--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > Except that, as I noted a few posts back, virtually > > everyone who wasn't explicitly aligned with the U.S. > > government suspected the CIA was spying on them. > > > > It didn't have anything to do with wanting to believe > > one was important, of course. To the contrary--it > > reflected the common judgment that the CIA was so > > insane it didn't know the difference between what/who > > was important and what/who was not. > > I'm sorry, but this is such bullshit I have > to speak up. Anyone who was an activist back > in the late 60s and early 70s might have > suspected that *some* US government agency > was monitoring their efforts, but almost no > one (except, seemingly, Judy Stein) was crazy > enough to believe it was the CIA. > > You see, back then (and now, although now the > lines have been blurred by the Reagans and > Bushes) the CIA was forbidden by law from > investigating anything that was taking place > in the United States. It *had* to concern > itself with things going on outside the > country. The FBI and the NSA handled internal > security matters in the U.S. All of us who > were activitists knew this, and so the thought > that we were being monitored by the CIA would > *never* have occurred to us. T'would seem > that Judy missed that particular civics lesson > during her paranoid 70s. :-) >
Judy only participated in one demonstration against the Vietnam War so she wasn't involved much as an activist. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
