by Kurt Nimmo, Kurt Nimmo on Geopolitics:
All of a sudden, the FBI is bad.
Now that Biden’s election victory is safely in the past, the story about his degenerate son is allowed to crawl from the shadows. The so-called “Twitter Files,” released after Elon Musk purchased the company, reveal the FBI had suppressed the story. In response to criticism, the FBI called those responsible for outing the agency’s attack on the First Amendment during an election “conspiracy theorists.”
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When you thought the world couldn’t get any crazier, the FBI now claims that the words of its own agents in tons of emails revealed by #TwitterFiles are conspiracy theories and misinformation. pic.twitter.com/Hx9uk5oAmP
— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) December 22, 2022
In the not-too-distant past—before the rise of the crony capitalist Donald Trump—the FBI was held in high esteem by the general public, thanks to decades of propaganda portraying what is essentially America’s political police force as white hat do-gooders going after human traffickers, bank robbers, drug dealers, and money launderers.
That’s public relations. The primary role of the FBI, as its late director, J. Edgar Hoover said, is to “expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize” individuals and organizations the state considers political enemies.
In 1970, as an 18-year-old antiwar activist, I was targeted by the FBI. I discovered this in the late 1970s when the Michigan State Police closed down its notorious “Red Squad,” an undercover operation that monitored me and other high school students involved in opposition to the Vietnam War. I was contacted by letter and told the Red Squad had a file on me.
“Red Squad officers investigated and exposed political enemies of the establishment and aimed to disrupt any social movement that appeared threatening,” wrote Detroit Under Fire. “Street level operatives attended meetings, surveilled offices, infiltrated organizations, and gathered information on demonstrations and protests.”
I did not receive a file, only a notification that I was a target. The Red Squad files are sealed. “Unlike FBI COINTELPRO, there are few documents available to reproduce from the [Detroit and Michigan State police] Red Squad files, because the court order requiring their preservation also sealed them, for privacy concerns… researchers can view the restricted Red Squad files… but may not quote from or reproduce the documents in any way.”
Red Squads collaborated with the FBI and its COINTELRPO to kill free speech and activism. Following the revelations of the Church Committee, red squads, rebranded in the 1970s as “intelligence units” embedded in police departments (along with the CIA), were supposedly disbanded. I don’t believe it for a second. The state does not abandon successful anti-liberty operations like COINTELPRO. It rebrands them.
In 1970, I was “neutralized,” along with others, for exercising the First Amendment and publishing an antiwar newspaper distributed in public high school. An informant planted a bag of marijuana in a car and the police swooped down and arrested us. Possession of marijuana was a felony in 1970. I faced a long prison sentence, similar to the one suffered by Detroit activist John Sinclair.
Thanks to my family and a decent lawyer, I was able to beat the charge. However, it would be years before I discovered FBI-Red Squad involvement in the bust. The orchestrated bust accomplished its objective—our “underground” antiwar newspaper ceased publication.
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