Anti-terrorism training materials currently being used by the Department of Defense erroneously teaches that lawful public protest should be regarded as “low level terrorism.” The ACLU is calling the approach “an egregious insult to constitutional values” and has demanded the training materials be changed and corrective information be sent to all DoD employees who have received the training. The ACLU points out that the misinterpretation of First Amendment freedoms is particularly disturbing when other patterns of domestic security initiatives by the government has treated lawful dissent as terrorism. The Pentagon has been spying on at least 186 anti-military protests. The FBI’s surveillance of Republican National Convention was extraordinary. Also the Fresno County Sheriff Anti-Terrorism Unit was caught infiltrating and monitoring the Peace Fresno group, and peace and social justice organization in Maryland was covertly surveilled on by the Maryland State Police.

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http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/06/10-4

Bill Gibbons

“I’m a truth addict, aw shit, I got a head rush.” –Rage Against the Machine