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The New York Times has published an unredacted version of the famous “suicide letter” from the FBI to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The letter, recently discovered by historian and professor Beverly Gage, is a disturbing document. But it’s also something that everyone in the United States should read, because it demonstrates exactly what lengths the intelligence community is willing to go to—and what happens when they take the fruits of the surveillance they’ve done and unleash it on a target.
The anonymous letter was the result of the FBI’s comprehensive surveillance and harassment strategy against Dr. King, which included bugging his hotel rooms, photographic surveillance, and physical observation of King’s movements by FBI agents. The agency also attempted to break up his marriage by sending selectively edited “personal moments he shared with friends and women” to his wife.
Portions of the letter had been previously redacted. One of these portions contains a claim that the letter was written by another African-American: “King, look into your heart. You know you are a complete fraud and a great liability to all us Negroes.” It goes on to say “We will now have to depend on our older leaders like Wilkins, a man of character and thank God we have others like him. But you are done.” This line is key, because part of the FBI’s strategy was to try to fracture movements and pit leaders against one another.
originally posted by: Blister
Truly saddening how low American democracy has fallen. Indeed, I think we can no longer call the USA a "democracy" - killing it's own people and being downright nasty and cruel - even back then - is shameful and disgraceful.
All Americans express their horror at what has become of their once promising country. If they don't then they are guilty too. IMHO.
I just hope that the revolution is still possible. The world needs systemic change.
originally posted by: tavi45
I suggest you read the book Death of a King. It's a new book about MLK focusing on his final year. The big part is that he wasn't taken out for his civil rights stuff. He was taken out for speaking for love and against war.. Specifically for condemning the Vietnam War.
A true revolution of values will lay hand on the world order and say of war, "This way of settling differences is not just." This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice, and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death. Martin Luther King, Jr. Beyond Vietnam: Time to Break the silence
originally posted by: TheSpanishArcher
originally posted by: Walsh
i think after reading more into this , and the whole JFK conspiracy . My gut feeling is that JFK was a victim of Assassination by the F.B.I & C.I.A no doubt ...
originally posted by: Aazadan
I've been thinking of how I wanted to respond to this. That letter is just sick.
originally posted by: Walsh
i think after reading more into this , and the whole JFK conspiracy . My gut feeling is that JFK was a victim of Assassination by the F.B.I & C.I.A no doubt ...
JFK had a lot of enemies. You do not kill a sitting president in a very public fashion like that without having a lot of people involved. Every president after JFK until Clinton was involved with the coverup, you don't get more dirty than that. My honest hope is for a deathbed confession from Bush Sr. He was involved with Kennedy and tried to take out Reagan too.