Antiwar Protests on 8 Campuses Appear on Pentagon List . . .

[MountainLaurel]

Antiwar Protests on 8 Campuses Appear on Pentagon List of 'Threats' to National Security

By KELLY FIELD

Antiwar protests at eight colleges have made a Pentagon watch list of "suspicious incidents."

The 400-page list, which was obtained by NBC News, includes information on 1,500 "threats" to national security that occurred over a recent 10-month period, and characterizes them as either "credible" or "not credible."

The campus protests, all of which were aimed at military recruiters, occurred at New York University (twice), the State University of New York at Albany (twice), Southern Connecticut State University, City College of the City University of New York, the University of California campuses at Berkeley and at Santa Cruz, an unspecified campus of the University of Wisconsin, and "a New Jersey university." Only one of the events, the protest at Santa Cruz, was cited as a "credible threat."

Snehal A. Shingavi, a Ph.D. candidate in English who participated in the Berkeley protest, said he was surprised to learn that his actions were considered a threat. The demonstration drew only 20 students, he said, and was, by protest standards, quite tame.

Link to the article, which may require a subscription: http://chronicle.com/daily/2006/01/2006011901n.htm

Here's the NBC News piece:

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/12/30/defense

[izzybeans]

1. I suppose the Santa Cruz protest

was probably the Tent State University protests that ended in police brutality last spring.

[MountainLaurel]

7. Do you have any links?

I'm on the east coast and hadn't heard of this event.

[izzybeans]

8. I tried to search the archives hear because I posted them last spring

but I'm not finding them. I'll search elsewhere.

[izzybeans]

9. here

http://ucsc.tentstate.com/

[MountainLaurel]

10. Thanks so much Izzy!

:applause:

[bliss_eternal]

2. What is WRONG with these people?!?

They won't rest until they take us all back to the fifties! There've been protests at colleges since the late sixties--since when is it a 'credible threat' to national security?

:wtf:

[liberal N proud]

3. It is not about taking us back to the fifties but taking us to China

They want a totalitarian style government with total control of us while breaking us down to the point where we will work for pennies.
Squashing dissent is just part of the trip.

[bliss_eternal]

4. Good point--

They are evil, aren't they?

[OneBlueSky]

5. does the First Amendment mean nothing to these people? . . . n/t

.

[MountainLaurel]

6. You've got it

They consider the Bill of Rights to be a threat to their maintenance of the status quo.