medium | A new Intercept article
by George Joseph and Murtaza Hussain reports on never-before-seen
documents obtained from the FBI via Freedom of Information Act by the
civil rights groups Color of Change and the Center for Constitutional
Rights. The FOIA request for FBI files pertaining to Black Lives Matter
activism was answered with a stack of heavily-redacted documents
revealing evidence of police stakeouts at the homes and vehicles of
activists, as well as the use of police informants, with no mention of
any potential crimes suspected of the people they were monitoring.
One such document
is a report provided “for coordination with Monsanto” describing a
single Black Lives Matter activist’s plans to fly from New York City to
Ferguson for a 2014 protest against racially motivated police brutality.
The document covers the protesters’ plans to begin their demonstration
at a Monsanto factory, as well as money raised for protest materials and
bail money, without a single visible mention of potential crimes or
violence.
“Coordination with Monsanto.” To protect them from Black Lives Matter protesters.
Welcome to the real face of the FBI.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has enjoyed an obscene resurgence in
popularity among purportedly left-wing Americans lately as the current
administration locks horns with them over the imperialist Russiagate psyop,
but the FBI has never been the friend of anyone other than
establishment power structures. The FBI does not exist to protect and
serve the American people, and it certainly doesn’t exist to protect the
rights of black Americans to protest the violence of an increasingly
militarized police force. The FBI exists to protect Monsanto, and all
the other seats of real corporatist power in the United States.
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