Maryland troopers spied on activist groups

I rarely find myself on the side of any ACLU cause, but this is absolutely outrageous! I thought I was reading the Pyongyang Times for a minute there. Is this the kind of country I'll be coming home to after more than four years of serving here in Iraq? Governor O'Malley must take swift and decisive action against those responsible for issuing this surveillance order. And if it turns out that he too was involved with, or had prior knowledge of this order, the Maryland State Senate must take action against Gov. O'Malley as well. If this is allowed to quietly fade out of the headlines tomorrow, then we are all at risk of loosing our basic Constitutional rights in the following days, months and years.

It is also unconscionable to waste thousands of hours and millions of dollars to defend convicted murderers/terrorists/child porn dealers, etc., etc. The ACLU should spend an equal amount of funds/time to protect the victims of crime. The "peace' groups of the far left are the first to cry foul when law enforcement or an opposing view group turn the tables and practice their type of surveillence on their activities. All is fair in love and war. Have a little cheese with that whine and get a life.

As the Democrats would say: "SO WHAT."

Good job Maryland State Police. Ignore the communist ACLU. Keeping an eye on potential terrorist suspects is a part of good police work. Had we done more earlier we might still have the twin towers.

Garland. You got to be kidding. You really think that the police spying on peaceful protestors is good police work? It wasnt peace loving Muslims that brought the towers down. How is a group of peaceful protestors any threat to you or this country? I am against the war in Iraq. How does that make me a terrorist? How does that make me a security threat? Have you ever read the Constitution? Do you even know what the Constitution is?

I have to wonder if we will ever be the country we were before Bush came to power.

This is so disgusting, I am a Marylander and this makes me sick, ashamed. All groups have a right to assemble, like it or not. I cannot believe my taxes paid for this. What is this country coming too? Looks like it might be time to take it back boys and girls. "They" cant control the power given them, like a kid with it's Halloween candy that cant control how much they'll eat, you gotta take it from them. Power back to "We The People"

The US Government is the enemy of the people of America: “whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it” - Declaration of Independence This country is run by Corporations who control our laws: "The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes." - Abraham Lincoln I am a Liberal and am about my fellow Americans and the people of the world. I do not see the US Government doing anything that will benefit either me or the people of the world. The only time the US Government acts, whiter guised as "helping" others or "protecting" Americans....it is only when they themselves can gain from it: “America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.” - John Quincy Adams’ Americans need to know what the rest of the world has known for many, many years. The U.S. Government does not care if the American people live or die, and hope that they will remain uneducated and have blind-faith, much like with their religions, along with; believe that questioning their government is "un-patriotic", so the people they supposedly “elected” to “represent” them, knowing that they are being swindled of all their money to rape the world of her natural resources and killing innocent people. Here is a quote from someone who got more rights than those in Guantanamo, which perfectly expresses what the U.S. Government’s ideology:"All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger." ~ Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Goering at the Nuremberg Trials Corey Mondello Boston, Massachusetts www.CoreyMondello.com 7-19-08

Garland, Son, the government has been spying on peaceful, lawabiding Americans since the invention of the telephone, and before as well. The staus quo is always going to try and maintain itself and will use any method it deems useful in doing so. Perhaps your to young to remember Con-Intel-Pro, but that was a huge iilegal operation that spied on civil rights, peace groups, and political enemies, but it gave rise to FISA, which is also a law that violates the fourth amendment and it's new form is even worse. Apparently, you condone these types of government activities, so who is the real communist here? You, who would disregard the constitution, or the ACLU, which stands for AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION? They would stand up for you too, if the governemnt was violating your constitutional rights, since that is what they do. Even when it's distasteful and unpopular. If you think government should have this much power and disregard the constitution and bill of rights whenever it suits them, I suggest you move to China. No one questions that government's ability to do anything it wants.

The twin towers might have been saved had there been police spies at PNAC and in the Vice-President's office. They did 9/11 and then used it to justify tearing up the Constitution. As cynical as it is scary. America is toast.

I expect nothing less from the Peoples Republic of Maryland where we work for the government not the other way around as it should be.

Rob M. writes: "Governor O'Malley must take swift and decisive action against those responsible for issuing this surveillance order. And if it turns out that he too was involved with, or had prior knowledge of this order, the Maryland State Senate must take action against Gov. O'Malley as well." Since the spying allegedly took place between March 2005-May 2006, during Governor Ehrlich's term in office; I rather doubt that Governor O'Malley can be held responsible.

I don't understand how this is permissable in our Constitutional Republic. We fought Fascism and Communism before overseas and now it looks as if these ISMs need to be resisted here as well. This article speaks to one of those types of things that make me very concerned. I see such things as this as the “marks” much like the yellow stars that the nazi’s had their targets wear. I can imagine atrocities when this type of information is coupled with a realID. I don't see either of the two leading parties candidates as even concerned about these type of concerns which are essential to the preservation of Liberty.