I watched a segment on tv about BLM and anti-fa. It's said the FBI is monitoring BLM and anti-fa. They didn't say 1 person who showed up to a meeting was being monitored. They said BLM is being monitored. You don't hear much from them these days so I would think the monitoring is working. They are laying low. Terrorism carries a big prison sentence.
The US government has declared “black identity extremists” a violent threat, according to a leaked report from the FBI’s counter-terrorism division.
The assessment, obtained by Foreign Policy, has raised fears about federal authorities racially profiling activists and aggressively prosecuting civil rights protesters.
The report, dated August 2017 and compiled by the Domestic Terrorism Analysis Unit, said: “The FBI assesses it is very likely Black Identity Extremist (BIE) perceptions of police brutality against African Americans spurred an increase in premeditated, retaliatory lethal violence against law enforcement and will very likely serve as justification for such violence.” Incidents of “alleged police abuse” have “continued to feed the resurgence in ideologically motivated, violent criminal activity within the BIE movement”.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/06/fbi-black-identity-extremists-racial-profiling
I will take the FBI's words over hearsay about a TV 'segment'. They were not monitoring the BLM, they were monitoring for extremists who may use the BLM events.
and we don't 'hear' much about them, just like we don't 'hear' about a lot of things once other things take over the news cycle. That says little about anything except how news cycles work.
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msharmony
on Fri 10/12/18 08:25 AM