Maryland ACLU Seeks Other Possible Targets (activist groups) of State Police Spying

Source: ABC News

The Maryland chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union says it will file public information requests to determine if state police surveilled activist groups other than those it has already admitted to tracking.

ACLU attorney David Rocah said Tuesday that the requests cover 32 anti-war and death penalty opposition groups, including two that learned that they were under police surveillance. Rocah says the other groups may have been surveilled based on the reasons state police gave for the surveillance of the anti-war and death penalty opposition groups.

State police have said a pending execution prompted the surveillance and it ended once the execution was postponed. However, the ACLU has said that doesn't explain why anti-war groups were targeted.


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why these groups were targeted.

Remember when Nixon used the FBI to investigate his "enemies?"

The police are CRIMINALS for spying on activist groups. That is the bottom line here, the police broke the law if they were spying on an activist group simply because they wanted to execute someone and the group they were spying on opposed that execution. It is illegal for the police to spy on groups simply because of their political views, and that makes the police criminals.

...but don't forget that we're living in a Constitutional bizarro world right now.