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To: Sawdusty who wrote (43270)	12/21/2005 10:31:53 PM
From: mishedlo	Respond to of 116555

A February protest at New York University was one of the events under government surveillance, NBC News reported last week. The network reported that the law school's gay advocacy group, OUTlaw, was classified as "potentially violent" by the Pentagon. [...] "For all its talk about democracy and free speech, this administration seems to feel very threatened by our peaceful exercise of our First Amendment rights," Fisher said. "This does not reflect the values of our Constitution. It's what you'd expect to see in a totalitarian police state, not in a country founded on freedom of conscience." NBC also reported that a "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" protest at University of California Santa Cruz, which included a gay kiss-in, was labeled as a "credible threat" of terrorism by the Pentagon. [...] "To suggest that a gay kiss-in is a 'credible threat' is absurd, homophobic and irrational," Osburn said. "To suggest the Constitution does not apply to groups with views differing with Pentagon policy is chilling." newyorkblade.com