War at Home

I strongly recommend this is one you will want to keep handy for both your writing and speaking.

WAR AT HOME: COVERT ACTION AGAINST U.S. ACTIVISTS
AND WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT
Copyright 1989, Brian Glick
Paperback, 92 pages, $5.00 US
ISBN 0-89608-349-7
http://www.amazon.com
http://www.bn.com (Barnes and Noble)

Since this book is a fairly straightforward "debating tool" for our 
war effort, I'm not going to give you a whole lot of my gab.  Rather, 
I'm going to extract here some highlights, so you can make up your 
mind if it's worth $5.00:

Let me start by giving three of the review blurbs on the back cover:

    The breadth and scope of the massive FBI investigation of
    CISPES indicates that the Bureau was engaged in an illegal
    campaign to stifle dissent, that its violation of Consti-
    tutional rights of citizens who oppose unpopular U.S. wars
    continues.  War at Home is a timely and important book
    which every activist working for peace and justice at home
    and abroad must read.
    --Angela Sanbrano, Committee in Solidarity with the People
      of El Salvador (CISPES)

    Brian Glick has given us not only a brilliant and chilling
    account of the government's dirty war against its own
    people, but has provided a complete battle plant to combat
    it.
    --Haywood Burns, National Lawyers Guild and 
      National Conference of Black Lawyers

    War at Home describes activities that can only be
    described as GOVERNMENT-SPONSORED TERRORISM aginst those
    of its own citizens who are so brash as to engage in a
    serious struggle for justice, democracy, and peace.  It 
    shows that every disgraceful tactic that our government
    uses in its "covert" activities abroad it ALSO uses in its
    little understood covert "war at home."
    --David Dellinger, peace activist

Next, let me share the first paragraph in the book's Introduction. Note 
the names of the groups targetted:

    In January 1988 the people of the United States learned
    of a secret nationwide FBI campaign against the domestic
    opponents of U.S. policy in Central America.  Government
    documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act
    show that from 1981 through at least 1985, the FBI infil-
    trated the Committee in Solidarity With the People of El
    Salvador (CISPES) and disrupted its work all across the
    country.  The investigation eventually reached into nearly
    every sector of the anti-intervention movement, from the
    Maryknoll Sisters, the Southern Christian Leadership
    Conference, and the New Jewish Agenda to the United
    Auto Workers, the United Steel Workers, U.S. Senator
    Christopher Dodd, and U.S. Representatives Pat Schroeder
    and Jim Wright.


Next, the table of contents:


Introduction .........................................   1

               A HISTORY TO LEARN FROM

COINTELPRO: Covert action against domestic dissidents    7
 of the 1960s
    How we learned about COINTELPRO ..................   7
    How COINTELPRO worked ............................   9
    COINTELPRO's main targets ........................  10
    How COINTELPRO helped destroy the movements ......  13
     of the 1960s

                 THE DANGER WE FACE

Domestic covert action remains a serious threat today   19
    Domestic covert action did not end in the 1970s ..  20
    Domestic covert action has peristed through ......  29
     the 1980s
    Domestic covert action has become a permanent ....  33
     feature of the U.S. Government


               PROSPECTS FOR THE FUTURE

What we can do about domestic covert action ..........  39
    Learning the methods of COINTELPRO and ...........  39
     how to protect ourselves against them
        1.  Infiltration by agents and informers .....  41
        2.  Psychological warfare from the outside ...  45
        3.  Harassment through the legal system ......  53
        4.  Extralegal force and violence ............  59
    Exposing domestic covert action as undemocratic ..  65
     and a form of terrorism

COINTELPRO documents .................................  74
Notes ................................................  82
Further Reading ......................................  91
About the Author .....................................  91

    Brian Glick is a lawyer who was active in SDS and the
    civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1960s, and 
    who continues to work in the social justice and anti-
    intervention movements.  Co-author of The Bust Book:
    What to Do Until the Lawyer Comes and The Jailhouse
    Lawyer's Manual, he has served as legal counsel for
    Geronimo Pratt, the Republik of New Afrika, the New 
    York 3, and other targets of political repression.  He
    currently represents community groups in New York City.

Resource Organizations ...............................  92

    [EW NOTE:  THESE PROMISING HEADINGS DON'T 
    SEEM, TO ME ANYWAY, TO LIST ORGANIZATIONS 
    WHICH WOULD HAVE MUCH INTEREST IN MC. Of 
    course, I haven't tried them either.]

    For educational materials and campaigns

    For legal advice and assistance

    For help with research and investigation

Sample excerpt.

Your choice!

Eleanor

======== COMMENTS FROM OTHERS ===========================

From:             James Graf
To:               Eleanor White
Subject:          Re: Book review:  "War at Home"
Date sent:        Fri, 24 Nov 2000 20:08:05 -0500

Dear Eleanor:

_War At Home_ is a very handy little book. This almost-unknown chapter of
American history set the stage for much of the horror going on today.

Along with _War At Home_, "Here's How It All Came About" on my web site at
http://www.angelfire.com/nj/jhgraf/hereshow.html mentions _Break-Ins, Death
Threats, and the FBI_ by retired Pulitzer-Prize-winning reporter Ross
Gelbspan. Mr. Gelbspan's work, which I consider the single most important
book of the second half of the twentieth century, convincingly documents the
campaign of state-terrorism waged against peaceful people protesting the
death squads of El Salvador and Guatemala and the atrocities perpetrated by
the illegally-funded Nicaraguan Contras. This is when -- this is how -- the
US Government decided that its people had no rights that it was bound to
respect. This, above all, is when "national security" destroyed human rights
and silly rationalization defeated conscience and common sense.

In 1992, Gary Null did an interview of Ross Gelbspan on WBAI-FM in New York.
Its text is available on the web at
http://www.etext.org/Politics/Conspiracy/DiNardo/FBI.Terrorize.Citizens/

James Henry Graf

Date sent:        Sat, 25 Nov 2000 20:10:59 +0800
To:               Eleanor White
From:             Betty Daly-King
Subject:          Re: Book review:  "War at Home"

Dear Eleanor,

Put Brian Glick's book together with William Blum KILLING HOPE that 
documents 'war on allied countries and other'  and you have why humane 
citizens of USA move to Canada - such as yourself and the Geri and Alfred 
Webre, and why Harlan Girard wants to *retire* out of USA!  I suggested he 
headed our way and, with current rate of exchange, doubles his money right 
now!!  We are being sold cheap on Wall St. - that'll teach us for getting 
uppity about East Timor (when USA wanted the status quo) and for protesting 
WTO decisions!  I'm sure there would be more!

Betty