What would the FBI do with your data?
What would the FBI do with your data?
http://www.counterpunch.org/nimmo02012003.htmlSince there seems to be little if any al-Qaeda activity threatening Our Way of Life presently -- even though we are warned every few weeks of imminent (and unsubstantiated) attack by tenebrous doers of evil -- the FBI may need to "stimulate" threats in lieu of the real McCoy.
The FBI wouldn't do that, would they?
Sure they would. During the heyday of COINTELPRO, the FBI routinely used entrapment against members of the civil rights and antiwar movements. In a later and much publicized case known as Abscam, the FBI (at the behest of the Justice Department) used agents posing as Arab businessmen to contact various public officials for the purpose of offering bribes in return for political favors. "Before the Abscam sting against members of Congress in 1980," writes Alan Ehrenhalt, "the idea of inventing crimes and using them to tempt public officials was virtually unheard of in this country."
If the FBI and Justice Department have no problem using Gestapo-like tactics in orchestrated witch hunts against public officials, what do you think they would do to unknown Indian grocers from Minnesota, especially now with USA PATROIT on the books and the courts rolling over like trained dogs on writs of habeas corpus?
Every generation must face its own demons. The Bush administration and its minions, including the Democratic Party, are one set of ours.
http://www.counterpunch.org/nimmo02012003.htmlSince there seems to be little if any al-Qaeda activity threatening Our Way of Life presently -- even though we are warned every few weeks of imminent (and unsubstantiated) attack by tenebrous doers of evil -- the FBI may need to "stimulate" threats in lieu of the real McCoy.
The FBI wouldn't do that, would they?
Sure they would. During the heyday of COINTELPRO, the FBI routinely used entrapment against members of the civil rights and antiwar movements. In a later and much publicized case known as Abscam, the FBI (at the behest of the Justice Department) used agents posing as Arab businessmen to contact various public officials for the purpose of offering bribes in return for political favors. "Before the Abscam sting against members of Congress in 1980," writes Alan Ehrenhalt, "the idea of inventing crimes and using them to tempt public officials was virtually unheard of in this country."
If the FBI and Justice Department have no problem using Gestapo-like tactics in orchestrated witch hunts against public officials, what do you think they would do to unknown Indian grocers from Minnesota, especially now with USA PATROIT on the books and the courts rolling over like trained dogs on writs of habeas corpus?
Every generation must face its own demons. The Bush administration and its minions, including the Democratic Party, are one set of ours.