The San Jose Mercury News is reporting that California’s National Guard has quietly set up a special intelligence unit that has already begun monitoring anti-war activists. The paper obtained emails from the National Guard that indicate the unit monitored a small Mother’s Day anti-war rally organized by Gold Star Families for Peace, the Raging Grannies and CodePink. A guard spokesman said the military would be “negligent” in not tracking such anti-war rallies in the event that they disintegrate into a riot that could prompt the governor to call out troops. The spokesman went on to say “It’s nothing subversive. Because who knows who could infiltrate that type of group and try to stir something up? After all, we live in the age of terrorism, so who knows?”