If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door in the country
civil rights mosaic @ HMCRA, originally uploaded by ehoyer.
Harvey Milk was an American politician and gay rights activist, and the first openly gay city supervisor of San Francisco, California. He and Mayor George Moscone were assassinated in 1978 on this day. His assassin, Dan White, was sentenced to only seven years in prison. Outrage over the verdict led to widespread rioting in San Francisco by enraged homosexuals and others. Milk is seen by some to be a martyr to the LGBT community.
This mosaic is the work of students and staff at Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy.
[...] Documents obtained by the ACLU under the Freedom of Information Act reveal that the FBI is using its Joint Terrorism Task Forces to gather extensive information about peaceful organizations. Recently, President Bush acknowledged giving explicit and secret authorization for warrantless electronic eavesdropping and physical searches by the National Security Agency. Now, there is reason to believe that the Pentagon, too, is illegally gathering and sharing private and protected information. Read More and heres the proof… [...]
Freedom In America » American Government Spying::Here Lies Proof said this on November 28, 2006 at 4:48 am