No - it is not an oxymoron; at least not in this case. The "liberal"New York Times reports that the NY City Police Department had a "R.N.C. Intelligence Squad" that spent months infiltrating and spying on dissident groups in the run up to the Republican National Convention in 2004. Most of the people under surveillance we simply groups who wished to protest the policies of the Bush Administration and clearly had no intention of breaking the law other than possibly engaging in political speech outside of the designated "Free Speech Zones". The NY Police Department claims that all of its actions were legal. I believe them without reservation. After all they are the police!
In related news the city of NY has asked a court to keep its records of this surveillance secret as the documents "could be 'misinterpreted' because they were not intended for the public".
As the title of a rather entertaining novel I recently read says You Have to be Careful in the Land of the Free
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In related news the city of NY has asked a court to keep its records of this surveillance secret as the documents "could be 'misinterpreted' because they were not intended for the public".
As the title of a rather entertaining novel I recently read says You Have to be Careful in the Land of the Free
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