The National Security Agency used law enforcement agencies, including the Baltimore Police Department, to track members of a city anti-war group as they prepared for protests outside the sprawling Fort Meade facility, internal NSA documents show.
The target of the clandestine surveillance was the Baltimore Pledge of Resistance, a group loosely affiliated with the local chapter of the American Friends Service Committee, whose members include many veteran city peace activists with a history of nonviolent civil disobedience.
Nice. This is what always confused me about a police state--How do they get cops to go against the people they are charged to protect?
They make us into the enemy.
Hell, I could have been one of those protesters. I remember at a protest in Hollywood I went to a couple years ago I accidentally got in the way of a cop videotaping protesters. I smiled ad apologized for getting in his way as I tried to set up my own camera angle. He smiled, cordially and said something like: "No, it's OK, you don't have to move."
I smiled and got out of his shot anyway and swung around behind him to get a shot of him video taping the other protesters.
This is what a police state looks like, folks. It may not be Nazi Germany, but when the police are tracking the movements of ANY American citizen who has yet to commit a crime, that's, by definition, a police state.
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