Anti-Media bracht afgelopen zaterdag het bericht, dat gelekte documenten het bewijs hebben geleverd, voor het labelen van demonstranten als terrorist door de overheid in de VS…….

Dat de VS een politiestaat is, zal voor velen geen geheim meer zijn en keer op keer komen daarvoor de bewijzen op tafel, zoals afgelopen zaterdag……

Bij de protesten tegen de Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), die ongeveer een jaar duurden, gebruikte de overheid zwaar geweld tegen de demonstranten en werden de vreedzame demonstranten door de verschillende overheidsdiensten aangemerkt als terroristen, letterlijk: ‘jihadist fighters’ (dit geweld in samenwerking met de oliemaatschappij die de pijpleiding ‘nodig had’ en het bedrijf dat deze aanlegde)………

Overigens zijn de eerste lekken al geconstateerd in de intussen werkende pijpleiding, precies daarvoor waarschuwden de demonstranten, bestaande uit de oorspronkelijke bewoners van de VS en medestanders…………

Eerder pasten een paar staten van de VS regelgeving aan, waarbij werd gesteld dat automobilisten die demonstranten aanrijden (demonstranten die zich op autowegen ophouden), niet vervolgd zullen worden……..

Lees en huiver:

Leaked
Documents Prove the U.S. Treats Protesters Like Terrorists

May
27, 2017 at 1:07 pm

Written
by Anti-Media
News Desk

Leaked
docs reveal the collusion between local police forces, pipeline
company, and defense contractors as they executed ‘military-style
counterterrorism measures’ to suppress DAPL protesters.

COMMONDREAMS) The
years-long, Indigenous-led fight against the Dakota
Access Pipeline (DAPL)
briefly captured the nation’s attention last fall as images of
peaceful protesters being sprayed with water canons and
surrounded by police in tanks and other military-grade equipment were
spread widely, fueling global outrage and a fierce protest movement
against the oil pipeline.

Now
that the pipeline is operational and already
leaking,
internal documents obtained by The
Intercept and reported on
Saturday reveal the deep collusion between local police forces, the
pipeline company, and defense contractors as they executed
“military-style counterterrorism measures” to suppress the water
protectors.

TigerSwan,
described as a “shadowy international mercenary and security firm”
that “originated as a U.S. military and State Department contractor
helping to execute the global war on terror,” was hired by Energy
Transfer Partners to spearhead “a multifaceted private security
operation characterized by sweeping and invasive surveillance of
protesters,” The
Intercept wrote.

Reportedly,
one of TigerSwan’s contractors leaked 100 internal documents to
reporters Alleen Brown, Will Parrish, and Alice Speri, who were able
to assemble roughly 1,000 more via public records requests.

The
trove paints a damning picture of the police response to the
Indigenous-led effort to block construction of the pipeline on
sacred, treaty land and is a shocking example of how anti-terrorist
rhetoric and tactics could be applied to any uprising the government
would like to suppress.

According
to the reporting:

“Internal
TigerSwan communications describe the movement as ‘an ideologically
driven insurgency with a strong religious component’ and compare
the anti-pipeline water protectors to jihadist fighters. One report,
dated February 27, 2017, states that since the movement ‘generally
followed the jihadist insurgency model while active, we can expect
the individuals who fought for and supported it to follow a
post-insurgency model after its collapse.’ Drawing comparisons with
post-Soviet Afghanistan, the report warns, ‘While we can expect to
see the continued spread of the anti-DAPL diaspora…aggressive
intelligence preparation of the battlefield and active coordination
between intelligence and security elements are now a proven method of
defeating pipeline insurgencies.’”

“As
policing continues to be militarized and state legislatures around
the country pass laws criminalizing protest,” Brown, Parrish, and
Speri write, “the fact that a private security firm retained by a
Fortune 500 oil and gas company coordinated its efforts with local,
state, and federal law enforcement to undermine the protest movement
has profoundly anti-democratic implications.”

Indeed,
in the wake of the 2016 election, Republican
legislatures in
at least 19 states introduced
various anti-protest
laws, many with a deliberate nod to the uprising in North Dakota.

Not
only that, but Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier, who oversaw the
police response to the DAPL resistance, has been advising other
law enforcement on how to deal with protests and demonstrations.

Indeed,
the documents reportedly show that Energy Transfer Partners has
“continued to retain TigerSwan,” despite the fact that the
anti-DAPL camps have disbanded. The security firm continues to
produce so-called situation
reports that
document “the threat of growing activism around other pipeline
projects across the country.” These reports include “intelligence
on upcoming protests,” information gleaned from social media, and
“extensive evidence of aerial surveillance and radio eavesdropping,
as well as infiltration of camps and activist circles.”

In
some cases, persons “of interest” were even tracked when they
crossed over state lines.

What’s
more, the documents obtained via open records requests include
“communications among agents from the FBI, the Department of
Homeland Security (DHS), the U.S. Justice Department, the Marshals Service,
and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, as well as state and local police,”
that reveals interagency collusion and information sharing on the
anti-DAPL protesters.

Read
the extensive reporting and several published documents at The
Intercept.

by Lauren
McCauley / Creative
Commons / Common
Dreams / Report
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