They say yahoo news is now reporting that according to a recently uncovered documents the Law Enforcement arm of the u. S. Postal service has been quietly running a program that tracks and collects American Social media posts the never report made public documents includes a march 16th bulletin that was distributed to Homeland Security Fusion Centers lovely places which reveals that analysts with the United States Postal Inspection Service titled Internet Covert Operation Program or i cop monitored significant activity regarding planned protests occurring internationally and domestically on march 20th 2021 these planned protests you see were part of the world wide rally perforate and democracy. Yes my friends the government has now weaponized the post office and in its obsession with online digital surveillance of u. S. Citizens thankfully though there are members of Congress Working against this avalanche of surveillance state bootlicking u. S. Senator ron wyden the democrat out of oregon and more and a group of more than 20 Congress Members have introduced the 4th amendment is not for sale act in both the house and the u. S. Senate Common Dreams reports that the legislation would effectively clones major loopholes in federal privacy laws including the Electronic Communications privacy act and the foreign Intelligence Surveillance act. And it would seek to protect everyone in the u. S. From a unlawful searches and seizures. But the big question is will congress have the guts to stand up and protect our sacred 4th amendment rights or in the wake of january 6th will they once again to the taishan of surveillance and depression lets find out as we start watching the hawks. Was on a city street. There so lets see this is joyce state see. Grace see this ladys systemic deception is so much. So. Welcome everybody watching the hawks i am i robot and i want me to cry i mean so i never thought i would live long enough to see now the u. S. Postal service turn to new and all power for surveillance being watching over everything we type and do on social media now peter said leg a n. S. A. Is doing its cias going to have b is doing all right cool kind of kind of assume that much but the post man its its completely ridiculous i dont even understand the reasoning as to why we need yet another agency to help out with this level of surveillance but the other issue is the u. S. Postal service has problems doing its current job in delivering mail we know about the along at times we know about the removal of certain postal postal offices in the shutting down of many of them we know about the mail sorting issues we know about the workforce reductions it seems like adding yet another task for them is going to totally tear apart a system thats already overburdened in so many ways and quite frankly failing i feel like when they saw like the the acronym i cop they didnt really think oh i cop internet lets jump on that rather than actually seeing i would not have something to do with the post office you know i mean thats what seems like to me Rachel Levinson wildman Deputy Director for the Broader Center for justice in liberty and national security. Graham told yahoo news when she found out about all this quote based on the very minimal information thats Available Online it appears that i cop is meant to root out misuse of the postal system by online actors which doesnt seem to encompass whats going on here its not at all clear why their mandate would include monitoring of social media thats unrelated to the use of the postal system i completely agree like i get it if its like hey were monitoring make sure nobody you know messes around with the mail which is a federal imbalance but this is about protests and following protesters its a little bit out of the their jurisdiction it absolutely is and so is chasing after mail for protestors because the end of the day their communication isnt happening via the u. S. P. S. Is to me anyway but we dont have enough i would argue that when it comes to regulation of social media or hunting down bad actors be a social media weve been horribly poor at anyway from chasing down serial killers to people who you know commit major atrocities on the buildings and other things at the end of the day this isnt a job of the us be it you know it really isnt it really isnt but they did respond to question when asked about this the u. S. Postal Inspection Service while they didnt kind of jump on the specific questions about like i cop they did provide an overall general statement as most government institutions do saying quote the Internet Covert Operations Program is a function within the u. S. Postal Inspection Service which assesses threats to Postal Service employees and its infrastructure by monitoring publicly available open Source Information what that kind of does is a kind of its Standard Operating Procedure because it kind of leaves us really wide berth for them to operate in well if people are protesting here and there happens to be a mailbox nearby that kind of could maybe somehow give us the right to look into it right that you can kind of use that language where they are actually finding a policy that technically someone already exists to now include social media investigation the other interesting thing is when i talk about the run. Weidman congress is kind of pushing back on this in this specific goal of this new bill that theyre pushing both in the house and the senate is that right now federal agencies are using these kind of legal loopholes to collect massive amounts of information on American People without a court order theyre doing this because theyre buying information from like middleman between developers and these middlemen so that developers its illegal for them to sell our data directly to the government however a legal loophole permits App Developers to sell our data to a data broker and then the u. S. Government back door and gets that data from the data broker right and so what this new at what ron wyden that were trying to do is to kind of close that which i think would be a brilliant brilliant oh i think that youre right where theres a will theres a lot in. The world is still reeling from the show in trial while many on the left are celebrating on the right some are arguing the jury verdict was unfair or tainted by the protest movements and comments from democratic elected officials regard most of where you stand or who you are one thing is certain emotions and voices are being