COINTELPRO -- there's that word again

In the 1960s they sent the FBI after the "new left" for its crime of opposing a war that had already cost FORTY THOUSAND American lives and showed no signs of stopping. From previous posts here you know how they came after the Patriot Network in turn -- twice -- and totally failed to bust it up. Out of the clear blue, a killer news segment on how eight citizens brought off a mini-Watergate on the power that be in the early 1970s:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/07/us/burglars-who-took-on-fbi-abandon-shadows.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all&
Burglars Who Took On F.B.I. Abandon Shadows

What's amazing and beautiful is the gusto with which the media took up the story when it originally broke. As the burglar team was faced with do-or-die moments the night they did it, the media were in the position of publishing or not publishing the damning FBI files that were mailed to them -- and publish they did, in the case of the Washington Post right on page one.

Thus it's a long, long-running thing that the fedgov has been literally, clinically paranoid about its own citizens for close to half a century -- or is it its entire lifetime, by chance? In the original COINTELPRO period it was, as said, "the new left" they hated, feared and surveilled the most. At the time, the crazy irony is that conservatives were all for the Vietnam War and ending it was considered a lunatic-fringe obsession.

Nowadays the left is the federal government regardless of which party or Pezident is in power. And it famously considers the big ol' mean ol' TEA PARTY the main threat to public well-being. So do the media that defied the fedgov so terrifically back then! The Tea Party is a toothless tiger, a shadow of its former self insofar it still exists at all.

Accordingly, the government-media absolutely despises and loathes the real right, those whose politics mirror the Founders' era and the paleo-conservative worldview that healthily prevailed half a century ago and before. This is a totally ridiculous farce in which the federals lead lower governments in anathematizing anybody who properly exposes their crimes, killing some to make an example of them.

The extreme left still exists. From the Dummacrat Party to the Earth Liberation Front, it is committing mayhem affecting most of the population, frantically attempting to lure it into "liberal" fantasy land. It has a positively gargantuan size and scope today but an absolutely freakish set of priorities.

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