>Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 22:29:14 -0800
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> Smell a rat? Culture Jammers Network <[log in to unmask]> Culture Jammers Network <[log in to unmask]>
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>Have your activities come under increased scrutiny in the aftermath of S11?
>
>Ours have.
>
>Recently, our Corporate America Flag billboard in Times Square, New
>York, attracted the attention of the federal Department of Defense,
>and a visit by an agent who asked a lot of pointed questions about
>our motivations and intent. We wondered: What gives?
>
>"Just following up a lead from a tip line," the agent admitted.
>
>That's the kind of fourth quarter it's been for many social
>activists. Any campaign that dares to question U.S. economic,
>military or foreign policy in these delicate times, any critical
>appraisal of the handling of the "War on terrorism," risks casting
>the critic as a kind of enemy of the state, if not an outright
>terrorist.
>
>Vigilance we can live with. Intimidation that amounts to persecution
>is another bucket of fish. According to some of the emails and phone
>calls we've received lately, many other groups have also found
>themselves under investigation in a political climate that's starting
>to take on shades of McCarthyism.
>
>Our response to all of this is to set up our own "rat line." If you
>know of social marketing campaigns or protest actions that are being
>suppressed, or if you come across any other story of overzealous
>government "information management," please tell us your story. Go to
><http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/flag/nyc.html>.
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><fontfamily><param>Geneva</param>Have your activities come under
>increased scrutiny in the aftermath of S11?
>
>
>Ours have.
>
>
>Recently, our Corporate America Flag billboard in Times Square, New
>York, attracted the attention of the federal Department of Defense, and
>a visit by an agent who asked a lot of pointed questions about our
>motivations and intent. We wondered: What gives?
>
>
>"Just following up a lead from a tip line," the agent admitted.
>
>
>That's the kind of fourth quarter it's been for many social activists.
>Any campaign that dares to question U.S. economic, military or foreign
>policy in these delicate times, any critical appraisal of the handling
>of the "War on terrorism," risks casting the critic as a kind of enemy
>of the state, if not an outright terrorist.
>
>
>Vigilance we can live with. Intimidation that amounts to persecution is
>another bucket of fish. According to some of the emails and phone calls
>we've received lately, many other groups have also found themselves
>under investigation in a political climate that's starting to take on
>shades of McCarthyism.
>
>
>Our response to all of this is to set up our own "rat line." If you
>know of social marketing campaigns or protest actions that are being
>suppressed, or if you come across any other story of overzealous
>government "information management," please tell us your story. Go to
><<http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/flag/nyc.html>.
>
>
>
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