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Environmental protest group Extinction Rebellion says FBI is investigating it for terrorism (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 7 points 8 months ago (1 child)

Read monkey wrench gang.

The only people the FBI loves to investigate more are civil rights activists.

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    Not anymore, environmental protesters are public enemy number 1 as far as they are concerned, not just the feds, but many states as well. Many passed draconian unconstitutional protest laws in effect illegalizing protests against critical infrastructure. Making impeding it, a very broad term that can encompass walking on their land, blocking a road as defined by them, causing a disturbance, etc., a serious felony punishable by ten plus years in prison, and in some making organizers and promoters of protests liable for all the protesters. Meaning agent provokateurs can break something and they can fine the organizers or group that posted the protest on their facebook page 100k or whatever it is, plus damages.

    Said laws were passed in response to the standing rock and other protests halfway through the president's first term, as reported in the Intercept.

    Then you have private RICO cases like the one is North Dakota was it? Where they railroaded greenpeace in a ridiculous kangaroo court.

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    • [–] 7 points 8 months ago

    We can also thank the democrats for helping to write terror definitions so broadly as to let the administration decree virtually any group a terrorist. Including the democratic party at some point. What a joke. The lawmakers think they are on the same side as the republicans still though, and their reason for being is crushing and suppressing any sort of do gooderism or popular reform, so they will at least partly support proscribing environmental groups under bad faith designations as the UK did before them.

    We all knew this was coming. Animal rights protesters, environmental protesters, not just climate change, but especially those opposing oil pipelines and drilling and the like. Israel protesters. Those are just to start. Soon everyone the administration is paid off to proscribe.

    Even if it's not an official designation because it's domestic, it could amount to the same thing, especially with state laws as they are and states following their lead. Just as Georgia did with the protesters to cop city quoting homeland security that called them terrorists.

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    [–] 15 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Greta is honestly one of my heroes. The amount of hate that she got growing up, from right wing pedophiles(-protectors) is astonishing. And she persevered! All she did was point to the climate science. She tried to improve the world for both everyone alive and those yet to come. And she got hate for it.

    Whenever a person tells me that they don't like Greta, I know that I won't like that person.

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    Whenever a person tells me that they don't like Greta, I know that I won't like that person.

    There are quite a few people around here with "Fuck you Greta" bumper stickers. It has never been so easy to avoid human garbage.

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    • [–] 13 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    These guys (the state) really don't understand the social contract do they..

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    Ask the ghosts of a million massacred native Americans if the social contract matters. Their silence is your answer.

    The "social contract" is gaslighting, blaming the victims of state violence when they are at best made to sign under duress and at worst simply oppressed. It is the words of an abuser to their golden child.

    I know as a former golden child how hard it can be to face it. Our acceptance of their narrative has kept us safe at times, and to see that liberalism is gaslighting means giving up on that layer of protection. The state can hurt us, the state will hurt us, but the one way out is... not safe to write down within its walls.

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    • [–] 9 points 8 months ago

    Land of the free, y'all

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    [–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Hmm and here’s me thinking Trump was all for free speech.

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    • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    One of the few groups I donate to. Am I on a list now !

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    [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    What is the FBI doing in the UK?

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    • [–] 2 points 8 months ago*

    Maybe Extinction Rebellion should investigate and terminate the FBI for its role in supporting a terroristic fascist regime.

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