Thursday, June 9, 2011

State emergency team monitoring protest-related communication and action | Dane101

State emergency team monitoring protest-related communication and action | Dane101

"Early last year documents uncovered by the Electronic Frontier Foundation through aa open records request from the Federal Government revealed that the Department of Homeland Security had "conducted a threat assessment of local pro- and anti-abortion activists" including Planned Parenthood in Wisconsin. According to the ACLU Madison:

“Without probable cause that a crime is being committed or is about to be committed, police or the federal government don't have the right to snoop on activists,” says Stacy Harbaugh, the community advocate of the Madison-area office of the ACLU of Wisconsin. “Having the feds investigate organizations on both sides of the abortion debate doesn't make us all safer: it simply victimizes more individuals' freedom and privacy rights.”"

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Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you. Dane101 has learned through a direct, anonymous source that a state emergency response team has been operating out of the GEF-2 (101 S. Webster St.) building downtown specifically to monitor protest related activity on social medi
about an hour ago ·
I'm not surprised. Are you? By end of decade, it will be as if the Police were living right there with you,all the time, in your house, in your car, taking a pee in the bathroom, lounging at the cabin on the lake, watching a high school game in the stands, during your wilderness hike, at the protest, visiting your mum, attending a