FBI officer speaks at law school, lists Indymedia, Food Not Bombs, Communist Party of Texas on “Terrorist Watch List.”
It’s difficult to understand such cluelessness. But given this, it’s no wonder FBI hasn’t found any actual terrorists.
Indymedia has an open publishing policy – and FBI officials reading this should write this down – to determine what IndyMedia is doing, FBI should go to their websites and read them. Nope, no terrorists here. The genuinely scary thing though is, in addition to their blundering surveillance, that FBI clearly doesn’t understand the territory it is monitoring.
Foods not Bombs gives away food for free to whoever wants it. Were this the 60’s, they’d have been hippies. Here’s a tip for the FBI: Vegetarian peaceniks practicing non-violent civil disobedience are not generally known to be terrorists.
The Communist Party USA has backed the Democrat presidential candidate for decades against any third party candidate, which doesn’t sound real radical or revolutionary to me. Again, not a terrorist threat.
Orwellian incompetence is a bad mixture indeed.
Let’s not forget that the FBI considered the hippies a threat to society, their society. Wouldn’t it have been nice if the whole world had become hippies? Just think, no wars.
And on the other end of the spectrum, when Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers of the Weather Underground surfaced after ten years underground, the FBI was forced to drop all charges against the two because they’d committed so many felonies trying to catch them that none of their evidence could be used in court.