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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, @10:17PM
Stating facts does not make one a racist. Now if he said something about them deserving it or make a comment about all whites or something, that would be racist, but simply saying "white guys lose their shit because non-whites are becoming more common" is not racist. The guy may be a bigot, who knows, but his statement does not support that accusation.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday August 09 2015, @11:39PM
Stating facts does not make one a racist.
So how many people in this thread are you pretending to be?