NC legislature police chief says ‘anarchists’ from ‘Moral Monday’ protests on watch list Read more

[R Merm]

Source: News & Observer

General Assembly Police Chief Jeff Weaver testified to a murmur of disbelief among the many lawyers attending the Wake County District Court hearing that his 18-officer department had people in this region they labeled “anarchists” and collected intelligence on them.

Weaver did not identify the so-called anarchists, nor did he reveal how many his department considered to fall in that category.

But the chief at the helm of the law enforcement agency that arrested more than 930 people this summer testified that his officers had scanned the many “Moral Monday” rallies with eyes trained for “anarchists.”

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This is just insane, in NC terms, what a Barney (Fife)

[lib87]

1. Do They Even Know What an anarchist is?

I swear NC is jogging backward in time.

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. jogging? moving at the speed of light....in reverse.

[lib87]

10. Touché

[JoePhilly]

13. They think its a person who studies spiders.

[TheMastersNemesis]

2. Need To Take Such Situation Seriously. The GOP Will Eventually Use Intimidation And Violence Locally

What they are doing is an escalation and a threat. Moral Monday may find itself surrounded like civil rights workers did in the South. The kind of surveillance that he is talking about is unwarranted. Calling people exercising their legal rights anarchists is dangerous labeling. And there are a lot of gun nuts there who will act.

I believe his attitude is code for the eventual use of force even charging people with felonies. What we see in North Carolina is an example of how the GOP would govern nationally.

[SoapBox]

4. I absolutely agree.

[Scuba]

12. They already are ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10848793

[zeemike]

5. I wish it was just Barney Fife.

It is far more serious than that...when the police become the Stazi.
But that is where we are at now that we have all accepted as normal total survalence...to keep us safe.

[DeSwiss]

6. K&R

[struggle4progress]

7. It's not exactly COINTELPRO or even the disruption of Dallas CISPES by the FBI under Reagan

People I knew who were arrested said the police were polite and even sympathetic

The Raleigh police eventually stopped taking mugshots, when Art Pope's website started trying to intimidate the Moral Monday folk by posting the mugshots

[Dustlawyer]

8. If they were serious about spying on people "against government," they should attend their

local Republican Party meetings! That is where you will find those citizens that are trying to destroy our government! What a partisan dumb ass!

[blkmusclmachine]

9. I have seen the enemy in this New America. And he is us.

[gopiscrap]

11. stupid fuckers!