couldn't be farther from the truth and in fact according to the executive director of the civil justice fund mara. she said these documents show that the f.b.i. and the department of homeland security are treating protests against the corporate and banking structure of america as potential criminal and terrorist activity where you have it the truth always has a way of rearing its ugly head as much as the establishment tries to suppress it so what else went down during the fiscal cliff hysteria well what about this mainstream miss have you heard of the violence against women act oh you probably haven't because the bills never really been a point of contention until now see the bill that was drafted in one thousand nine hundred four to investigate and prosecute violent crimes against women as well as offer resources to help battered women and while it did pass in the senate it was awaiting a final vote in the house of believe it or not the bill was basically ignored and never voted on for the first time since one thousand nine hundred ninety four why what we can attribute that to a bevy of house bi

pivotal unveiling of the survey i mean i'm joined by mara for hayden hillard co-founder and executive director of the partnership for civil justice fund thank you so much for coming on mara thanks for having me so what were some of the most shocking revelations of this request and you've said yourself it's just the tip of the iceberg how deep is this really run well the documents that we got which is only about one hundred pages from the f.b.i. and field offices around the country show in the normal depth and breadth to the level of surveillance and use of f.b.i. authority against the occupy movement the f.b.i. offices all over the united states was using domestic terrorism authority issue in domestic terrorism alerts and watches and in using that to go after the occupy movement and collect information on people and on a movement that they acknowledged throughout the materials is a peaceful nonviolent movement. and going off the peaceful nonviolent movement you know this is supposed to be a government to protect our constitutional rights and civil liberties bill of rights our first amendment redress of grievances here the freedom to a