Anti-War Is Anti-American : Peace Activists Added To US Terror Watch List

Of course this was the intention from day one of the Patriot Act. Americans against the Iraq War were never going to be allowed to do what they did during the Vietnam War era. Anti-war is now anti-government. Pro-peace is now suspected terrorist.

Also included in the 46 pages of documents,...is an account of an activist's name being entered into a federally funded database designed to share information among state, local and federal law-enforcement agencies on terrorist and drug trafficking suspects.

The activist was identified as Max Obuszewski. His "primary crime" was entered into the database as "terrorism - anti govern(ment)." His "secondary crime" was listed as "terrorism - anti-war protestors."

....information about the protesters and their activities was sent to seven agencies, including the National Security Agency and an unnamed military intelligence official.

Who did you really think was going to go on a Terror Watch List? The people who actually make war into a reality?

UPDATE : An important, very valid question - So how many terrorists have been caught or stopped from unleashing terror by the implementation of Terror Watch List, now one million Americans strong? Answer? None.

Paul Craig Roberts explains :

"Members of Congress, nuns, war heroes and other 'suspicious characters,' with names like Robert Johnson and Gary Smith, have become trapped in the Kafkaesque clutches of this list, with little hope of escape," said Caroline Fredrickson, director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office.
Do you really believe there are one million terrorists and nothing has blown up in the US since September 11, 2001 (assuming you believe the government's account of that episode)?
How can there possibly be 1,000,000 terrorists and America still be in one piece? If there were 1,000,000 terrorists, America would be in ruins. According to the Bush Regime's line, it only took a handful of terrorists to destroy America's tallest skyscrapers and a section of the Pentagon and to send the President of the United States scurrying to a hiding place.
The "watch list" has not apprehended a single terrorist, but thousands of American citizens have been inconvenienced and arrested.

What the "watch list" or "no-fly list" is doing is training Americans to submit to warrantless searches, to abandon their constitutional rights, and to submit to humiliation by thugs and bullies. A Gestapo is being trained to have no qualms about searching and intimidating fellow citizens, using any excuse to delay or arrest them. Americans are being taught to use arbitrary power and to submit to arbitrary power. In the false name of "safety from terrorists," Americans are being made the least safe people on earth.

Police State USA is steadily taking shape.

A government loses its mandate to rule when it no longer trusts the people it is supposed to be governing.

[edit on 30-7-2008 by OutoftheBoxthinker]

First it were "white supremacists" who were targeted. Then, it were conservative muslems who were targeted. Now, it's peace activists. Soon enough, everyone not nodding along with the authorities can be labeled a terrorist.

Pastor Martin Niemöller

When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.

When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.

When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.

When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I wasn't a Jew.

When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.

[edit on 30-7-2008 by OutoftheBoxthinker]