The American Civil Liberties Union has released photographs that the government took of vegans protesting in front of a honey-baked ham store. The incident prompted the ACLU to file a lawsuit in September on behalf of one of the protestors, Caitlin Childs. Childs was arrested after she wrote down the license plate number of the undercover Homeland Security detective who was taking pictures of the protestors. Gerald Weber of the ACLU of Georgia said of the case, "We believe that spying on American citizens for no good reason is fundamentally un-American, that it's not the place of the government or the best use of resources to spy on its own citizens and we want it to stop. We want the spies in our government to pack their bags, close up their notebooks, take their cameras home and not engage in the spying anymore."
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