Jedi Watch Movement

The Jedi Watch Movement was a group of Republic citizens based on Coruscant that openly criticized the actions and duties of the Jedi Order through the media. The group's members often berated Jedi during their public investigations and took to the Internet to debunk their legitimacy. Some have even claimed that the Jedi were responsible for a number of terrorist attacks that took place on Republic worlds. One of the Jedi Watch Movement's prominent members, a Human rights activist named Letta Turmond secretly conspired with Jedi Padawan Barriss Offee to carry out a bombing at the Jedi Temple on Coruscant during the Clone Wars that left multiple workers and even six Jedi dead. Palpatine, who had secret plans to eradicate the Jedi, publicly disregarded the Jedi Watch Movement as deluded conspiracy theorists, though secretly considered them integral to generating the public's anti-Jedi sentiment, which would eventually allow for the initiation of the Great Jedi Purge. Shortly after Order 66, with the Jedi Order haven been dissolved and no longer having a place in government, the Jedi Watch Movement was disbanded. In recognition of their importance to his grand plan, Palpatine even granted some of the group's former members positions within the Commission for the Preservation of the New Order (COMPNOR).