Paranoid-Driven Security State Domestic Spying: An Update
From back here, a recent development which makes me think that there may yet be hope still in stemming/stopping the slow march toward the Authoritarian Security State:
Maryland Governor Orders Investigation of Spying by State TroopersWhich remains to be fully established.
On July 31, Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley appointed the former attorney general of the state Stephen Sachs to head up an independent investigation of the spying by state troopers.
"I would like to be able to assure the public that this has been thoroughly investigated and reviewed," the governor said, according to an account in The Washington Post.
The ACLU recently revealed that Maryland state troopers had been spying on and infiltrating groups that opposed the Iraq War and the death penalty.
(...) The announcement of the Sachs investigation, which is expected to last a month or two, is “an important step forward,” the ACLU said. “We believe that this important investigation of serious infractions of Marylanders’ most basic freedoms is now in good hands.”
Nevertheless, this will be worth to watch over in order to ensure that this does not constitute nothing more than a white-washing excercise while public attention drifts away yet again onto distracting, trivial matters ...
It's funny how the MSM and others can turn such serious matters of the state into a focus on the lowest common denominator much like they did the McSame Spears and Paris video.
ReplyDeleteTPM: all I can say is: yup.
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