I don't think this will come as too much of a surprise to most reasonably informed an intelligent Americans.
Rather,
it is the people Dow-Under, in New Zealand and especially, right now,
In Australia, who are starting to reap the benefit of their own
domestic version of the Patriot Act, need to watch this and absorb
the meaning.
The events of the past few days in Melbourne should give us cause to pause and reflect about what is REALLY happening
The events of the past few days in Melbourne should give us cause to pause and reflect about what is REALLY happening
People
in this country are way too gullible and need to wake up before it is
too late.
FBI Informant Exposes Sting Operation Targeting Innocent Americans in New "(T)ERROR" Documentary
Democracy
Now!
We
spend the hour with an explosive new film that shines a bright light
on the FBI’s shadowy use of informants in its counterterrorism
sting operations.
These undercover operatives are meant to root out
would-be terrorists before they attack. Since 9/11, they have been
used to prosecute at least 158 people.
But critics argue they often
target the wrong people, "including those with intellectual and
mental disabilities, and the indigent." "(T)ERROR"
goes inside the world of a particular informant who has played a key
role in several major terrorism case.
It does so while he is in the
middle of carrying out his latest sting operation. It came together
when two independent filmmakers gained unprecedented access to follow
Saeed Torres, whose undercover name is "Shariff," a
63-year-old former black revolutionary turned FBI informant, as he
monitors a white Muslim convert named Khalifah al-Akili. Torres knew
one of the directors, Lyric Cabral, and after he came out to her as
an informant, he agreed to share his story, without informing his
superiors.
As the film unfolds, al-Akili begins to post on his
Facebook page that he suspects the FBI is targeting him. The
filmmakers used this an opportunity to approach him, and soon find
themselves interviewing him at the same time they are also
documenting "Shariff" monitoring him.
During this time each
man remains unaware that the filmmakers are talking to the other one.
We get the rest of the story when we are joined by the filmmakers who
co-directed "(T)ERROR," Lyric R. Cabral and David Felix
Sutcliffe, and play part of an interview with al-Akili from federal
prison. Al-Akili was arrested just days after he emailed civil rights
groups to say he believed he was the target of an FBI "entrapment"
sting.
He is now serving eight years in federal prison for illegally
possessing a gun after having previous felony convictions for selling
drugs. We are also joined by Steve Downs, executive director of the
National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms. He works with Project
SALAM, which published a report last year called "Inventing
Terrorists: The Lawfare of Preemptive Prosecution." He is also
representing imprisoned Pakistani scientist Dr. Aafia Siddiqui.
We
are also joined by Marlene, the mother of Tarik Shah, who was
arrested in 2005 after a joint FBI/NYPD sting operation that also
involved Saeed "Shariff" Torres. She details in the film
how Shah thought Shariff was his close friend, but he was actually an
FBI informant.
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