Militarization of the police is just one aspect of the systemic crackdown on civil liberties; police brutality and mass surveillance other aspects... ....Now widespread use of torture...and the US role in the brutal annexation of West Papua. These are not isolated aberrations...this is a systemic failing of American leadership to be held accountable to the values of the people who elected them: Intelligence agencies are hollowing out Western democracies and undermining the Wests global credibility. Its time some of our leaders spoke out to reform a corrupted oversight process and rein in intelligence agency overreach: it is time to support independent investigations and prosecutions of wayward intelligence agencies and their officials. FBI (and ASIO) targets Wall Street analyst (and girlfriend) after publishing report that touched on the killing of indigenous protestors at the US listed Freeport McMoran Grasberg mine in West Papua, Indonesia. What is little known and not reported is the role the FBI played during this time to lower the profile of Freeport’s controversial Grasberg operation and silence discussion that included targeting Wall Street analysts. The use of FBI power in this way is all the more disturbing given the agency’s dual role in helping to identify and interview eyewitnesses to the alleged Freeport human rights abuses on location in West Papua in 1995. (Alleged human rights abuses were never proven in relation to Freeport in U.S. courts.) The brutality seemed to be spiralling out of control with seven indigenous protestors shot and killed in and around the Grasberg mine in a short period around Christmas day 1994. Some of the protestors were reportedly killed at point blank range, inside steel shipping containers on Freeport property. For a sensitive topic it received unusually wide publicity and the US State Department had taken the unusual step of launching a formal investigation. Freeport’s public relations machine went into overdrive. It paid for a full page ad in the New York Times, made an infomercial, threatened to sue journalists and academics covering the matter and withdraw university funding. mininganalyst.net/2014/11/08/western-intelligence-agencies-out-of-control/
Posted on: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 09:47:02 +0000