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Askin and the ACLU were appealing for some 20 antiwar protesters, said to be recorded in Army intelligence files, for a trial and an injunction to stop the Army practice...
...Federal district court dismissed the ACLU bid last March...
...April the U. S. District Court dismissed a suit filed by the ACLU on behalf of 13 plaintiffs- individuals and organizations- who claimed that the surveillance, data banks, and blacklists violated the Bill of Rights by reason of the chilling effect which knowledge of their existence can have upon the willingness of citizens to exercise their freedom of speech, press, and association, and their rights to petition the government for redress of grievances...
...many existing dictatorships, however, the police function, while pervasive, is not undertaken by the Army. Recent disclosures such as Pyle's concerning the Army's intelligence operations in the "continental United States" raise serious questions about the Army's role in domestic politics. The judge who dismissed the ACLU suit claimed that Army maintenance of files was no different than maintenance of files by a newspaper. Frank Askin, arguing for the plaintiffs, observed that no newspaper also possessed weapons or other means of force to deploy against whoever was on file. The right of the Army to operate data banks...
...guardsmen involved in the shooting have been isolated in an armory 30 miles from Kent where ACLU lawyers have not been allowed to interview them...