Homeland Security has been surveilling the Black Lives Matter movement??

[pancha]

What a lot of people already suspected, now confirmed:

The documents, released by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Operations Coordination, indicate that the department frequently collects information, including location data, on Black Lives Matter activities from public social media accounts, including on Facebook, Twitter, and Vine, even for events expected to be peaceful. The reports confirm social media surveillance of the protest movement and ostensibly related events in the cities of Ferguson, Baltimore, Washington, DC, and New York.

Link: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/24/documents-show-department-homeland-security-monitoring-black-lives-matter-since-ferguson/

[Nuclear Unicorn]

1. The System doesn't protect the people, it only protects itself. nt

[sadoldgirl]

2. Not at all surprised ,

they did the same with OWS at the time.
Any group protesting the status quo will
be under supervision in some way.
I don't doubt that the ACLU is on their list
of "provocateurs".

[KG]

3. not surprising.

[Downwinder]

4. Wonder if they notified the Waller County Sheriff

that Sandra Bland was coming to Waller County.

Or, maybe just the DPS.

[tazkcmo]

5. Your post is the first mention...

...that I've seen. It never crossed my mind before because it's a given. I would wager all my future income somebody in our government is watching BLM, Occupy, NAACP, ACLU, La Raza, LULAC, Code Pink etc, etc, etc. Especially those organizations headed by non-whites. They're especially scary! Or am I being cynical?

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. They are watching anyone whose head pops above the horizon of discourse.

FBI was the big spymaster back in the 60's and 70's.
Anyone who does anything out of the ordinary gets watched.
Seriously.

[Downwinder]

9. Also in the 40's and 50's feeding HUAC.

[tazkcmo]

12. And still are.

There's just more players now so they get less attention now and their spying has the cover of law in the Patriot Act. The behavior doesn't even need to be "out of the ordinary", just contrary to what is desired.

[Eleanors38]

14. Yeah, how did they poach this from the FBI? Old 60s joke:

Q: Why does the FBI have a hard time penetrating right-wing terrorist groups?

A: Lack of job experience.

[Hydra]

6. Duh, and they're watching us right now

Every word we're typing, every phone call we make, every email, every text.

Lots of money being spent making sure we're good little slaves. Notice every RW terrorist under the sun gets through their net though? I'm sure it's a coincidence.

[daredtowork]

8. It should be collecting info on gun-toting white terrorists. nt

[Downwinder]

11. And money toting bankers.

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. And the sun did rise this morning

The other day I was posting a few photos to FB from the Alec March. I should have included fuck Hoover. We saw what seemed to be the Stinger vehicle while leaving.

[Rex]

13. Of course they do, DHS is the biggest domestic spying agency ever built.

9/11 changed all the rules.