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In what is starting to look like COINTELPRO updated and outsourced for the 21st century, it was recently revealed that cybersecurity firm ZeroFox monitored at least two high-profile Black Lives Matter protest organizers and labeled them as 'physical threats' in secret reports to Baltimore city administrators and to an unnamed 'classified partner' organization at Fort Meade (headquarters of the NSA and other intelligence agencies).
McKesson and Elzie both tell Mother Jones they were "not surprised" that they were being watched. "It confirms that us telling the truth about police violence is seen as a threat," McKesson says. Both activists say they do not know why they were identified as physical threats. McKesson and Elzie live in Missouri, where they helped organize the Ferguson protests. They traveled together to Baltimore for a week and a half during the Freddie Gray protests.
This classification of non-violent political protesters as threats follows the nationwide, FBI-orchestrated purge of the Occupy movement that was legally enabled by labeling them a terrorist threat.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anal Pumpernickel on Saturday August 08 2015, @10:13PM
Well, I can see you probably won't be happy until you live in a full-fledged police state. Maybe you should try North Korea instead; moving there would surely be less work than changing a country significantly.
The phrase "social terrorist" just shows how watered-down the word "terrorist" has become. Now merely exercising your constitutional rights is considered terrorism by some people. Maybe you don't care enough to try to change the country you live in, but some people do. While that may 'inconvenience' you and others at times, you'll just have to deal with it. That's an extremely small price to pay for being able to exercise your liberties and allowing people who actually care about improving their country to work on improving it while you sit by, do nothing, and then complain about them.