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Monday, May 26th, 2014

The Hidden Role of the Fusion Centers in the Nationwide Spying Operation Against the Occupy Movement and Peaceful Protes

Author:     MARA VERHEYDEN-HILLIARD and CARL MESSINEO
Source:     Center for Research on Globilization
Publication Date:     26-May-14
 Link: The Hidden Role of the Fusion Centers in the Nationwide Spying Operation Against the Occupy Movement and Peaceful Protes
Stephan:   Here you can see the extent of the American police state and its surveillance of perfectly legal citizen protests. It is my belief that the construction of the national security apparat, ostensibly built to stop terrorism (read Muslim terrorism) actually, whatever its beginnings, is now being expanded and entrenched because long term assessments of the United States by the surveillance state foresee massive social unrest as a result of the grotesque inequality, and what is coming with climate change, the collapse of industrial agriculture, and the failure of anti-biotic medicine. It is eventually going to become clear to even the dimmest voter that the U.S. is on a parlous downward course into chaos. When this takes hold in the consciousness of the masses a crisis will ensue. The militarization of the the police, the abrogation of our civil rights, and the rise of the police state are all components of how the government, the uber-rich, and the corporations plan to protect their power. Although it is unfashionable to say so, and the corporate media won't touch these trends, I believe this is what is going on. It is certainly what I would do if I were unconscious and in a position of such power.

This report, based on documents obtained by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, provides highlights and analysis of how the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)-funded Fusion Centers used their vast anti-terrorism and anti-crime authority and funds to conduct a sprawling, nationwide and hour-by-hour surveillance effort that targeted even the smallest activity of peaceful protestors in the Occupy Movement in the Fall and Winter of 2011.

It is being released in conjunction with a major story in the New York Times that is based on the 4,000 pages of government documents uncovered by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) during a two-year long investigation.

The newly published documents reveal the actual workings of the Fusion Centers – created ostensibly to coordinate anti-terrorism efforts following the September 11, 2001, attacks – in collecting and providing surveillance information on peaceful protestors.

The new documents roll back the curtain on the Fusion Centers and show the communications, interactions and emails of a massive national web of federal agents, officials, police, and private ‘security” contractors to accumulate and share information, reporting on all manner of peaceful and lawful political activity that took place during the Occupy Movement from protests and rallies to meetings and educational lectures. This […]

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