The Main Points.

The main reason I picked the Occupy sniper plot was because I, like so many others on the internet, enjoy a good conspiracy theory. This is the best one because no one had to get hurt. But the worst part is, someone could have. One little thing could led to massacre. And the FBI are hiding those that could have committed the acts. The peaceful protesters had no prior warning that their lives might be endangered from a threat of gunfire, when the FBI could have announced it, or at least shown that they took the precautions to prevent it, if it occurred. If the plot was made by law enforcement, or even worse, higher authorities than it is despicable and the FBI was covering it up then and is continuing to hiding behind, so called, threats to national security. Hopefully, with enough patience and persistence this can be brought out into the open, or at the very least to the knowledge of the general public. IF the FBI continues to keep this under wraps, it isn't hard to believe they'd keep it under wraps when an actual tragedy occurs.

Fox News and CNN's take on the sniper plot

 Below are links to the search results for two of America's largest news sources. CNN and Fox News. The four words used in the search are Occupy Houston Sniper Plot. Both searches lead to no articles, no interviews, no even mentions of the plot. This is why this story should be more widely known. Neither of the two major American news stations have anything on a threat to American citizens. Typing those words on google gets thousands of results to blogs, webcasts, and actual news articles by less known sources.This is one of the reasons this story is s important to me. It should be a widely talked about issue for answers and there is nothing from the major media outlets.



CNN's search results
Fox News search results

A theory to the forces behind the sniper plot

“[I]f it is something law enforcement was planning, then nothing would have been done. It might seem hard to believe that a law enforcement agency would do such a thing, but I wouldn’t put it past them.” Paul Kennedy of the National Lawyers Guild in Houston said. This statement is a harsh indictment against the law enforcement in the area, to allow and have plans on using snipers on the Occupy movement in Houston. But more and more evidence is point that it may have been the case. This new evidence might also point to a larger source than just the local law enforcement agencies.

A document from April 2014 lends credence to the sniper tactics being used by law enforcement. The images shown below are from the document, showing the tactics to be used in the case of full scale rioting within the United States. The first shows that against unarmed civilians sniper fire is to be used against the "leaders" of the riot. This is important to note that the FBI document has the same tactics of sniper fire used against the leaders, in this case the leaders of the Occupy movement in Houston. It also points out to use the psychological effects to the full advantage. The second image shows areas to strike with batons, showing grey for least traumatic, to patterned grey for lethal force.The WashingtonBlog, where the images from the military manual were found, makes its own valid theory on the forces behind the sniper plot, which can be found in the link below.

-http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/08/explain-snipers-shadowing-occupy-protests.html,

This is Democracy Now's Amy Goodman interviewing Ryan Shapiro, the man who discovered the plot through FOIA requests.

Copies of the declassified documents.

 The three main groups involved in this story are The Occupy Movement, the FBI and the Houston Police Department.

-October 2011, The Occupy Movement comes into Texas. Houston, Dallas and Austin were the three main cities use. Police officials are all on high alert, more so than most of the other cities the Occupy Movement have visited. What we know is that police responded to the movement with violent assaults, local and federal surveillance on "leaders" and infiltration by police provocateurs. Between the three cities these actions occurred by local police, with Austin police infiltrating and supplying the Occupy Movement with felony instruments used to lock protesters together.

-December 2012, The Civil Justice Fund requested and received 99 pages from the FBI. The pages were heavily redacted and almost another 300 more were withheld. Pages in these alluded to a sniper plot against leaders of the Occupy Movement.

-Early 2013, Ryan Shapiro saw mention of the plot and filed another Freedom of Information Act request for more information on the Occupy Movement in Houston, any other Occupy like movements in Houston and police responses.

-The FBI said it identified 17 pages that fell under Shapiro's request. They only released 5 pages, all of which were heavily redacted. Shapiro took legal action against the FBI. In these new pages the name, or names, are redacted multiple times through the file, leaving no trace to who, or whom, started the plot. Many theories have been proposed due to the wording in the pages.

-2014, During the court case the FBI maintain the redacted files are for privacy law reasons, a judge ordered a more in depth explanation as to why the files are being redacted. The rest of the 17 pages were released also redacted. Eventually the judge dismissed the charges after reviewing the documents in her chambers. Freedom of Information Act exception 7(c), which shields law enforcement records from being released if they are an invasion or privacy. Exception 7(d) was introduced to the case by the judge, which allows records to be withheld if they could reasonably be expected to disclose the identity of a confidential source.

Shapiro said he will not give up until the full pages are released. 



http://www.mintpressnews.com/details-assassination-plot-occupy-movement-leaders-withheld-public-fbis-behest/202064/

http://www.chron.com/opinion/openforum/article/The-FBI-and-protesters-then-and-now-4203970.php

https://news.vice.com/article/the-fbi-is-hiding-details-about-an-alleged-occupy-houston-assassination-plot

Why I picked this topic.

The project Censored list has many worthy news worthy stories that are vastly under reported. This topic of the FBI with holding information about an assassination plot against the Occupy movement caught my eye. On the surface it seems more American centric than a lot of the other stories, but thinking about brings it to a more global scene.

If the FBI is willing to withhold a threat against American citizens, what are they or other government organizations willing to allow happen around the world. America is one of, if not the most, powerful nation on the world. The FBI is on the forefront of that power, mostly inside of the country. If the FBI is willing to withhold this information from American citizens, what about threats they learn of abroad? This case could make or break the secretive power of the FBI and other organizations like it within the U.S.