(The image above is from the website IBN Live.)Did that headline shock you? Do you think it is outrageous to even think it could be true that our government was plotting to kill peaceful demonstrators? Well, there is credible evidence that it is true, and that evidence comes from the federal government itself -- specifically, the FBI. The information, gotten through a freedom of information filing, comes from FBI files -- and it shows that the government plotted to have leaders of Occupy Houston (an offshoot of Occupy Wall Street) shot sniper-style.
Unfortunately, we will never know who was involved in this outrageous criminal plot, because a federal judge has upheld the FBI's desire to keep that information secret. Frankly, I'm almost speechless over this matter, but fortunately my fried and fellow Texas blogger Perry is not. At his own blog, Brains and Eggs, this is some of what he had to say (and I agree with every word of it):
This isn't an equal opportunity tactic by the FBI -- as far as the courts have allowed us to know. There have been no reported assassination plots against the leaders of Open Carry Texas, or Open Carry Tarrant County, or the ultra-conservative freaks who surrounded Cliven Bundy and actually pointed their rifles at federal agents. There has been no arrest of the woman who forcibly interrupted the Muslim day at the Capitol, but there have been federal agents making inquiries of Keystone XL and fracking protestors. There have been examples of law enforcement and gas industry representatives exchanging "intelligence" about these activists.
So it is revealed -- even as it is concealed -- that the peaceful protestors associated with Occupy Wall Street and its affiliate, Occupy Houston, are the ones who most terrify law enforcement and, by extension, those by whom they are employed and deployed to "serve and protect". The people whose only weapons are a sign, a chant, perhaps a bullhorn, and the might of right on their side are the enemies, not the ones with guns threatening state lawmakers, or killing Muslim honor students, or the ones with badges shooting people because they are black, or poor or mentally ill or disabled
They make federal judges quake in fear, federal agents concoct plots to assassinate them, their membership and communications are infiltrated in low- and high-tech ways, all because the power of social justice is considered a terrorist threat. Those who feel the most threatened by a change in the social order gift them with military grade weapons and the legal authority to kill anyone they desire without the slightest accountability, all to ensure the authority of our overlords. That would be the unelected overlords, those who make sure their pawns, lackeys, and stooges are elected.
This is the state of our union today. It is not hyperbole.
It is increasingly doubtful that voting is going to change much of anything in this regard, and the fact that fewer and fewer people are voting suggests they are aware of the charade. I'm still looking for some peaceful solutions to this state we have gotten to, but those options are narrowing significantly.
Something has got to give, and as Frederick Douglass said over 150 years ago...
This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
