RE: An extremist studying extremism (COINTELPRO #1)(Repost)
"The only thing I will highlight right now is that in descriptions of COINTELPRO by people with agendas, it is always described with the intent of "silencing dissent"; these people never acknowledge the terror, the bombings, and the assassinations that the targeted groups were conducting against the American people"
Well, I acknowledge the violence of such factions, and agree they need to be stopped. However, I also find silencing dissent part of the purpose of Cointelpro ops, and much worse, as the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center revealed.
Such ops now are basically manufacturing terror, and 9/11 is probably the penultimate achievement of Cointelpro.
I deeply appreciate your honest convictions, even if I do not always agree with them.
Thanks!
I'll need to do a new post based on this response ;>
COINTELPRO can be used to describe the specific operations I am discussing, or as a method in Information War, although the methods cross over into assassination and dirty tricks, a hybrid to the next step on the warfare continuum.
and the government under the Nixon administration did use some of these methods with the intent of silencing anti-war activity (see CHAOS and the Huston Plan), not all of which was leftist controlled; such methods have been used since( and before) that time.
In fact, there is a whole post's worth of material about the break between Nixon and Hoover, long time allies, about the scope and responsibility for those efforts. believe it or not, Hoover was on the liberty side of that argument ;>
My comment was to make the break between these operations and the idea of the methods