They say a lot about Black Lives Matter, the group that campaigns against police brutality. However, some government officials call them dangerous. Also, some others go out of their way to spy on them. So let’s see if this civil rights group exposes government surveillance.
All of this is according to?Patrisse Cullors. If you don’t know of her, then you should know she co-founded Black Lives Matter several years back. She wrote about it in a tell all book. She even gave this kind of surveillance a name: Conitelpro 2.0. Cullors named it that because back in the 1960s, Cointelpro was an government operation that spied on Dr. Martin Luther King, The Black Panthers, and other civil rights leaders and groups. She also revealed that in August 2017, a FBI report called civil rights group BLM “black identity extremists likely motivated to target law enforcement officers”. Furthermore, Cullors says this is something we need to take seriously. But she? revealed a difference between BLM’s situation and those back in the 20th century. She claims back then, they couldn’t really know the FBI or CIA spied on them. However, today, they can see it today.
I find that interesting. It almost sounds like her surveillance situation is better than those who went before. If that’s the case, then I beg to differ. Because today, Cullors and BLM have to contend with surveillance those in the 1960s couldn’t even dream of. Today, they can spy on you through social media pages. How many people lost their jobs that way over recent years? Computer repair and IT support devices themselves can be a weapon of spying. Don’t you know your own smart TV can spy on you, and send your information to the government? Then you have a surveillance camera on every corner, literally. And you have no idea what your neighbor will do with his/her smartphone camera. So I say the surveillance culture is far, far more intense than it was 50 years ago. Speaking about it, like Patrisse Collors is doing, helps. What else will?