My Co-Worker is a Terrorist

Josh Tulkin works in an office down a short hallway from mine. We yell back and forth at each other for questions and answers. Sometimes he has so much energy that he taps his fingers really, really fast on his chair and it kinda freaks me out.

Also, he's been classified as a terrorist.

Josh himself was informed of this fact by the Maryland State Police who, on October 21st, kindly informed him that he was on a terrorist watch list and his activities were monitored for more than a year.

Josh's most terrorizing activities: Helping pass landmark legislation like the Maryland Healthy Air Act and the Clean Car Bill.

While deputy director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network (CCAN), Josh helped to build coalitions of faith groups, community groups, students, and of nurses and doctors to improve air quality, reduce the impacts of global warming and environmental degradation on the Chesapeake Bay. The Horror!

And thank goodness Maryland State Police spying has brought Tulkin's Gore-ish past to light. It's been very useful to our organization.

Using many of his same terrorist tactics, Josh is now the field director for the Energy Action Coalition's national Power Vote campaign that has already galvanized over 250,000 young people to vote for clean energy. He continues to terrorist-ically help build diverse coalitions, inform, and organize thousands of people in communities across the United States.

Also thankfully, the Maryland State Police appear to have exonerated Josh as well as executive director of CCAN, Mike Tidwell, and 53 other "suspected terrorists" for their active citizenry. But that should in no way exonerate the MSP for spying on its State's most democratic, active citizens.

Responded Mr. Tulkin: "Young people understand that global warming and the destruction of our national resources are serious threats to our future, and I see my work in this fight as a moral obligation, not a crime," said Mr. Tulkin. He continued: "It is wholly unacceptable for the Maryland State Police to monitor activists and enter their names into databases for doing what our Constitution calls and empowers us to do in engaging in the political process. I am proud to work with thousands of students across the country who are working to fight global warming.

They deserve our support, not suspicion, and I encourage young people to use their voices to vote this November 4th for a President and Congress who understand the critical role youth play in protecting the moral compass of society."

If only our country were full of more terrorists like Josh.

Please go online to learn more about Maryland ACLU's challenge to MSP spying: http://www.aclu-md.org/Index%20content/NoSpying/NoSpying.html

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Comments

[charon]

The real terrorists are not the environmentalists or the anti-war activists. The real terrorists are the government operatives that got us involved in backing a minority group in Viet Nam against the majority and used all instruments at their disposal in a losing battle to defeat the majority, including torture, bombing of civilian targets, and massive use of carcinogenic herbicides to poison the countryside. The people who got financed the murderous regime in El Salvador, Guatemala, and other Latin American countries to subvert the will of the people through the use of torture, death squads, and assassination. The people who overthrew the democratic­ally-elect­ed governments of Chile, Greece, and Indonesia, among many other places. Those people are our government's agencies that oversaw those operations, from the State Department to the CIA to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and ultimately, the top echelons of the Executive branch of government. They have overseen more murder, torture, and destruction than anyone else in the history of the 20th century.

[graffen48]

This is unbelievable. What I don't understand is who are these people that work for the police? Didn't they grow up in this country also? Didn't they go to the same schools, and learn about the same constitution that we did? Don't they even have a clue that what they are doing is so unpatriotic and unamerican? I think the government needs to take a good look at who and how we hire people to be police. These people have way to much power, and it sounds like we're allowing a bunch of fascists to run our police departments. Either that, or perverts. What the hell kind of job is that, to go to work everyday and take apart every little piece of someones personal life. Don't these idiots have anything better to do. I give your friend a lot of credit. He seems to have taken this as well as one can.. I think if it were happening to me, I'd make sure they had something to talk about. I'd be on the phone talking about how good their wife was in bed the other day. These people need to get a life.