Florida’s fusion center monitors anti-BP protests; Ron Paul rallies; demonstrations against the Gaza flotilla raid; Code Pink rallies; and other well-known epicenters of Consitutionally-protected speech terrorism. Thank you, Public Intelligence.
Sink, Florida, Sink! |
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| By: Spencer Ackerman Friday December 24, 2010 9:54 am | |



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And what has constitutionality got to do with the event recording of a multi-county law enforcement organization? They can only make arrests if a crime has occurred. Obviously the idea is to keep abreast of political events so that if a crime or terrorist event happens they aren’t caught completely with their pants down.
Otherwise, after a crime, they get called “Deaf, dumb and blind” by all the posturing pundits and politicians. This way they have suspects. Or maybe they can arrest the perps for conspiracy or for attempted murder and prevent the crime.
A more reasonable objection would simply be that the whole effort is likely to be something of a big waste of the taxpayers money. The incidence of politically-motivated crime in Central Florida being rather low. Although by pooling the costs, the counties might save money. Surely they’ll claim that.
And their record-keeping can’t even have a “Chilling effect” unless it’s widely publicized. Like by this blog.
In any event, it isn’t a violation of the Constitution.