Mercury News:UCSC chief alleges spying (on campus protest)

[Up2Late]

(Anyone else here beginning to see a pattern? What do the "Activist Judges call that? Is it "...a repeated pattern of abuse?")

Posted on Thu, Dec. 29, 2005

UCSC chief alleges spying

By Becky Bartindale
Mercury News

A University of California chancellor called Wednesday on Bay Area congressional representatives to investigate the government's reported spying at college campus protests, including one in April at UC-Santa Cruz. "We are greatly concerned about the Pentagon's investigation of a UCSC campus protest of military recruiting last spring," UCSC Chancellor Denice Denton wrote in a campus e-mail. "MSNBC reports that this protest was classified as a `credible threat' by the Department of Defense."

She called the government's investigation of the campus protest "a questionable use of military resources," adding, "It is especially disquieting that political dissent would be considered threatening." "As a nation, we must be vigilant and careful in balancing the competing needs of national security and the fundamental rights and values of individuals in a free and democratic society," Denton wrote.

Calls and e-mails on Denton's behalf went out Wednesday to the offices of U.S. Reps. Sam Farr, D-Salinas; Mike Honda, D-Campbell; Anna Eshoo, D-Palo Alto; Zoe Lofgren, D-San Jose; and Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. "We registered our concern with them, however, almost everyone is away" for the holiday, said university spokeswoman Elizabeth Irwin. "We expressed interest in supporting them to ensure oversight for protection of constitutional rights."

Farr already has denounced the Pentagon spying, which came to light earlier this month after NBC News obtained a secret 400-page Defense Department document listing more than 1,500 "suspicious incidents" across the country over 10 months.

<http://www.miami.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/13506607.htm?source=rss&channel=mercurynews_politics>
(more at link above)

[marmar]

1. My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty....what a crock!

This is infuriating. :grr: Orwell tried to warn us.

[fooj]

2. UCSC won't let this rest.

Peace.

[Straight Shooter]

3. Why does Denton even mention the "need of national security"?

It has absolutely no relevance to the surveillance of this group. Protesting military recruiting does not endanger national security, and I do not like to think that anyone would even give so much as a tip of the hat to the notion that it does.

The only danger of a protest is that more will understand that the Iraq War was based on a pack of lies.

[AspenRose]

4. Wow, it's the seventies all over again....

Cheney and Rumsfeld picked up right where they left off with Nixon and didn't miss a beat.

[aquart]

5. Because Nixon was PARDONED

Instead of being sent to jail for the rest of his life.

Can we please not wrist tap this time?

[Peace Patriot]

8. Yup, and they let Reagan off the hook as well, for funding death squads

in Nicaragua (the "Contras") who were assassinating teachers and mayors--in violation of the expressed will of Congress. The "buck' stopped with Reagan. THAT'S who should have been held to account for that egregiously illegal war.

All members of criminal administrations should be banned from all public office, and those who directly commit the crimes should be prosecuted and severely punished. There is NOTHING WORSE than government officials exhibiting contempt for the law.

And we should not only have impeached Reagan, and banned Nixonites and Reaganites from public office, we should have gone much further and completely dismantled the OFFENSIVE military machine that stands as such a temptation to fascists. When was the last time that this military machine and its huge parasitic growth of private military contractors actually "defended" us? They couldn't even defend the Pentagon on 9/11! All they're good for is creating trouble--manufacturing phony wars, killing tens of thousands of innocent people, stealing resources for global corporate predators, and stuffing the pockets of CEOs and former CEOs of companies like Halliburton.

"Defense Department" is a misnomer and a lie. We need to reduce this huge war-manufacturing establishment by about 90% and completely reconfigure it into a truly defensive posture. We should have done it after the Vietnam War. We didn't it. It came back to haunt us--and to kill more innocent people--in Nicaragua, Iraq and other places. We still didn't "get" it. It's the offensive military machine itself--and its hogtied Senators, Congresspeople and Presidents--that is creating these violent conflicts. Now we see the result--with the Bush junta and this disaster in the Middle East--of never having addressed the fundamental problem that first manifested in the war on Vietnam/Southeast Asia, where upwards of TWO MILLION PEOPLE were slaughtered for NOTHING--that is, for enriching WAR PROFITEERS.

Totally phony and genocidal war--because we never dembolized this economy after WW II. Ike warned us about this in one of his last speeches. He said, "Beware of the military/industrial complex." He was so right! (He played their game, though, in Vietnam, Iran and other places, until he saw the light, at the end of his presidency.)

[Up2Late]

6. Exactly. The fact that Congress didn't pass some sort of law to keep...

...the Nixon WH staff out of the Federal Government forever (or the staff of any U.S. President that helped disgraced the Office and/or reputation of the entire country)...

They should not have been allowed to ever darken the doorway of The White House.

[The Sushi Bandit]

7. HOW CAN WE GET THIS "LIST"?????

we need to shine some light on this report

[banana republican]

9. Ask and you shall receive

it is just a partial list but....

about half way down in red letters

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10454316/

Department of Defense database listing domestic ‘threats’

[The Sushi Bandit]

11. Mahalo!

[Up2Late]

10. kick n/t

:kick: