Now We're Scared of...Quakers???

Steve Gilliard over at The News Blog has the unsettling details on a case out of Baltimore where the NSA actually admitted -- in court -- that they had mounted a massive spying effort on a peace group.

A Quaker peace group, at that. I guess you just can't trust those non-violent types. They are just SOOOO fucking likely to go all Timothy McVeigh on us and the next thing you know those so-called "Friends" are your sworn enemies, evil incarnate, ready to choke you to death on their insidious oatmeal.

Jesus Christ, this is just too much. Now I suppose all of us who are active in various peace groups will start looking a little more skeptically at that new guy who doesn't say much but who looks like his bowtie is really a camera, a little more cautious towards that ancient granny in the muu-muu who just might have a copy of Masters of Deceit, with that Junior G-Man built-in voice recorder, stashed away under her hand-knitted shawl.

And that's exactly what they want us to do. They want us to get paranoid and start suspecting those around us. It'll take the heat and the focus off of them, so they can blithely go about their evil business of Empire.

Don't fall for it. Paranoia will destroy ya, in the words of the song. Let's all stay focused. All of the groups I belong to are open and transparent (like the Quakers). If the Gestapo motherfuckers want to go double-oh-seven and spy on something that they could see anyway, just by walking by, let 'em.