To the editor,
We expect our law enforcement to protect and serve, not eavesdrop and
commit acts of voyeurism. But that
is exactly what two Federal Bureau of Investigation Agents recently did in
The non-profit organization Hospice International, which provides health
care to low income elderly in need of medical treatment, hosted an event to
provide inexpensive prom dresses to
"I can't even begin to put words around what I consider an unspeakable act: the misuse of surveillance by a branch of our government in a place we felt so secure," said Cynthia Woodyard, organizer of the event. "Never in a million years would we have thought something like this would happen. We're in shock."
Technology has made video cameras much smaller.
They can be nearly impossible to detect.
Taking from statistics by criminologists, it is likely that hundreds of
times more crimes like the one in
Having personally been beaten nearly to death for merely participating
peacefully in a demonstration in
It is the lack of transparency that the so-called Patriot Act creates,
that opens the doors for crimes like the horrific violations of teenage girls
that recently occurred in
Kister is the Author of Arctic Quest: Odyssey Through a Threatened Wilderness; Arctic Melting: How Climate Change is Destroying One of the World’s Largest Wilderness Area and Against All Odds: The Struggle to Save The Ridges. He is also the producer of the 2006 film, Caribou People. Kister’s fourth book, Arctic Screaming is coming out soon.
chadkister@gmail.com; 740-707-4110; 740-753-3888