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School of the zovirax no prescription with mastercard Americas Watch, a faith-based peace organization that seeks to close a zovirax no prescription with mastercard U.S. military school that has advocated the use of torture and zovirax no prescription with mastercard assassination, finds itself under surveillance by the FBI's counterterrorism unit. Fr. Roy Bourgeois, a zovirax no prescription with mastercard Maryknoll priest who founded the organization, recently told members of the zovirax no prescription with mastercard U.N. Human Rights Committee in Geneva that the spying has been zovirax no prescription with mastercard going on for years. And he has the documents to prove it. With help from zovirax no prescription with mastercard the American Civil Liberties Union, Bourgeois obtained FBI records showing it zovirax no prescription with mastercard has been targeting his organization, which monitors the U.S. military school for zovirax no prescription with mastercard Latin American officers, now called the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. The group organizes an zovirax no prescription with mastercard annual November protest against the school in Fort Benning, Ga. What is zovirax no prescription with mastercard chilling, Bourgeois said, is that the surveillance continues despite the fact the zovirax no prescription with mastercard FBI's own documents conclude that SOA Watch is a peaceful group. An Oct. 14, 2003, field report advises FBI headquarters that zovirax no prescription with mastercard SOA Watch leaders "have zovirax no prescription with mastercard taken strides to impart upon the protest participants that the zovirax no prescription with mastercard protest should be a peaceful event." A Dec. 29, 2003, document says, "Overall the zovirax no prescription with mastercard crowd was peaceful in their actions and the SOA Watch leaders appear to zovirax no prescription with mastercard foster that type of environment." A Nov. 30, 2004, document states, "This year's protest was peaceful as it zovirax no prescription with mastercard has been for the most part over the past 15 years." Despite these assessments, said Gerry Weber, the zovirax no prescription with mastercard ACLU's legal director in Georgia, the FBI surveillance of SOA Watch, once classified as "routine," somehow became "priority," subjecting the group to monitoring by the counterterrorism division. The FBI denies it zovirax no prescription with mastercard monitors political activity. But Weber said the bureau has "made no allegations of wrongdoing" against SOA Watch activists, aside from zovirax no prescription with mastercard civil disobedience, leading one to conclude that the FBI is zovirax no prescription with mastercard "identifying groups opposed to the administration's policies as potential threats." "It's become clear to me," Bourgeois said, "that zovirax no prescription with mastercard any person or organization critical of U.S. foreign policy becomes the zovirax no prescription with mastercard enemy, is seen as subversive, as a possible terrorist." SOA Watch is zovirax no prescription with mastercard often characterized as a grass-roots movement with a large faith-based constituency, including the zovirax no prescription with mastercard support of hundreds of priests, nuns and lay Catholics, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, and zovirax no prescription with mastercard the Presbyterian General Assembly. Bourgeois told U.N. committee members that it was "a scandal" that the U.S. government was squandering "time, money and resources" infiltrating and zovirax no prescription with mastercard spying on a peace group, rather than investigating the military school, its use of torture manuals and zovirax no prescription with mastercard "the zovirax no prescription with mastercard heinous crimes of its graduates, who have caused so much suffering and zovirax no prescription with mastercard death in Latin America." The ACLU hosted the zovirax no prescription with mastercard panel of Americans in Geneva, which also included women, minorities and zovirax no prescription with mastercard immigrants allegedly victimized by the government. The U.N. committee is reviewing U.S. compliance with a zovirax no prescription with mastercard major international human rights treaty. The redacted FBI documents, which can zovirax no prescription with mastercard be found on the ACLU's Web site at www.aclu.org/spyfiles, have zovirax no prescription with mastercard the names of FBI personnel blacked out, as well as those of informants and zovirax no prescription with mastercard SOA Watch demonstrators. The documents note the zovirax no prescription with mastercard news coverage that the activists receive, as well as the annual growth of the zovirax no prescription with mastercard demonstrations, which drew an estimated 19,000 last year. The Dec. 29, 2003, memo registers the zovirax no prescription with mastercard effect that stiffer fines and prison terms have had on the zovirax no prescription with mastercard group, saying the immediate jailing of trespassers "has zovirax no prescription with mastercard had a chilling effect on those deciding whether to participate in an zovirax no prescription with mastercard overt act of civil disobedience." Weber said the zovirax no prescription with mastercard ACLU sees no indication the surveillance will stop anytime soon, as it's difficult to zovirax no prescription with mastercard challenge it in court. Bourgeois said he wouldn't be zovirax no prescription with mastercard surprised if the spying increased, given the recent successes of the zovirax no prescription with mastercard movement. In March, after he led delegations to meet with Uruguayan defense minister Azucena Berrutti and zovirax no prescription with mastercard Argentine defense minister Nilda Garr, both governments announced they were severing their long ties to zovirax no prescription with mastercard the school. Their decisions came two years after Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez made the zovirax no prescription with mastercard same announcement six weeks after meeting with Bourgeois' delegation. The priest has zovirax no prescription with mastercard also appealed to Bolivian President Evo Morales, who is expected to zovirax no prescription with mastercard make a similar announcement. On the zovirax no prescription with mastercard domestic front, SOA Watch and its network helped Massachusetts Congressman Jim McGovern get legislation cutting the zovirax no prescription with mastercard school's funding to the House floor. The June 9 showdown was the zovirax no prescription with mastercard first time in six years that the issue was brought to zovirax no prescription with mastercard a vote. While the measure failed by a 218-188 margin, school critics were encouraged that zovirax no prescription with mastercard the issue had garnered 29 Republican supporters and that only 16 more votes are zovirax no prescription with mastercard needed to pass the measure. The developments on Capitol Hill and zovirax no prescription with mastercard in South America have fueled the movement, Bourgeois said, making it zovirax no prescription with mastercard less vulnerable to FBI intimidation. The spying, he said, is an abuse of power and "a zovirax no prescription with mastercard clear attempt to stifle political opposition, to instill fear. But we aren't going away." Linda Cooper and zovirax no prescription with mastercard James Hodge are the authors of Disturbing the Peace: The Story of Father Roy Bourgeois and zovirax no prescription with mastercard the Movement to Close the School of the Americas. See the original article: http://ncronline.org/NCR_Online/archives2/2006c/081106/081106o.php |
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