heard loudly across social media the sports world isnt immune to this Le Bron James and patch homes giants in the n. B. A. And n. F. L. Shared reactions following the verdict via their twitter accounts le bron for his part has been a vocal advocate of black lives matter for years now he spends just as much time in advocacy as he does on the Basketball Court black athletes across the spectrum of sports tweeted about Police Accountability support for the jurys verdict and calls to action for further criminal Justice Reforms sports leagues themselves issued statements of support to the n. B. A. The n. B. A. And n. F. L. Most notably which shouldnt be surprising because there leagues are predominantly black male be an n. H. L. Also really statements showing their solidarity with criminal Justice Reform is this too because those leagues are dominated by black athletes heres tell us more is our sports producer forgive them welcome regina illo. Well you talked about this before many sports leagues and organizations have taken up the mantle to buy and combat Police Brutality and systemic racism within their communities as well as to be vocal advocates league like the n. F. L. And n. B. A. Or light years ahead of certain other leagues yet some of these leagues outside of those 2 they fall short and either didnt say anything or did the wrong thing after the derrick showing trial verdict came through do you think that there is perform live action happening or is this ally ship real what do you think this is i think in terms you know if you look at the n. B. A. The n. B. A. The n. F. L. The n. F. L. Is a little bit of a gray area Roger Goodells not a so they have the best reputation if you look back when george floyd was killed a year ago you know his statement was well we hope the end of the trial offered a chance for healing we remain committed to actively engaging the movement for equality thats a really its not calling for change and say you should change where the n. B. A. The n. B. A. They have players coaches the even League Officials have been ringback very vocal about this change now the n. H. L. And Las Vegas Raiders decided well were going were going take the bad route on this one the n. H. L. Saying in their statement while we hope to end the trial while we have the end of trial offers a chance for healing remain committed to engaging with it for equality we want fans to change cool great you dont say anything about actually george floyd you give a nice umbrella statement that has a we should do we should do some changes country which we should but thats very just you know it comes off as were doing this because every else is doing it whereas individual teams statements are very specific coming out of this idea that you know were theres a lot of pushback in this country i may disagree with but still pushback to the term to say kind of like look sports are designed to be an escape its entertainment many fans get up in arms when they see their athletes you know standing up for something you know conservative commentators are going to stick to dribbling you know stick to just blame sports do you think. This verdict could turn the tide for the idea that. Leagues can have opinions about you know social justice issues or politics or things like that is our country changing in that way and were getting rid of that old argument against the i think the answer is yes and no yes in the sense that i think people are recognizing that these athletes they do have an enormous amount of sway especially in communities of color minority that is a large voice that were glad theyre using and you know a lot of you encourage more athletes to do so because they are the face of their kids see that the faces that the community sees the know is the fact that youre still going to have a lot of supporters going well this is mass ports and i want my escape you at think the line and you know commentators especially you know Rachel Nichols said it best the line is blurred and im not even sure there is a line anymore because these are people who have opinions these are people who have experience of racism whove experienced discrimination why i cant they speak out about this issue and yet for people saying well thats you know at a job you wouldnt do that job you would have an opinion but theres theyre not saying this as a member of the lakers Le Bron James is saying as a member of his team hes saying it as Le Bron James the person and hes allowed to have that opinion and i would argue that corporations and individuals who work for corporations are also speaking out so that you have a job being very interesting that the c. E. O. Is a weird crossroads a very gray area so switching gears a bit former new york yankee alex rodriguez. He just spent 1500000000 to purchase the minnesota timberwolves. Minnesota lynx yet you wouldnt know by the statement he put out is this just more disrespect toward womens sports as a whole yes because again people want women to sport the beseeches of a study that people love watching womens sports of promise its not its always accessible sometimes behind a paywall like you know c. B. S. All access to the national to Soccer League cup you cant youre going to ask people to pay for it but you want to have the access is just doesnt work like basically we made the announcement that he bought the. Timberwolf you didnt lose your lives at o. S. U. Which is arguably the most successful franchise that i didnt see that is going to be the total 3 playoff appearances and youre like you know what were just going to get big this group thats a big forget this big issue on a lot it exactly as it maybe has his break ups on his brain and he just kind of forgot who knows. Why its an interesting bye i do think i just want to ask you do you think youre going to see more former athletes stepping forward especially whether in basketball or wherever is kind of stepping forward saying i have enough money im going to buy another team oh absolutely im a possible us is a is bought into the Kansas City Royals were seeing it out needs be more involved and i think also too that helps them get a better sense of community as well and be more involved in their community because now to them like yes financially it will matter but i think also for them they realize they have responsibility at that point as well and for basketball and im also help bridge the gap between the governors and yeah players are going with absolutely absolutely all right everybody