It wasn't all in your imagination: Private security company Beckett Brown International spied on Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and other big environmental organizations in the late 1990s through at least 2000, according to documents obtained by Mother Jones. To produce intelligence reports for PR firms and corporations involved in environmental kerfuffles with green groups, BBI operatives snooped through garbage, cased offices, collected phone records, and tried to infiltrate groups with spies. Records show that operatives managed to attend confidential meetings and gain access to confidential internal records including donor lists, financial statements, security-system instructions, and staff members' Social Security numbers. Says an ex-CIA operative who worked for BBI, "I have worked for a number of security companies. Some are ethical, some are not. Beckett Brown was not especially so."
source: Mother Jones
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danielbarker123 Posted 9:11 am
14 Apr 2008
And this is a good thing! We are better off if our government fears us than if we fear our government.
When I ran for Congress in Utah, 1st. district, 2002, a state delegate called me about the Second Amendment. He told me the purpose of the amendment was that the Founding Fathers wanted to insure the populace would not be subservient.
When we want to take on the right-wingers, we need to beat them at their own game. Liberals oppose ownership of guns. When you think about the CIA spying on Greenpeace and other groups, this might not be smart.
If Leftist groups were armed, the CIA would leave them alone.
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