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Why the FBI Has Always Been a Political Tool of Suppression | The Daily Bell

Posted by M. C. on May 14, 2017

http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/why-the-fbi-has-always-been-a-political-tool-of-suppression/

It wasn’t for political purposes that the FBI sent a letter to Martin Luther King Jr. encouraging him to kill himself?

There is a dangerous myth that permeates the political arena that government agencies and bureaucrats can somehow be non-political and independent.

How absurd.

And then there are scarily independent agencies like the CIA and NSA who pretty much do whatever they want, regardless of who heads the Department.

But the FBI is a sketchy mix of independence and politics, and it always has been. From its inception, the first FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover made the agency a hotbed of political suppression, arresting anarchists and communists sometimes without warrants, and deporting thousands of immigrants based on minimal evidence of subversion. Read the rest of this entry »

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When the FBI Went After ‘Mad’ Magazine | Mental Floss

Posted by M. C. on May 4, 2017

http://mentalfloss.com/article/65966/when-fbi-went-after-mad-magazine

Just two years later, in January 1960, Agent A. Jones was forced to file a second notice about the shenanigans at Mad. A recent issue had made not one, but two derogatory mentions of Hoover, including one in which he is blatantly and disrespectfully portrayed as being associated with a vacuum cleaner, “The Honorable J. Edgar Electrolux”:  

With Hoover it was all about him and “his” bureau.

In a memo dated November 30, 1957, an agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation identified as “A. Jones” raised an issue of critical importance: “Several complaints to the Bureau have been made concerning the ‘Mad’ comic book [sic], which at one time presented the horror of war to readers.”

The war party is like a snowflake. Mustn’t let anyone ruin their good time.

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Why So Many People Believe the FBI Killed Martin Luther King Jr.

Posted by M. C. on April 4, 2017

Why So Many People Believe the FBI Killed Martin Luther King Jr.

Because these people have eyes, ears and a brain?

On April 4, 1967, exactly one year before he was assassinated, King gave a speech in which he denounced the Vietnam War, which the FBI took as proof of his communist affiliation.

Then-FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover even publicly denounced King as a liar and a fraud. He is believed to have also initiated a letter sent to King in 1964 accompanied by a tape from an alleged sex party in a DC hotel room. The letter appears to be crafted to sound like it was a disappointed former follower, describing King as an “evil, abnormal beast.” But that wouldn’t provide an explanation for how the disillusioned fan got access to all this knowledge on King’s “adulterous acts” “immoral conduct” and “sexual orgies.”

Only the FBI would have that knowledge, from the wiretaps and monitoring they were doing supposedly for national security purposes. Read the rest of this entry »

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