Beware of dangerous vegetarians!
The ACLU of Georgia released copies of government files on Wednesday that show what the FBI and DeKalb County Homeland Security have compiled on Georgians suspected of being threats.
Two documents relating to an anti-war protest and a vegan rally prove the agencies have been spying on Georgia residents, the ACLU said.
More than two dozen government photographs show 22-year-old Caitlin Childs, a vegetarian, and others picketing in December 2003 against meat eating outside a HoneyBaked Ham store on Buford Highway. Childs and another protester were arrested by DeKalb Homeland Security agents when Childs wrote down the license plate of the unmarked government car that held the person who photographed her.
"They told me if I didn't give over the piece of paper I would go to jail and I refused and I went to jail and the piece of paper was taken away from me at the jail and the officer who transferred me said that was why I was arrested," Childs said on Wednesday.
The government file lists anti-war protesters in Atlanta as threats, the ACLU said. The ACLU of Georgia accuses the Bush administration of labeling those who disagree with its policy as disloyal Americans.
"We believe that spying on American citizens for no good reason is fundamentally un-American, that it's not the place of the government or the best use of resources to spy on its own citizens and we want it to stop. We want the spies in our government to pack their bags, close up their notebooks, take their cameras home and not engage in the spying anymore," Gerald Weber of the ACLU of Georgia said during a news conference.
FBI spokesman Bill Carter told The Associated Press that all FBI investigations are conducted in response to information that the people being investigated were involved in or might have information about crimes.
Two documents relating to an anti-war protest and a vegan rally prove the agencies have been spying on Georgia residents, the ACLU said.
More than two dozen government photographs show 22-year-old Caitlin Childs, a vegetarian, and others picketing in December 2003 against meat eating outside a HoneyBaked Ham store on Buford Highway. Childs and another protester were arrested by DeKalb Homeland Security agents when Childs wrote down the license plate of the unmarked government car that held the person who photographed her.
"They told me if I didn't give over the piece of paper I would go to jail and I refused and I went to jail and the piece of paper was taken away from me at the jail and the officer who transferred me said that was why I was arrested," Childs said on Wednesday.
The government file lists anti-war protesters in Atlanta as threats, the ACLU said. The ACLU of Georgia accuses the Bush administration of labeling those who disagree with its policy as disloyal Americans.
"We believe that spying on American citizens for no good reason is fundamentally un-American, that it's not the place of the government or the best use of resources to spy on its own citizens and we want it to stop. We want the spies in our government to pack their bags, close up their notebooks, take their cameras home and not engage in the spying anymore," Gerald Weber of the ACLU of Georgia said during a news conference.
FBI spokesman Bill Carter told The Associated Press that all FBI investigations are conducted in response to information that the people being investigated were involved in or might have information about crimes.
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