[lbo-talk] California official says protesting is terrorism

[Michael Pugliese]

To: liberation_news at lists.riseup.net
From: steveorchid at yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 09:44:18 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [liberation_news] STOP THE POLICE STATE
STOP THE POLICE STATE
Rally and March For Liberty
June, 2, 2003, 6pm. Seattle, Westlake Park
 
Greetings All,
 
The Tacoma Leonard Peltier Support Group wishes to express its strong 
support for the June 2, 2003 Rally and March For Liberty and ask that all 
of our supporters who are able, to come out for the event. The rally and 
march is being organized to expose and protest the Law Enforcement 
Intelligence Unit (LEIU) seminar being held in Seattle, June 2-6. Below is 
a piece of information on LEIU taken from the web site of the organizing 
committee for
the rally and march.
 
“The Law Enforcement Intelligence Unit (LEIU) is holding its annual 
training seminar in Seattle, June 2–6. The LEIU is a secretive intelligence 
network that links the intelligence squads of almost every major public law
enforcement agency in the United States and Canada. It’s a private club, 
and
hence not held accountable to elected officials and not subject to the
Freedom of Information Act. Big Brother is coming to Seattle, and you 
should
be there to greet them.”
 
Peltier supporters are very aware of the abuse of intelligence units, as 
there are thousands of intelligence files on Leonard Peltier that, after 27 
years, Leonard’s defense still has not be able to get. Those files that 
Leonard’s defense was able to get showed that the FBI fabricated evidence 
to gain the conviction of Leonard. Tacoma LPSG is aware that intelligence 
units have spied on the activities of northwest Peltier supporters and 
their organizations and keeps intelligence files on us. We found out once 
when applying for a march permit in Seattle that the police had 
intelligence on our events through out the northwest.
 
Just last January when we were organizing our Feb. Tacoma Peltier March and 
Rally, a member of the Tacoma Police Intelligence Unit called me up and it 
was clear they had extensive files on the Tacoma LPSG and its events.  This 
person wanted information on our march, who was going to speak and what 
they were going to speak about, if there were going to be anti-war people 
at our event, asked questions about our members and other such questions. I 
gave him no information, my answer to each question was “I don’t know”, but 
I let him continue to ask questions to see how far it would go.
 
Intelligence units gather information on those people who disagree with the 
government and they use that information to try to suppress dissent. They 
have been known to pressure employers to fire people, they have been known 
to pressure landlords to evict people, they have been known to plant false 
stories in the media, intelligence information has been used to keep people 
from crossing borders (I have been stopped from crossing the U.S./Canadian 
border five times at five different locations) and they have been known to 
frame people up on false charges. The federal, state and local intelligence 
units are the foundation of a police state. Now with all the new repressive 
laws being passed, this makes the intelligence units even more powerful and 
dangerous to the freedom of the people of this land. LEIU is a key player 
in the police state.
 
The abuse of our freedom by intelligence units is something that connects 
all social activists. One good example of this is the history of FBI agent 
Richard Held who was part of the FBI’s COINTELPRO. He was involved in the 
FBI program in L.A. that lead to the murder of Black Panthers Bunchy Carter 
and Jon Huggins. He was involved on the cover-up of the murder of Chicago 
Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark. He was involved in reign of 
terror against San Diego social activists and worked with the rightwing 
Minutemen and then helped create the Secret Army Organization, among those 
targeted were Black Panthers, anti-war activists and the local alternative 
media including the San Diego Street Journal (which was an IWW union shop 
and I was a part of that). He was involved in the FBI program at Pine Ridge 
including the frame-up of Leonard Peltier. And later he was involved in the 
bombing of Judi Bari.
 
We have direct concerns about the LEIU. In one report on LEIU it stated 
that it had intelligence information on members of the American Indian 
Movement and thus we are sure that it holds files on Leonard Peltier. In 
the categories in intelligence information of LEIU one is called “tribal”. 
Thus LEIU keeps intelligence files on the indigenous tribes of this land. 
This information has filed in a gap in the research we did on the racist 
anti-tribal campaign, which is backed by rightwing organizations, non- 
profit foundations and corporations that back the so-called “wise use” 
movement. We have wondered where the anti-tribal campaign has gotten their 
intelligence information of the indigenous tribes and now it seems very 
likely it could have come from LEIU, which has corporate sponsorship.
 
LEIU has been and continues to be a key player in the abuse of social 
activists of this land. For that reason all social activists of every type 
must realize this and understand that we must unite together and resist the
police state and that the planned Rally and March For Liberty June 2, is a
very important step in the survival from political repression in this land.
Peltier supporters and support groups have been talking about the LEIU 
seminar since last February. Because of internal reorganization and other 
reasons, we have not been able to organize directly around this important 
event, but still we strongly support the anti-LEIU events and ask that all 
our supporters do the same. Thank you.
 
In The Spirit Of Total Resistance
Arthur J. Miller
Tacoma Leonard Peltier Support Group
P.O. Box 5464
Tacoma, WA 98415-0464
bayou at blarg.net
 
 
Rally and March for Liberty
 
June 2, 6pm. Seattle, Westlake Park
We are marching for:
 
1) An end to police spying, harassment, and intimidation. 2) Disbandment of
the LEIU. 3) Repeal of the Patriot Act I, and an end to plans for Patriot 
Act II. 4) Civil liberties for immigrant communities and communities of 
color. 5) Defense of free speech and the right to assemble.
 
Endorsed and Sponsored by:
LEIU Welcoming Committee, No War Against Iraq Coalition (NWAIC), Organized 
Labor Against the War (OLAW), American Friends Service Committee, Palestine
Solidarity Committee, Hate Free Zone Campaign of Washington, Code Pink 
(Seattle), Not in Our Name (NION - Seattle), Radical Women (Seattle), 
Seattle Colombia Committee,
 
People's Coalition for Justice, IWW (Seattle), Tacoma Leonard Peltier 
Support Group, Freedom Socialist Party, Green Party (Seattle), 
International Socialist Organization
 
For more information on the Rally and March For Liberty and other events 
please contact: noleiu at riseup.net, 1-877-570-2709 or go to the web site:
www.nobigbrother.net.
 
Welcoming Committee Organizing Meetings Every Sunday until June 1st, 2003 
starting promptly at 3:00pm at the Seattle Independent Media Center (1415 
3rd Ave - Downtown Seattle)