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2020-07-14 Fifth Column
Trove of Leaked FBI, Fusion Center and DHS Documents Provide Insight Into Antifa, Charlottesville, Political Bias, and the Erosion of Civil Liberties
From Unz.

Read it or don't, but remember, the information is wherever you find it even if you think the source might be icky poo.

A fair cop.
On June 22nd, a group of anarchist hackers called DDoSecrets dumped 270 gigabytes worth of internal documents belonging to regional police fusion centers, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

The documents provide interesting insight into state surveillance tactics, political bias and dynamics, and how “threats” are prioritized.

The files — dated from 2015 to 2020 in the sample National Justice looked at — show a massive contradiction between the FBI’s ideologically selective priorities and the actual intelligence being provided to them by regional police centers, which often stress the role of “antifa” as instigators of violence.

POLICE KNOW ANARCHIST EXTREMISTS ALWAYS INSTIGATE VIOLENCE AT RALLIES
Law enforcement is fully aware of who provokes the fighting and rioting at riots: the left. The documents from fusion centers across the country (intelligence provided by local police departments) repeatedly report this.

An intelligence PDF iconassessment by the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center regarding the Berkeley Riots of Spring 2017, where anarchists and free speech activists faced off, painstakingly details the various criminal tactics “antifa” groups used to disrupt and physically injure lawful protesters and police officers.

The anarchist extremist groups in question continue to use the same tactics to this day, yet rarely face any criminal charges. The FBI is fully informed on the matter, including where the anarchists in California train in paramilitary tactics, yet refuses to investigate or prosecute any anarchist group for conspiring to commit acts of violence.

The Boston Regional Intelligence Center (BRIC)PDF iconreported similar information in its investigation of the Boston Free Speech Rally on August 19th, 2017. BRIC noted that the nationalist and free speech demonstrators, about 60 of them in total, had a permit for the event, while the anarchist groups that showed up to heckle-veto them were there illegally.

The leftist rioters began attacking the protesters, and later, began engaging in gratuitous yet apparently coordinated violence against police officers attempting to intervene, causing multiple injuries.

The most interesting document of all is an intelligence assessment by DHS in the run up to the now famous Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville,
...that’s the one where the gun toters were from several chapters of Redneck Revolt/John Brown Gun Club, which calls itself Antifa’s militia wing, pretending to be white supremacists...
which starkly contradicts the mainstream media and FBI’s narrative.

In a PDF icondocument dated August 9th, 2017, DHS wrote “We assess that anarchist extremists’ use of violence as a means to oppose racism and white supremacist extremists’ preparations to counterattack anarchist extremists are the principal drivers of violence at recent white supremacist rallies.”

In other words, the DHS accurately predicted, through its intelligence gathering resources, that the nationalist groups in Charlottesville would only engage in self-defense if attacked. The Charlottesville Police Department, Mayor, and Governor were all warned in advance that Unite the Right had the potential to be the most violent rally to date, yet according to the Heaphy investigation, they — either through incompetence but most likely through malice — enabled the carnage by ordering the police not to intervene when the anarchists attacked the nationalists.

Posted by charger 2020-07-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ]  Top
 File under: Antifa/BLM 

#1 FBI TeeVee news info-cast less that 48 yours after the 15 April 2013 bombing:

"If you know the identities or whereabouts of these two persons of interest, please contact the FBI Special Agent in Charge, Boston Office."

(Quote paraphrased from memory. Photo provided, no longer readily available at Google.)
Posted by Besoeker 2020-07-14 03:37||   2020-07-14 03:37|| Front Page Top

#2 Yeah I decided to not post this as I thought UNZ is a tad iffy.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-07-14 04:06||   2020-07-14 04:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Unless it glorifies Sweden?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-14 04:10||   2020-07-14 04:10|| Front Page Top

#4 UNZ is fine. Particularly when they're talking about topics forbidden elsewhere.
Posted by Thumper Grundy4208 2020-07-14 06:35||   2020-07-14 06:35|| Front Page Top

#5 The above particular link.

The UNZ link i did post was fine and I've kept UNZ for perusal as sometimes it checks out.

I put UNZ on my unsure list, I put BBC on my "sure" list (sure it's dodgy).
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-07-14 06:44||   2020-07-14 06:44|| Front Page Top










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