as we go to break thank you very much for a job by the way im sorry there was so your body as we go to break remember that you can also start watching the hawks on demand with a brand new or old t. V. App which is available on all platforms so please go check it out coming up it would be it would appear that many of our elected leaders around the country are doubling their efforts to abolish our right to protest yes they are lets find out why next im watching the whole. Now looking forward to talking to you all. That technology should work for people. I really must obey the orders given to human beings except where such orders to conflict with the 1st law just that they should or should be very careful about our National Intelligence and the point obesity is. Trust. Good flick take on various shots and with Artificial Intelligence will summon the demon. Must protect its own existence as existence. Its. Tough in finding another one of the highest democratic way or both the food. Bank itself mukti about. Closing this way got to dog so hard not to think of the disappeared this moment the work of the day i want and i dont miss so much benefit because. 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Throughout history collective action and assembly have been the most useful means to bring about change think about it womens suffrage Voting Rights for blacks Marriage Equality a 40 hour work week and Worker Protections Environmental Justice antiwar demonstrations not a Single National reform has been passed in america without a protest not one. But when it comes to protesting in the name of black lives matter republicans once up in the system and torched the constitution as a result of last years george boyd protests the g. O. P. Is pushing bills that target protesters and give immunity to drive them over. While the black lives matter demonstrations forced america to rethink racial inequality and placed americas Human Rights Violations and white supremacist terror in the international spotlight republicans refused to acknowledge it instead they chose to attack protest rights in 34 states and county republicans are coming after protests rights a florida bill that was recently signed into law gives police broad discretion to call a gathering a right and charge protesters with a felony the law creates a new crime mob intimidation and requires anyone to arrested at a protest denied bail until their 1st Court Appearance it also appeals to the governor and his cabinet for any local officials that want to reduce police funding. But thats not all protesters have to worry about bills being pushed would bar people from receiving Student Loans and state aid and get immunized drivers who decide to run them down this would mean that people like James Alex Fields Jr who ran into heather hire murdering her during the Charlottesville Protests would not have been charged and republicans arent just targeting protesters on the streets theyre also ramping up anger for support supporters of protesters in the sports world Le Bron James is a target if hes come under fire as of late for a since the leader tweet regarding the Police Killing of teen Makiya Bryant republican senator tom cotton said Le Bron James was inciting violence against an ohio Police Officer and called an m. B. A. And twitter to respond joining us now is republican strategist chris bruno hi chris. I mean how are you gray grat glad to have you chris you know thats why im glad were so excited that youre here and were able to make it i know youve been traveling a lot recently the black labs matter protests were overwhelmingly peaceful estimates they had 97 percent peaceful but g. O. P. Leaders and right wing media latch on to episodic instances of violence while these largely peaceful protest subject to drug colonial laws that fly in the face of Constitutional Rights. But i think the reality is that you have plates and i look at them as a sanchez right they dont want to end up like seattle or you know people are in other places i think they really want the church any more meticulous about the process now to look really what this is to me is that is the anti riding anti looting bill now i do think the g. O. P. Has to be careful about passing. Bills that has the potential of restricting the freedom and the right to create approaches i think we ought to be very very careful about that i think we all have to kind of calm down and really come together and protect the 1st amendment as well as protect the rights of protest i think its really immensely important that a lot of political rhetoric going on going on and i think thats really important we come together and find a way to 42 together so people can peacefully protest and i actually protect the 1st moment but we cannot have them each that is we cannot have people burning presently burning sitting down a lot of things on fire and im goes far as to even tearing down statues and monuments other things thats just unacceptable we have to start being tighter as a country and being more organized when these things take place and look people have to learn how to actually protest and do it in a professional calm manner 97 percent of people 97 percent of those protests were in what you would describe as a professional and matter just being but i know exactly his case well but you know what it takes just that 3 percent you said you are right but that that 3 percent can do a whole lot more damage in 97 percent thats what the reality is and look was happen to some of these cities and i was in the last week. In the years with protesting thats what were trying to avoid were trying to avoid those kinds of Conference Let me ask you the navajo when you look at something isnt there other sort of cultural isnt there you know there are already plenty of laws on the books already the pretty much say hey if you burn down a building were going to charge you for you know what tax someone storefront vandalize a place we can charge you for i mean theres already all these laws on the books that would essentially prevent that you know isnt this kind of just building more government and putting government you know just kind of building layer upon layer of a lot of laws that would actually kind of go against more of a libertarian ideology when it comes to this nature of the work kind of doubling our efforts you know we already have these law going on and so so i think its designed more to kind of hone in morris more specifically if you look at the