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Massachusetts police tweet lets slip scale of leftwing surveillance
The Guardian UK ^ | 16 Sep 2018 | Sara Betancourt

Posted on 09/16/2018 5:40:16 PM PDT by blueplum

At the height of Thursday night’s gas emergency that affected 8,000 people and in which one person was killed, Massachusetts state police posted to Twitter a map of responses to fires and explosions...But the image also showed something else: a bookmarks bar at the top of the browser window which listed several leftwing groups. {snip}

...Efforts have been made to curtail surveillance of leftwing groups. A 2017 bill in the Massachusetts legislature, “The Fundamental Freedoms Act”, proposed a prohibition on public agencies collecting information about first-amendment protected activities and speech. The one allowance would be reasonable grounds to believe a person had committed a crime. The legislative session ended on 31 July without the bill passing. “They should disclose the groups they’re monitoring,” Crockford said. “I encourage the … state police to release a list of all organizations’ Facebook pages they monitor for policing large events.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: elizabethwarren; eurekamoments; fauxahontas; iran; johnkerry; lawenforcement; lurch; massachusetts; msp; slingingbull; surveillance; watchcenters
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Welcome to the real world, red-diaper commies. Where cops do more than eat donuts.
1 posted on 09/16/2018 5:40:16 PM PDT by blueplum
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To: blueplum

So let’s not keep track of known violent organizations... Let’s let it be a surprise every time!


2 posted on 09/16/2018 5:47:16 PM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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To: blueplum

Antifa and related leftist anarchy groups are on the fed - state LEO fusion watch lists for good reason.
Hordes of closet pole sign-bat carrying masked bastards have repeatedly they want to kill anyone who supports tL free speech and rule of law. Some people just want to burn down the world.


3 posted on 09/16/2018 5:52:37 PM PDT by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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"But the image also showed something else: a bookmarks bar at the top of the browser window which listed several leftwing groups."

Considering law enforcement NEVER DOES ANYTHING to stop left-wing groups, instead of surveillance, maybe this is their contact list.

4 posted on 09/16/2018 5:53:30 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: blueplum

Because leftwing groups are subversive, have no ethics, and do nothing but cause trouble.


5 posted on 09/16/2018 5:56:13 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Cynicism is the only refuge in a world that is determined to eliminate itself.)
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Wow....talk about a bunch of freaking Nazis..!


6 posted on 09/16/2018 6:01:51 PM PDT by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: blueplum

If it’s on “social media” that anyone can click up, it’s not surveillance.

I also agree with the poster above speculating that it was a contact list not a “surveillance” list.


7 posted on 09/16/2018 6:05:48 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: blueplum

These new adhoc groups are often fronts for older left-wing outfits, and are designed to attract young people and others who wouldn’t join a group that openly proclaimed itself to be Maoist or Leninist.


8 posted on 09/16/2018 6:07:17 PM PDT by x
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To: MarchonDC09122009

You can bet your ass BLM is on there too.


9 posted on 09/16/2018 6:14:05 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 $215.71 from 50% increase in 1.2183 yrs)
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To: unread

STAZI


10 posted on 09/16/2018 6:19:13 PM PDT by mabarker1 (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
A 2017 bill in the Massachusetts legislature, “The Fundamental Freedoms Act”, proposed a prohibition on public agencies collecting information about first-amendment protected activities and speech. The one allowance would be reasonable grounds to believe a person had committed a crime. The legislative session ended on 31 July without the bill passing.

11 posted on 09/16/2018 6:22:11 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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BLM sure got quiet after President Trump was inaugurated. They were raising holy hell and killing cops when they had the sympathetic commie / community organizer in the White House, but after he left, they disappeared. It sure can’t be that they fear the Attorney General will go after them.


12 posted on 09/16/2018 6:35:42 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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Because leftwing groups (i.e., Democrats) are subversive, have no ethics, and do nothing but cause trouble.
13 posted on 09/16/2018 6:36:26 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: blueplum

MASSACHUSETTS State Police. They probably belonged to those groups.


14 posted on 09/16/2018 7:43:36 PM PDT by Fido969 (In!)
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To: Mr. K

Massachusetts was one of three states/cities, who produced more Communist Party/Soviet spied than any others (New York, Chicago/Ill.) so the police and FBI should be watching for new traitors and terrorists.

Remember the Melville Brigade and other terrorist groups of the 70’s? If you had a Venceremos Brigade organization (Cuban DGI/KGB), CPUSA - KGB/GRU, Socialist Workers Party - 4th International, Workers World Party - No. Korean Stalinists; Friendshipment - Hanoi; Medical Aid to Indochina and Medical Aid to El Salvador - Hanoi and CP ElSalvador; the same for CISPES - CP El Salvador and CPUSA - DC;, US Committee to Aid the National Liberation Front; SDS chapters, etc, then you had anti-American, usually communist/Marxist organizations with international communist ties ranging from Nicaragua, El Salvador, Cuba, Venezuela/Bolivia, to the ANC/CPSU of So. Africa, Namibia, Angola and Mozambique (plus Benin etc), to Iran, Libya, Pakistan, Iraq and Afghanistan, plus the Japanese Red Army.

