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This has become infamous : "So it came to pass that, in San Francisco, when 60-year-old retired phone company worker Barry Reingold answered the intercom at his residence, two FBI agents announced they were coming up. Earlier, at the gym where Reingold works out, the talk had been about the dread Osama bin Laden, and one of Reingold's fellow gym members had told the FBI about a suspicious turn the conversation had taken.
As Reingold recalled his part of the dialogue at the gym, he had said of the notorious fugitive, "Yeah, he's horrible and did a horrible thing, but Bush has nothing to be proud of. He is a servant of the big oil companies, and his only interest in the Middle East is oil."
After questioning George W. Bush's critic, the FBI agents appeared to clear Reingold of any likely terrorist predilections; but then, after the door closed, Reingold heard one of the agents say, in the corridor, "But we still need to do a report." Mr. Reingold is now a person under suspicion in the FBI's files."
Ashcroft has further expanded the FBI's powers by reviving the disgraced COINTELPRO operation that, from 1957 to 1971, monitored, infiltrated, and disrupted many "suspicious" religious and political groups. After COINTELPRO was denounced by Congress, certain restrictions were placed on such FBI initiatives. Ashcroft has lifted those restrictions. The December 3 Wall Street Journal noted that Justice Department regulations no longer "require agents to show probable cause that a crime was afoot before spying on political or religious organizations." Or individuals.
Whats so interesting about all this is why so many targeted individuals seemed to not be able to function nor even make reason out of any of this WHILE IT WAS HAPPENING.
What a great time to get rid of someone who is inconvenient. What a great time to clean house, to break away from the pack...what a great time to ruin a life. But that is FOR LIFE and doesn't change becuz administrations change.
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It seems like it is a de facto police state with that kind of stoolpidgeon placement. That is what occured in the Eastern Block countries before the Berlin Wall came down. The "no fly" list is another angle on the same thing; easy to get on, impossible to get off of it. We TI's get a front seat to what really goes on, but no one will take us at our word. It is called the Martha Mitchell effect.
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