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In the past, government activism against citizen activism has been the
bishoprick of the F.B.I.<br>
and included all manner of tactics. No doubt the names have been
changed to confuse the innocent.<br>
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<span class="huge">"The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and
open society; <br>
and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed <br>
to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings." <br>
(attributed to JFK, he did speak the words.)<br>
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For me the very notion that one should file a request to get
information from a <br>
public agency is absurd, and intolerable, not merely repugnant in a
free and open society...<br>
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I once worked for a U of I department that was subject to FOIA requests
from time to time.<br>
(CGE was a higher level of "Observation" in the same building.)<br>
It was incredible to me how the department reacted to such requests.
They really hate FOIA<br>
requests. Perhaps nothing torments them so much as being subject to a
FOIA request.<br>
Indeed the tormenting of them is a damn good reason to file a FOIA
request.<br>
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Such bureaucratic vermin know how to fight back. They charge for the
photocopying but not for the Magic Marker<br>
that is used to redact the materials. They black out the info with the
zeal of a Nazi censor<br>
at a prisoner's love letters. What is left after the censoring, as
Mason Williams said, is a "doily for your mind".<br>
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Of course, if you want the real stuff, you need to do what the FBI
does. Infiltrate the bastards and<br>
get copies of the real thing. Then it's fun to see what they decided
should be redacted in their cowering fear and stupidity.<br>
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*<br>
<br>
</span>The Censor sits<br>
Somewhere between<br>
The scenes to be seen<br>
And the television sets<br>
With his scissor purpose poised<br>
Watching the human stuff<br>
That will sizzle through<br>
The magic wires<br>
And light up<br>
Like welding shops<br>
The ho-hum rooms of America<br>
And with a kindergarten<br>
Arts and crafts concept<br>
Of moral responsibility<br>
Snips out<br>
The rough talk<br>
The unpopular opinion<br>
Or anything with teeth<br>
And renders<br>
A pattern of ideas<br>
Full of holes<br>
A doily<br>
For your mind
<br>
<span class="huge"><br>
(Mason Williams, "The Censor")<br>
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On 11/22/2011 4:17 AM, Carl G. Estabrook wrote:
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<div><b>National Lawyers Guild Files FOIA Requests Seeking Evidence
of Federal Role in Occupy Crackdown</b></div>
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<div>by: Dave Lindorff - Fri, 11/18/2011 </div>
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<div> With Congress no longer performing its sworn role of defending
the US Constitution, the National Lawyers Guild Mass Defense Committee
and the Partnership for Civil Justice today filed requests under the
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) asking the Department of Justice, the
Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, the CIA and the National
Parks Service to release "all their information on the planning of the
coordinated law enforcement crackdown on Occupy protest encampments in
multiple cities over the course of recent days and weeks"...</div>
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<div>...the Occupy Movement is developing plans for a national
occupation of the National Mall, the big park that runs between the
Capitol and the Lincoln Monument that has been the scene of many
historic rallies and occupations in decades past. A national General
Assembly is being planned for April 1, which will focus on " the
failure of the Democrats and Republicans in Congress to represent the
views of the majority of people, the Supreme Court for allowing the
Constitution to be perverted and for ignoring the rule of law and the
Chamber of Commerce and lobbyists on K St for dominating the political
process in favor of the 1% at the expense of the 99%."</div>
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<div>This thing ain't over. It's just getting going.</div>
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