Kissing - A Credible Threat

I am taking an [undeserved] break from final exam taking (this take home exam is murder.  I'm discovering an interesting fact -- writing an exam is much easier if you actually paid attention to the subject matter during the term) and exam prep (final in-class exam is tomorrow morning at 8:30.  8:30 -- that's AM!) to write this post because I find it so incredible.

As if Bush using the National Security Agency to spy in the U.S. on U.S. citizens wasn't enough, it appears that the Pentagon has been spying on Don't Ask, Don't Tell demonstrations, including NYU Law's OUTlaw group.

NBC News was able to obtain only eight pages of the 400-page report, but that small portion showed that Pentagon investigators kept tabs on April protests at the University of California, Santa Cruz; State University of New York at Albany; and William Patterson College in New Jersey. A February protest at NYU was also listed, along with the law school's gay advocacy group OUTlaw, and was classified as "possibly violent."

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The database indicates that the Pentagon has been collecting information about protesters and their vehicles, looking for what they call a "significant connection" between incidents. Of the four "don't ask, don't tell" protests listed, only one—the University of California, Santa Cruz, where students staged a "gay kissing" demonstration—is classified as a "credible" threat.

Since I'm a board member of UM Law's OUTlaws group, I'm going to have to raise the issue as to why we've never staged a gay kissing demonstration in protest of Don't Ask; Don't Tell.  Maybe then we'd get some Pentagon attention!

(Cross-posted at Outlaws' blog)