In these days of massive fear the country has allowed the police and military to invade their privacy on the premise that they will be much safer if these groups have access to your stuff.
I read an article that talks about the FBI and their infiltration of groups in the name of security……
Beneath the FBI’s redaction marks are exceptions to rules on “undisclosed participation.”
President Trump has inherited a vast domestic intelligence agency with extraordinary secret powers. A cache of documents offers a rare window into the FBI’s quiet expansion since 9/11.
Using loopholes it has kept secret for years, the FBI can in certain circumstances bypass its own rules in order to send undercover agents or informants into political and religious organizations, as well as schools, clubs, and businesses.
Source: Hidden Loopholes Allow FBI Agents to Infiltrate Political and Religious Groups
I am amused that people find this outrageous.
Has anyone out there ever heard of the COINTELPRO? And yes this is another history lesson for you.
Between 1956 and 1971, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) conducted a campaign of domestic counterintelligence. The agency’s Domestic Intelligence Division did more than simply spy on U.S. citizens and their organizations; its ultimate goal was to disrupt, discredit, and destroy certain political groups. The division’s operations were formally known within the bureau as COINTELPRO (the Counterintelligence Program). The brainchild of former FBI director j. edgar hoover, the first COINTELPRO campaign targeted the U.S. Communist party in the mid-1950s. More organizations came under attack in the 1960s. FBI agents worked to subvertCivil Rightsgroups, radical organizations, and white supremacists. COINTELPRO existed primarily because of Director Hoover’s extreme politics and ended only when he feared its exposure by his critics. A public uproar followed revelations in the news media in the early 1970s, and congressional hearings criticized COINTELPRO campaigns in 1976.
Read more……
Source: Cointelpro legal definition of Cointelpro
This is nothing new….the government has been invading groups for decades and all in the name of ….SECURITY.
I’m wondering at this point if any of this has been beneficial to anyone other than the oligarchy that is now running the country despite what we may believe. Appears to me that they’re undermining the democracy, in the shadows, to allow their agenda to run unopposed in the public eye.
I wish I had an answer…but yours seems more plausible than mot….chuq
This comes as news, the “government” has been spying on us most (if not all) of my lifetime. ~~dru~~
Welcome to my world…COINTPRO was on me from the late ’60’s…..chuq
As you say, Chuq, nothing new here. The British government has been infiltrating its own people since the time of Queen Elizabeth the First, in the 16th century.
Regards, Pete.
And now it will get worse….chuq