Massachusetts police tweet lets slip scale of leftwing surveillance

[Judi Lynn]

An image of a police computer screen posted during Thursday’s gas emergency showed bookmarks for several activist groups

Sarah Betancourt in Boston
@sweetadelinevt
Sat 15 Sep 2018 09.22 EDT

At the height of Thursday night’s gas emergency that affected 8,000 people and in which one person was killed, Massachusetts state police posted to Twitter a map of responses to fires and explosions.

It was an image of a computer monitor, showing locations of 39 incidents as confirmed “by MSP Watch Center”, and it included a vital message: “Reminder: all residents of Lawrence/Andover/N[orth] Andover who have Columbia Gas must evacuate, as should anyone else who smells gas.”

But the image also showed something else: a bookmarks bar at the top of the browser window which listed several leftwing groups.

The bookmarks included a Facebook group for Mass Action Against Police Brutality (MAAPB); the Coalition to Organize and Mobilize Boston Against Trump (Combat); Facebook 413; Facebook MA Activism; and Resistance Calendar, which notes timings for canvassing for Democratic or progressive candidates and anti-Trump rallies.

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/15/massachusetts-police-tweet-leftwing-surveillance-boston

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. If you want a nasty surprise, look up "fusion centers"

They are not well known , they are law enforcement departments which have collected every single scrap of information about every citizen in their jurisdiction, from all areas of government...FBI, ICE, Treasury, etc. They send and get information back and forth among local/state/Feds.

They get all information from all street cameras, license tag cameras, etc.
everything that is collected from all sources ends up in a fusion center. More than one in a state, depending on pop. size.
Cal. would have one for each big city, Washington would have one in Seattle and maybe Spokane, etc.
would also depend on the state's inclinations, but they are federally funded.
Only thing that would mess them up would be loss of internet/radio service.

[donkeypoofed]

2. Big Brother is watching, always watching