FBI SPIED ON TEA PARTIES

[4sarge]

FBI SPIED ON TEA PARTIES


Photoshop hat tip Snidely (the photo courtesy of Atlas reader Frances at Boston tea party rally)

This is no joke. They want to scare us into submission. Where is our leadership?
FBI spied on TEA Party Americans hat tip Anne
Exclusive to the Northeast Intelligence Network & Canada Free Press
Douglas J. Hagmann, Director & Judi McLeod,

19 April 2009: Even as average Americans were planning to get out in towns and cities to demonstrate against Big Government and Big Taxes, Federal Bureau of Intelligence Investigation (FBI) surveillance was being unleashed upon them. In fact, unsuspecting Tax Day TEA Party participants were being closely watched during the demonstration planning stages in a covert operation that began on or about March 23, 2009.

If you one of the estimated 750,000 Americans who attended one of about 600 TEA parties last week, you might have seen media cameras covering the event. Media cameras, however, were not the only cameras taking video at these events, something that has at least one current FBI agent concerned over the future of America. According to this agent - the same agent who provided the Northeast Intelligence Network (NEIN) exclusively the unreleased photographs of the 11 missing Egyptian students who were the subject of a FBI BOLO in August 2006–placed his concerns for true patriots of the U.S. over his own career when he confided that covert surveillance was “planned and performed” at each of the TEA parties that took place last Tuesday.

“Listen to what I am saying,” stated the source during an interview with Doug Hagmann, founder (NEIN). “The Department of Homeland Security Intelligence Assessment that is receiving so much attention is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg, and the true patriotic citizens of this country are on the Titanic. This is what bothers me. But is goes far beyond that assessment. There have been very significant changes made over the last few years that redirect the focus and assets of the intelligence community internally. These changes have greatly accelerated under this administration, and the threats have been redefined to include those who used to be patriots. It’s not only chilling but absolutely insulting to God-fearing Americans.”

According to this unimpeachable source, a single-page confidential directive issued by the FBI headquarters in Washington, DC (FBIHQ) was sent to each of the 56 field offices located across the United States on or about March 23, 2009, instructing the Special Agents in Charge (SACs) of those offices to verify the date, time and location of each TEA Party within their region and supply that information to FBI headquarters in Washington. The source stated this correspondence termed the TEA parties “political demonstrations,” and added that the dissemination of the directive was very tightly controlled. “Not all agents were privy to this correspondence,” stated the source, who compared the dissemination to an older “Do Not File” classification.

In addition to obtaining or confirming the location and time of each “demonstration,” each field office was instructed to obtain or confirm the identity of the individual(s) involved in the actual planning and coordination of the event in each specific region, and include the local or regional Internet web site or address, if any. The information collected by region was then reportedly sent to FBI Headquarters.

The source alleges that a second directive was issued on or about April 6, 2009 that reportedly instructed each SAC to coordinate and conduct, either at the field office level and/or with the appropriate resident agency, covert video surveillance and data collection of the participants of the TEA parties. Surveillance was to be performed from “discreet fixed or mobile positions” and was to be performed “independently and outside of the purview of local law enforcement.”

Although the level of detail collected from each operation is unclear, the information was reportedly submitted to Washington, where, “at the level of the National Security Branch (NSB), this information was to “include the office of the Directorate of Intelligence (DI), and integrated with a restricted access database, one that reportedly is accessible to only two agencies” [of the 14 agencies that comprise the U.S. intelligence community, according to the source.

“The implications to the citizens of the U.S. are ominous. It seems that there is a hostile political agenda coming from Washington that characterizes the supporters of our constitutional freedoms as threats to our domestic security, which is totally absurd. The redirection, the refocusing of domestic threats from al Qaeda cells to ‘flag waving right-wingers’ is something that has gone from a murmur a few years ago to a roar today.”

Training government-issued cameras on ordinary citizens, many of whom brought their children to an estimated 600 Tax Day TEA Parties is a page torn out of George Orwell’s 1984 and makes the term “God Bless America” more meaningful than ever.

