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Maryland State Police surveillance of antiwar and anti-death penalty activists

BALTIMORE —- The American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland today [7/17] made public what it called "shocking" documents obtained through a Maryland Public Information Act (MPIA) lawsuit, revealing that the Maryland State Police (MSP) engaged in covert surveillance of local peace and anti-death penalty groups for over a year from 2005-2006. The organization expressed alarm at the incomprehensible spying revealed in 43 pages of summaries and computer logs, none of which refer to criminal or even potentially criminal acts, other than a few isolated references to plans for completely nonviolent civil disobedience.

ACLU of Maryland Executive Director Susan Goering blasted the program as "Un-American," and said, "I fear that the documents released today, which the MSP wrongfully withheld for almost two years, may be only the tip of the proverbial iceberg."


Read the ACLU press release
WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED: Maryland Anti-Death Penalty Activists Speak Out!7/24 @ 2640
Read the documents obtained through the Maryland Public Information Act (MPIA) lawsuit
Coverage on Democracy Now!
Dave Zirin: COINTELPRO Comes to My Town: My First-Hand Experience With Government Spies
Coverage in the Progressive
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Re: Maryland State Police surveillance of antiwar and anti-death penalty activists

shit you should see what is going on in hachita nm, and other places in new mexico, spying as ahjunct to human experimentation and weapons tests (DEW)....where i live there are many DHS employed or private snoops -- many work for their lord, which is also unAmerican....the fact that bush made all this legal by bribing congress sstates right there that his coven of lord worshipping scum is large, and well entrenched...check this out:

The telecomm immunitry issue is about the govt legalizing its illegal spying. this is how the elite deviants always work, they do illegal things unil they are caught, then they try to legalize it, the bush crime family are notorious for this, and their power is unwarranted and illegal.

This is all about protecting some dog old boys who want the right to listen into their neighbors telephone conversations, and to see what their neighbors are doing on the net. This is mostly because they do not and could never really have a life of their own, God damn them, so they must spy and snitch, they make-believe, which is all they have ever done. Also it is to harass and to deter commerce, especially among the perceived enemy, however ill informed that perception is. these types do not care too much about much, and do not really know what America is about. Thats how the dog old boys remain themselves.

the criminals in congress just passed and the senate appears to be passing as well soon, a piece of paper intended to eviscerate the 4th amendment, as they have already eviscerated so much else.

Please call your senators and complain. Tell the aid you want the senator to vote NO on


US Government Quietly Forms Cyber Militia

Source: Strategy Page

The U.S. government has quietly gone ahead and formed several special security organizations for policing the internet. Because there is such a (trained, not to mention talented) manpower shortage right now (and in the foreseeable future), this was done on the cheap. An effective force could not be recruited, even if everyone agreed to accept government pay levels, because of the huge expense. One solution that was suggested even before September 11, 2001, and eventually caught on, was to organize and reward the pro bono cybersecurity efforts that have been going on for some time. A lot of talented whitehats just get pissed off and go after bad guys on their own nickel. An example is HoneyNet (the pro bono network of honeypots set up to attract, analyze and document backhat activities and techniques). One suggestion that did not fly was setting up a "CyberCorps" as a separate corporation, with a few really good people to run it, and enough budget to pay market rate for the right people, and still have a close working relationship with government agencies and commercial firms that spend a lot on net security (banks and brokerages, for example.

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Instead, a "Cyber Corps" program was set up to give tuition assistance to college students studying computer security, in order to increase the number of qualified experts in this area. Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security established working relationships with existing computer security groups, while the Department of Defense encouraged the services to set up computer security operations. The air force established the Cyber Command, a major operation that, it is hoped, will give the air force the lead (and most of the budget) for defense related Internet security operations.


The U.S. Army sought to make something of the original CyberCorps concept, by recruiting existing army reservists with computer security experience, and organizing them into the Reserve Information Operations Command. So far, nearly 400 reservists have been assigned to man five Information Operations Centers. These reservists have civilian jobs in computer and Internet security, and most make more than the government could afford to pay them. But in the event of an Internet "battle", the Reserve Information Operations Command would quickly provide the army with a collection of expert operators to analyze, and deal with, the threat. The army is still recruiting for this duty, and will probably continue to, in order to expand this force as much as possible.


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