[Marxism] COINTELPRO 2.0: Mukasey Loosens Guidelines on Domestic Spying

[Jay Andrew Allen]

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/08/cointelpro-20-mukasey-loosens-guidelines-on-domestic-spying/

The latest moves to expand executive power follow close on the heels of
other orders and rule changes issued by the Bush regime. As researcher and
analyst Michel Chossudovsky
reported<http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9296>in
June, the Orwellian National Security Presidential Directive
59/Homeland
Security Presidential Directive 24 (NSPD 59/HSPD 24), entitled "Biometrics
for Identification and Screening to Enhance National Security," is directed
against U.S. citizens. Chossudovsky wrote,

"NSPD 59 goes far beyond the issue of biometric identification, it
recommends the collection and storage of "associated biographic"
information, meaning information on the private lives of US citizens, in
minute detail, all of which will be "accomplished within the law."

"The directive uses 9/11 as an all encompassing justification to wage a
witch hunt against dissenting citizens, establishing at the same time an
atmosphere of fear and intimidation across the land."

[...]

In addition to al Qaeda and other far-right Islamist terror groups, many of
whom have served as a cat's paw for Western intelligence agencies in the
Middle East, Central and South Asia, and the Balkans, NSPD 59/HSPD 24 has
identified two new categories of individuals as potential threats: "Radical
groups" and "disgruntled employees."

In other words, domestic anarchist and socialist organizations as well as
labor unions acting on behalf of their members' rights, now officially fall
under the panoptic lens of federal intelligence agencies and the private
security contractors who staff the 16 separate agencies that comprise the
U.S. "intelligence community."

-J-
-- 
Jay Andrew Allen
http://www.jayandrewallen.net/blog/ - Out-Loud Brainwaves

"In any case, the revolution will be drowned in the ballot boxes - which is
not surprising, since they were made for that purpose." - Jean-Paul Sartre