docs in a Police Officer they want to see stop that now being and for those that in the know docking is going to be sort of watching obviously not be able to the public so swiftly and a lot of people a lot of officers private information on the person knows or person or family or make something thats very important as well look what happened yesterday with Le Bron James to conclusions lets just say that that information was something that could have been very detrimental to him or his family and its not fair to those of the people involved maybe to the officer but not to the family thats absolute right so i think dr apart i agree with that but i think were just in a unique time and we have to be more firemen and more strenuous when it comes to type of measures we can have folks running and then looting we dont need to we have to be more direct and not incentivize people to do so and we start laying down the law and we start getting more firm about protesting in the streets a little more. Aggressively i think thats where it comes in you look at what governor state is doing on the oklahoma look i think some of the stuff hes actually doing is a great thing were talking about folks blocking roadways shutting down stores is absolutely ridiculous and think about from a store fronts owner from their perspective these are things that are unacceptable the fact theyre stopping you from making money theyre stopping you from your lobby theyre stop me from going to paying your employees that is absolutely crazy and should not happen here in america were not in the car. Unacceptable so im going to be wrong with being watched and then when it comes to laws and tightening up you know we can be more aggressive when it comes to that its going to show but we have to be aggressive when it comes to the same we want to be aggressive when it comes to protecting the rights of minorities like french so we have to be the same on both sides its a fair point. The way just at that which you have also been a proponent or against the montgomery bus boycott because at the end of the day the montgomery bus boycott took place because individuals were not were being mistreated in the jim crow south had many laws that actually pushed against the the Constitutional Rights of africanamericans so yes sometimes businesses do take a hit when it comes to protest rights but i would argue that that has also been something that has you know been a part of pushing civil rights and ensuring that black people are treated as equal citizens across this country. Well i completely agree but again i want to go back which you have to miss your 100 percent but i want to go back to what you said the night is from sanford that 3 percent i mean look at it again look what happened yesterday with the officer at the young lady with a knife situation that was killed and literally the specifically talking about the Le Bron James tweet that if thats there i mean that could have been detrimental a whole different level now you know thats a small percentage still thats big enough to cause look with that kind of infighting over 50000000 followers so doubtful im talking about these one instance is going to cause greater damage and so when you have a 3 percent audience who are causing a lot of damage and a lot of destruction thats detrimental for america and its just the tone for other cities well look we have minneapolis knobs and it spread across the chicago in other places los angeles people were actually 2 were out of control and lighting things on fire they were looting those type of things cannot happen but we have to get burned we have to set this very strong standard for that because you keep bringing up the Le Bron James tweet that was the lead and i think it got a lot of attention because it was deleted at the end of the day the tweet said your next and your next was not in the context of any level of violence he wasnt calling for violence what he was speaking to was a process we just saw happen with their job and the your next was youre going to more than likely go through a litigation youre going to more than likely go to a Court Process and be held accountable that was what that meant so republicans utilizing this as some call to arms against an officer i think is completely mistaken and also not something that Le Bron James ever really spoke to at all. Well i want to be clear and michel you know me pretty well so i want to be clear when i say this next thing i think it goes to inciting things that people over sensationalize something ill give you a quick example i can think of them and then obviously i disagree with this person thats a but the gentleman that harassed the young black kid in their hood you see how quickly that crowd came to his home which dont get me wrong im totally against. What he did to the kid was actually wrong but im giving an example and so what im saying is we cant afford to have things like that happen when its actually in the right obs the clue that guy was wrong but my point is things like that cannot we cannot afford. That can happen so when you look at Le Bron James lets just say that tweet was one you know 30 minutes prior to that and it was less it caused more damage we cannot afford whats happening to happen american thats where im coming from and we have the buck has to stop here and we have to off stop being well over a lot of things happen come together as a country we simply have to and its important to protect peoples memet some of the sort some of the 1st amendment its important to protect the right to protest but we have to come together as a nation have Common Ground that its now been thats a scary thing right now issue because people in America Today we dont want to compromise it people we dont want to be on the left side of the right and that is enough but i hope that you know were in a very bad place in america and i want people to remember that and not forget that i agree with you there that we do need to kind of find Common Ground i think that at the end of the day though we should always hold cherish our rights to protest and yes there are people that are those rights too far but at the end of the day i do i would disagree and say i think we already have plenty of laws on the books rather than create brand new words but chris thank you so much for coming out today educating our audience on your viewpoints always a pleasure sir sure thank you from you thanks so much. 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