What the U.S. Is Becoming

SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Dec. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- The recent revelation that the U.S. military is spying on gay rights groups, say historians, evokes the Cold War crackdowns on gays during the McCarthy era. Then, as now, the government compiled lists of American citizens who were suspected of subversive activity by virtue of their association with critics of government policy. Targets included gays and members of gay or gay-friendly groups.

Last week, NBC News reported it had obtained sections of a secret Pentagon database with information about individuals linked to peaceful activist and protest groups that opposed certain U.S. military actions. According to the Advocate, the military has been monitoring meetings and events it deems “suspicious,” including gatherings of several student groups at the University of California, New York University and William Patterson College. Students were meeting to discuss and oppose the military’s policy excluding openly gay Americans from serving in uniform. At least one protest was classified as “possibly violent.” (source)

This is the world we live in today, and it’s all justified with laws put in place such as the Patriot Act and a President who doesn’t give a rats ass as to what is legal and not legal. He feels that he is entitled to do just about anything he wants, all to “protect our country”. All of this comes at the expense of personal freedoms that we assume are in place, such as the right to privacy.

You think I’m joking? Well, read the article above, then click on the link below. It is an image of my site statistics just this month to day, and is filtered on all the “.mil” sites that are taking a good close look at what I am saying about the crappy state of afairs in this country today. I’ve highighted some of the more interesting ones for you.

My site statistics on military monitoring of billandkent.com

And this is freedom? I also learned that the Pentagon has been spying on gay groups as well.

Pentagon officials have spied on student groups opposed to the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" ban on openly gay military personnel, according to media reports.

A February protest at New York University was one of the events under government surveillance, NBC News reported last week.

The network reported that the law school’s gay advocacy group, OUTlaw, was classified as "potentially violent" by the Pentagon.

"I was shocked to read that OUTLaw was classified as a threat and investigated," OUTlaw Co-chair Rebecca Fisher said in a telephone interview on Monday. "Since we still don't know how the Pentagon went about investigating us, I'm wondering how far they went in invading our personal privacy to make their determination. Did they read our e-mail? Monitor our meetings?” (source)