POST CONSTITUTIONAL AMERICA

PENTAGON SPIED ON PEACE ACTIVISTS, CALLED RALLIES 'POTENTIAL TERRORIST
ACTIVITY'

ERIC LICHTBLAU, NY TIMES - Internal military documents released Thursday
provided new details about the Defense Department's collection of
information on demonstrations nationwide last year by students, Quakers
and others opposed to the Iraq war.

The documents, obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union under a
Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, show, for instance, that military
officials labeled as "potential terrorist activity" events like a "Stop
the War Now" rally in Akron, Ohio, in March 2005. . .

A department spokesman said Thursday that the "questionable data
collection" had led to a tightening of military procedures to ensure
that only information relevant to terrorism and other threats was
collected. The spokesman, Maj. Patrick Ryder, said in response to the
release of the documents that the department "views with great concern
any potential violation" of the policy. . .

A document first disclosed last December by NBC News showed that the
military had maintained a database, known as Talon, containing
information about more than 1,500 "suspicious incidents" around the
country in 2004 and 2005. Dozens of alerts on antiwar meetings and
peaceful protests appear to have remained in the database even after
analysts had decided that they posed no threat to military bases or
personnel. . .

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/13/washington/13protest.html?
_r=1&ref=washington&oref=slogin

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MAYOR DALEY WANTS AN UBER-ORWELLIAN CHICAGO

FRAN SPIELMAN, CHICAGO SUN TIMES - Security and terrorism won't be an
issue if Chicago wins the right to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games
because, by that time, there'll be a surveillance camera on every
corner, Mayor Daley said. "By the time 2016 [rolls around], we'll have
more cameras than Washington, D.C. . . Our technology is more advanced
than any other city in the world -- even compared to London -- dealing
with our cameras and the sophistication of cameras and retro-fitting all
the cameras downtown in new buildings, doing the CTA cameras," Daley
said. "By 2016, I'll make you a bet. We'll have [cameras on] almost
every block."

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/92811,CST-NWS-bside12.article

ORWELLIAN CITIES OF AMERICA

Chicago
Boston
New York
Washington
East Orange NJ

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