It helps to remember that the FBI, the CIA and all similar agencies
are in place to protect the interests of the American Empire. If you
are a multi millionaire, or better yet, a billionaire, then these are
your defenders. And by the way, our local police force and our courts
are also in place to protect the interests of the Empire. Most of us
cannot afford to use the courts, so it doesn't matter much. But all
of us travel the streets and are exposed to the changing needs of the
Empire through their police.
Carl Jarvis
On 10/7/17, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
A police officer stands in front of protesters in Baltimore. (photo:
Michigan Chronicle)
ALSO SEE: The FBI's New US Terrorist
Threat: 'Black Identity Extremists'
Report: FBI Launches COINTELPRO 2.0, Targeting 'Black Identity Extremists'
By Anne Branigin, The Root
07 October 17
Raise your hand if you identify as a "black identity extremist." Matter of
fact, raise your hand if you've ever even heard of the term "black identity
extremist."
According to a new report from Foreign Policy magazine, this is the
dangerous, racially motivated movement the FBI counterterrorism unit warned
about in a report back in August. The FBI report was released on Aug.
3-just
nine days before a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., turned
deadly.
Foreign Policy obtained the report, which is marked for official use only.
The document warns that "black identity extremists" pose a growing threat
to
law enforcement. In a particularly cruel and unfounded assertion, the FBI
claims that police attacks on black Americans could spur "premeditated,
retaliatory lethal violence" against the police.
From Foreign Policy:
The August 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, was the
catalyst for widespread anger and violence, the FBI report says, concluding
that continued "alleged" police abuses have fueled more violence.
"The FBI assesses it is very likely incidents of alleged police abuse
against African Americans since then have continued to feed the resurgence
in ideologically motivated, violent criminal activity within the BIE
movement," the report states.
Right. Because the response to Michael Brown's death was the first instance
of black people voicing outrage about police brutality.
While the report doesn't specifically call out Black Lives Matter, the
group
certainly is the subtext of the document. As Foreign Policy rightly notes,
168 black Americans have been shot and killed by the police in 2017 alone.
Law enforcement has killed 748 people in all this year so far.
That's 748 lives in less than 10 months, nearly a quarter of them black.
Meanwhile, the report lists six total acts of premeditated violence against
officers, including the shooting death of Dallas police officers at a BLM
rally in July 2016. The shooter, Micah Johnson, wasn't affiliated with BLM
but was reportedly "influenced by BIE ideology," based on his journals and
statements to police, according to the FBI report.
The move is the latest iteration of a long tradition of the FBI targeting
and tracking black activists. The most famous example is COINTELPRO, which
was created in 1956 with the explicit intent to "expose, disrupt,
misdirect,
discredit, or otherwise neutralize the activities of black nationalist[s],"
according to the FBI's own documents. Then, as now, the people the feds are
actually targeting were mostly activists fighting to advance racial
equality.
Or, at the very least, stop the government from ceaselessly, and with
impunity, killing black people and people of color.
Earlier this year, The Intercept reported that the FBI began investigating
white supremacist infiltration of law enforcement in 2015. That classified
document was crafted, notably, under the Obama administration, and warned
of
white supremacists' "historical" interest in "infiltrating law enforcement
communities or recruiting law enforcement personnel."
The FBI did release a report earlier this year that warned that the white
supremacist movement "likely will continue to pose a threat of lethal
violence over the next year." However, the new guidance on "black identity
extremists" draws a dangerous equivocation between a movement that is
seeing
a visible resurgence and one that seems completely conjured by the FBI.
According to Foreign Policy, this new guidance has raised eyebrows among
the
intelligence community, with one former official expressing shock at the
report's contents.
"This is a new umbrella designation that has no basis," the former official
told FP. "There are civil rights and privacy issues all over this."
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