Bush Admin’s Pentagon Spied on Americans for Peacefully Protesting Halliburton: Cheney’s Old Corporation that is Ripping off US Tax Payers
by Houston Global Awareness Jan 24, 2006
A Houston-based anti-Halliburton group was spied on by a top-secret Pentagon counter-intelligence agency in 2004, according to a report in Newsweek magazine. The peaceful protest, organized by Houston Global Awareness on June 29, 2004, was attended by approximately ten local peace activists. The Pentagon reports up to President Bush’s Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld.
The protest involved handing out peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to employees of giant military contractor Halliburton to draw attention to allegations that the company deliberately over-charged US taxpayers for food it was supposed to serve our troops in Iraq.
The U.S. Army analysts at the Counterintelligence Field Activity (CIFA), created three years ago by Bush's Defense Department, said the peanut-butter protest was a potential threat to national security. I'm not making this up.
Yeah, I mean what if they didn’t use Halliburton’s Official Corporate Brand of Peanut Butter? Or their Official Brand of Jelly? This sounds like the kind of thing you’d read in The Onion or other comedy sources, but it is our tax dollars at work to spy on Americans for the lamest reasons.
A member of the group of American protestors, Maureen Haver, said "It's truly a sad day for our system of government when the Pentagon uses tax-payer funds to protect corporate interests by spying on its citizens engaged in peaceful protest."
WHAT?!!! AMERICAN CITIZENS THINKING THAT THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO PROTEST A CORPORATION THAT IS STEALING FROM THE US TAX PAYERS?!!!! HOW DARE THEY!!!! WHAT DO THEY THINK THIS IS, A CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY?!!!!! THE NERVE OF THOSE PEON NON-WEALTHY AMERICANS THINKING THAT THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO PROTEST!!!!!
Well, not while George W. Bush is propped up as the puppet president with Tricky Dick Cheney pulling his strings and running this nation, I tell you!
Of course none of these Americans who were spied on had phoned terrorists or anyone in another country. They were just protesting a corrupt corporation lining the pockets of the Vice President. And for that they were spied on. Americans spied on for opposing a company that still pays the Vice President deferred salary and stock options while it takes our tax dollars for services it did not deliver to our troops.
Bush apologists keep claiming that his administration only spies on terrorists. Well, guess what? If you simply disagree with Bush you will be spied on. More and more stories come out every day detailing countless American citizens spied on for engaging in peaceful protest under the Bush Regime. Those are just the ones we know about. The Corrupt Corporate Mainstream Media yawns and says, “Oh, well, I’m sure they had a good reason,” and let it pass. A great reason as it turns out: peanut butter and jelly sandwiches! Excuse me? Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are now a threat to national security according to the Bush Defense Department?!! Maybe they should have checked with the White House to find out which kinds of sandwiches are NOT a threat to national security. Bologna? Ham? Melted cheese? Give us a clue, George.
Though, something tells me that it wasn’t the sandwich, but the fact that they were criticizing Cheney’s company, Halliburton, that warranted the spying. Welcome to the USSR Part II. Bush’s idea of democracy is a totalitarian state where those who disagree with him or his Corporate Cronies are spied on and punished. Reminds me a lot of the USSR Part I. Just substitute borsht with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and you’ve got the sequel.
Read the Post Chronicle article here.
Read the Newsweek article here.
A Houston-based anti-Halliburton group was spied on by a top-secret Pentagon counter-intelligence agency in 2004, according to a report in Newsweek magazine. The peaceful protest, organized by Houston Global Awareness on June 29, 2004, was attended by approximately ten local peace activists. The Pentagon reports up to President Bush’s Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld.
The protest involved handing out peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to employees of giant military contractor Halliburton to draw attention to allegations that the company deliberately over-charged US taxpayers for food it was supposed to serve our troops in Iraq.
The U.S. Army analysts at the Counterintelligence Field Activity (CIFA), created three years ago by Bush's Defense Department, said the peanut-butter protest was a potential threat to national security. I'm not making this up.
Yeah, I mean what if they didn’t use Halliburton’s Official Corporate Brand of Peanut Butter? Or their Official Brand of Jelly? This sounds like the kind of thing you’d read in The Onion or other comedy sources, but it is our tax dollars at work to spy on Americans for the lamest reasons.
A member of the group of American protestors, Maureen Haver, said "It's truly a sad day for our system of government when the Pentagon uses tax-payer funds to protect corporate interests by spying on its citizens engaged in peaceful protest."
WHAT?!!! AMERICAN CITIZENS THINKING THAT THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO PROTEST A CORPORATION THAT IS STEALING FROM THE US TAX PAYERS?!!!! HOW DARE THEY!!!! WHAT DO THEY THINK THIS IS, A CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY?!!!!! THE NERVE OF THOSE PEON NON-WEALTHY AMERICANS THINKING THAT THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO PROTEST!!!!!
Well, not while George W. Bush is propped up as the puppet president with Tricky Dick Cheney pulling his strings and running this nation, I tell you!
Of course none of these Americans who were spied on had phoned terrorists or anyone in another country. They were just protesting a corrupt corporation lining the pockets of the Vice President. And for that they were spied on. Americans spied on for opposing a company that still pays the Vice President deferred salary and stock options while it takes our tax dollars for services it did not deliver to our troops.
Bush apologists keep claiming that his administration only spies on terrorists. Well, guess what? If you simply disagree with Bush you will be spied on. More and more stories come out every day detailing countless American citizens spied on for engaging in peaceful protest under the Bush Regime. Those are just the ones we know about. The Corrupt Corporate Mainstream Media yawns and says, “Oh, well, I’m sure they had a good reason,” and let it pass. A great reason as it turns out: peanut butter and jelly sandwiches! Excuse me? Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are now a threat to national security according to the Bush Defense Department?!! Maybe they should have checked with the White House to find out which kinds of sandwiches are NOT a threat to national security. Bologna? Ham? Melted cheese? Give us a clue, George.
Though, something tells me that it wasn’t the sandwich, but the fact that they were criticizing Cheney’s company, Halliburton, that warranted the spying. Welcome to the USSR Part II. Bush’s idea of democracy is a totalitarian state where those who disagree with him or his Corporate Cronies are spied on and punished. Reminds me a lot of the USSR Part I. Just substitute borsht with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and you’ve got the sequel.
Read the Post Chronicle article here.
Read the Newsweek article here.
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