If You're A Pacifist, You Are A Terrorist

(You are currently looking at the faces of terrorism.)

In this opposite world we continue to morph into, this report from the Washington Post certainly represents the absurd times we live in.

In the agency that spawned J. Edgar Hoover has considered peace loving people, animal rights activists, and those dangerous Taliban like tree huggers a moral threat to our society.

The FBI improperly opened and extended investigations of some U.S. activist groups and put members of an environmental advocacy organization on a terrorist watch list, even though they were planning nonviolent civil disobedience, the Justice Department said Monday.

Just a simple return to the 1960 tactics of Mr. Hoover of spying on harmless, society loving groups will do to quiet these annoying pacifists from our important illegal waring.

It truly is remarkable how 9/11 has been used for powerful destructive forces to embellish their power on the weak. What makes it even more appalling to witness is how their heinous abuses will always never get the punishment they deserve:

FBI deputy director Timothy P. Murphy, in a response included with the report, said the FBI was "pleased" that Fine "concludes the FBI did not target any groups for investigation on the basis of their First Amendment activities." He said the FBI inquiries were based on information about potential criminal activities.

Murphy's boss, FBI director Robert S. Mueller III, is cited in the report for unintentionally providing inaccurate congressional testimony about one of the investigations. Relying on information from other FBI officials, Mueller testified in 2006 that the FBI had information that "certain persons of interest" in international terrorism probes were expected to be present at a 2002 antiwar event sponsored by the Merton Center, Fine's office said.

Now anything is possible, for life is never ever always routine. But common sense (if the FBL was truly honest in its assessment that am international terrorist would come to an obscure anti-war rally) should have clearly weigh here.

Even worse though is the fact that these groups, already proven to be the exact opposite of who the FBI should probe, were kept on the FBI files! I can imagine that pat on the back Cheney and Rumsfield gave Mueller every single day (and most likely still do to this day).

Then again, I guess the threat that loving dirty hippies bring to the table was just as crucial to observe as Al Qaeda is.

Pennsylvania's blowhard Governor Ed Rendell sure does thank the same way too. Maybe he should start working for the FBI after his time in office is over.