Once-secret documents reveal the FBI monitored
Occupy Wall Street from its earliest days and treated the nonviolent
movement as a potential terrorist threat. Internal government records
show Occupy was treated as a potential threat when organizing first
began in August of 2011. Counterterrorism agents were used to track
Occupy activities, despite the internal acknowledgment that the movement
opposed violent tactics. The monitoring expanded across the country as
Occupy grew into a national movement, with FBI
agents sharing information with businesses, local police agencies and
universities. We’re joined by Mara Verheyden-Hilliard of the Partnership
for Civil Justice Fund, which obtained the FBI
documents through the Freedom of Information Act. "We can see, decade
after decade, with each social justice movement, that the FBI
conducts itself in the same role over and over again, which is to act
really as the secret police of the establishment against the people,"
Verheyden-Hilliard says.Original Article
Source: Democracy Now!
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