ACLU Study Highlights U.S. Surveillance Society

[Brooklyn Red Leg]

Welcome to the surveillance society.

That’s what the American Civil Liberties Union concluded Tuesday with a report chronicling government spying and the detention of groups and individuals “for doing little more than peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights.”

The report, Policing Free Speech: Police Surveillance and Obstruction of First Amendment-Protected Activity (.pdf), surveys news accounts and studies of questionable snooping and arrests in 33 states and the District of Columbia over the past decade.

Read More http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/aclu-surveillance/#ixzz0sinEjXiB

Welcome to our worst nightmare. We're here now, folks, the dystopian future. Every time someone spews that we need more 'public security', I wonder what they'll be saying when they discover they're being spied upon while taking a shit or beating off. I wonder how they'll feel when they see their picture on the internet from walking through a full body scanner.

 

[NYCGabriel]

 

[Christov]