Revealed: FBI terrorism taskforce investigating Standing Rock activists

[herding cats]

Source: The Guardian

The FBI is investigating political activists campaigning against the Dakota Access pipeline, diverting agents charged with preventing terrorist attacks to instead focus their attention on indigenous activists and environmentalists.

The Guardian has established that multiple officers within the FBIs joint terrorism taskforce have attempted to contact at least three people tied to the Standing Rock water protector movement in North Dakota.

The purpose of the officers inquiries into Standing Rock, and scope of the task forces work, remains unknown. Agency officials declined to comment. But the fact that the officers have even tried to communicate with activists is alarming to free-speech experts who argue that anti-terrorism agents have no business scrutinizing protesters.

The idea that the government would attempt to construe this indigenous-led non-violent movement into some kind of domestic terrorism investigation is unfathomable to me, said Lauren Regan, a civil rights attorney who has provided legal support to demonstrators who were contacted by representatives of the FBI. Its outrageous, its unwarranted and its unconstitutional.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/10/standing-rock-fbi-investigation-dakota-access

[Equinox Moon]

1. Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!

Please, Standing Rock, be proactive and go to your state FBI office and ask questions.

Plus, time for the VETS!

[Leghorn21]

5. The Vets are scrambling to get there - their return has been planned for some time now

Here's update from a day ago:


Veterans Stand

Hello Everyone,

It's been a distressing couple of days for our mission at #StandingRock with the ACOE announcement we realize you all are looking for more information about what is going on and what happens next. 

Veterans Stand has an advance team on the ground at the Standing Rock Reservation to meet with tribal and camp leadership to coordinate upcoming deployments, deliver supplies, and determine the areas of need in which we can be of greatest assistance. 

It's confusing time and morale here is low as people are worried about what comes next. Their biggest worry is that they have been forgotten, as we deliver supplies and gear to our brothers and sisters we have shared many tears and hugs of relief. It is important that we remain mindful of the fact that we are all here in spirit of peace and service, for an outcome that goes beyond the wishes and of any single person or organization.

We have been so grateful for your support which has helped us help so many others. This is a critical time for Standing Rock we have to ask for your help in continue spreading the news and this campaign with networks. Together we can stop this injustice, together we can make this Stand matter.

#VetStand #NoDAPL #WaterIsLife #UnitedWeStand

Above is from:
https://www.gofundme.com/VetStand4-StandingRock?rcid=05af30d29f48476ca4b0efe45ed8d3f3

https://mobile.twitter.com/VeteransStand4

[Judi Lynn]

6. Good. Thanks. n/t

[notdarkyet]

2. We've been down this road before. They try to criminalize protesters and protests to shut it down.

Granted some groups were radicalized and violent, like the weathermen. Some are still on the run.

[Achilleaze]

3. Same as it ever was

The USA has broken or violated every single frikken legal treaty it has entered into with native nations. The USA has built up a krapload of bad karma, and this waste of taxpayer money is just more of the same shit.

[guillaumeb]

4. This is all about framing the narrative.

Uninformed Trump supporters, probably the vast majority, will link terror with DAPL protesters and arrive at the GOP's desired conclusion.

[logosoco]

7. Because people who care about clean water should always be under suspicion.

This is insane. The government is so far from being for the people and so much set up to protect the 1%.

[Wellstone ruled]

8. Remember what happened

at Wounded Knee back in the Seventies,well,same Native American Tribe,and the FBI will never walk away from anything that they can get involved with concerning Lakota Members. The FBI appears to still carrying the same old baggage some forty years later.

[sinkingfeeling]

9. Because that's easier than investigating Idiot Amin's business

dealings with Russia.

[Marthe48]

11. this

[Bayard]

10. How's about

That whole right to peaceful assembly thingie?

The FBI carries grudges thru generations apparently. Leonard Peltier will never get out of prison.

[laserhaas]

13. And that's verifiable proof FBI is unjust

They get their man ...even if it is the wrong one!

[mpcamb]

12. Investigate the Koch brothers instead.

[Sunlei]

14. state has already called in the Feds to 'manage' protesters. Feds already have used USAs 9/11

'anti terror laws', (remember those knee jerk laws from bush?)

Over the past many years during & after the bush years Feds have used those anti terror laws to add extra decades in Federal prison to 'crimes' like arson.

[elmac]

15. I thought Putins boys were too busy going after HRC

Guess the Fascist Bureau of Idiots got new orders from the Kremlin.

[laserhaas]

16. Obama laid the groudwork for Trump's thump w/pretense

that the protests had achieved some goals.

Once Veterans announced their ....en mass ..migration to the camp, Ibama dodged the issue, by halting the permits.

Now, it appears, he just passed the buck .....fiendishly.

https://www.google.com/amp/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/obama-administration-moves-to-deny-easement-for-dakota-pipeline-1480890468?client=ms-android-hms-tmobile-us