Art Pope using mug shots of arrested protesters as a game on his website

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Progress NC reports that Civitas is using mug shots of individuals arrested during the Moral Monday protests as a "game" on their website.

http://www.nccivitas.org/moralmonday/

Update: I looked at the site more closely - the site also includes information on each protestor that's not available from the arrest records available to the public (name, date of birth, charge). Civitas is offering as a downloadable spreadsheet or searchable database information on the protestors that includes the name of their employer, their voter registration information, address, and affiliation with any groups - data that they would have had to research on each individual through the web or Facebook pages. More details in this comment on James's post about the site.

"This is troubling from a group whose supporters include far right extremists in favor of loose regulation of gun ownership, among other things," says Progress NC and I would agree.

In their "pick a protestor" game you're presented with mugshots and asked to identify if they're umemployed, where they're from, their profession, etc.

It's a not-so-subtle way to intimidate the protestors that have been arrested and dehumanize them. On a more disturbing level, it looks like a way for a gun-nut to memorize faces and build up some anger if they're inclined to go out and do harm.

This is a tactic that's similar to what the NY Police Department used against individuals that were protesting the police department's "stop and frisk" policies last year.

Let's not forget the abortion activists who distributed "wanted" posters for abortion doctors that included addresses and other information.

Or how about similar tactics used against Civil Rights leaders by hate groups like the KKK in the 50s and 60s?

http://www.bluenc.com/civitas-exploiting-mug-shots-moral-monday-protestors


They probably used a private security contractor as both the US Chamber of Commerce and BofA did to gather information on journalists and protesters in 2010.

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1. the chamber was much more criminally culpable of ID theft

The chamber is another extreme right wing soldier in the extremist culture war committed against Americans in the hopes of destroying everything great about us. The chamber never answered questions about cyber security firms that used DOD technology to infiltrate and harm Moveon.org and the civil rights of it's members and activists, on the say-so of the chamber directors. Republicans won those elections and swept the treasonous actions of the chamber under the rug of history. The Chamber continues it's destructive, antiAmerican initiatives and double dealing with the enemies of democracy. I was forced to be a chamber member for job purposes; the meetings consisted of wealthy business owners complaining about paying thier employees a fair wage and coming up with new management strategies to milk even more profit from the hourly worker while paying them less. Sometimes one of the VIP members would want to invite a republican politician to come and give the latest right wing antiAmerican, profit at all costs speech. Lot's of money changing hands under tables and knowing winks. In the 4 years I was forced to be a chamber member I never once saw an owner or boss ask about fair employee treatment or team building between management and labor. It was all about tearing the modern working American down in the hopes of wringing even more profit- workers' lives be damned.
The chamber is the same sort of organization as the teabagger faction, except these willfull morons are all wealthy and involved in a partisan capital strike that is responsible for keeping trillions out of the market- thus deflating many job creation programs and destroying our country from within.
Fuck the chamber

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2. Civitas Foundation is funded by Art Pope

Civitas Foundation is funded by Art Pope (and donations are still considered tax deductible!) and is obviously partisan. Art Pope, for those who don't know, owns the chain of Roses stores as well as a number of other low cost stores. He provided a lot of financing for the radical right wing legislators and for Gov. McCrory and then he was made the governor's budget director.

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3. You know how certain Democrats like to say...

"Republicans are good people"? They're not. At least those in NC are not. They've sunk to Palinesque levels.