NYPD spied on protestors a year before GOP convention (NY Times)

Stalin would be so proud - OP's extra comment


For at least a year before the 2004 Republican National Convention, teams of undercover New York City police officers traveled to cities across the country, Canada and Europe to conduct covert observations of people who planned to protest at the convention, according to police records and interviews.

Members of the War Resisters League were arrested during a march in August 2004.
From Albuquerque to Montreal, San Francisco to Miami, undercover New York police officers attended meetings of political groups, posing as sympathizers or fellow activists, the records show.

They made friends, shared meals, swapped e-mail messages and then filed daily reports with the department’s Intelligence Division. Other investigators mined Internet sites and chat rooms.

From these operations, run by the department’s “R.N.C. Intelligence Squad,” the police identified a handful of groups and individuals who expressed interest in creating havoc during the convention, as well as some who used Web sites to urge or predict violence.

But potential troublemakers were hardly the only ones to end up in the files. In hundreds of reports stamped “N.Y.P.D. Secret,” the Intelligence Division chronicled the views and plans of people who had no apparent intention of breaking the law, the records show. .....(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/25/nyregion/25infiltrate.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

ended the report by saying that the police said it was perfectly legal........

The Patriot Act was passed so that nothing of ours actual belongs to us.

Congress and the Bush Administration passed the Patriot Act so that eventually they may have legal access to every single item we own.

Check out how the Patriot Act allows "Homeland Security" and other government officials to seize your safety deposit box items at your bank.

Wake up America.

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to pubs during the last dem convention. Something tells me no.
Anyway, law enforcement has been doing this for a long time. During the 60's they infiltrated many student groups and, in some cases, tryed hard to incite violence. They also went undercover in the Black Panthers.

So, if anyone tells you to harm others or destroy property in your local dem leaning group, they might be narcs.

Same story, different times...

Did the RNC pay for this?

Spy on them.

very depressed. When they sing "Land of the Free".. do they have any idea. . .?