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FBI spied on TEA Party Americans!
Canada Free Press ^ | Douglas Hagmann & Judi McLeod

Posted on 04/20/2009 5:26:24 AM PDT by Opinionatedtoday

Even as average Americans were planning to get out in towns and cities to demonstrate against Big Government and Big Taxes, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) surveillance was being unleashed upon them. In fact, unsuspecting Tax Day TEA Party participants were being closely watched during the demonstration planning stages in a covert operation that began on or about March 23, 2009.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: covertoperation; fbi; protests; teaparties
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1 posted on 04/20/2009 5:26:24 AM PDT by Opinionatedtoday
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To: Opinionatedtoday

I’m sure we were. No biggie, they do the same with all large protest movements.

Whether it’s right or not is another matter.


2 posted on 04/20/2009 5:28:46 AM PDT by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: Opinionatedtoday

Why don’t they go catch some real terrorists? Buncha leftist loons.


3 posted on 04/20/2009 5:29:22 AM PDT by Blogger (It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins. - Ben Franklin)
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To: Opinionatedtoday

And we hear this from the CANADIAN press?

I hope the FedGov is very, very afraid.

You listening, BARRY?


4 posted on 04/20/2009 5:29:58 AM PDT by wolfcreek ("unnamed "right-wing extremist")
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To: Blogger
Maybe the democrats will open an investigation into domestic surveillance of American citizens.......NOT.
5 posted on 04/20/2009 5:31:38 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Opinionatedtoday

Spy away. I’ll keep believing that too much government and too much government spending is a bad thing for this country.


6 posted on 04/20/2009 5:32:22 AM PDT by popdonnelly (The greatest crimes in history have been perpetrated by governments. You've been warned.)
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To: Opinionatedtoday

Gee....Must’ve been flunkies who couldn’t do real detective work.


7 posted on 04/20/2009 5:34:40 AM PDT by Dallas59 ("You know the one with the big ears? He might be yours, but he ain't my president.")
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To: Opinionatedtoday

Just love Bozo and his TRANSPARENCY


8 posted on 04/20/2009 5:35:41 AM PDT by blueyon (It is worth taking a stand even if you are standing alone!)
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To: Opinionatedtoday

Too many ‘Defenders of Freedom’ (aka Vets) - ‘Right Wing Extremists’, who think the Constitution should be upheld participated, so the feds had to be there to check us out.


9 posted on 04/20/2009 5:37:10 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Proud Veteran - Sworn to defend The Constitution! - Caution: That makes me a Right-Wing Extremist.)
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To: cripplecreek

According to the article they (FBI) collected email addresses too. But one way or another they’re going to be able to trace every one one of us they want to. I’ve never heard of the group NEIN and don’t know if these allegations are true, but I would be surprised if they weren’t.


10 posted on 04/20/2009 5:38:48 AM PDT by ElayneJ
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To: Opinionatedtoday

And your surprised? Didn’t you hear that the Feds have started practicing profiling?


11 posted on 04/20/2009 5:42:28 AM PDT by Tribune7 (Obama wants to put the same crowd that ran Fannie Mae in charge of health care)
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To: Opinionatedtoday

Wow. The last administration watched CAIR for jihadists. This one watches small government conservatives.


12 posted on 04/20/2009 5:43:40 AM PDT by ilgipper
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To: Opinionatedtoday
meh...

If I'm not on a couple of their "lists" already, then I've been lax in my efforts...

I have more important things to worry about.

13 posted on 04/20/2009 5:45:36 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (1000110010101010100001001001111)
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To: Opinionatedtoday

Good! I didn’t say anything at or in the lead up to the Tea Party, that I don’t say everyday, at my house, Town Council or on line,let them listen.


14 posted on 04/20/2009 5:48:03 AM PDT by Kakaze (Exterminate Islamofacism and apologize for nothing.....except not doing it sooner!)
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To: Opinionatedtoday

You can bet your Bippy that if you are posting in Free Republic the FBI is watching.


15 posted on 04/20/2009 5:48:47 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: ElayneJ
Let's get it on. The Fed's will affirms themselves as modern-day Janissary; brother against brother serving their totalitarian fascist Islamic masters.
16 posted on 04/20/2009 5:49:08 AM PDT by Broker (Pray in the spirit of ELIJAH!!!)
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To: Blogger

After November 4, 2008 the “leftist loons” became their ally.

Christians, legitmate gun owners, whites, conservatives, individuals who support the Constitution became their enemy.

As a result of the election of ‘08 everything changed, and in my opinion, for the worse. Black became white, white became black, wrong became right, right became wrong, up became down, down became up.

Under the leadership of the mesiah this Nation will sinl into a level of perversion and degenercy that it , and few civilizations, has ever reached.


17 posted on 04/20/2009 5:49:12 AM PDT by sport
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To: Venturer

I think you are correct. We have every right to speak out against this administration. The left certainly didn’t hold back when it came to President Bush. You had Senators criticizing him while we had boots on the ground — it doesn’t get much lower than that.


