[IP] Re: Ordinary People labelled as terrorists

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Mary Shaw <mary.shaw@gmail.com>
Date: March 27, 2007 11:09:05 PM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: Re: [IP] Ordinary People labelled as terrorists

Dave,

This is starting to remind me of the Attorney General's List of  
Subversive Organizations, created in the late 1940s to support  
loyalty tests of federal employees. However, during the 1950s it  
became widely used to blacklist people suspected of Communist  
sympathies and put a damper on freedom of association

The government released little information about how the list was  
compiled, what criteria applied, etc.   Sound familiar?

A recent (fall 2006) retrospective on this blacklist is at
http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2006/fall/agloso.html

Mary

On 3/27/07, David Farber <dave@farber.net > wrote:

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From: Neil Schwartzman < neil@blackvine.ca>
Date: March 27, 2007 8:25:18 AM EDT
To: David Farber <dave@farber.net>, ip@v2.listbox.com
Subject: Ordinary People labelled as terrorists

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/26/
AR2007032602088_pf.html

I'm all for being tough on bad guys, but geez, this act really needs
to be gotten together. Stupidity like this lessens the credibility of
any actions taken. Just like airport 'security' this reactionary
stuff is mind-boggling.
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