Fresno cops spying on peace groups

Cory Doctorow 7:45 am Wed Jun 23, 2004

After a Fresno peace activist died in a donorcycle accident last year, his obit revealed that he was not, in fact, a peace activist — he was a Sheriff's Deputy. So this weird accident revealed that the Fresno fuzz was paying its coppers to inflitrate local peace groups, a chilling bit of McCarthy-era totalitarianism.

Now the Fresno peace group and the ACLU have successfully pressured the state Attorney General to look into this.

Fresno County Sheriff Richard Pierce won't confirm or deny that Kilner was spying on Peace Fresno. But he said in a prepared statement that his department reserved the right to conduct surveillance as part of its anti-terrorism efforts.

Russell and other members say their group has nothing to do with terrorism and spends most of its time organizing a monthly antiwar protest at Shaw and Blackstone avenues, one of Fresno's busiest intersections.

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(Thanks, David!)

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