Smile, Tea Party Participants, You’re On FBI Surveillance Camera?

If this is true, it’s certainly disconcerting.  The Northeast Intelligence Network recently posted an editorial claiming that the FBI was very interested in attendees at the April 15th Tea Parties.

Of course, it had conveniently become common knowledge the day before the Tea Parties that the Department of Homeland Security was very concerned about right-wing extremists.  You know, those folks, including American veterans, who were growing more and more upset about the economy and such.  So I wouldn’t be the least surprised that many FBI field agents spent April 15th like many of the rest of us; but instead of protesting the tyranny of taxation with representation, they walked around taking pictures and documenting the names of organizers.  Just in case one of the participants just happened to be an everyday, run-of-the-mill, garden-variety wack job looking for any excuse to self-destruct while doing their best to take a few fellow citizens along with them. 

Because we all know that any time a large number of people raise their voices in disagreement with something, there’s bound to trouble.

Methinks they ought to look closer to home.  Like maybe investigating exactly who in the Obama administration decided to lie to the American people this time?  The latest example being a misleading redaction of the Director of National Intelligence’s memo to the President concerning “enhanced interrogation techniques”.  Certain points made by Dennis Blair about the benefits of the information gained shortly after 9/11 were cut from the version published by the administration in order that it appear to support the hue and cry for a witch hunt of Bush administration advisers.

Oops?