The Northeast Intelligence Network and Canada Free Press expect the government’s denial of the surveillance of the TEA Parties to go viral as soon as this story is posted.

Go read it all. This is not your mom's America.
For my coverage in NYC, go here! For Atlas readers coverage across the country, go here!

UPDATE Disgusting KAPO alert:Axelrod suggests 'Tea Party' movement is 'unhealthy' hat tip Randall
WASHINGTON (CNN) – Senior White House adviser David Axelrod on Sunday suggested the "Tea Party" movement is an "unhealthy" reaction to the tough economic climate facing the country.

Axelrod was asked on CBS's "Face the Nation" about the "spreading and very public disaffection" with the president's fiscal policies seen at the "Tea Party" rallies around the country last week.

"I think any time you have severe economic conditions there is always an element of disaffection that can mutate into something that's unhealthy," Axelrod said.
UPDATE: Lid reminds us:

First Amendment to the Constitution: Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Fourth Amendment to the Constitution: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized

[waloidian]

not surprised, but we've had a lot worse done since the "Patriot" act...most Americans are simply oblivious to it all.

[SavageEagle]

After all the crap that I have spewn all over the internet, it's no wonder my Firewall was acting up in a serious way the last few days and nights.

[CulpeperMM]

Me and my family were at the Fort Wayne Tea Party. I had to explain to many people in the crowd what my Gadsden flag was about. I'm glad to have been able to share a little American history.

As long as we stand together these fascist scare tactics that the administration is attempting to use will not work. We have them surrounded.

[BloodEclipse]

Amazing how peaceful the Tea Party was, seeing as how we are all EXTREMISTS.

[SavageEagle]

Originally Posted by BloodEclipse

Amazing how peaceful the Tea Party was, seeing as how we are all EXTREMISTS.

Amen to that.

You know, my daughters FLIPPED OUT when they saw all the patrol cars. They wanted to go look in them and talk to the officer down in that van but he was on the phone looking pissed so I said no.

[techres]

Nothing new here, they have been spying on anti-war Quakers for some time:

Is the Pentagon spying on Americans?
Secret database obtained by NBC News tracks ‘suspicious’ domestic groups (2005)

WASHINGTON - A year ago, at a Quaker Meeting House in Lake Worth, Fla., a small group of activists met to plan a protest of military recruiting at local high schools. What they didn't know was that their meeting had come to the attention of the U.S. military.

A secret 400-page Defense Department document obtained by NBC News lists the Lake Worth meeting as a “threat” and one of more than 1,500 “suspicious incidents” across the country over a recent 10-month period.

“This peaceful, educationally oriented group being a threat is incredible,” says Evy Grachow, a member of the Florida group called The Truth Project.

“This is incredible,” adds group member Rich Hersh. “It's an example of paranoia by our government,” he says. “We're not doing anything illegal.”

The Defense Department document is the first inside look at how the U.S. military has stepped up intelligence collection inside this country since 9/11, which now includes the monitoring of peaceful anti-war and counter-military recruitment groups.

So if they are watching Quakers, then do not be surprised about the TEA parties. And it is all garbage, not to mention a complete waste of time.

Between all the stuff I do where people gather and meet, I am sure that I have met a few FBI agents. I hope that they realize what a waste of time and resources their activities are.

[techres]

Oh, and in before the "If you are doing nothing wrong, you have nothing to worry about" posters.

And in before the, "FBI can go to public gatherings too, it's perfectly legal" posters.

And, finally, in before any post that would bring a warning from Scutter01 about terms of use for this site.

[Blue Tile Spook]

Aw, shucks... the FBI surveillance just puts us in the ranks of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the like that scared Hoover so badly. If the FBI wants to lump me in with other intellectuals, I'm all for it! HA!

[Dr Falken]

Well, the Socialist had an expression, "You ain't been doing nothing if you ain't been called a Red". So, if you've been doing anything, ya got a file.

I understand that a lot of people look and think that this administration has been crossing the line, but truth is, money follows money, and institutions look to their own interests. This has been going on a looong time. Unfourtunately.