Revealed how the FBI coordinated the crackdown on Occupy Naomi Wolf Opinion. It was more sophisticated than we had imagined new documents show that the violent crackdown on Occupy last fall so mystifying at the time was not just coordinated at the level of the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and local police. The crackdown, which involved, as you may recall, violent arrests, group disruption, canister missiles to the skulls of protesters, people held in handcuffs so tight they were injured, people held in bondage till they were forced to wet or soil themselves was coordinated with the big banks themselves. The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, in a groundbreaking scoop that should once more shame major US media outlets why are nonprofits now some of the only entities in America left breaking major civil liberties news, filed this request. The document reproduced here in an easily searchable format shows a terrifying network of coordinated DHS, FBI, police, regional fusion center, and private sector activity so completely merged into one another that the monstrous whole is, in fact, one entity in some cases, bearing a single name, the Domestic Security Alliance Council. Lavabit is the encrypted email leader. Get the best, by those who invented it. Ball and blockchain Feds shut down allegedly fraudulent cryptocurrency offering Cryptocurrency offerings are no longer a regulationfree zone. And it reveals this merged entity to have one centrally planned, locally executed mission. The documents, in short, show the cops and DHS working for and with banks to target, arrest, and politically disable peaceful American citizens. The documents, released after long delay in the week between Christmas and New Year, show a nationwide meta plot unfolding in city after city in an Orwellian world six American universities are sites where campus police funneled information about students involved with OWS to the FBI, with the administrations knowledge p. FBI officials to pool information about OWS protesters harvested by private security plans to crush Occupy events, planned for a month down the road, were made by the FBI and offered to the representatives of the same organizations that the protests would target and even threats of the assassination of OWS leaders by sniper fire by whom Where now remain redacted and undisclosed to those American citizens in danger, contrary to standard FBI practice to inform the person concerned when there is a threat against a political leader p. As Mara Verheyden Hilliard, executive director of the PCJF, put it, the documents show that from the start, the FBI though it acknowledges Occupy movement as being, in fact, a peaceful organization nonetheless designated OWS repeatedly as a terrorist threat FBI documents just obtained by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund PCJF reveal that from its inception, the FBI treated the Occupy movement as a potential criminal and terrorist threat The PCJF has obtained heavily redacted documents showing that FBI offices and agents around the country were in high gear conducting surveillance against the movement even as early as August 2. From October 1 through 16, 2013, the United States federal government entered a shutdown and curtailed most routine operations because neither legislation. Silk Road 101 How the darknet works. Law enforcement officials shut down Silk Road, a sophisticated black market website offering illegal wares and. Reporters and editors at the local news sites joined a union last week. On Thursday, their billionaire owner closed the sites. Donald Trump has threatened to shut down NBC and other American networks, saying that they peddle fake news. With all of the Fake News coming out of NBC and the. OWS encampment in Zuccotti Park and other Occupy actions around the country. Verheyden Hilliard points out the close partnering of banks, the New York Stock Exchange and at least one local Federal Reserve with the FBI and DHS, and calls it police statism This production of documents, which we believe is just the tip of the iceberg, is a window into the nationwide scope of the FBIs surveillance, monitoring, and reporting on peaceful protestors organizing with the Occupy movement These documents also show these federal agencies functioning as a de facto intelligence arm of Wall Street and Corporate America. The documents show stunning range in Denver, Colorado, that branch of the FBI and a Bank Fraud Working Group met in November 2. Occupy protests to surveil the group. The Federal Reserve of Richmond, Virginia had its own private security surveilling Occupy Tampa and Tampa Veterans for Peace and passing privately collected information on activists back to the Richmond FBI, which, in turn, categorized OWS activities under its domestic terrorism unit. The Anchorage, Alaska terrorism task force was watching Occupy Anchorage. Prince Persia Game Windows 7 here. The Jackson, Mississippi joint terrorism task force was issuing a counterterrorism preparedness alert about the ill organized grandmas and college sophomores in Occupy there. Also in Jackson, Mississippi, the FBI and the Bank Security Group multiple private banks met to discuss the reaction to National Bad Bank Sit in Day the response was violent, as you may recall. The Virginia FBI sent that states Occupy members details to the Virginia terrorism fusion center. The Memphis FBI tracked OWS under its joint terrorism task force aegis, too. And so on, for over 1. Jason Leopold, at Truthout. FBI falsely asserted in response to his own FOIA requests that no documents related to its infiltration of Occupy Wall Street existed at all. But the release may be strategic if you are an Occupy activist and see how your information is being sent to terrorism task forces and fusion centers, not to mention the longterm plans of some redacted group to shoot you, this document is quite the deterrent. There is a new twist the merger of the private sector, DHS and the FBI means that any of us can become Wiki. Leaks, a point that Julian Assange was trying to make in explaining the argument behind his recent book. E9lZf_Gg/hqdefault.jpg' alt='Shut It Down' title='Shut It Down' />The fusion of the tracking of money and the suppression of dissent means that a huge area of vulnerability in civil society peoples income streams and financial records is now firmly in the hands of the banks, which are, in turn, now in the business of tracking your dissent. Remember that only 1. Wiki. Leaks can be processed because of financial sector and DHS sponsored targeting of Pay. Battlefield 3. Pal data. With this merger, that crushing of ones personal or business financial freedom can happen to any of us. How messy, criminalizing and prosecuting dissent. How simple, by contrast, just to label an entity a terrorist organization and choke off, disrupt or indict its sources of financing. Why the huge push for counterterrorism fusion centers, the DHS militarizing of police departments, and so on It was never really about the terrorists. It was not even about civil unrest. It was always about this moment, when vast crimes might be uncovered by citizens it was always, that is to say, meant to be about you. This article originally referred to a joint terrorism task force in Jackson, Michigan. This was amended to Jackson, Mississippi at 4pm ET on 2 January 2.