Documentary Exposes How the FBI Tried to Destroy MLK with Wiretaps, Blackmail

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/18/956741992/documentary-exposes-how-the-fbi-tried-to-destroy-mlk-with-wiretaps-blackmail

by Jimmc414 • 4 years ago

57 25 4 years ago

This is the old FBI, not the new one that claims internet censorship is just part of the daily routine and that no one is responsible for years of fraudulent Trump-Russia propaganda. If you support this mechanism when it becomes politically useful, you 1) lack principle and 2) deserve to be on the wrong end of it.

sasattack2• 4 years ago

What year do you think the FBI changed? When did they stop being a white supremacist occupational force that murders and oppressors anybody who attempts to fight for their rights ?

the_optimist3• 4 years ago

I think it might have been in the early 2010s, when they finally gained the ability to access global financial and communications data rooted in the Patriot Act. Probably under Mueller, when he was busy framing Assange in Iceland with Sigi.

rnk2• 4 years ago

Let's also look back at the last few years - did we have an obvious problem in the FBI excusing the actions of protests against deadly police actions, or was the actual problem that there was a measurable amount of people in the FBI supporting and/or ignoring the people that actually did try to murder the congress.

It's pretty clear. When there was the large BLM protest in Washington DC there were lots of federal crowd control, also no one tried to break into the capital. When Trump's January 6 riot happened, there were just the much smaller regular capital police forces at the capital, no national guards.

rnk2• 4 years ago

No one can be exposed (or reminded) about how the country's top police force, the FBI, worked to completely destroy civil rights figures (MLK was against violence, actually made a big difference in the success of our country, and then was murdered in such a careless manner) - but: no one should be able to learn about these kinds of actions and then say we don't have a long history of endemic racism. Yet here we are today, with many people convinced that the real problem in America is we talk about our racist history too much and it hurts the feelings of white people.

chitowneats4• 4 years ago

And I'm sure the good liberals who like to dwell on such history are deeply concerned about the contemporary issue of how the FBI has infiltrated our social networks, and is actively involved in a disinformation campaign against Americans?

Of course not. Because this time, the FBI is working for them, or so they believe.

You see, the critics you describe are aware of the history. We're also aware that you all are complete hypocrites, only interested in gaining political advantage and making disparaging comments about white people. That's why you focus on 1950 instead of 2022.

thelock852• 4 years ago

Extending your comparison, do you believe the conservative activists and organizers of the 50s and 60s knew of the FBI’s campaign against MLK and others, but were perfectly okay because it served their political interests? Because it seems that you are saying liberal activists and organizers of today are co-signing the FBI’s psychops for political gain. If true that seems fringe, not mainstream but I could be wrong.

Also from a political organizing perspective, it’s advantageous for anyone critical of the FBI to talk about their actions of the past, as a way to bring more attention to what they are doing today. A partisan argument does the exact opposite.

mrguyorama• 4 years ago

You mean the same FBI that routinely finds american police forces full of openly white supremacist people and cops part of those weird fringe alt-right groups like the 3% or whoever, and has done NOTHING about it for decades? Yeah they are definitely in the pocket of liberals.

badrabbit• 4 years ago

What's your point and why is that surprising? This is what they do. MLK wouldn't have much to do if there was no injustice to fight. He was fighting laws which by definition are meaningless without enforcement (FBI) and be was not trying to change things from within the system (because he can't really).

But then he won and the country changes, democrats are no longer racist people and southerners (at least not any democrat majority) and along with that many laws changed so now you can expect the FBI of today to support and protect MLK.

But if you find injustice in the laws of today, get noticed enough and they will be on you like a fat kid on cake. Excerpt now, they are more sophisticated and tech has made their job both harder and easier in scary ways.

It is a function of law enforcement to especially enforce unjust laws and orders be because those are the ones that need the most enforcement.

Amezarak2• 4 years ago

I don’t think it’s useful to look at the FBI through a racial lens. It has consistently murdered and oppressed people of all races and creeds from its very beginning. It’s not even altogether clear the FBI was founded legally.

We’re talking about an organization that spied on FDRs political enemies for solely political reasons and then leaked the results of those investigations to discredit his opponents. The same FBI that conducted mass wiretappings, break-ins, extortions, blackmail, murder, and, lots not forget the tried and true tactic of “infiltrating” groups, plying them with goodies and arms and then persuading them to go commit violence, then arresting them.

They’ve done this to anti-war activists, communists, right-wing extremists, Muslims, libertarians, white supremacists, weirdo cultists, and racial equality activists. And normal people who got in their way, or who were just plain unfortunate. And they almost always get away with it.

And they haven’t stopped, either.

If the FBI can be said to have a “ideology”, it’s not white supremacy. It’s the defense of the managerial elite and their status quo, and utter conviction in their rightness to do whatever it takes. And they are just about as beyond effective political control as the CIA.

the_optimist3• 4 years ago

When you say “our” and you mean “their” or “my” this is subject to intentional misdirection. We don’t drive our car to work at the FBI or blackmail MLK. If you do, you should stop.

Ghoyome• 4 years ago

The declassifieds on Malcom X are even wilder.

Documentary Exposes How the FBI Tried to Destroy MLK with Wiretaps, Blackmail

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