That could explain a lot.

Hey, I can be charitable sometimes.

More than slightly ironic.

Well you definitely have to investigate peace activists and lefties... I mean why would you want to investigate groups that actually carry out attacks? Like anti-abortion groups and racists?

I guess those of us that worry about this sort of thing have to rely on Morris Dees and SPLC rather than have actual federal protection.

The FBI has a long standing history of going after the left and an equally long history of dragging their heels and having to be ordered to investigate right wingers and racists.

I would ask that, in addition to your guess, whether you know how many agents have actually been assigned to fundamentalist Christian terrorists?

The very idea that they seem to routinely investigate peace activists and the occupy movement speaks volumes to me.

Why doesn't someone make a request on behalf of the Tea Party?

The FBI is certainly not perfect but they have arrested white supremacists time and time again as well as shut down other hate groups.

EVERY large group of protesters is likely monitored. And when a group that doesn't have leaders is in the forefront of those protests, it makes sense to find out what they might be up to. Just because someone in that group says they are peaceful doesn't mean law enforcement should take their word for it. I'm sure the TP faithful say the same thing.

I see nothing nefarious about law enforcement doing their jobs to monitor large groups of people. Especially when there is the possibility of confrontation.

You do not investigate people just for exercising their constitutional rights.

The tea party wore tshirts explicitly stating things like "we came unarmed-this time" and brought assault weapons to their rallies. Oddly they were not heavily investigated.

If this was based on appearances and worries about security and violence and criminal behavoir then it shouldn't have required someone to report the teapsters.




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File a FOI request.

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The leaked docs from that were all over the right wing blogosphere a few years ago.

because as much of an avid follower of the news I am, I don't recall hearing ANY stories of the tea party being infiltrated. I smell BS from you Recursion.

Your corporate tithes taxpayer money at work!

This shit has been going on since, well since forever.

By labeling protestors as "terrorists" the current NDAA law could allow the "terrorists" to be arrested and detained forever.
See:
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_final_battle_20121223/

Banks and wall street are the real power in this country. Banks call police and sheriffs to evict homeowners, not the city or government. And most definitely as your picture depicts, they will protect themselves. Gather at an intersection with banners and pamphlets and a bullhorn and zero cops. March on a bank and militarized, insectile police swarm swarm swarm.

"To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." ~Voltaire

financial malfeasance than could be found among the culprits who orchestrated a near financial collapse necessitating the Federal Government to pour in trillions of dollars to stem the rampant tide is breathtaking. Unbfin' unbelievable.

except it is probably more terrifying to the PTB because a lot of average people now distrust banks and Wall Street. There is still a sleeping giant on the verge of waking.

I swear some of these LEO agencies are afraid of going after real criminals.

How would anyone know unless they looked into it? Take someone's word for it? Whose word? No one was in charge.

It's the FBI's job to find out if large groups of protesters are peaceful or not. Why denigrate them for doing their job and apparently agreeing that it was a peaceful movement?

Are nowhere to be found...

I wonder why?

As I said last year, my file grew by leaps and bounds and I was just reporting on them.

We were not paranoid. Given US history this not happening would have broken a trend.

Those raids, think Turner Raids...