Date: Mon, 20 Apr 98 16:48:29 EDT
From: boddhisatva <kbevans-AT-panix.com>
Subject: Re: M-I: FBI COINTELPRO IN THE 1990S: FWD








		To whom...,



	I'm interested in the information about COINTELPRO, but I guess
I'm a little dismayed at how shocking and outraging this seems to people.
If the campaign that the Hoover FBI conducted against the Communist Party
is any example, you know that these people will always behave this way. 
You had FBI agents themselves wondering what possible purpose their
offenses against the Constitutional rights of these Communists could
serve.  All that effort and what did they find?:  That Communists were
decent, law-abiding citizens - only the most concerned, principled,
altruistic kind mind you, good neighbors through and through.  FBI agents
said it themselves. 



	Meanwhile FBI agents would jump over four Mafiosi just to spray
pepper gas into the eyes of a radical environmentalist.  American law
enforcement is a joke.  They are brutal, bad at their jobs, entirely
concerned with macho fantasies of violent threats to the status quo, and
entirely unconcerned with preventing crime. They will never change and
it's unreasonable to expect them to.  The story of the FBI is not the
story of an evil plot by devious masterminds.  It is the story of what
happens when you give too much power to a lot of sad squares and losers.
They're like bad dogs: You don't know whether to kick them or pity them.
FBI behavior against leftists is only a subset of the general behavior of
law enforcement towards working class people.  Welcome to the jungle.  





	peace





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