12/26/12

I am a slave in the twenty first century, as technology advances, the shackle's grip becomes tighter, the vision for freedom dimmer, the pace toward liberation becomes slower, as we continue fall deeper & deeper into the abyss of dependency. Slaves in the twenty first century, delusionary freedom, more of a slave than before. Working harder, slave driver getting richer, wages getting higher, while the slaves are becoming calmer, rich slaves, a new occupation that the slave driver can now afford, gave the house negro a home of his own, applying satellite principles, now tell me who needs eyes to see or ears to hear or a mouth to speak. Slaves in the twenty first century, the slave trade now updated, from slave ships to police cars, from visible scars to mental wars. From plantations to penal institutions, from whips to billy clubs, from wanted posters to America's most wanted. From field negro to gangbangers, from house negroes to sell out niggaz, from the slave auction block to the NBA draft, slaves in the twenty first century.

To the children, you are the alpha & the omega, the beginning & the end, without you there is no future, no hope, no reason for anything. You are all, or there is nothing, & anyone who says otherwise is lying.

Free Peltier, American Indian movement political prisoner, victim of the United States counter-intelligence program.

Free Mumia, Black Panther political prisoner, victim of the United States counter-intelligence program.

Cointelpro was the FBI's secret program to undermine the popular upsurge which swept the country during the 1960s. Though the name stands for counter-intelligence program, the targets were not enemy spies. The FBI set out to eliminate radical political opposition inside the US. When traditional modes of repression (exposure, blatant harassment, & prosecution for political crimes) failed to counter the growing insurgency, & even helped to fuel it, the Bureau took the law into its own hands & secretly used fraud & force to sabotage constitutionally protected political activity. Its methods ranged far beyond surveillance, & amounted to a domestic version of the covert action for which the CIA has become infamous throughout the world. Cointelpro was discovered in March 1971, when secret files were removed from an FBI office & released to news media. Freedom of information requests, lawsuits, & former agents' public confessions deepened the exposure until a major scandal loomed. To control the damage & re-establish government legitimacy in the wake of Vietnam & Watergate, Congress & the courts compelled the FBI to reveal part of what it had done & to promise it would not do it again. The FBI secretly instructed its field offices to propose schemes to misdirect, discredit, disrupt & otherwise neutralize specific individuals & groups. Close coordination with local police & prosecutors was encouraged. Final authority rested with top FBI officials in Washington, who demanded assurance that there is no possibility of embarrassment to the Bureau. More than 2000 individual actions were officially approved. The documents reveal three types of methods.

To be continued

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