Keeping with the protest angle…..
Back in my younger days I was a victim of the federal government’s master plan, COINTELPRO.
I tried to let my readers know a little of the history of the 1960-70s…..
The program never truly went away…..but is being resurrected to the point of the protests of the past.
Elon Musk has opened the floodgates to expose the FBI’s latest war on Americans’ freedom of speech. The FBI massively intervened to pressure Twitter to suppress accounts and tweets from individuals the FBI disapproved, including parody accounts. The FBI and other federal agencies also browbeat Facebook, Instagram, and many other tech companies.
Thus far, most of the American media has ignored or downplayed the story, known as the Twitter Files. Since many of the individuals who the FBI got squelched were pro-Trump, the violation of their rights is a non-issue – or a cause for quiet celebration. At this point, it is difficult to know whether the scant reaction to the Twitter Files is the result of political bias, collective amnesia, or simply a total ignorance of American history.
The history of the FBI provides perhaps the best guide to the abuses that may be now occurring. From 1956 to 1971, the FBI carried out “a secret war against those citizens it considers threats to the established order,” a 1976 Senate report noted. The FBI’s Operation COINTELPRO involved thousands of covert operations to incite street warfare between violent groups, to get people fired, to portray innocent people as government informants, to destroy activists’ marriages, and to cripple or destroy left-wing, black, communist, white racist, and anti-war organizations. The FBI let no corner of American life escape its vigilance; it even worked to expose and discredit “communists who are secretly operating in legitimate organizations and employments, such as the Young Men’s Christian Association and Boy Scouts.”
While many people are aware of how the FBI hounded Martin Luther King, Jr., and pressured him to commit suicide, that was not even the tip of the iceberg of the FBI’s racial persecution. Almost any black organization could be targeted for illegal wiretaps. One black leader was monitored largely because he had “recommended the possession of firearms by members for their self-protection.” At that time, some southern police departments and sheriffs were notorious for attacking blacks who stood up for their civil rights.
FBI Cointelpro is Back and Worse Than Ever
Keep this in mind when you decide to enter into the world of protests. Big Brother is watching!
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In today’s high tech world where there are microphones and cameras everywhere, every living individiaul’s life is an open book and there are no secrets that are not known and no place to achieve anonimity.
Big Brother is our friend…..what a load of hokum…..LOL chuq
The biggest enemy is always our own government, not foreign governments.
Best wishes, Pete.
That says it all…..chuq
Media continues to characterize FBI misconduct as Russian disinformation and right wing republican conspiracy theories.
FBI has never been good with protests….they make protesters as the enemy of the state…never is that true. Sorry Carl for some reason your comment went to Spam….I apologize. chuq
OMG. FBI sent me to spam? We have an FBI too: Friggin Badass Italians
LOL….thanx I needed that today. Be well chuq
Reblogged this on Calculus of Decay .
J. Edgar Hoover cross-dressed with his male “companion” after work and kept secret files on people he needed to control to keep his job during his work day.
He was a sick puppy…..and the spying never took a back seat. chuq
Reblogged this on It Is What It Is and commented:
I’m old enough to remember and know how this program affected the people in Puerto Rico!! There was no boundaries the program wouldn’t cross!! … “The FBI’s Operation COINTELPRO involved thousands of covert operations to incite street warfare between violent groups, to get people fired, to portray innocent people as government informants, to destroy activists’ marriages, and to cripple or destroy left-wing, black, communist, white racist, and anti-war organizations.”
Thanx for helping spread the word for those that may be protesting….big brother is indeed watching…..be well chuq
You got it, my friend!! I remember, as a kid, all those in the independence movement in PR … they all had files!! They did a lot of damage!! America is not (maybe never was) was I was taught, what I believed!! 🤔
I think ‘never was’ is very accurate. chuq
This article goes along with what we have said…..https://original.antiwar.com/andrew-p-napolitano/2023/01/18/the-fbi-and-personal-liberty/ Hugz chuq