Musings, page 3

It is imperative that progressive and revolutionary forces exposes how the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, the Department of Defense and the various branches of the military serve to maintain corporate capitalism-imperialism. In this way, it will be exposed how various branches of the judiciary creates laws that undermine equal justice and uphold the existing system of national and class oppression. This should not be a surprise when considering the FBI's memorandum of August 25, 1967 describing the purpose and intent of Cointelpro:

“…to expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize the activities of black nationalist, hate-type organizations and groupings, their leadership, spokesmen, membership, and supporters, and to counter their propensity for violence and civil disorder.

The pernicious background of such groups, their duplicity, and such publicity will have a neutralizing effect. Efforts of the various groups to consolidate their forces or to recruit new or youthful adherents must be frustrated. No opportunity should be missed to exploit through counterintelligence techniques the organizational and personal conflicts of the leadership of the groups and where possible an effort should be made to capitalize upon existing conflicts between competing Black Nationalist organizations. When an opportunity is apparent to disrupt or neutralize Black Nationalist, hate-type organizations through cooperation of established local news media contacts or through such contact with sources available to the Seat of Government, in every instance careful attention must be given to the proposal to insure the targeted group is disrupted, ridiculed, or discredited through publicity and not merely publicized.

Intensified attention under this program should be afforded to the activities of such groups as the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Revolutionary Action Movement, the Deacons for Defense and Justice, Congress of Racial Equality, Nation of Islam. Particular emphasis should be given to extremists who direct the activities and policies of revolutionary or militant groups as Stokely Carmichael, H. “Rap” Brown, Elijah Muhammad, and Maxwell Stanford.”

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.” The history of domestic civil and human rights violations by the FBI and U.S. military has been deliberately hidden from the American population, as from 1966 to 1975 the Black Panther Party was a principle target. 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.”3

However, since September 11, 2001 , a series of laws has legalized what had been unconstitutional police, FBI and U.S. military domestic activities. In anticipation of U.S. progressive activist opposing this claimed war against terrorism, the federal corporate government has passed new laws broadening the Patriot Act. Specifically, these new laws severely restrict protest, demonstrations and dissent, as for example, the October 17, 2006 , signing of the John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007 . In a private Oval Office ceremony, the president 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.

3 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).

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