Surveillance
The FBI Counterterrorism Unit tracking the activities of legal, non-terrorist organizations like the ACLU and United For Peace and Justice. Fine, the FBI is watching us, but why the Counter-Terrorism Unit? Since when is the ACLU involved in terrorism? By the way, are you a card-carrying member? You should be.
Not just the FBI either. The California National Guard terrorist unit was called out to monitor a peaceful anti-war protest.
And here's an immigration lawyer who's serving a year in prison, for, apparently, criticizing the Patriot Act.
Also, your ISP may be filtering your email and not bothering to tell you. Fine then, let them filter out the viagra ads. Not those, though. They're filtering out messages that contain AfterDowningStreet.org in the body of the message. Where do we live now, China??
Finally, on another topic, new study shows that most of the foreign terrorists flowing into Iraq were not terrorists before we invaded Iraq.
posted by AmyN @ 7/18/2005 02:10:00 PM
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For fuck's sake. And as for the pseudo-argument that "afterdowningstreet.org" messages are spam, it's completely disingenuous: blocking "from" domains in email messages no longer is useful for blocking any quantity of spam, and they know it.
Cumblast -- uh, Comcast -- is a stunningly shitty company, and an execrable ISP, and I'm not at all surprised that they would curtail freedom of expression like this, whether by malice or by incompetence. (Either explanation is fully plausible for Cumblast.)
Not to lay it all on the odious Cumblast -- there really is a chilling atmosphere now.
Regarding the insurgents who were radicalized by the war, I suppose that I should thank the Bush Administration for conducting such a costly experiment just to prove me right.
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