Hotspring 44
12-24-2012, 12:33 AM
The FBI Treated Occupy Like a Terrorist Group (https://news.yahoo.com/fbi-treated-occupy-terrorist-group-021450389.html)
<cite id="yui_3_5_1_19_1356334379887_271" class="byline vcard">By Adam Clark Estes | The Atlantic Wire</cite>
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Now that it's been over a year since the Occupy movement swept across the country, FOIA requests are being fulfilled, revealing uncomfortable details about how authorities viewed the protestors.
One such request by the Partnership for Civil Justice came through this weekend, and the 112 heavily redacted pages (https://www.justiceonline.org/commentary/fbi-files-ows.html) reveal that the FBI approached the Occupy Wall Street protests as "criminal activity" -- which is not terribly surprising -- and investigated the groups as perpetrators of "domestic terrorism" -- which is fairly unsettling.
More specifically, the Feds enlisted its own as well as local terrorism task forces in nine different cities across the country to investigate Occupy. In Memphis, the group was lumped together with Anonymous and the Aryan Nation in discussing the threat of "domestic terrorism." White supremacists and 99 Percenters aren't really two groups that we think about hand-in-hand but whatever.
There is More from
https://www2.justiceonline.org/images/content/pagebuilder/logo.png (https://www.justiceonline.org/index.html)
like:
FBI Documents Reveal Secret Nationwide Occupy Monitoring (https://www.justiceonline.org/commentary/fbi-files-ows.html) Scroll to bottom of that page to see the 112 pages of docs. https://www.justiceonline.org/commentary/fbi-files-ows.html
Note (that): I read a few of the pages in the 112 page doc. Nothing was particularly glaring of abuse to me of what I did read in the 10 or so pages that I read at random in the doc
However, there is also:
New Federal Lawsuit Filed Against NYPD for Occupy Arrests (https://www.justiceonline.org/commentary/new-federal-lawsuit-filed.html)
Covert National Mass Surveillance Grid Exposed (https://www.justiceonline.org/commentary/covert-national-mass.html)
Covert National Mass Surveillance Grid Exposed: Battlefield Technologies Migrate Home (https://www.justiceonline.org/commentary/covert-national-mass.html)
Court Victory for Brooklyn Bridge Arrestees - Federal Judge Rules that Class Action Lawsuit Can Proceed (https://www.justiceonline.org/commentary/court-victory-for-brooklyn.html)
<cite id="yui_3_5_1_19_1356334379887_271" class="byline vcard">By Adam Clark Estes | The Atlantic Wire</cite>
<cite id="yui_3_5_1_19_1356334379887_271" class="byline vcard"></cite>
Now that it's been over a year since the Occupy movement swept across the country, FOIA requests are being fulfilled, revealing uncomfortable details about how authorities viewed the protestors.
One such request by the Partnership for Civil Justice came through this weekend, and the 112 heavily redacted pages (https://www.justiceonline.org/commentary/fbi-files-ows.html) reveal that the FBI approached the Occupy Wall Street protests as "criminal activity" -- which is not terribly surprising -- and investigated the groups as perpetrators of "domestic terrorism" -- which is fairly unsettling.
More specifically, the Feds enlisted its own as well as local terrorism task forces in nine different cities across the country to investigate Occupy. In Memphis, the group was lumped together with Anonymous and the Aryan Nation in discussing the threat of "domestic terrorism." White supremacists and 99 Percenters aren't really two groups that we think about hand-in-hand but whatever.
There is More from
https://www2.justiceonline.org/images/content/pagebuilder/logo.png (https://www.justiceonline.org/index.html)
like:
FBI Documents Reveal Secret Nationwide Occupy Monitoring (https://www.justiceonline.org/commentary/fbi-files-ows.html) Scroll to bottom of that page to see the 112 pages of docs. https://www.justiceonline.org/commentary/fbi-files-ows.html
Note (that): I read a few of the pages in the 112 page doc. Nothing was particularly glaring of abuse to me of what I did read in the 10 or so pages that I read at random in the doc
However, there is also:
New Federal Lawsuit Filed Against NYPD for Occupy Arrests (https://www.justiceonline.org/commentary/new-federal-lawsuit-filed.html)
Covert National Mass Surveillance Grid Exposed (https://www.justiceonline.org/commentary/covert-national-mass.html)
Covert National Mass Surveillance Grid Exposed: Battlefield Technologies Migrate Home (https://www.justiceonline.org/commentary/covert-national-mass.html)
Court Victory for Brooklyn Bridge Arrestees - Federal Judge Rules that Class Action Lawsuit Can Proceed (https://www.justiceonline.org/commentary/court-victory-for-brooklyn.html)