Police Spying on Black Activists

CoIntelPro activities continue in the 21st century under the current Washington and local government administrations. See a letter below from a human rights advocate complaining about CoIntelPro-like activities that are still happening in Memphis, Tennessee, where Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated and my mentally, physically disabled brother, Larry Neal, was kidnapped and murdered in Shelby County Jail. The report that Memphis Black Autonomy Federation attached to the letter is at the first url among seven(7) below in this article.

Hello,

The Memphis Black Autonomy Federation (MBAF) has prepared a special written report, attached, containing detailed information about the Memphis Police Department's spying and other illegal activities to co-opt, disrupt and destroy our group's First Amendment right to write about and speak out, organize and protest against police brutality.

The illegal activities of Memphis cops against the MBAF violate a 1978 federal court order that prohibits the local police from ever interfering with the First Amendment rights of Memphis residents. Is it any wonder, then, that a police force that willfully violates a 35-year-old court order has killed at least 23 people since February, 2012?

Peace and love,
JoNina Ervin, Acting Co-Coordinator
Memphis Black Autonomy Federation

“COINTELPRO (an acronym for Counter Intelligence Program) was/is a series of covert, and often illegal, projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting domestic political organizations. COINTELPRO tactics included discrediting targets through psychological warfare, planting false reports in the media, smearing through forged letters, harassment, wrongful imprisonment, extralegal violence and assassination. Covert operations under COINTELPRO took place between 1956 and 1971; however, the FBI has used covert operations against targeted individuals and domestic political groups since its inception. The FBI's stated motivation at the time was ‘protecting national security, preventing violence, and maintaining the existing social and political order.’” (Wikipedia and other sources.)

 The "social order" that CoIntelPro protected was/is dominance by white elitists with a Nazist manifesto. Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and many people who protested the Viet Nam War or systemic racism were targeted by COINTELPRO, especially members of the Black Panther Party. Most of COINTELPRO's budget went to suppressing African Americans' quest for civil and human rights. One of the FBI program's main goals was to "prevent the rise of a black Messiah," but whites and Jews were also punished and some died for protesting racism and war. Consider the Kent State massacre on May 4, 1970.

CoIntelPro supposedly lost its budget and ended after the Church Committee Hearings in 1972. However, the Patriot Act was passed by President George Bush in 2001. On May 26, 2011, President Barack Obama signed the PATRIOT Sunsets Extension Act of 2011, a four-year extension of three key provisions in the USA PATRIOT Act: roving wiretaps, searches of business records (the "library records provision"), and conducting surveillance of "lone wolves"—individuals suspected of terrorist-related activities not linked to terrorist groups. (Wikipedia)

Thanks to revelations by whistleblower Edward Snowden and others, we know that surveillance is not really limited to "individuals suspected of terrorist-related activities." Literally everyone in America and many foreign nations, and even the United Nations, are surveilled by the National Security Agency (NSA). All emails, telephone calls, and online activities are recorded by NSA, which operates out of the War Department budget. Furthermore, the controversial NDAA law gives NSA war powers to conduct a cyberwar against the communication of targeted individuals, groups, and companies. The cyberwar can be (and is) initiated against individuals and groups that are not engaged in any terrorist-related activities, but they threaten to "disrupt the social order," which still is world dominance by white elitists with a Nazist manifesto. 

Unprecedented surveillance against American citizens is not going forward without challenges in courts. Civil liberties groups like the ACLU say the mass telephone call-tracking program is “perhaps the largest surveillance operation ever carried out by a democratic government against its own citizens.” The group has filed suit against the NSA, and the hearing occurred Friday morning, November 22, in New York. On Monday, November 18, the Supreme Court declined an unusual request from the Electronic Privacy and Information Center asking the Supreme Court to hear a challenge to the NSA surveillance even before the issue could play out in the lower courts. Without comment, the Supreme Court refused the request.

Whereas the Government admits to conducting surveillance, the fact that there is a cyberwar being conducted against communication among certain individuals and groups is hardly mentioned by civil and human rights groups that bring court challenges. Censorship is the object of this cyberwar. Africans in America are the primary targets, just as they were the primary targets of the FBI's CoIntelPro program. As stated by the Memphis Black Autonomy Federation in the letter above, spying and other illegal activities are done to co-opt, disrupt and destroy First Amendment rights to write about and speak out, organize and protest against police brutality and mass incarceration. 

My computer and phones are monitored and controlled because writing, speaking, and protesting to support victimized mentally challenged Americans and condemned inmates are treated like terrorist activities in America. The prospect of all Americans, including blacks, having free and open communication terrifies wrongdoers. The cyberwar against such activism must be conducted sneakily, since discrimination against people based on their race, ethnicity, or health disability violates the U.S. Constitution and U.S. Code.

Local governments conduct surveillance, censorship and persecution against targets probably on orders from federal agencies, which will neither assist nor instruct local police departments and citizens police to desist from such gregarious violations against the constitutional rights of African Americans. The U.S. Government's "War on Black America" continues in this age of technology. Join Mary "Loves Justice" Neal for a Video Hangout at Google+ on December 11, when this writer will attempt to play videos that evidence the fact that First Amendment rights are denied to black people who use those rights to advocate for justice. 

Freedom of press and free speech are chief among other human rights denied to the Neal family as we ask how and why Larry Neal, a mentally, physically disabled man from Memphis, Tennessee, died under secret incarceration - a murder that was covered-up by the Shelby County Jail, Shelby County Government, the United States Department of Justice, and The (Johnnie) Cochran Firm. Wrongful deaths of black people by police are given the same response in 21st century America that a slave mistress gave a distraught, black mother who was sold separate from her children in the hit movie "12 Years a Slave." The slave mistress said, "Dry your eyes and don't take on so. You will forget all about them in a few days." The slave mistress thought of the black woman's children as lost pets. Elitist, white supremacists and their black Confederate soldiers still think that way today and insist on silence about police violence against black people and the mentally ill. Visit online my "Dog Justice for the Mentally Ill" blog.

See data at these seven(7) urls (if they let you):

Police Counterinsurgency Against the Memphis Black Autonomy Federation

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jD-vMM1pBwAZUEevq_Cp5BCP1vRgVBPMQWV9Utwr9Pc/edit?usp=sharing
Radio show: Counterinsurgency in Memphis, TN, with Bro. Lorenzo Ervin
http://blackautonomyfederationradio.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-iron-fist-and-velvet-glove.html

12 Years a Slave: A Case for Reparations
http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2013/11/12-years-slave-case-for-reparations.html

U.S. Government Racism Exposed Despite Censorship

http://justicegagged.blogspot.com/2013/11/us-government-racism-exposed-despite.html

Wrongful Death of Larry Neal
http://WrongfulDeathofLarryNeal.com
NSA Surveillance Challenge Lands in Federal Court

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/11/nsa-surveillance-challenge-lands-in-federal-court/

PATRIOT Sunset Extensions Act of 2011
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/s990-112/actions_votes

Repeat of Paragraph 1 (because CoIntelPro often codes my articles to begin after paragraphs 1 on cellphone view) CoIntelPro activities continue in the 21st century under the current Washington and local government administrations. See a letter below from a human rights advocate complaining about CoIntelPro-like activities that are still happening in Memphis, Tennessee, where Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated and my mentally, physically disabled brother, Larry Neal, was kidnapped and murdered in Shelby County Jail. The report that Memphis Black Autonomy Federation attached to the letter is at the first url among six(6) below in this article.