The Pentagon lists an anti-war protest at the University of
California – Santa Cruz as a “credible threat” in its terrorism
surveillance. In mid-December, NBC News uncovered a Pentagon
surveillance program that lists over 1,500 “suspicious incidents,”
including many anti-war protests. This is an attempt to put political
protest in the same category as terrorism, and build up surveillance
databases of organizations that oppose the war on Iraq.
The protest last spring at UC-Santa Cruz, organized by Students
Against War, brought 300 students out to demand an end to military
recruitment on campus, and succeeded in making the recruiters leave
their campus that day. That anti-war organizations are being spied on
by the Defense Department is ominous of the overall police state
measures the Bush regime is cementing into place.
(source: “A Protest, a Spy Program, and a Campus in an Uproar”, NY Times, 1/14)