Should read "THe Committee in Solidarity with the People of El
Salvador."

Carlo Parcelli wrote:
>
> Well, if there are "social improvements" occurring in America , they are
> occurring precisely because the people you label pc are out there.
> They're not happening in a vacuum or through some mysterious
> teleological evolution. I for one have trouble distinguishing between
> the U.S.'s assassination attempts on individuals such as Zhou En-Lai,
> Sukarno or Nehru in the 50's and 60's and attempts on the lives of the
> Sandinista directorate or Saddam Hussein and Slobodan Milosevic. If you
> read the State Department press releases on Nehru or Mossadegh or Nasser
> or Sihanouk, they read very much like the campaigns waged against
> current enemies.
>
> As for the domestic situation brightening as regards freedom of
> expression, I don't see recent events as being encouraging. And I'm not
> just talking about Philadelphia or the recent positive Wall Street
> report that the U.S.'s prison population has now topped two million. One
> of the ways Joe Brennan and I spent countless hours in the 80's was to
> produce a one hour weekly alternative news program. One of the things we
> did was to offer video taping services to many groups free of charge. We
> got three old video cameras and taped lectures, demonstraions etc. We
> ended up working very closely with CISPES, the Committee in Solidarity
> of El Salvador. One day we were to meet our liaison with CISPES in a
> safe house in the Shaw section of Washington, DC. We arrived to find
> that three Salvadoran campesinos who had been brought into the country
> to speak to groups of sympathetic Americans. They looked at us very
> warily as well they should. While we were listening to the Salavdorans
> tell us of murdered family members, murders at the hands of U.S. funded,
> trained and intelligence fed security forces, a group of young CISPES
> volunteers came in and one of them casually said that the FBI was parked
> outside again. (Even though the mainstream U.S. media tried to put a
> game face on, it was revealed that the overwhelming number of atrocities
> committed during the so-called civil war in El Salvador were at the
> hands the U.S. proxy forces such as the Treasury police and the Atlacatl
> battalion.) Anyway, I asked myself how did the volunteer know it was the
> FBI? Well, its now legal legend that CISPES filed a court action against
> the FBI for illegal surveilance and violation of the groups civil
> rights. They were joined by a mere 299 other groups from the sanctuary
> movement and elsewhere. The FBI countered that they considerd these
> groups terrorists cells. The agrieved groups prevailed but you may as
> well wipe your ass with the decision. The FBI has continued such
> activity unabated. Actually, they've accelerated it---tremendously, and
> all in the name of national security; and with the advent of CARNIVORE
> to supplement ECHELON the situation seems seriously retrograde from
> these quarters. If you travel to Cuba, you can still find yourself
> "interviewed" by the CIA at the Miami airport. This is in direct
> violation of U.S. Federal law and the CIA charter forbidding CIA
> activity on U.S. soil, yet I have never heard of a CIA officer ever
> getting even a reprimand for this clearly felonious behavior. When I
> contact the media about such activity, they act like I'm crazy claiming
> that no such statutes exist. And I can't even begin to scratch the
> felonious and murderous surface here.
> But one more anecdote. A week after the incident in the CISPES safe
> house CISPES called us to tape an emergency protest outside the
> Salvadoran Embassy which I then believe was on California St. As
> perpetually happened Salvadoran students had been murdered while in the
> custody of the Treasury police. We showed up and the atmosphere was
> pretty charged. I tried to tape the inside of an unmarked car with two
> INS officials in it and they leapt out, one reaching for his gun. They
> called me over but I told I had a demonstration to shoot. By taping the
> tapers and the legalized thugs, we prevented many unnecessary beatings
> of protesters. There are literally dozens law enforcement agencies and
> intelligence services in Washington so you can get your ass kicked in
> any number of venues. Anyway, our CISPES liaison wasn't there. But as we
> were packing up she arrived. We asked her where she had been. She said
> she had spent the night in the Baltimore City jail because she was
> caught riding in a stolen car. It turns out the that the FBI had
> infiltrated CISPES (as was later demonstrated in court) and the
> infiltrator/FBI informant had either actually stolen a car or set it up
> with the local cops to make it look like a legitimate bust. Our liaison
> had given a lecture in Baltimore and after the lecture had accepted a
> ride from this new CISPES member who in fact was working for the FBI or
> was actually an agent. They "interviewed" our CISPES liaison all night
> until her lawyer arrived and then the police declined to press charges.
> Our liaison had a lot of experience with these tactics, didn't spill any
> information and said she knew that as soon as her counsel arrived she
> would be released. The dead were in El Salvador. The protestors here
> could expect beatings and unlawful arrest and all sorts of legal
> harassment. And after all these years, I'm still a little nervous for
> everyone involved except law enforcement and intelligence for putting
> these minor little anecdotes out over the net. Now think Phillie. Carlo
> Parcelli