FBI is As Fascist As It Was in the Hoover Era, Now Joined by DHS

Members of community groups and non-profits are outraged by revelations that federal law enforcement infiltrated community meetings and surveilled anti-ICE activists in Minnesota over the winter.

Minister JaNaé Bates, co-executive director of the non-profit Faith in Minnesota, said sending undercover federal agents into meetings at places like churches and union halls is a “horrific” violation, because those are spaces where people safely gather to exercise basic rights like free speech.

“It is something that the American people and Minnesotans absolutely shouldn't tolerate,” Bates said. “Nothing is normal about departments being weaponized against people who are doing what Minnesotans do: love their neighbors and take care of them, deliver them food, make sure that they're safe.”
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The revelations about widespread surveillance are contained in legal documents released Thursday as part of a motion for discovery in the case of 15 Minnesotans charged with felony conspiracies tied to anti-ICE protests.

The incomplete reports show federal agents scanning license plates outside protests and compiling personal information on people as part of a program they called Operation Puppet Master. The program was apparently intended to find what the government described as "violent opportunists," but undercover agents seem to have focused mostly on meetings in church basements and public protests. The federal government also subpoenaed financial records from local nonprofits and labor unions they saw as supporting anti-ICE efforts.

This is the same authoritarian bullshit that the FBI pulled during the 1960s. Doesn't matter if you have a Constitutional right to protest, the FBI and the DHS is going to put you under a microscope. Note that their agents tried to gin up "direct action", but the people of Minneapolis didn't take the bait.

None of these birds should be allowed to function in a civilized society. They are our Nazis and they should be ostracized.