NASA & USAF Caught Monitoring USAF Vet/Activist Bruce Gagnon

[Clara T]

Space Hawks Chase Death Rays
By John Lasker
02:00 AM Mar, 01, 2006 EST

For more than a year, Bruce Gagnon strongly suspected he and his family were being spied on, but he didn't have any evidence, and he didn't know who might be behind it. An Air Force veteran, Gagnon is one of the most prominent activists in the world concerned with space weapons. He directs the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space from a small office in Maine.

Still, he was caught off guard when the American Civil Liberties Union called and told him it had uncovered court documents revealing that NASA and the U.S. Air Force were secretly monitoring him.

"We're a small organization with meager resources," said Gagnon. "They feel threatened by us? That tells us something."

As tourists line up to ride private rocket ships into space, the galaxy has never seemed closer as a theater for war. The evidence goes beyond surreptitious surveillance of peace-loving space activists. Even now, lobbyists from the fledgling commercial space industry are besieging Capitol Hill, hoping to persuade the government to hand out contracts to help put the U.S. military into orbit.

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/1,70303-0.html

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. Delete

dupe

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. I hope he intends to bring this to court

Now that he KNOWS they were spying on him.

This is what we need. A case where it's an American citizen who had nothing to do with al CIAda.

[efhmc]

5. Limited resources probably will prevent it but I also wish he would.

[gizmo1979]

3. Hey I think that's my cousin!

I'll have to check.

[cornermouse]

4. One of the things that it tells us is that if the spying on American

citizens has filtered all the way down to a small organization without much money and therefore without much power, how widespread is their spying?

[PsN2Wind]

6. Why NASA?

Maybe should have been NSA. National Security Agency rather than the National Air and Space Administration.

[Clara T]

7. Gagnon is world's foremost spokesman

against weapons in space. Big bucks for NASA boondoggle.

NASA and USAF are intertwined.

[Hubert Flottz]

8. So how does this man have ANYTHING to do with terrorists...

overseas. Bush and ALL of his mouthpieces claim that the spying is only being done to find people who are talking to Bin Laden's gang. Only checking out people, who are getting calls, cards and letters, from suspected terrorists overseas. Could Bush be LYING again?

[Callalily]

9. I find it most

disturbing that our government can engage in illegal spying and not be held accountable. I'm so discouraged lately. The B#$h dictatorship and his regime seems to be unstoppable.

As I read farther down the article, I was stunned about the amount of dollars earmarked for the Star Wars budget ( 20 percent for 2007, with the total allocation reaching $10.7 billion, an increase of nearly $6 billion since 1999. ) This master plan to control space not only by the U.S. but by China and Russia also is most disturbing. Apparently the business of war will continue. I just wish the business of peace were profitable too. Maybe then we'd have at least have a fighting chance.