The US Government Destroyed the Black Panthers
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| During the late sixties and early seventies, Black Panthers brandished weapons publicly. State legislatures responded by banning the public display of guns and the U.S. government launched a nation-wide attack on the Black Panthers which included mass infiltration, violent raids on Panther meeting places, assassinations, and imprisonment of Panther leaders through the use of agent provocateurs, frame-ups and trumped up charges. The Black Panther Party was eventually destroyed. |
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The U.S. Government Destroyed the Symbionese Liberation Army
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| On May 17, 1974, police caught up with the notorious kidnappers of Patty Hearst, heiress of the Hearst media empire. The Symbionese Liberation Army, as they called themselves, was a small group of leftists, both black and white, who carried out killings and bank robberies to fund their "revolution." Patty Hearst "joined" the organization, and the core group of the organization was eventually tracked down by law enforcement and trapped in a small house in Compton, CA. It was perhaps the first time law enforcement applied the "corner them and burn them alive" tactic. Six members of the organization were killed, Patty Hearst was not among them. Other members went underground. Patty Hearst eventually surfaced, spent some time in jail and went back to the life of an heiress. The Symbionese Liberation Army was destroyed. |
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The U.S. Government Destroyed the MOVE Organization
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On May 13, 1985, the MOVE organization was attacked by law enforcement at the home they called their base in Philadelphia, PA. Their crime was playing loud music and using bullhorns to scream out their political message. The
organization was mostly black but had white members and advocated a "back to nature" philosophy. The organization has been labeled a cult. Again, the "corner them and burn them alive" tactic was applied by law enforcement. A bomb was dropped on the home from a helicopter and it started a fire. Members were shot at when they tried to leave the burning building. By the time it was all over, a few members survived but 11 adults and children were shot dead and or burned alive. Law enforcement decided to punish the entire community by allowing the fire to spread to 60 nearby homes. No attempt was made to put out the fire. The MOVE organization was destroyed. |
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The U.S. Government Destroyed the Branch Davidians
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| The so-called "Branch Davidians" were based in Waco, TX. It was considered a splinter group of the The Seventh Day Adventists and was led by David Koresh. Based on reports of child sex abuse and illegal firearms, the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) attempted to raid the organization's compound in Waco and was met with a barrage of gunfire. The raid failed and a 51-day siege of the compound and its members ensued. Members of the organization (which included men, women, and children of various ethnic groups and races) were subjected to 24-hours of loud music, tear gas, water cannon, etc. Instead of simply waiting them out, law enforcement (which included the FBI) decided to apply the "burn them all alive" tactic again. A total of 76 men, women, and children were killed and there were reports of members who tried to escape being shot at by law enforcement. The organization was destroyed. |
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The U.S. Government Used 'Militias' to Destroy Leftists Organizations and Peasant-Based Social Movements Throughout South America
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| Starting in the late 1970's the U.S. government organized so-called "death squads" (which they called militias) throughout South America. These militias were used against radical leftists, peasant social movements,and innocent civilians who were considered "possibly disloyal." These mass murder operations were greatly expanded during the Reagan Administration and came to known as "The Dirty Wars." The South American dictators and their US-based operators pretended that the "militias" were "independent" and "privately organized" and were therefore "out of their control." Tens of thousands of activists were murdered including an untold number of innocent civilians. An estimated 35,000 were killed in El Salvador alone. |
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Armed White Supremacist "Militias" in the United States Threaten Government
and Local Police Yet Go Untouched by Law Enforcement.
Why?
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| America's "Militias" are armed to the teeth and backed by a wide range of new laws that say they can go almost anywhere (bars, church, department stores, on the street, etc.) while brandishing their guns publicly. Why are right-wing organizations (fronted by Republican politicians) pushing "walk around with assault rifles" and "stand your ground" laws? Why are armed white supremacist organizations allowed to flourish untouched? Where are the agent provocateurs, assassinations, set-ups, and armed raids that organizations like the Black Panthers, SLA, MOVE, and the Branch Davidians were subject to? As we speak, the FBI and local police are engaged in mass infiltration of Islamic American organizations and nation-wide entrapment operations against Muslim Americans - but armed and violent white supremacists are untouched? What is America's "Deep State" preparing for? |
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The White Right’s Impunity
By Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report
If a thousand armed Blacks had gathered in one place, pointing rifles at federal officers, and two of them later cold-bloodedly assassinated policemen, the federal response would touch every Black neighborhood in America. But the armed white Right gets a pass. Racists are resources to those in power. “The national security state’s legitimacy is based on (white) mass fear and loathing of the Other.”The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) keeps a running tab of armed rightwing domestic “plots and conspiracies” since April, 1995, when Timothy McVeigh and his associates blew up the federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people. The attack soiled the reputations of grassroots fascists throughout the American “heartland” and prompted the U.S. Justice Department to announce formation of a “special unit” to, ostensibly, track and disrupt rightwing militants. Over the next several years, the feds busted a number of individuals involved in armed operations. Press coverage revealed that the racist “underground” functions largely in plain view, and that government operatives are all but a permanent presence in their ranks (just as FBI informant Gary Rowe was in the Ku Klux Klan car – and maybe on the trigger – when civil rights volunteer Viola Liuzzo was murdered on an Alabama highway in 1965). The whole pretense came to a halt on the morning of September 11, 2001, when the last scheduled meeting of the Justice Department unit was cancelled, for obvious reasons.
In 2009, Department of Homeland Security analyst Darryl Johnson wrote a report urging his superiors to pay more attention to “rightwing extremism.” At the time, DHS assigned eight people to track “non-Islamic” domestic extremism. Johnson thought the job required 12 people. Instead, his unit was dismantled by Obama’s newly-appointed DHS secretary Janet Napolitano, with only one analyst remaining, according to Salon.com.
The unit was ‘revived’ just two weeks ago, part of Attorney General Eric Holder’s flurry of cosmetic Obama legacy-building initiatives. Holder’s announcement was vaguely worded, so as not to create a firestorm on the Right. The unit would go after “'lone wolf'-style actors aimed to harm our nation,'' and would focus on anti-government plots and racist violence. Days later, husband and wife Jerad and Amanda Miller, who earlier this year had been among an army of fascists gathered in defense of racist rancher Cliven Bundy, shot two Las Vegas cops in the head and killed a bystander at a Wal-Mart. After declaring, “This is the start of a revolution,” they committed suicide.
“The FBI’s war has always been against Blacks, radicals, and now Muslims.”
Southern Poverty Law Center senior fellow Mark Potok told Democracy Now! he thinks “the movement is at least a bit on fire at the moment” – meaning, the armed, racist Right is on a roll. In thousands of churches, barber shops and hair salons, African Americans wonder aloud if the Black President and his Black top law enforcement officer are going to crack down on the neo-Klan uprising.
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Who do you think is manning Obama’s Killer Elite Special Ops legions in Asia and Africa? What kind of domestic law and order troops will be necessary to contain a largely Black and brown America to which the rulers offer absolutely nothing, but who must be made the scapegoats for social collapse?
That’s why the FBI puts a bounty on the head of sister Assata Shakur, living peacefully in Cuba, while allowing white racists to point high-powered rifles at the heads of federal officers in rural Nevada. Two of those fascists later put bullets in the brains of policemen in Las Vegas, but there will be no general crackdown on the Millers’ comrades in arms, no assassinations of Cliven Bundys in their sleep, no great Gulag of lifetime solitary confinement for white militiamen.
The Empire needs them. It always has.
