Thursday, August 13, 2009

COINTELPRO — White Hate Groups (1964-1968)



I put this post together as a suggestion by One of newsnet14’s Readers, Advice givers a244, who in a comment about the rise in Militia Groups sparked my interest and hopefully yours. I’m also doing this to educate and expand my knowledge and hope to do the same for other readers. This one is dedicated to you a244. After looking into this I know it makes me more angry as it should you.

http://www.newsnet14.com/2009/08/cointelpro-white-hate-groups-1964-1968/

Jun 4, 2002 | While Muslim terrorists penetrate our borders with surface-to-air missiles and make every air traveler a potential target, and while INS screw-ups show daily that we have no borders and no real ability to keep any of our enemies out, a surreal battle is taking place within the ranks of our hostage population itself. The debate is whether Attorney General John Ashcroft and the FBI should have given agents license to keep an eye on suspected terrorists and their ideological supporters if they have not yet blown up a plane.

The trigger of the debate is the recent decision of the Justice Department to remove restrictions it imposed on itself in 1972 that prevent the agency from spying on organizations that have not yet committed an actual crime. A chorus of so-called civil rights groups has already attacked the decision -- which involves no change in the law and no endorsement of illegal behavior -- as though it were an attack on the Constitution itself.

The 1972 restrictions were adopted by the FBI in the face of an assault on its practices by the political left. The issue was the FBI's "COINTELPRO," an effort to counter massive civil disobedience and the growing threat from quasi-military radical groups who had gone from demonizing America to planting more than 1,000 bombs, committing acts of military sabotage and killing at least one innocent math professor in their campaign against the Vietnam War.
http://dir.salon.com/story/news/col/horo/2002/06/04/cointelpro/index.html

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