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FBI: Burning Man Testing Ground For Free Speech, Drugs ... and New Spy Gear
v3rgEz writes: The 29th annual Burning Man festival kicks off this week in Nevada's Black Rock Desert. Among those paying close attention to the festivities will be the FBI's Special Events Management unit, who have kept files on "burners" since at least 2010. One of the more interesting things in those, files, however, is a lengthy, heavily redacted paragraph detailing that the FBI's Special Events Management Unit gave Las Vegas Police Department some specialized equipment for monitoring the week-long event, as long as LVPD provided follow up reports.
I think it is funny that anyone is shocked at the fact a "gathering" that involves drug use and pyrotechnics is being watched. The fact that they have never came in and raided the event shows that the FBI really is not going in for busting up free speech.
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Which 4th of July celebrations are you aware of that blatantly advertise their acceptance of illicit drugs? And no, alcohol doesn't count as illicit no matter how much you guys like to compare it to your drug(s) of choice.
People still of the cat and mouse mindset are hopelessly lost. The FBI 'owns' this event and allows it to proceed as a petri dish and case study for learning how to deal with future criminal activities and subversive movements. 'Busting it' serves no purpose as it will spring up elsewhere or in smaller, less cohesive, and less easily targeted forms. Things like COINTELPRO which occurred decades ago lend credibility to this idea. We live in a giant disneyland now. The surveillance state is upon us. Do not be deluded by the occasional display of incompetence or ineptitude by local or national authorities. They are highly co-ordinated, they have learned from the past, and they are far ahead of us now.