Fit Watch used to provide criticism and oversight over FITs (Forward Intelligence Teams) essentially watching the watchers by taking photographs of the police taking photographs of people at protests and suchlike. So as is the way of things they were shut down. The police were able to do so without a court order or anything else.
Dissent and opposition to what the police wants is naughty so just don't do it ok?
Showing posts with label Cointelpro. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cointelpro. Show all posts
Tuesday, 16 November 2010
Tuesday, 5 October 2010
Dissent in the age of Obama.
Cindy Sheehan has a short editorial about the COINTELPRO-esque raids on peace activists last week.
Among other things she raises the interesting point that Obama is still portrayed as the good guy to most Americans and in the US media to the extent people can't really conceive of him being in charge of a regime that is doing plenty of evil things. In effect because of Obama the entire apparatus of US imperialism is more or less given a free pass.
Among other things she raises the interesting point that Obama is still portrayed as the good guy to most Americans and in the US media to the extent people can't really conceive of him being in charge of a regime that is doing plenty of evil things. In effect because of Obama the entire apparatus of US imperialism is more or less given a free pass.
Friday, 1 October 2010
MLK's plagarism and lies by omission.
This article examines the mainstream in general and NYT in particular's favourite conspiracy denier Gerald Posner. Oh hes also a massive plagarist and a self proclaimed thieving cocksucker but now he is no long a "journalist" and instead works PR for some of Hamid Karazi's relatives including Ahmed Wali Karzai a drug lord on the CIA's payroll.
So really it would be quite a leap to assume his popular lone gunman theory books about the assassinations of JFK and MLK could in any way be deliberate pieces of propaganda supporting the US government's line on the issue!
Yet this is exactly what the article does!. It is quite convincing that this thieving cocksucker omitted evidence that calls into question his conclusion that the official story that James Earl Ray killed MLK was wholly correct. The author does a much better job of explaining it than I could so you should read it.
So really it would be quite a leap to assume his popular lone gunman theory books about the assassinations of JFK and MLK could in any way be deliberate pieces of propaganda supporting the US government's line on the issue!
Yet this is exactly what the article does!. It is quite convincing that this thieving cocksucker omitted evidence that calls into question his conclusion that the official story that James Earl Ray killed MLK was wholly correct. The author does a much better job of explaining it than I could so you should read it.
Wednesday, 30 June 2010
COINTELPRO alive and well.
Rumours of its' demise (spread solely by the government) decades seem to have been premature. Infiltration of Vegan groups and co-option of anti-police brutality groups among the many essential undercover activities carried out by US law enforcement agencies: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/aclu-surveillance/ But hey, as the right wingers scream, you guys haven't got CCTV so everything is fine.
I'll try and read the full 33 page report to see if anything else shows up. Don't hold your breath though.
I'll try and read the full 33 page report to see if anything else shows up. Don't hold your breath though.
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