NEW YORK (PNN) - February 29, 2012 - Leaked documents reveal that the Fascist Police States of Amerika (FPSA) federal government unlawfully tracked Occupy Wall Street protesters because it was paranoid the movement could turn violent.
An internal report from the Amnerikan Gestapo Department of Homeland Security division titled, SPECIAL COVERAGE: Occupy Wall Street, was part of 5 million leaked documents published by WikiLeaks and examined by Rolling Stone contributing editor Michael Hastings.
The report indicates that criminals in the Amerikan Gestapo unlawfully monitored protesters’ social media activities to assess the movement’s impacts in individual sectors, including financial services, commercial facilities, transportation, emergency services, and government facilities.
In addition to unconstitutionally monitoring Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Meetup, and Occupy live video feeds, the Amerikan Gestapo also relied on the activist website Daily Kos for tracking protest locations.
“The growing support for the OWS movement has expanded the protests’ impact and increased the potential for violence,” the report notes in its final paragraph. “While the peaceful nature of the protests has served so far to mitigate their impact, larger numbers and support from groups such as Anonymous substantially increase the risk for potential incidents and enhance the potential security risk to critical infrastructure (CI). The continued expansion of these protests also places an increasingly heavy burden on law enforcement and movement organizers to control protesters.”
Hastings warned that there were “ominous” implications to this kind of information gathering.
“It’s never a good thing to see a government agency talk in secret about the need to ‘control protestors’ - especially when that agency is (supposed to protect the country from terrorists), not nonviolent demonstrators exercising their First Amendment rights to peaceable dissent,” he wrote.
“There is not much of a bureaucratic leap, if history is any guide, between a seemingly benign call for ‘continuous situational awareness’ and the onset of a covert and illegal campaign of domestic surveillance.”
