Prime evidence that Bush thinks peace activists are terrorists.
In recent days, I have been saying that Bush thinks that peace activists are terrorists. Here is prime evidence to back this assertion. In December 2005, it was revealed that The Pentagon spied on 10 different peace protests as a part of Bush's illegal spying program. This is not only a violation of the prohibitions against probable cause, domestic spying by the President, and the Posse Comatius Act forbidding military involvement in law enforcement, this shows that Bush has a complete lack of interest in catching the real terrorist -- Bin Laden and his people. Instead, the fact that he is bullying peace activists shows that he is scared of people like Bin Laden who might actually blow stuff up in retaliation.
The link shown details one such illegal spying operation. It involved illegal spying, police infiltration of peace groups, collaboration with the university, and violation of student's privacy rights by illegally sharing their personal info.
In the Tuesday meeting between students and administrators, the foremost of the concerns addressed was the possible university involvement in undercover surveillance of student activities. SAW presented the administrators with a 34-page document detailing many of the suspected incidents of covert surveillance, intimidation and first amendment violations that students had experienced on campus in the past year. Incidents ranged from police infiltration of protests and meetings to students being singled out due to their political activity. To verify these allegations, students proposed that the UCSC Administration conduct an internal investigation of campus and local officials that may have been divulging students’ personal information or releasing information on political activity to local or federal authorities. The students also sought the support of the administration in any follow-up actions.
These illegal actions by the Bush administration and their focus on peace activists show why Bush is so impotent when it comes to catching real terrorists. The fact that he has to claim credit for the arrest of a terrorist when a foreign Asian country actually did all the work is part and parcel of the coverup of his impotence. This also explains why so few terrorists are actually caught -- Bush is wasting taxpayer dollars spying on peace activists exercising their Constitutional rights to free speech and freedom of assembly instead of going after the real terrorists.
So, the next time Bush gets hysterical about the danger posed by terrorism, remember that he is not talking about terrorists in the same sense that you and I would. He is talking about people who dare to go too far in exposing the impotent nature of his administration and his conduct of the Iraq War.