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Leak: Feds Think Protests Hide Terrorism (www.kenklippenstein.com)
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The FBI and Department of Homeland Security are warning police across the country that protests against ICE or Trump administration policies are cover for terrorism to occur, according to a restricted circulation intelligence Bulletin leaked to me.

The Bulletin is the latest sign that Trump’s NSPM-7 national security directive ordering federal agencies to root out domestic terrorism will ramp up surveillance and monitoring of protests and free speech.

Republican Party leaders are joining the panic over so-called domestic terrorism, with two top officials this week likening the upcoming “No Kings” anti-Trump protests to terrorism.

“They have a ‘Hate America’ rally that’s scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall,” Speaker of the House Mike Johnson said last Friday. “It’s the pro-Hamas wing and Antifa people,” he said. Majority Whip Rep. Tom Emmer, House Republicans’ third-highest ranking leader, also called that the upcoming No Kings protest a “‘Hate America’ rally,” attributing it to the “terrorist wing” of the Democratic Party.

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[–] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Does anyone actually believe this shit?

Protip the terrorists are the ones with assault rifles threatening to shoot ambulance drivers trying to drive protesters to the hospital.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

Nobody here believes it, but the cops and FBI agents who are getting these instructions might.