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WilliamDavidWilliamsFirstPaper 5 - 17 Jun 2012 - Main.WilliamDavidWilliams
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| | | The Cover Up and Infiltration to Stop Potential “Messiah”
Natsu Taylor Saito declares, | |
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< | It has been well-documented by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, as well as by hundreds of thousands of documents released under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the National Security Administration (NSA), and dozens of other federal, state, and local agencies have engaged in illegal and unconstitutional actions against U.S. citizen and noncitizen residents in an effort to silence political dissent. Saito, supra at 1058. | >
> | It has been well-documented by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, as well as by hundreds of thousands of documents released under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the National Security Administration (NSA), and dozens of other federal, state, and local agencies have engaged in illegal and unconstitutional actions against U.S. citizen and noncitizen residents in an effort to silence political dissent.
Saito, supra at 1058. | | | An example of this cover up to continue unjust practices since the nation’s founding occurred with COINTELPRO, an FBI initiative to stop black liberation. Although J. Edgar Hoover claimed that the program was only intended to stop hate based organizations, Hoover led the FBI in the destruction of several beneficial programs such as sickle cell anemia clinics and free breakfast and clothing initiatives of the Black Panther Party. Saito, supra at 1096. The love that characterized these movements was substituted for FBI led media portrayals of these programs as violent, radical, and against American democracy. The FBI even worked to have certain people assassinated and ultimately destroyed the Black Panther Party. Similar to John Brown, citizens who actually strived for justice were “cast” as a disease to all things democratic. | |
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< | J. Edgar Hoover strikingly stated that one purpose of COINTELPRO was to “prevent the rise of a ‘messiah”’ who could unify the movement for Black liberation. According to Hoover, “Malcolm X might have been such a ‘messiah;’ . . . Martin Luther King, Stokely Carmichael and Elijah Muhammed all aspire to this position.” A second initiative was to “[p]revent militant black nationalist groups and leaders from gaining respectability. Saito, supra at 1094. | >
> | J. Edgar Hoover strikingly stated that one purpose of COINTELPRO was to “prevent the rise of a ‘messiah”’ who could unify the movement for Black liberation. According to Hoover, “Malcolm X might have been such a ‘messiah;’ . . . Martin Luther King, Stokely Carmichael and Elijah Muhammed all aspire to this position.” A second initiative was to “[p]revent militant black nationalist groups and leaders from gaining respectability." Saito, supra at 1094. | | | Despite the efforts of organizations such as the Black Panther Party to give “strength” back to their communities and to protect a group that had been historically been discriminated against through “self-defense,” the United States, as representative through the FBI, sought to destroy it in the guise of justice and preventing rebellion. |
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