Who Here has a FBI File on them?

I do.

I don't know...

:shrug:

it does.

yuk yuk yuk yuk yuk yuk!

I do not know for sure though.

Maybe I should have expected it would happen because I worked for a progressive organization, but I was still surprised to find it out.

That was kind of a freaky feeling! There wasn't really substance to the whole deal, though. I think a lot of what they do is just to intimidate people.

:spank:

Now I'm boring as all hell, but that doesn't seem to stop them these days. They have to save Murka from the animal-loving veggie hoarde you know. :eyes:

puts you on a list. :eyes:

For that matter, your birding equipment probably would. After all it could be a cover for terraist recon. :eyes:

to strike a blow against the Redding power elite. :eyes:

So, now that you read it here...
Come and get me Feds! I'm a liberal and I was in the Teacher's Union! I told the kids they didn't HAVE to say "under god"! Hah! So There!

(Yeah! That felt so good to say :D )

You could end up some where in the carribean.

:cry::cry::cry:

how's shit down under?

:kick:

I had to be vetted for a security clearance when I was in the Army Signal Corps (1974-76). I don't think I've done anything to warrrant any follow-ups by the FBI in the last thirty years, though.
John
It is now 62 days 27 minutes to FUNDAY here in Saginaw, Michigan. All DUers are invited to drop me a private message for more details.

They revoked my security clearance where I used to work. An FBI Agent came to talk to me.

But I belive it was really because I used to sign a lot of petitions againt bush on the computer at work.

to get an FBI file?

:P

Now days I think if you are convicted of a crime, no matter how minor, the FBI knows about you.

But not right away in the FBI Files. It depends on the crime.

top secret clearance back in the day.

i also play w/ energetic materials, order online, and am prbly on a no-fly list (funny, was 1ce an Air Marshal!)

also own some very esoteric but legal firearms.

If they find a pipe bomb they will call to see what he has been up too.

We are a bunch of MURICA hating commies on here.

so I'd think so...

I'm banned from being in the same venue as Bush, Cheney or any cabinet-level member of the current administration.

:P

:shrug: :P

Any president. Democrat or republican.

for writing editorials in the paper, none of which were Bush-friendly. The Republican campaign offices put my name on the list for being a partisan Democrat. :shrug:

It is not on the FBI watch list. If it was FBI you would have been talked to.

When I got tickets to see Bush speak, I got thrown out by the secret service before the first metal detector and the FBI agent told me to leave the park or be arrested.

:grr:

I was seventeen at the time, too, not even a registered voter.

but I never had any security clearance.

Never know.

Actually, he broke into a phone conversation I was having about it to put my mind at ease. :D

For meeting Papa Bush and applying for PD job.

It's due to antiwar activities- the rightwingers thought that we were all commies trying to "overthrow the system"
A FOI request for a graduate class and there it was; much of it "redacted" but well over a foot thick.

Probably a lot taller now.

I very likely have a KGB file too :shrug: I visited the Soviet Embassy with my high school foreign policy class before the end of the Cold War. My parents definitely have files.... dad for the USAF and mom for work with banks. I would be surprised if I did NOT have a file.

My father has worked for the government his entire career. My mom has been questioned numerous times, and followed. I've never been questioned or followed (to my knowledge, anyway), but I'm sure there's a file on me.

the age of ten has one.:shrug: :hi:

I can't tell you why. It's classified...

:smoke:

thanks to a minor little incident in Nicaragua in the mid-80s...

:shrug:

GRU is Soviet military intelligence. How I got the GRU file is pretty good.

During the Cold War, there were three checkpoints for Allied personnel to pass through on their way from West Germany to East Berlin:

Checkpoint Alpha was on the Inter German Border at Helmstedt/Marienborn.

Checkpoint Bravo was in the southwest corner of Berlin.

Checkpoint Charlie you all know about.

If you wanted to travel by road to West Berlin, you reported to the Allied Checkpoint Alpha at Helmstedt. There the MP would check your flag orders--authorization to travel through Soviet-occupied territory; these were called flag orders because there was a picture of the flag you served under printed on top of them. He would record your odometer reading. He would ask if you had a full tank of gas. (Big penalties awaited you if you ran out of gas in the corridor. Breaking down was okay, but God help you if you ran out of gas.) He would then record the time you left Checkpoint Alpha on a form, hand you a folder containing the form and a sign to use if you broke down or got pulled over by the Volkspolizei--it said in English, German and Russian "I demand to see a Soviet Officer." And then you'd be sent on your way. You had between 2 hours 20 minutes and 3 hours 20 minutes to make it to the Allied Checkpoint Bravo in Berlin--less than 2:20 and you were ticketed for speeding; more than 3:20 and you had better have a real good explanation. The road sucked bad enough that if you stayed on it and drove at a reasonable, non-car-destroying speed, you'd get to Berlin in about 2:45. (It was 117 miles from Checkpoint Alpha to Checkpoint Bravo.)

You then drove exactly one kilometer to the Soviet Checkpoint Bravo at Marienborn, East Germany. There you parked your car, got out, and reported to the Soviet private. The Soviet private would salute you. The sergeant at School of Standards said this was because the Soviet private couldn't read English so he didn't know who was an officer. That's bullshit--the Soviet private saluted you because Soviet soldiers saluted everyone who outranked them, and every American soldier stationed in Germany outranked this poor bastard. Anyway, you returned the salute and went into the guardhouse. There you presented the flag orders and ID cards of everyone in the car with you to the officer behind the desk. The desk was built like one at a bank so you couldn't see what he was doing back there. We just assumed he had a logbook in which he recorded names, ranks and SSNs of everyone passing through the corridor. It took him a few minutes to do this if there was no line of people waiting, so there was some nice furniture to wait in. They had coffee tables and end tables, and all of them were covered in copies of "Soviet Military Review," which was written in 21 different languages. It was kinda neat--lots of pictures of Soviet weapons systems and fun propaganda about the Soviet Army. Anyway, they'd let you take their magazines if you wanted; they had a big box of them in the closet. And naturally, the KGB guy standing there took note of which ones you picked up so they could exploit you for language capabilities.

And just as naturally, I took one of each. :evilgrin: Which would have made life for their recruiters slightly difficult considering that not only can't I speak Urdu or Pushtu much less Slovak or Polish, I can barely speak English.

Or anything else you're keen on riding! :7

I know for a fact that they have me on film because i used to work--literally--down the hall from them at a free legal services organization. They had a video camera filming out hallway 24/7. I used to joke with my student employees about not scratching, adjusting undies or doing anything else that you wouldn't want to ever see on film if you were in our hallway.

What was really strange, however, about working down the hall from those guys, was making a trip to the bathrooms there on our floor. One of the lawyers on our floor had a great story about being in the Men's room when one of the FBI guys came in and went into a stall. CLUNK went the gun on the floor when the guy dropped his pants to poop.

I had a few times where I was coming into work and finding my computer turned on when I knew durn well I'd turned it off as I was the last one out of the office. I checked with the building manager and he says there were no other keys to our office out there--so I am inclined to wonder about that. Especially since I was active here at DU before and after 9/11.

I always kind of figured that anybody that got the job of monitoring me probably was comatose with boredom within a very short time. I am outspoken with my politics but not really much of a danger to anybody. Plus, my connections to the legal community make me a "difficult" subject to do much with.

Regards.


Laura