Ah, it's shades of the Vietnam War!
A federal Department of Homeland Security agent passed along information about student protests against military recruiters at UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz, landing the demonstrations on a database tracking foreign terrorism, according to government documents released Tuesday.
The documents were released by the American Civil Liberties Union, which filed a Freedom of Information Act request on behalf of student groups that protested against recruiters who visited their campuses in April 2005.
The students were angry when they turned up in the database of a Pentagon program called Threat and Local Observation Notice, or TALON, which the government started in 2003 as a way to collect data that could help stop terrorist attacks. Officials have acknowledged that the reports on protests should not have been included.
And we wonder why college students aren't protesting openly, like they used to. Way back when, it was their patriotic duty. Now...they're just considered "terrorists".
Well, the Department of Homeland Security should have no problem with watching over young protestors. After all, they love hiring men who love our young children.
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