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A 1924 American Civil Liberties Union report warned that the FBI had become “a secret police system of a political character.”
In the 1930s, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court feared that the FBI had bugged the conference room where justices privately wrangled over landmark cases, as Tim Weiner noted in his “Enemies: A History of the FBI.”
In 1945, President Harry Truman noted that “We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. FBI is tending in that direction.”
And FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover compiled a list of 20,000 “potentially or actually dangerous” Americans who could be rounded up and locked away in one of the six detention camps the federal government secretly built in the 1950s.
From 1956 through 1971, the FBI’s COINTELPRO program conducted thousands of covert operations to incite street warfare between violent groups, to get people fired, to smear innocent people by portraying them as government informants, to sic the IRS on people, and to cripple or destroy left-wing, communist, white racist, antiwar, and black organizations (including Martin Luther King Jr.). These operations involved vast numbers of warrantless wiretaps and illicit break-ins and resulted in the murder of some black militants. A Senate Committee chaired by liberal Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho) issued a damning report on FBI abuses of power that should be mandatory reading for anyone who believes the bureau deserves deference today.
originally posted by: IgnoranceIsntBlisss
a reply to: introvert
COINTELPRO, like Operation CHAOS, targeted liberal groups / MLK / anti-war activists / etc (and some actual commies I imagine too if you dig hard enough).
originally posted by: introvert
a reply to: AndyFromMichigan
It's funny how many people are very supportive of law enforcement and the rule of law, until those officers that investigate and uphold the rule of law somehow play in to a conspiracy that does not bode well for their political agendas.
originally posted by: IgnoranceIsntBlisss
a reply to: intrptr
That's CIA. But while we're on that subject Never Forget Operation CHAOS.
originally posted by: introvert
a reply to: AndyFromMichigan
It's funny how many people are very supportive of law enforcement and the rule of law, until those officers that investigate and uphold the rule of law somehow play in to a conspiracy that does not bode well for their political agendas.
originally posted by: IgnoranceIsntBlisss
a reply to: introvert
COINTELPRO, like Operation CHAOS, targeted liberal groups / MLK / anti-war activists / etc (and some actual commies I imagine too if you dig hard enough).
originally posted by: eisegesis
originally posted by: introvert
a reply to: AndyFromMichigan
It's funny how many people are very supportive of law enforcement and the rule of law, until those officers that investigate and uphold the rule of law somehow play in to a conspiracy that does not bode well for their political agendas.
That statement is an OUTRIGHT LIE.
Unless you have something to back it up?
originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: AndyFromMichigan
I guess it would all depend on who you ask.
Many cheered weaponizing the IRS and would be for a partisan law enforcement agency.
originally posted by: IgnoranceIsntBlisss
a reply to: introvert
No matter. The only thing that matters is that they work for TPTB. Meaning you might question what the real agenda of "your" team really is.
Hint: the whole SJW Movement is fountainheaded by the same ilk of Robberbarron Elites that have had the entire government apparatus hijacked since pre-WW2.
originally posted by: neo96
originally posted by: introvert
a reply to: AndyFromMichigan
It's funny how many people are very supportive of law enforcement and the rule of law, until those officers that investigate and uphold the rule of law somehow play in to a conspiracy that does not bode well for their political agendas.
Like usurping a LEO organization for a soft coup to overthrow a duly elected president ?