According to PennLive:
Tracking the Twitter activity of law abiding citizens was part of the Pennsylvania Office of Homeland Security’s intelligence surveillance program.It seems your tax dollars are being spent, in part, trying to track down the Tweets of a group that has been standing on the same bloody bridge for the last 4 years. Most of them are in their 60's and think Face Book is about as far as they want to go with that whole crazy technology thing.
According to internal Homeland Security e-mails produced through a Right-To-Know request, one of the targets of such surveillance was the Berks Peace Community, a 50-year-old group of Quaker-affiliated senior citizens. They gather on the Penn Street Bridge in Reading every Friday and quietly hold signs questioning America’s “war habit.”
The Reading Chief of Police William Heim was taking the devastating potential of real live anarchists roaming around his jurisdiction in stride:
“Informed knowledge of the anarchist movement would indicate that there is potential that the name ANSWER is enough to bring outside aggressive anarchists to the protest. ITRR has no intelligence to indicate either way. As discussed yesterday, if they come they will most likely act in a lone-wolf/small cell capacity outside the perimeter of free speech activity.”
Oooooo.... Lone Wolf Quakers. That's enough to raise the hair on the back of your neck.
Dumbasses.
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