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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 09 2015, @01:29AM
>> lots of old white guys losing their shit over losing their birth-right as king of the hill.
>
> Here's a classic example of the thinly veiled racism.
Awww, did I hurt your feelings?
You consistently post with the wisdom of a teenager, but you are obviously older than 30.
The loss of unearned privilege is the most painful loss of them all because it feels so undeserved when in fact the privilege was undeserved to begin with. If talking about the undisputed fact that being white gives people a leg up in american society is racism then you are mighty lucky to have never experienced what is like to be non-white.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday August 09 2015, @02:52AM
Awww, did I hurt your feelings?
No.
The loss of unearned privilege
Didn't happen and I doubt you believe the claim you make either.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 09 2015, @03:16AM
>> The loss of unearned privilege
> Didn't happen and I doubt you believe the claim you make either.
What didn't happen? You haven't lost any of that privilege yet? I tend to agree. People on this website are mostly well enough off that they haven't lost much privilege yet. But just like the person who has always lived a sheltered life, even the barest hint of a loss is enough to send you into total freakout mode.