Maryland police spying even worse than thought

This is one of these scandals that gets more and more outrageous every time it's reported.

The illegal surveillance by the Maryland Police State Police has now been found to have affected far more innocent people than was previously acknowledged. In addition to labor, antiracist, and antiwar activists, state troopers also monitored People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and organizations that supported establishing bike lanes.

Police labeled all of these organizations as "terrorist", even though none of them had planned or participated in any terrorist activities.

State police also targeted a consumer group that opposed a 72% electricity rate hike. Authorities even lied about an antiwar group by calling it a white supremacist organization - even though the organization had members of all races.

Next thing you know, they'll falsely claim I was racist because I wasn't able to go back in time to prevent someone in a chat room from saying something racist while I was asleep.

The Maryland State Police's playing of the race card is particularly ironic because of their file on human rights group Amnesty International. One of the "crimes" troopers accuse Amnesty International of is "civil rights." So civil rights is a crime now?

The current police superintendent has called the illegal mid-decade spying operation a "waste of resources." The surveillance operation yielded no arrests or evidence of illegal or violent activity. Despite this, nobody in the police department has been disciplined or fired. In fact, one of the troopers involved has been promoted twice.

In BushAmerica, no bad deed goes unrewarded, I guess.