The FBI and NSA Spy on Peace Organizations.

“Rumsfeld Spies on Quakers and Grannies,” Mathew Rothschild, Progressive, December 16, 2005.

“Pentagon Caught Spying on US Anti-War and Anti-Nuclear Activists”, Democracy Now, December 15, 2005,

“Documents Reveal Scope of U.S. Database on Antiwar Protests“, Eric Lichtblau, “New York Times, October 13, 2006

The Pentagon distributes grenade launchers and Blackhawk helicopters to local police forces. Radley Balko, Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in American (Washington DC: Cato Institute, 2006 ), p.5.

NY Times – NSA Caught Spying E-Mail Surveillance Renews Concerns in Congress The National Security Agency is facing renewed scrutiny over the extent of its domestic surveillance program, with critics in Congress saying its recent intercepts of the private telephone calls and e-mail messages of Americans are broader than previously acknowledged, current and former officials said
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/17/us/17nsa.html?_r=1&emc=eta1

The Eavesdropping Continues
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/18/opinion/18thu1.html?_r=1&emc=eta1

War Destroys Truth/Liberty

Mukasey’s Homeland Security Court By Michael Hampton
Posted: November 8, 2007 12:06 am

One of the requirements for a totalitarian police state is a system of kangaroo courts, star chambers which operate in secret and in parallel to the existing judicial system to convict political prisoners of pretended crimes against the state, which could never survive in the regular courts. And former judge Michael Mukasey, nominee for U.S. Attorney General to replace Alberto Gonzales, has proposed that the United States adopt such a system of courts.

Guantanamo – Innocent People

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/03/19/ex-bush-official-guantanamo-bay-innocent/

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Many detainees locked up at Guantanamo were innocent men swept up by U.S. forces unable to distinguish enemies from noncombatants, a former Bush administration official said Thursday.

http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/05/23/four-innocent-people-remain-in-guantanamo-bay/

After the release earlier this month of five ethnic Uighurs who were being held in Guantanamo Bay despite not being enemy combatants — or involved with terrorism at all — four more people known to be innocent remain imprisoned there.

“Terrorism is not an enemy. It cannot be defeated. It’s a tactic. It’s about as sensible to say we declare war on night attacks and expect we’re going to win that war. … We’re not going to win the war on terrorism. And it does whip up fear. Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few.”
-General William Odom, US Army

“Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes. And armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. The means of defense against foreign danger have always been the instruments of tyranny at home.”
-James Madison

“The 1995 guidelines and the procedures developed around them imposed draconian barriers, barriers between the law enforcement and intelligence communities. The wall effectively excluded prosecutors from intelligence investigations.”
-Attorney General John Ashcroft, April 2004

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“To be sure, the [1995] procedures were intended to permit a degree of interaction and information sharing between prosecutors and intelligence officers.”
-Attorney General John Ashcroft, July 2004

Supporting Protestors

“Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought! Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder! Strike against preparedness that means death and misery to millions of human beings! Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction! Be heroes in an army of construction!”
-Helen Keller

“We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.”
-Edward R. Murrow

“Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.”
-Susan B. Anthony

“Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.”
-William Penn

“They first came for the Communists and I didn’t speak up- because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews and I didn’t speak up- because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists and I didn’t speak up- because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn’t speak up- because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me- and by that time no one was left to speak up.”
-Pastor Martin Niemoeller

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
-Theodore Roosevelt

“Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.”
-Matthew, V:9

“I am a soldier of Christ and it is not permissible for me to fight.”
-St. Martin of Tours

“The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service.”
-Albert Einstein

“Someday they’ll give a war and nobody will come.”
-Carl Sandburg

“Being a pacifist between wars is as easy as being a vegetarian between meals.”
-Ammon Hennacy, US Labor leader

“The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.”
-Basil O’Connor

“To preserve peace, we need weapons of smaller and men of larger caliber.”
-Unknown

“Peace hath higher tests of manhood than battle ever knew.”
-John Greenleaf Whittier

“Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.”
-George Bernard Shaw

“When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a vanguard against abuse.”
-Hannah Arendt

“When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.”
-Pearl S Buck

“Peace is the only battle worth waging.”
-Albert Camus (1913-1960)

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever does.”
-Margaret Mead

“Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.”
-Martin Luther King, Jr.