Legal Commentary

Progressive Equals Terrorist to Maryland Trooper

By TChris

The Los Angeles Times takes a look at the Maryland State Trooper who, working undercover, "infiltrated" progressive groups and attended progressive events that she perceived as terrorism-related. TalkLeft last discussed the Maryland surveillance program here.

Maryland officials now concede that, based on information gathered by "Lucy" and others, state police wrongly listed at least 53 Americans as terrorists in a criminal intelligence database -- and shared some information about them with half a dozen state and federal agencies, including the National Security Agency.

Among those labeled as terrorists: two Catholic nuns, a former Democratic congressional candidate, a lifelong pacifist and a registered lobbyist. One suspect's file warned that she was "involved in puppet making and allows anarchists to utilize her property for meetings." ...

Puppet makers being well known terrorists. Right, Osama bin Geppetto? [more ...]

Investigators, the files show, targeted groups that advocated against abortion, global warming, nuclear arms, military recruiting in high schools and biodefense research, among other issues.

If the Democratic Party could just bring together the global warming terrorists, the military recruiting terrorists, the pacifist terrorists, and all the other progressive terrorists under one big tent of terrorism, wouldn't that be awesome?

Full post as published by TalkLeft on December 07, 2008 (boomark / email).