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In reply to the discussion: Revealed: how the FBI coordinated the crackdown on Occupy [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)82. You mean, apart from the part where the FBI ignored threats to assassinate OWS leaders?
US Intelligence Machine Instead Plotted with Bankers to Attack Protest Movement
FBI Ignored Deadly Threat to Occupiers
by DAVE LINDORFF
CounterPunch DECEMBER 28-30, 2012
New documents obtained from the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security by the Partnership for Civil Justice and released this past week show that the FBI and other intelligence and law enforcement agencies began a campaign of monitoring, spying and disrupting the Occupy Movement at least two months before the first occupation actions began in late September 2011.
As early as August, while acknowledging that the incipient Occupy Movement was peaceful in nature, federal, state and local officials from the FBI, the DHS and the many Fusion Centers and Joint Terrorism Task Force centers around the country were meeting with local financial institutions and their private security organizations to plot out a strategy for countering the Occupy Movements campaign.
Interestingly, one document obtained by PCJ from the Houston FBI office refers to what appears to have been a plan by some group, the name of which is blacked out in the released document, to determine who the leaders were of the Occupy Movement in Houston, and then to assassinate them with suppressed sniper rifles, meaning sniper rifles equipped with silencers.
The chilling document in question reads as follows:
One identified BLANK as of October planned to engage in sniper attacks against protesters in Houston, Texas if deemed necessary. An identified BLANK had received intelligence that indicated the protesters in New York and Seattle planned similar protests in Houston, Dallas, San Antonio and Austin, Texas. BLANK planned to gather intelligence against the leaders of the protest group and obtain photographs, then formulate a plan to kill the leadership by suppressed sniper rifles.
The wording does not sound like its some crank Tea Party faction theyre talking about especially the words deemed necessary and the reference to gathering intelligence against the leaders of the protest group. Fortunately, in any case, no such assassination campaign materialized in Houston or anywhere else during the wave of Occupy actions across the country, but at the same time, there were never any arrests of whatever organization or individuals that the FBI clearly knew to be planning such a terrorist action against the Occupy activists.
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http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/12/28/fbi-ignored-deadly-threat-to-occupiers/
I don't know why some people don't seem to understand why Secret Government is un-democratic.
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Exactly! It's all about keeping the masses under control in a failing society. n/t
RKP5637
Dec 2012
#51
American Republic is Falling Apart: Suppression is Answered by Mass-Killings
pcbynature
Dec 2012
#79
Bush's "Free Speech Zones" ought to have been enough. Funny, certain infringements on our freedom
Dark n Stormy Knight
Dec 2012
#7
True, but yes, the Rs still get the lion's share of blame. By dragging the center so far
Dark n Stormy Knight
Dec 2012
#73
Way past knee-deep in pure classical Fascism imo: ye will know them by their works
indepat
Dec 2012
#16
Didn't read this article, but I read about FBI surveillance some days or a week ago in US media. nt
reACTIONary
Dec 2012
#19
The coordinated, nationwide evictions were not aimed at preventing violence or vandalism,
snot
Dec 2012
#42
If this much has surfaced, one can only wonder what is behind the redactions.
DollarBillHines
Dec 2012
#12
once she starts hanging with the troofers and the birthers, her credibility is questionable
Adenoid_Hynkel
Dec 2012
#15
Total fail on the part of the person claiming Wolf's a hack bec. there was no federal coordination!
snot
Dec 2012
#24
There is another type of fallacy, however: Argument from a questionable source...
Moonwalk
Dec 2012
#35
Ok this ticks me off Who does the FBI and SEC work for? THE BANKS! or for America
lovuian
Dec 2012
#29
Sounds to me like you side with the FBI and police and not with Occupy. Whose side are you one? nm
rhett o rick
Dec 2012
#53
Ahh yes. They should have been better organized and protested where the oligarchs told them.
rhett o rick
Dec 2012
#67
You mean, apart from the part where the FBI ignored threats to assassinate OWS leaders?
Octafish
Dec 2012
#82
It's sad. OWS still trying to justify their ineptitude. Blame it on "the government".
Tarheel_Dem
Dec 2012
#60
So much easier than organizers had it in 1900. Maybe 'cause they didn't pose so
jtuck004
Dec 2012
#75