Think globally; spy locally. You know how dangerous peace activists are!
Fresno cops spying on peace groups.
After a Fresno peace activist died in a donorcycle accident last year,
his obit revealed that he was not, in fact, a peace activist -- he was
a Sheriff's Deputy. So this weird accident revealed that the Fresno
fuzz was paying its coppers to inflitrate local peace groups, a
chilling bit of McCarthy-era totalitarianism.
Now the Fresno peace group and the ACLU have successfully pressured the state Attorney General to look into this.
Fresno County Sheriff Richard Pierce won't confirm or
deny that Kilner was spying on Peace Fresno. But he said in a prepared
statement that his department reserved the right to conduct
surveillance as part of its anti-terrorism efforts.
Russell and other members say their group has nothing to do with
terrorism and spends most of its time organizing a monthly antiwar
protest at Shaw and Blackstone avenues, one of Fresno's busiest
intersections.
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(Thanks, David!) [Boing Boing]
