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ACLU Sues Colorado Springs, FBI Over 'Unconstitutional' Spying on Activists' Devices
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Common-Dreams
August 2, 2023, 6:14pm
"Unless called to account in this lawsuit, the police could seize and search the phones and devices of anyone in our community."
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HelenB
August 2, 2023, 7:54pm
What are those inalienable rights that have been touted in the past? Looks to me like there are fewer and fewer of them.
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WiseOwl
August 2, 2023, 8:10pm
Knowing Colorado Springs, the CSPD wants to see if people are good fundamentalists or not. A lot of RWNJs live there.
PonyBoy
August 2, 2023, 9:33pm
Those who are cheerleading this administration and their steady advances towards a totalitarian police state had best wake up and turn off the MSNBC.
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Tom_Johnson
August 2, 2023, 9:41pm
As well they should. In the 1980s, the Colorado offices of the FBI were all over the Socialist Workers’Party (SWP) for conducting quite legal, constitutional and activities.
My ex-wife and mother of our daughter was involved in artistic activities at Guild Books (a left non-SWP bookstore) in Chicago on Armitage Street. She worked across the street as a waitress, while I worked at day labor of various kinds.
In any case, she ended up on an FBI subversive list in Denver. The SWP won a lawsuit for harassment and such; but clearly they haven’t changed their ways.
They’ve worked like this since J.Edgar Hoover began blackmailing U.S. presidents in the 1920s.
This is what a police state looks like. It is who “we” are. Any of you lib/progs out there who red-bait need to think about what you do.
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wingsofadove
August 2, 2023, 10:35pm
But isn’t this what Edward Snowden warned us of?
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mrsannhitts
August 2, 2023, 11:18pm
Our progressive community radio station has said (hosts) quite regularly on the air that the meta data in your phone is fair game to LE. So, you’ve been warned. Also,
everything is fair game to the federal and local gov’ts. It’s a kind of PSA a progressive activist can actually use.
FYI-Colorado Springs is home to U.S. AFA and other military installations. Why not just assume the Alphabets are vigilant to the point of obsession. The Bill of Rights, especially the 4th, are not a consideration
when The Police & Security State could be compromised. They’re indispensible, right?
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HelenB
August 2, 2023, 11:45pm
I’ve heard there’s a point system. Whatever. I taught ESL in China. Oppression can get very very nasty for innocents.
HelenB
August 3, 2023, 12:57am
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And to be clear i was talking about Americans who have returned from China.
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mrsannhitts
August 3, 2023, 2:14am
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Helen- Speaking any Chinese would be a huge feather in your cap, or would it? Now it may bring official state suspicions. That’s just very strange but Biden is an actual paranoid, imo. Look at the ongoing Assange trials. The 5 Eyes Security System.
The Democrats appear to be confused on this, though, with my Sen. Wyden about the only one who’s always concerned about the 4th Amendment as a quasi-Libertarian Democrat. Sen. Rand Paul talks about this
abrogation of rights, too.
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