[121] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: FTAA, Harvard, MIT students... (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aimee L Smith)
Fri Apr 20 14:15:09 2001
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To: "Isaac E. Moses" <imoses@MIT.EDU>
cc: Aimee L Smith <alsmith@MIT.EDU>, mit-talk@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 20 Apr 2001 13:52:13 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 14:14:37 -0400
From: Aimee L Smith <alsmith@MIT.EDU>
The news so far is slim, although this is in exact parallel to the
cooperation that the FBI (of the US) gave to border patrols in
Prague last Sept 26 for the big IMF/WB protest over there. Peaceful
citizens from other countries were denied access for the simple reason of
having *been* at the Seatle protest the previous Nov. They weren't even
arrested and the vast majority those that were arrested had the
charges dropped. Also, people were premtively arrested in Phili
last summer and some had their bail for misdemeanors put at
$1 million! Very few of the charges have even been brought
to trial...
I will give their explicit details when I get them.
This MIT student, i.e. myself participated in a peaceful anti-death
penalty march last Oct 3 heading over for the debate protest. I
drove the sound truck. Several police video taped all the initial
crew of demonstrators, and plain-clothes folk photoged me. (They
were pretty obvious, take a snap, then run and hide. I teased one
of them, asking him if he thought I was cute, and that was why he
took my picture. He said yes, but on further questioning, became
uncomfortable and ran off... he didn't want to display the ID he had
under his shirt on a neck-chain... oh yeah, on the way to the
march, I got pulled over for having the sound on (VERY LOW - ticket
has been since dismissed), the police made me go into the station and
one asked for my SSN. I asked him what this had to do with my taxes,
and he said "don't get into a pissing contest with me, we can get it
anyhow." I said, "I'm sorry, it is just that I know I have rights,
and the SSN is only meant for tax purposes." I was not asked again, but
the ticket was returned to me with the SSN...)
Anyhow, Co-intelpro is alive and well... so much for a free society...
(Co-intelpro was a 70's program linking efforts of the FBI with local
law-enforcement agencies... involved massive infiltration of groups and
even participated in some extrajudicial executions, s.a. Fred Hampton.
Somehow, they didn't teach me about that in my history classes, how about
yours?