18 posted on 04/20/2009 5:53:14 AM PDT by jersey117
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To: ElayneJ

I’m not saying that NEIN is liars, but you need to be very careful with anything coming from them. Second source it if possible. When they quote an undisclosed “source”, it would not be wise to put too much credence into it.


19 posted on 04/20/2009 5:53:23 AM PDT by thecabal (Hey Obama, when you gonna start sharin' the sacrifice?)
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To: Opinionatedtoday

Which reporter will have the balls to ask this question of Gibbs in the daily presser? Where are you David Gregory????


20 posted on 04/20/2009 5:53:50 AM PDT by numberonepal (Don't Even Think About Treading On Me)
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To: numberonepal
Fly them at your home now. The more they see, the better.

ALSO

or if you are NAVY

Hello! Time to wake up.

21 posted on 04/20/2009 5:55:26 AM PDT by bmwcyle (American voters can fix this world if they would just wake up.)
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To: Opinionatedtoday

It is a sorry state of affairs when we have to get our news out of Canada or Britain.


22 posted on 04/20/2009 5:56:20 AM PDT by Piquaboy (22 year military veteran of Navy, Air Force, and Army.)
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To: bmwcyle

I’ve been flying the Gadsden for about a year now.


23 posted on 04/20/2009 5:56:40 AM PDT by numberonepal (Don't Even Think About Treading On Me)
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To: numberonepal

Excellent!


24 posted on 04/20/2009 5:57:12 AM PDT by bmwcyle (American voters can fix this world if they would just wake up.)
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To: bmwcyle

A local Christian school near my house is flying the DTOM flag. I was favorably impressed and stopped in to offer compliments.


25 posted on 04/20/2009 5:57:53 AM PDT by nascarnation
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To: Venturer

The Fart, Barf, and Itch can watch me all they want.


26 posted on 04/20/2009 5:58:38 AM PDT by Piquaboy (22 year military veteran of Navy, Air Force, and Army.)
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To: Opinionatedtoday

Queue the eerie music - I would put money on it that web forums on both sides of the political spectrum including us here on FR have FBI or other even more secret watchdog groups monitor what is said here. And I would also bet it is nothing new.


27 posted on 04/20/2009 5:59:05 AM PDT by NavyCanDo (Party like its 1773)
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To: bmwcyle

Old Glory was a rag and needed to be retired, so I replaced her with the Gadsden. The American made Gadsden was $10 more than the Chinese one, but I bought it anyway.


28 posted on 04/20/2009 5:59:10 AM PDT by numberonepal (Don't Even Think About Treading On Me)
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To: bmwcyle

That identical post must not have worked the first 32 times you posted it, so you decided to spam FR with if for the 33rd time, huh?


29 posted on 04/20/2009 5:59:38 AM PDT by Travis T. OJustice (I can spell just fine, thanks, it's my typing that sucks.)
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To: Opinionatedtoday

I was at the Flemington, NJ Tea Party which was small, going by national totals. There were three guys across the street and one was video taping for about an hour. The other two in suits & ties, were just standing there with their arms folded in front, not saying a word. I got the impression that they were either State Police or FBI.

It felt like the gestapo were watching us and I didn’t appreciate it.


30 posted on 04/20/2009 6:00:17 AM PDT by alice_in_bubbaland (Markets and Marxists Don't Mix! Smile you're on Janet's Candid Camera!)
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To: ilgipper
-- Wow. The last administration watched CAIR for jihadists. This one watches small government conservatives. --

The last administration watched small government conservatives too. The dividing line is "state" (i.e., "the government") and those who seek to diminish the state.

31 posted on 04/20/2009 6:00:29 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Opinionatedtoday
An FBI agent would become a hero / heroine and make a lot of money if he/she would write a fact filled book detailing the crimes committed and being committed by president Husein obama and his administration . They already missed the boat on reporting the President clinton crimes.

Why don't they investigate Dodd, and Frank, and Rangle, Schumer and Waxman, etc.

32 posted on 04/20/2009 6:04:22 AM PDT by timestax (CNNLIES..BIG TIME)
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To: Travis T. OJustice

Not everyone reads all the threads rookie. You were the first negitive post. There is always one dark cloud poster.


33 posted on 04/20/2009 6:04:34 AM PDT by bmwcyle (American voters can fix this world if they would just wake up.)
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To: Opinionatedtoday

No doubt some if not most of the folks with fancy photgraphy equipment were gathering intelligence and not journalists.


34 posted on 04/20/2009 6:04:36 AM PDT by Eagle Eye (Defending RINOs is the same as defending Liberals.)
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To: Opinionatedtoday

Good. Hope they comprehend the meaning of “MASSIVELY,HOPELESSLEY OUTNUMBERED”.

Maybe the next one will make them feel like that poor guy standing on the beach when tsunami struck.


35 posted on 04/20/2009 6:07:47 AM PDT by Into the Vortex
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To: ilgipper
>>The last administration watched CAIR for jihadists. This one watches small government conservatives.<<

Don't be lulled. The intelligence community monitors ALL the time, not just when a particular president is in office.

