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War on Terrorism, War on Dissent
Attorney General John Ashcroft is considering letting go of the few restrictions on the FBI that protect citizens from unreasonable searches and surveillance, and possibly return to the abuses and criminal behavior associated with the J. Edgar Hoover era in what the NY Times described as "another step by the Bush administration to modify civil-liberties protections as a means of defending the country against terrorists.

"The relaxation of the guidelines would follow administration measures to establish military tribunals to try foreigners accused of terrorism; to seek out and question 5,000 immigrants, most of them Muslims, who have entered the United States since January 2000; and to arrest more than 1,200 people, nearly all of whom are unconnected to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, and hold hundreds of them in jail ."

 If the attorney general gets his way, there will probably be an escalation in the harassment and prosecution of political activists, something common since the 60's under the FBI's secret COINTELPRO program. Peace and civil rights activists such as Martin Luther King Jr. , were regularly kept under surveillance, and in some extremes individuals were framed with false evidence, or were murdered like Black Panther Fred Hampton . While a Congressional order supposedly ended the program in 1971, it continued well into the present with the incarcerations of Leonard Peltier and Mumia Abu-Jamal , and also the framing and attempted murder of environmental activist Judi Bari . More recently, the Seattle IMC received a visit from the FBI this past spring, and individual volunteers have also been contacted.

Thursday, Ashcroft tried to defend these tactics before Congress, and claimed that his critics "aid terrorists."

| The USA - PATRIOT Act (H.R.3162) | Globe snd Mail: The war on dissent | NPR: Liberty vs. Security | ACLU | NLG report: Waging War Against Dissent | Black Panther Party | Democracy Now! Interview with Fred Hampton's widow | Nat Hentoff: The Worst Assault On Our Liberties | 12 ways to protect your online privacy | Why New Law-Enforcement Powers Worry Civil Libertarians | Media Education Foundation | The Red Scare | McCarthyism | StopCarnivore.org | FBI - Freedom of Information Act - Electronic Reading Room |

[ Prisons & Police Brutality IMC | Federal Bureau of Investigation | Political Research Associates ]


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