate interests. I have been hollering that this was coming since, oh, about 1979.

Just trying to point out the silly ways they try to justify the shit they do, and illustrate how easy it is to find ones self within two degrees of separation of some terrorist, real or imagined.

Think about this, America:
NSA monitoring your calls (illegally, without warrants) if you get calls from over seas.
Corporations moving call centers overseas to save on payroll & taxes... and maybe give cover to junta excuse for listening in to EVERYBODY's phone.

Plus, all this chasing of Quakers, vegans and mothers for peace keeps the FBI too busy to keep an eye on any real bad guys, thereby making LIHOPs easier. We know those little dudes help bushco solidify power.

[maxsolomon]

25. all hail Oprah

she makes everything peachy. :sarcasm:

[applegrove]

2. An enemy of the cattle industry is an enemy of the state! Let us pray

this war part of a real investigation into eco-terrorism or animal rights terrorism.

[stop the bleeding]

3. Veganerrorists - got protect America from them. n/t

[htuttle]

4. Oh, I don't know...'hummus' sounds PRETTY CLOSE to 'Hamas', doesn't it?

I hear those terrifying Quakers need some looking into too...

:crazy:

[thinkingwoman]

18. AAAaaarrrrrrrrrgggghhhhh!

Ye be makin me laugh! :rofl:

[pberq]

6. Link to story

http://www.11alive.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=75151

. . .An undercover DeKalb County Homeland Security detective was assigned to conduct surveillance of the protest and the protestors, and take the photographs. The detective arrested Childs and another protester after he saw Childs approach him and write down, on a piece of paper, the license plate number of his unmarked government car.

"They told me if I didn't give over the piece of paper I would go to jail and I refused and I went to jail, and the piece of paper was taken away from me at the jail and the officer who transferred me said that was why I was arrested," Childs said on Wednesday.

The government file lists anti-war protesters in Atlanta as threats, the ACLU said. The ACLU of Georgia accuses the Bush administration of labeling those who disagree with its policy as disloyal Americans.

"We believe that spying on American citizens for no good reason is fundamentally un-American, that it's not the place of the goverment or the best use of resources to spy on its own citizens and we want it to stop. We want the spies in our government to pack their bags, close up their notebooks, take their cameras home and not engage in the spying anymore," Gerald Weber of the ACLU of Georgia said during a news conference.

[murray hill farm]

12. The ACLU must have a large file of such occurances...

I wish they would make more public..as was done with this story in Georgia. If the govt sees "non meat eaters" as trators to the american values of " eating meat"...then there is no end to it! There is no end to the span of domestic spying...and we can either give into it or fight it..we need all of this dirty laundry out in the open..and as soon as possible.

[leveymg]

7. Either you're with McDonald's, or you're Against America.

These people threaten to bring a pillar of American culture and economy to its knees! Make 'em eat Big Macs, or its off to Gitmo.

[Stockholm]

8. Here is a different perspective

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=244838&mesg_id=244838

[Ilsa]

10. Is there a listing here on DU of all of the ridiculous spying our

govt is doing? I want to be able to site who, what, where, when, and spying by which dept to anyone interested in the subject or not believing how absurd our govt has become.

[stop the bleeding]

14. sort of here at this link

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_oet&address=358x2326

[catmother]

11. the government is in bed with the meat industry, the dairy industry

so vegetarians are a threat to the economy.:sarcasm:

13. Environmentalism is the wave of the future

and these fascists are threatened by the future

[flvegan]

16. All your meat are belong to us. Bow down before your new

vegan overlords. Submit to our omnipotent power or I shall toss the Holy Tofu Hand Grenade.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

17. Or as I like to call them "Anti Meat Terroeists". n/t

[RandomKoolzip]

19. Hey! I posted this yesterday!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x248302

It's kind of a dupe, I guess you'd say. And yes, I AM jealous that your thread got 2 recommends while mine didn't. :evilgrin:

[im10ashus]

20. I guess it's all in the timing.

:evilgrin:

I will K&R your thread! :-)

[Ksec]

22. Brocolli and its hatred of America

Unbefreakinlievable

[Ksec]

23. Carrots. Americas enemy

Green Beans. The real terrorists

[Maru Kitteh]

26. We Vegans are pretty fierce you know

Very subversive, eating all that tofu and vegetables.