If You're Not A Terrorist, Then You Have Nothing To Worry About--Right?

AMY GOODMAN: We turn now to Maryland, a new document revealing police surveillance of local activists opposed to war and the death penalty. The American Civil Liberties Union released documents Thursday showing undercover officers from the Maryland State Police spied on peace groups and anti-death-penalty protesters for over a year from 2005 to 2006, when Robert Ehrlich, Jr. was governor. On Friday, current governor, Martin O’Malley, vowed not to allow police surveillance of peace groups.
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AMY GOODMAN: Longtime peace activist Max Obuszewski from the Baltimore Pledge of Resistance joins me now from Washington, D.C. We’re also joined by another target of the surveillance of the Maryland State Police, Dave Zirin, the sportswriter and author of, among other books, Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics and Promise of Sports. He writes a weekly column called “Edge of Sports.” His latest article for CounterPunch is called “COINTELPRO Comes to My Town.” We welcome you both to Democracy Now!

Max Obuszewski, let’s begin with you...