Soviet spies operated in the electronics/defense industries in Massachusetts, Connecticut, possibly Rhode Island, DC/Md, shipyards, aircraft manufacturing facilities, weapons development labs, and even in the CIA.

The ACLU, in conjunction with CPUSA fronts (NECLC and NLG), as well as Cuban-allied traitor Phillip Agee/organization - Covert Action/Information Bulletin, viciously and successfully attacked and nearly destroyed the US domestic counter-intelligence organizations of the FBI and state/local police intelligence units. They were aided by leftist fool or traitor, Sen. Frank Church and his hearings/reports, as well as those of Rep. Pike, and later Boland (D-Mass), whose goals were to expose, disarm and destroy US intelligence organizations and operations, not reform them.

That is why 9/11 happened, Al Qaeda arose right under Clinton’s nose as did ISIS under Obama’s balls, and there has been Communist Bloc penetration of the US Congress from House Representatives (Soviet and Red Chinese supporters/ops) to massive penetration of our universities and businesses, esp. by Red China.

Now, more than ever, we need good, tactical surveillance of the violent Left groups - Antifa, Black Bloc/Red Bloc, BAMN (By Any Means Necessary), some of the Black Lives Matters chapters, the New Black Panther Party, and local “affinity” groups.

Once the corrupted leadership of the FBI, CIA, DNI and DOJ security divisions is broken up, tried, convicted and jailed, we might be able to rebuild these organizations with better leadership, tools, and well-thought out and justifiable goals.

As a former FBI/Congressional undercover operative, who knew many of the top counter-intelligence leaders of the FBI, Congress and local police departments, I can say that what the Church Committee did was nearly treason and blindly leftist stupidity, what the Clinton Administration was blind stupidity and dereliction of duty, and the Obama administration was just plain treasonous on all levels, aided by incompetence and liberal blindness on the part of those leaders who should have known better.

Whatever we are seeing now is the same as what I saw back in the 60’s from SDS/Weathermen, the Black Panthers, anti-Israel/pro-PLO/Hamas thugs, and possibly the rise, again, of Hispanic/Latino irredentist terrorist groups and movements.

And now we have the revival of Maoist, pro-Red China organizations from the Chinese Communist Party groups in universities to RC-heavily influenced American-Chinese political organizations (often by old Maoists including Rep. Judy Chu (D-Ca, Communist Workers Party and NY’s Grace Meng - CWP front).

I have only scratched the surface of communist subversion in America and have not even mentioned radical Islamic extremist groups and fronts (who often work with the communist legal fronts against the FBI and CIA).

It is worst than you think.


15 posted on 09/16/2018 8:00:12 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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You drive a vehicle 2000 or older, use credit cards or carry them..., use a mobile phone or carry one.

N pi w imagine overlapping programs that in real time show these products location. Stolen car, wrong phone together in Walmart parking lot with car and drug dealers phone tracking overlays, BINGO. Your csr abd phone overnight at girlfriend's...

16 posted on 09/16/2018 9:22:24 PM PDT by Jumper
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Given that we're talking about Massachusetts and the state police, how do we know that the cops weren't members of the radical groups?

Recently one of the staties was outed as drug dealer (or former drug dealer), and what happened to FBI agents in Boston is a matter of public record.

17 posted on 09/16/2018 9:32:04 PM PDT by x
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God forbid the police actually keep track of suspected criminals and nefarious activities of liberal leaners.

Its a breath of fresh air actually. And if you want to know what a nice breath of fresh air feels like you can ask Congress and House Majority Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana and Matt Mika who were both shot on June 17, 2017 by a liberal democrat that wanted to kill them simply because they were republicans.


18 posted on 09/16/2018 11:09:02 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Splodeyhead is the only cure for MAGAphobia)
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You drive a vehicle 2000 or older, use credit cards or carry them..., use a mobile phone or carry one.

N pi w imagine overlapping programs that in real time show these products location. Stolen car, wrong phone together in Walmart parking lot with car and drug dealers phone tracking overlays, BINGO. Your csr abd phone overnight at girlfriend's...

What?!

19 posted on 09/17/2018 2:20:26 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill-googl,TWITR,FACBK,NYT,WaPo,Hlywd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antifa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA)
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I understand your point, brother, but be careful about imbibing and posting...


20 posted on 09/17/2018 2:26:57 AM PDT by Lazamataz (On future maps, I suggest we remove the word "California" and substitute "Open-Air Asylum".)
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