amazing but not necessarily that surprising: FBI has files on ACLU, Greenpeace, other rights groups...

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yup, pretty expected. remember, these fuckheads think that anyone who doesn't agree with their exact Party line is treasonous.

we've come so far since the civil rights movement...

― kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 04:20 (eighteen years ago) link

of course, the key bit is not to have anybody breaking Godwin's Law. the key word is STASI, not the other thing...

― kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 04:21 (eighteen years ago) link

on the far left, the presence of a file is a large honour, my father and my mother both have csis files

― anthony easton (anthony), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 04:22 (eighteen years ago) link

COINTELPRO MACH II

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 04:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, my mom says she has a huge file too. It would be interesting to see it.

― crown victoria (dymaxia), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 04:25 (eighteen years ago) link

I wouldn't have thought it would be a news item. Why wouldn't they? We've no Freedom of Information Act in these lovely repressed British Isles, but it's assumed by pretty much everyone (correctly as it turns out) that our security services just do things like this as a matter of course.

― Stone Monkey (Stone Monkey), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 09:53 (eighteen years ago) link

This really isn't surprising. Hasn't the FBI always kept files on people/groups that are perceived as anti-establishment?

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For context, I think it's relevant to point out (for posterity) that the date of June 2001 is from a server error that occurred yesterday. This thread originated in 2005, not 2001.

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 10:53 (eighteen years ago) link

We've no Freedom of Information Act in these lovely repressed British Isles

Um, that's not quite true now.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 10:54 (eighteen years ago) link

The Official Secrets Act still holds. And that means we're not allowed to see some things based solely on the criterion that our Government says they're secret - It doesn't matter what they are.

― Stone Monkey (Stone Monkey), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 11:04 (eighteen years ago) link

eleven years pass...

Phil A. Buster
‏@onekade
The FBI is investigating a journalist because he made a joke about voter fraud on twitter. A taste of what's coming.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/fbi-investigates-journalist-joke-tweet_us_58471b9fe4b0fe5ab6936b54?section=us_politics

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 16:35 (seven years ago) link

Welp, I guess 'create Twitter account with which I ceaselessly direct tweet the FBI about absurd and easily-disproven federal crimes I'm committing and encourage as many people as possible to do likewise' is going on the new year's resolutions list.

― i need microsoft installed on my desktop, can you help (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 17:15 (seven years ago) link

let's float some of those crime ideas

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 17:47 (seven years ago) link

two years pass...

they know where the terrah is

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/23/revealed-how-the-fbi-targeted-environmental-activists-in-domestic-terror-investigations

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 September 2019 16:14 (four years ago) link

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