Well.
Everything old is new again.
Aaaand, in another flashback to Vietnam-era America, Military Intelligence is spying on pacifists, including Quakers.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10454316/
:smack: :smack: :smack:
Comments? :dubious:
sniff I’m so proud.
twicks, birthright Quaker
Twicky you peacemonger!
Aren’t the Quakers known for sewing wild oats?
Well, sure it’s paranoid. But being paranoid doesn’t mean NOBODY’S out to get you. As long as they’re not kidnapping Quaker grannies and interrogating them in The Comfy Chair or whatever I don’t see the harm here. Guess who the shit would fall on if they *weren’t * doing this and some anarchist actually instigated a rash of rioting.
What concerns me is: Who the hell leaked this information to the press?!?! If the DOD can’t even keep their hands on an activity list, how secure is other, more potentially devastating and compromising information? This ain’t no party! This ain’t no disco! This ain’t no foolin’ around! These guys need to tighten up their shop or we’re all screwed!
Same as it ever was :smack:
Same as it ever was :smack:
Same as it ever was :smack:
Same as it ever was :smack:
Funnily enough, the meeting my family attends is practically adjacent to CIA HQ. It’s like shooting fish in a barrel! :rolleyes: 
:dubious: :smack: :o :mad:
Is this the new “Not-Quite-Terror-But-Really-Really-Suspicious-Activitiy-Alert-System” ?
:rolleyes: = Not much going on today
= Someone made a Duhbya Joke!
:dubious: = There’s an online debate about our role in The War
:smack: = The President announced top secret troop movements in a press conference
:o = Bin Laden thumbed his nose at us in a low quality internet video!
:mad: = Those damned quakers are up to something! Be prepared for an unstoppable holy wave of good wishes for all mankind!
“Not.The.Holy.Wave.Of.Goodness!” screams the makes of Prozac and Wellbutrin. “Won’t someone think of the profits!”
All together now…
“We didn’t start the fire…”
Yet.
Wow. I think smackie must have been subconsciously invented for this exact use. Bravo for figuring it out.
And what, exactly, do they think that the peace activists are going to do that’s a threat to this country? Assemble peacefully?
I read that as “sewing wild cats.”
So now a never-before-seen Monty Python sketch is taking form inside my head. Friends, indeed.
They are just taking a cue from their Commander in Chief. A bunch of Saudis fly planes into the WTC? Attack Iraq.
Possibly subversive group activity? Go after the Quakers.
Another case of wasting limited resources on the wrong target. We have smart bombs, why can’t we have smart intelligence gatherers?
As they say, “Military intelligence is an oxymoron.”
Hey, before you all dismiss the Quakers as harmless, peaceful folks, remember this:
Richard Nixon was a Quaker.
[cue scary Omen-like music]
Who was read out of his meeting [excommunicated, effectively].
I didn’t know that. It fits with what I’ve heard about Nixon, however.
Nevertheless, it demonstrates that isn’t just puppies and flowers coming from that society; it can also generate Pure Evil(c).
Nuke them from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure.