Maryland Police Infiltrated Activist Groups, Turned Over Information to Feds, Listed Citizens in Database as Committing Anti-War and Anti-Government Terrorism
Undercover Maryland state troopers infiltrated three groups advocating peace and protesting the death penalty — attending meetings and sending reports on their activities to U.S. intelligence and military agencies, according to documents released Thursday.
The activist was identified as Max Obuszewski. His “primary crime†was entered into the database as “terrorism - anti govern(ment).†His “secondary crime†was listed as “terrorism - anti-war protestors.†The database is known as the Washington-Baltimore High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area, or HIDTA.
"Most of what is commonly referred to as “political activism†is viewed by the corporate state’s counterinsurgency apparatus as a useful and necessary component of political control.
Political activism amounts to an utterly useless waste of time, in terms of tangible power, which is all the American Corporate State understands. Political activism is a cruel guise that is sold to people who are dissatisfied, but who have no concept of the nature of tangible power. Counterinsurgency teams routinely monitor these activities, attend the meetings, join the groups and take on leadership roles in the organizations."
— Militant Electronic Piracy