Challenge, page 5

In another internal FBI memorandum of March 9, 1968, it proposed neutralizing those who promoted fundamental changes challenging socio-economic conditions confronting poor and oppressed communities. The memorandum specifically encouraged neutralizing New Afrikan youths, stating: “Negro youths and moderates must be made to understand that if they succumb to revolutionary teachings, they will be dead revolutionaries.” This pernicious history of domestic civil and human rights violations by the FBI and U.S. military is hidden from the American population. For example, Americans are unaware of the extent the religious pacifist and civil rights leader, Martin L. King, Jr., was a target of the FBI, other U.S. intelligence agencies and Military Intelligence Group. The U.S. Senate Church Committee Report of 1976, entitled Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans , informs:

[T]he “neutralization” program continued until Dr. King's death. As late as March 1968, FBI agents were being instructed to neutralize Dr. King because he might become “a messiah” who could “unify, and electrify the militant Black Nationalist movement, if he were to abandon his ‘obedience' to ‘white liberal doctrines' (nonviolence) and embrace Black Nationalism.” Steps were taken to subvert the “Poor People's Campaign” which, Dr. King was planning to lead in the spring of 1968. Even after King's death, agents in the field were proposing methods for harassing his window, and Bureau officials were trying to prevent his birthday from becoming a national holiday.”6

However, the federal corporate government has passed new laws broadening the Patriot Act legalizing what had been unconstitutional police, FBI and U.S. military domestic activities. Black progressive activist in a class struggle for national unity, challenging the Black bourgeoisie to oppose this claimed war against terrorism, specifically, the new laws that severely restrict protest, demonstrations and dissent, as for example, the October 17, 2006, signing of the John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007, must demand the Black bourgeoisie to do more and fight harder.

In a private Oval Office ceremony, the President Bush signed the bill that permit his office to declare a public emergency and station troops anywhere in America, taking control of state-based National Guard units without the consent of the governor or local authorities, in order to suppress public disorder. On this same day, Bush signed the Military Commission Act of 2006 , that allows for torture and detention abroad, as Section 1076 entitled Use of the Armed Forces in Major Public Emergencies, essentially puts in place the mechanism for the implementation of “martial law” according to Section 333, which states:

“…the President may employ the armed forces, including the National Guard, in Federal service, to restore public order and enforce the laws of the United States when, as a result of a natural disaster, epidemic, or other serious public health emergency, terrorist attack or incident, or other condition in any State or possession of the United States, the president determines that domestic violence has occurred to such an extent that the constitutional authorities of the State or possession are incapable of (‘refuse' or ‘fail' in) ...”

6 For more information on Martin L. King, Jr., being a U.S. government and military target read: The COINTELPRO Papers: Documents from the FBI's Secret Wars Against the Dissent in the United States (Boston; South End, 1990), by Ward Churchill; Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press (Versco, NY 1999) by Alexander Cockburn; An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King , by William F. Pepper (2003).

To continue reading Jalil's Challenge, click on the following page numbers

1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6