Maryland police spied on activists

Another day, another story of the overstuffed police state that has nothing but people-hating on its mind.

Documents that were released this week say that under the reign of right-wing Gov. Bob Ehrlich, the Maryland Police State Police (sic) illegally spied on activists. Undercover cops conducted surveillance against antiwar protesters and death penalty opponents by infiltrating their ranks.

Police posed as demonstrators and continued their illegal surveillance even though they never found any evidence of lawbreaking by the activists.

A 63-year-old antiwar activist was singled out by the undercover cops and entered into a database regarding what they called the "Washington-Baltimore High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area." This is more proof of how the drug war is used to go after people who have nothing to do with drugs.

Now we know the American KGB, and its name is the Maryland State Police. There need to be stiff prison terms for those in the state's ruling regime who abused the public trust by launching this spy operation.

(Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/07/17/ST2008071702080.html)