[Peace-discuss] The FBI Invents Some Plots & Ignores Others In War On Freedom

Wed Feb 4 10:15:14 EST 2015

You need to RE-READ the article Roger !

This information came from Freedom of Information Requests.

And I LOVE Occupy, TRUE American patriots !  

David J.

From: Roger Helbig [mailto:rwhelbig at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2015 8:39 AM
To: David Johnson
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] The FBI Invents Some Plots & Ignores Others In
War On Freedom

and you really believe some Occupy puke, yes, I do despise them and their
inability to control anarchists vandals who destroyed things in Oakland - I
would take anything that Occupy says and carefully vet it before I ever sent
it on to anyone.  And yes, they deserved to be closely surveilled - they
were anarchists at heart if not in fact and their encampments were full of
people causing trouble along with a few who actually thought that they were
doing something sincere.

On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 6:24 AM, David Johnson via Peace-discuss
<peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

The FBI Invents Some Plots & Ignores Others In War On Freedom

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By Derek Royden, www.occupy.com
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ts-and-ignores-others-war-freedom> 
February 3rd, 2015

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After Sept. 11, 2001, the FBI was forced to re-prioritize, making
counter-terrorism the Bureau's main focus. More than 1,800 agents, almost a
third of the total dealing with criminal cases from organized crime to
insurance fraud,
<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/19/washington/19fbi.html/pagewanted=all&_r=0
> were transferred to terrorism and intelligence duties in the aftermath of
the attacks. What 9/11 did, among other things, was to create a need for
proof, via arrests, that the new State focus on terrorism was showing
results.

We've all seen the headlines from mainstream media sources after arrests
were made and press conferences were given by high level officials
announcing another disrupted "terror plot." Yet, when one investigates these
cases, as many journalists and writers in the alternative press have done,
we see the score isn't as it all appears - and when compared with similar
cases where terror charges were not brought, a disturbing picture emerges.

The Seas of David and the Redefinition of Entrapment

In criminal law, a person is  <http://definitions.uslegal.com/e/entrapment/>
"entrapped" when s/he is induced or persuaded by law enforcement officers,
or their agents, to commit a crime that s/he had no previous intent to
commit.

Most Americans know there have been some dubious prosecutions in the FBI's
ongoing effort to thwart terror attacks on American soil. Unfortunately, it
seems many Americans are too scared to care. The vast majority of these
cases have involved Muslim Americans, a group that has never had much power
in terms of American politics and less so in the wake of 9/11 and two wars
in majority Muslim countries. My purpose isn't to dismiss these cases, but
to show the slippery slope they represent: when one group gets targeted
successfully, other marginalized groups usually follow.

A story that illustrates this slide is the group the media dubbed the
Liberty City 7. Arrested in June 2006, this group, we were told, had taken
an oath to Al Qaeda and planned a series of attacks to rival or even surpass
9/11. There were just a few problems with the narrative: five
African-American and two Haitian men taken into custody were not Muslims,
were facing dire economic circumstances (most were homeless), and the
ostensible leader of the group, a colorful character named Narseal Batiste,
seemed willing to say just about anything to get money out of the FBI
informant who had created the plot out of whole cloth.

Almost all FBI stings have one thing in common: the use of informants who
are themselves trying to get out of criminal charges, and are doing the job
for cash, or both. The main informant in the Liberty City case, Elie Assad,
courted the men who practiced their own religion based on elements of
Christianity, Judaism and Islam, and who called themselves "The Seas of
David." The informants' motivations seem obvious today; in all, Assad and
another informant, Abbas al-Saidi, got more than $130,000 for their work
helping FBI handlers build a case against the seven men.

Another interesting note about the Seas of David: they never actually
engaged in anything resembling violence, and even
<http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-fbi-entrapment-is-inventing-t
errorists-and-letting-bad-guys-off-the-hook-20120515> refused to receive
weapons when they were offered them. James J. Wedick, a former agent with
the Bureau,
<http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/07/21/fbi-entrapment-created-illusiob
-terrorist-plots-report> said of the group: "These guys couldn't find their
way down the end of the street. They were homeless types. And, yes, we did
show a picture where somebody was taking an oath to Al Qaeda. So what? They
didn't care. They only cared about the money. When we put forth a case like
that to suggest to the American public that we're protecting them, we're not
protecting them."

One of the men was acquitted in the first trial, while the other six were
tried three times, with the first two proceedings ending in mistrials due to
hung juries. Eventually, five of the six remaining men were sentenced to
between five and 12 years behind bars, while the last was acquitted. Because
the legal process took so long, and the mainstream media has proven itself
incapable of accurately and fairly following stories like this one, most
people only remember that a group of "terrorists" were targeting the Sears
Tower in Chicago - a place that none of the men ever actually visited. Few,
by contrast, remember any actual details about the case, specifically the
entrapment of a group of hapless individuals known as Seas of David.

The Strange Plot Against Occupy Houston

There has also been a strange selectivity when it comes to who gets charged
under terror laws. The Southern Poverty Law Center has for years publicized
cases of white supremacist and militia groups plotting actions that don't
result in terrorism charges, even though they seem to meet the legal
requirements. At the same time, animal rights activists, who have filmed
animal abuses or committed some form of property damage, but never harmed
people, have been charged with the gravest of offenses: terrorism.

Now let's jump to Houston where, several years ago, heavily redacted
documents released under a Freedom of Information Act request showed that at
the height of the Occupy movement, in October 2011, a group was planning to
target "leaders" of the Occupy Houston encampment using sniper rifles. One
might think the FBI could investigate the person or persons planning to
assassinate American protesters peacefully exercising their Constitutional
rights.

Sadly, the Bureau wasn't interested and couldn't even be bothered to forward
the sniper plot information to state or local authorities so that they could
pursue it themselves. A few competing theories as to who may have been
involved in the plot have since emerged - from the FBI itself authorizing
the plan as part of a modern-era COINTELPRO program, to a mercenary company
called
<http://whowhatwhy.org/2013/06/27/fbi-document-deleted-plots-to-kill-occupy-
leaders-if-deemed-necessary/> Craft International planning the attack at the
direction of unknown bosses. Or, after all, it could have just been a small
right-wing group that decided not to take action after receiving a visit
from federal law enforcement - an opportunity to avoid decades in prison
that groups like the Animal Liberation Front rarely, if ever, receive.

When we really look at terrorism in the post-9/11 era, we begin to see
clearly something that the police and intelligence communities have tried to
obscure. Almost every real foiled plot was stopped by ordinary bystanders,
whether passengers on a plane or a street vendor selling food in Times
Square. Federal law enforcement groups have budgetary and political
incentives to make us believe we stand somehow powerless against the dark
forces bent on our destruction, and that we must give up more of our rights
for our own safety. While this may still be true in a war-torn country like
Afghanistan, it's not true in the U.S. or anywhere else in the Western world
where people are statistically more likely to be struck by lightning than to
die in a terrorist attack. After the financial crisis of 2008 put so many
working people out of their homes, at least some of the money spent creating
terrorism where none existed before could have been spent investigating the
bankers who tanked the economy. Entrapment, then, might take on a whole new
meaning.

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