There's a big difference between police surveillance and Pentagon surveillance. While police surveillance can be very problemmatic and should be consistently condemned, the military is not supposed to spying on Americans. There is a very large difference. Military involvement in domestic protests has tended to be an indicator of the rise of fascist and dictatorial governments.

What especially concerns me is the fact that on numerous protests listed on the Pentagon database, nonviolent student protestors have been physically attacked by police. The most extreme example of this was a protest by the City College of NY last spring. Don't tell me there's not a connection. If the Pentagon tells local police that there's going to be a protest that's a "threat" to military recruitment, the police come out more anxious with their batons. In their eyes, they turn a bunch of kids with picket signs into 'terrorists.'

I'm still waiting for you to admit the Pentagon has stepped over the line of what is just.