36 posted on 04/20/2009 6:07:53 AM PDT by servantboy777
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To: ElayneJ
One of the reasons the FBI management wanted to focus on the Tea Party demonstrations was to see how many of their employees attended ~ bet it was a lot too!

Problem here for their management is they still haven't really solved the ANTHRAX ATTACK. Sure, they got a dead guy, but he can't answer some serious questions ~ like "How did you get the stuff in and out of the lab", and they can't answer them either.

The FBI also needs to address the question of why they focused on covering up Leftwingtard involvement in the ANTHRAX ATTACK, and why they brought a Leftwingtard guy over from the CIA to supervise the investigation.

All highly suspicious and certainly the sort of behavior to create in the rest of us a lack of confidence in their abilities to investigate serious issues.

37 posted on 04/20/2009 6:10:48 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Opinionatedtoday
Tea Party participants: 1.1 ~ 1.5 million

Tea Party arrests for unruly behaviour: 0

The FBI must have been deeply saddened.

38 posted on 04/20/2009 6:12:27 AM PDT by DTogo (Time to bring back the Sons of Liberty.)
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To: Venturer
"You can bet your Bippy that if you are posting in Free Republic the FBI is watching."

Yeah, and believe me my "bippy" has gotten pretty big sitting around reading Free Republic for the last 11 years!

39 posted on 04/20/2009 6:12:50 AM PDT by ~Vor~ (A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.)
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To: Travis T. OJustice
More like 187 different threads TT.

There's a reason for that. One of them is that it's today, and not yesterday.

Now we might ask if these threads elicit discussion and consideration, and just who are you newbie?

If you're part of the Obamista Truther Squad, get used to it. We frequently discuss ALL the articles about anything of interest to us. We expect the watchers at the FBI, ATF, Treasury AND the DNC to behave themselves and just STFU. It's your lot in life to read while it's our opportunity to analyze, organize and prepare to take action on important public policy considerations.

40 posted on 04/20/2009 6:15:57 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Opinionatedtoday

Well, color me surprised. /s

There were four black uniformed atop the California capitol building surveying the crowd with binoculars. I’m sure they were just there for our safety.


41 posted on 04/20/2009 6:17:48 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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Why don’t they go catch some real terrorists?

Because Zero's been POTUS for only three months, and hasn't been able to let enough of them into the US yet.

42 posted on 04/20/2009 6:19:35 AM PDT by hunter112 (SHRUG - Stop Hussein's Radical Utopian Gameplan!)
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To: bmwcyle

First time I saw this post. Thanks for posting it again, otherwise I would have missed it. Things cycle off the main page pretty quickly.


43 posted on 04/20/2009 6:20:10 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Opinionatedtoday
I would bet (if I were a betting man, which I am not) that these FBI and DHS agents were enjoying themselves... they could have been amongst the flea infested FM types bashing America instead of Americans that love their Country and gathering with like minded families.

LLS

44 posted on 04/20/2009 6:21:06 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (hussein will NEVER be my President... NEVER!!!)
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To: DTogo
Tea Party arrests for unruly behaviour: 0

Yes, but seriously now. How can you so conveniently overlook the tens of millions of dollars of property damage, all the tear gas unleashed on us, the faces covered with red bandanas, storming the barricades, the bombings, and calling the police foul and degrading names?
/s

45 posted on 04/20/2009 6:22:38 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: bmwcyle

I like the message, but I’ve seen it so many times, it gets irritating - 33 friggin times IS spam.

LMAO, calling me rookie, that’s kind of funny, as if it means anything. ROFL.


46 posted on 04/20/2009 6:27:04 AM PDT by Travis T. OJustice (I can spell just fine, thanks, it's my typing that sucks.)
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To: tet68
Of course not, because, you see, Dissent is (NO LONGER) Patriotic.
47 posted on 04/20/2009 6:27:06 AM PDT by Let's Roll (Stop paying ACORN to destroy America! Cut off their government funding!)
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To: Opinionatedtoday

This is an attempt to scare people away from participating in future demonstrations. Understand that people.


48 posted on 04/20/2009 6:30:45 AM PDT by uncitizen
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

The Left and self-serving politicians in DC will rue the day when unruly behaviour starts on our side.


49 posted on 04/20/2009 6:31:35 AM PDT by DTogo (Time to bring back the Sons of Liberty.)
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To: muawiyah
If you're part of the Obamista Truther Squad, get used to it.

What would give you that idea? I'll bet I'm more involved with conservative politics than you'll ever be. I just get sick of seeing the same spam posted ad nauseum. It does nothing to support our conservative causes, in fact, it takes away from the message.

I have no problem with discussion, and fully support it, that's why I take some time from my day to read, read, read, and on occasion, post in discussion. However, when I click to refresh and look for something new, and see the same thing posted ONCE AGAIN, it gets boring and irritating, even if I agree as much as I do with the original intent of the post.

50 posted on 04/20/2009 6:32:56 AM PDT by Travis T. OJustice (I can spell just fine, thanks, it's my typing that sucks.)
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