I'm traveling, but just google groups at J6, and I'm guessing you'll see lists. Again, it was well publicized.Redbrickbear said:sombear said:Most of the groups and organizers were publicizing their participation and promoting the protest on twitter and elsewhere. It was no secret.Harrison Bergeron said:Those were my questions ....Malbec said:Which groups with a history of violent acts were present for J6 and how did the government know they would be there creating the need to embed "FBI Assets"? How many of these "CIs" were embedded in BLM and other groups in the summer of 2020?sombear said:Redbrickbear said:sombear said:GrowlTowel said:sombear said:Wangchung said:
We have moved from the "it's not happening" stage and are now in the "okay it's happening but not enough to matter" stage. Next stage they will be saying "yes it happened and it's a good thing it happened."
I don't recall anyone saying confidently that there were no CIs there. Anyone who would say that is clueless.
Are you surprised there were CIs there? Do you think that's wrong somehow?
Yes. Why is the government spying on a political ralley?
Because some of the individuals and groups had openly advocated violence.
Excuses for monitoring the American people
The Federal gov. minions always come up with excuses like that for their increasingly tyrannical surveillance State spying on the Citizens of this Union
Remember when they were randomly spying on all our cell phone calls?
https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/new-documents-reveal-nsa-improperly-collected-americans-call-records-yet-again
I oppose the cell phone surveillance.
I don't oppose using CIs for violent groups.
1. What groups present had a history of violence?
2, If the government was not spying on U.S. citizens, how did the government know who would be there?
3. Why are violent groups or allegedly violent groups treated differently?
4. Why are violent groups or allegedly violent groups prosecuted and punished differently?
You still have not told us what groups you are talking about.
But lets say you are correct.....let me ask you a question.
If I start a group that the Gov. alleges is violent....lets call its the Sicm365 Patriot Bros.....and I say on twitter that I am going to your birthday party.
Does that give the Feds the right to engaged in surveillance of your house? Put covert asset in every event you have? Bug your bed room and your bathroom?
AKA do they just have the right to engaged in what seems like Unconstitutional surveillance of anyone at anytime? For whatever reason they want based on "possible violence"?
I don't have time right now to debate the broader issues you raise. But I again emphasize, we've been discussing CIs, not these other things. By far, I'm for less not more surveillance.