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FBI Document: [DELETED] had "plan to kill local Occupy leaders via sniper fire"

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Re: FBI Document: [DELETED] had "plan to kill local Occupy leaders via sniper fire"

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I'm assuming that the people downvoting this need a "woosh". At least, I hope so.

How many times do you explain and retell a joke before it stops being funny?

once

Re: FBI Document: [DELETED] had "plan to kill local Occupy leaders via sniper fire"

#62

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> the people the sheeple

Please knock it off. This isn't the right forum for undirected political raving.

That nick appears solely dedicated to douchebaggery. It's not political raving, it's targeted at making fun of the members posting here.

Re: FBI Document: [DELETED] had "plan to kill local Occupy leaders via sniper fire"

#63

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Well everyone that's not a sheeple knows that tptacek is a shill for the government. Given that tptacek is a shill for the US government and the US is literally Nazi Germany, it's safe to ignore tptacek. Please continue to make valuable contributions to this community, brymaster.

> created: 23 minutes ago Yeah, nice try tptacek. Continue the psyops :)

But tptacek was actually losethos all along!

What a twist!

Re: FBI Document: [DELETED] had "plan to kill local Occupy leaders via sniper fire"

#64

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How many times do you explain and retell a joke before it stops being funny?

once

It's a trick question, because if you have to explain a joke, it probably wasn't funny in the first place.

Re: FBI Document: [DELETED] had "plan to kill local Occupy leaders via sniper fire"

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But how can this be true?! tptacek just told us [1]: > nobody is going to shoot you and your friends in the head for marching around and > They won't even point firehoses at you, or sic dogs on you. You are freer than Americans have been at virtually any other point in our country's history [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5987208

Well everyone that's not a sheeple knows that tptacek is a shill for the government. Given that tptacek is a shill for the US government and the US is literally Nazi Germany, it's safe to ignore tptacek. Please continue to make valuable contributions to this community, brymaster.

Well, it's good to know the advice I've been suggesting hasn't been taken and brand new accounts can continue to troll at will. Useful information.

Re: FBI Document: [DELETED] had "plan to kill local Occupy leaders via sniper fire"

#66
> [DELETED] planned to gather intelligence against the leaders of the protest groups

That's where RetroShare comes in: http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/

It's:

1. Decentralized (real p2p, no central servers)

2. Encrypted communication

3. Easier to set up than encrypted email: Install -> Exchange "certificates" -> Done.

IMO, it's currently the best way to communicate.

Re: FBI Document: [DELETED] had "plan to kill local Occupy leaders via sniper fire"

#67

It's hard to know what to make of this as without the [DELETED] portions, as there's no evidence of government agencies being involved. I'm not sure why Occupy were not informed of such a plot though? Perhaps the FBI didn't think it was credible? The part that worries me even more than the death threats was the classification of the Occupy movement as 'terrorist activity'. This opens them up to a whole catalogue of s…

The most likely candidate to me seems some fringe right-wing types flapping their mouths in an internet forum. I've heard plenty of people at that end of the spectrum averring that the Occupy movement was some sort of Marxist 5th column under orders from Obama, or variants on that theme. Right-wing fringe thinkers like to fantasize about putting their guns to patriotic use in much the same way that leftist fringe thi…

But they were calling the Occupy people potential terrorists...not the right-wingers who might've wanted to assassinate their leaders. Strange, isn't it?

Re: FBI Document: [DELETED] had "plan to kill local Occupy leaders via sniper fire"

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Please knock it off. This isn't the right forum for undirected political raving.

That nick appears solely dedicated to douchebaggery. It's not political raving, it's targeted at making fun of the members posting here.

To be fair, a great percentage of the comments on these topics sound exactly that ignorant. Maybe there's an echo chamber effect where reasonable people just stop reading/participating in these threads, because to my eye it's been getting worse.

I can understand why someone would be driven to mock them.

Re: FBI Document: [DELETED] had "plan to kill local Occupy leaders via sniper fire"

#69

> [DELETED] planned to gather intelligence against the leaders of the protest groups That's where RetroShare comes in: http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/ It's: 1. Decentralized (real p2p, no central servers) 2. Encrypted communication 3. Easier to set up than encrypted email: Install -> Exchange "certificates" -> Done. IMO, it's currently the best way to communicate.

I think it can be used for organizing people for protests, too. Of course when you make it "public" you risk being infiltrated, and the FBI knowing your plans, but at least they won't know who you are - unlike doing the same thing over Facebook or e-mail or whatnot - so they can't arrest you before you even go to the protests, like they've done to some Occupy leaders.

Re: FBI Document: [DELETED] had "plan to kill local Occupy leaders via sniper fire"

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post #53

It's hard to know what to make of this as without the [DELETED] portions, as there's no evidence of government agencies being involved. I'm not sure why Occupy were not informed of such a plot though? Perhaps the FBI didn't think it was credible? The part that worries me even more than the death threats was the classification of the Occupy movement as 'terrorist activity'. This opens them up to a whole catalogue of s…

Terrorist is todays communist, or yesteryears fascist, eugenicist, jap, negro, etc. Blanket arbitrary term to apply to dissenters you want to control and treat inhumanely, and society doesn't judge you for it because they are the "enemy" or "other". It incites an emotional response in people that let those holding the pen get away with way more than they should.

There's a pretty big gap between dissent and blowing people up on the streets. So let's not engage in false equivalency.
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