Guest DB, please don't poke fun. I sent for my FBI file many years ago and it was 199 pages. I kid you not.

But then I was quite the radical activist at one time. In 1968 I even got indicted by a grand jury in Washington, DC, for conspiracy to violate the Selective Service Act along with 29 other people. The indictment was sealed pending the outcome of the appeals in the Benjamin Spock - William S. Coffin case, and in 1970 it was dismissed without being filed. The 30 of us were never prosecuted, because thereafter the US Justice Department stopped going after anti-war activists unless they could allege acts of violence (as they did in Chicago, Harrisburg, Gainesville, and Seattle). Our "conpiracy" was conspicuously non-violent.

The irony is that the indictment was obtained by the so-called "liberal" Justice Department of Attorney-General Ramsey Clark, but it was dismissed at the request of the so-called "repressive" Justice Department of John Mitchell.

So I am not paranoid. My fear is fully grounded in material reality. Or at least that's what I keep telling myself.

--- Steve