University of California chief alleges spying

"A University of California chancellor called Wednesday on Bay Area congressional representatives to investigate the government's reported spying at college campus protests, including one in April at UC-Santa Cruz."

"We are greatly concerned about the Pentagon's investigation of a UCSC campus protest of military recruiting last spring," UCSC Chancellor Denice Denton wrote in a campus e-mail. "MSNBC reports that this protest was classified as a `credible threat' by the Department of Defense."

"She called the government's investigation of the campus protest "a questionable use of military resources," adding, "It is especially disquieting that political dissent would be considered threatening."

"Disquieting" really puts it mildly. This is another example of police state tactics, supposedly to "make us safe", being obviously used on political dissenters, instead of Isamic terrorists. More proof that this "War on Terror", on the homefront, is nothing more than an excuse to consolidate power that the government is not suppose to have, and has nothing to do with fighting terrorism.

So far, this "War on" has done nothing more than take liberties away from honest citizens exercising their Constitutional rights, as well as only taking preventive measures wherever they'll get the most publicity, like airlines, subways, and the New Years Times Square celebrations. All designed only to make us "feel" safe so you'll think they're doing everything possible to protect you, when that's simply not true.

This terrorism war is being fought just like they do with guns. They initiate background checks and waiting periods, but criminals don't care because they buy, or aquire, their weapons illegally anyway, so the only ones affected by those measures, are honest citizens. They got those measures, just like ant-terrorism tools, by creating, or using, fear in the public so they can get more power over your everyday life. Power that doesn't really make anyone safer than they were before.

And you let them.