Bogus Story That Pentagon Labelled a Gay Kiss-In a “Credible Threat”

There is a misleading article at Wonkette.com.

The article by DCEIVER on spying by the military describes the Pentagon as "even going so far as to label a 'kiss-in' at the University of California at Santa Cruz (home of the Fighting Banana Slugs!) as a 'credible threat of terrorism.'"

This story originated with an article by "Servicemembers Legal Defense Network."

There were protests at UC Santa Cruz on April 5, 2005, led by "Students Against War."

Protesters objected to military recruiting based on the "racist, sexist, classist and heterosexist biases of the military."

Click here for excerpt from Defense Dept. document obtained by NBC News which calls UCSC protest a "credible" "threat." (Full PDF linked at article on domestic military spying by Lisa Myers, Douglas Pasternak, Rich Gardella and the NBC Investigative Unit of NBC News.)

The protests as a whole were labelled a "credible" "threat" by the military.

But the SLDN article says,

A UC-Santa Cruz 'Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell' protest, which included a gay kiss-in, was labeled as a 'credible threat' of terrorism."

SLDN misleadingly implies that was the only protest there that day which could have interested the military.

The bogus story spread to Pandagon, AMERICAblog, The New York Blade,Gawker, and Wonkette.com.

« In Summary »

The military did label protests as a whole at the University of California at Santa Cruz on April 5, 2005 a "threat." It did not single out a protest of "'Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" with a gay kiss-in.

« What Difference Does It Make? »

There should be NO spying in the US by the military.

But opponents of such military spying help their case with accurate stories, not misleading ones.



I am a writer for SpeakSpeak News, and I also posted this at:
http://www.speakspeak.org/speak-blog/2005/12/21/bogus-story-that-pentagon-labelled-a-gay-kiss-in-a-credible-threat-spreads-across-internet/

this has been reported for the past couple of weeks on NPR and every time I hear this, I don't know whether to laugh or cry because this is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard of in my life but coming from the Bushies, why am I not surprised

a gay Kiss-In.

Did NPR mention the gay Kiss-In?

and I think one morning they talked about the kiss-in

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I do know they spied on Quakers:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10454316/