Watching History Channel on FBI: FBI tried to get MLK to commit suicide.

[cantstandbush]

A slap back to reality. Bushbots ARE what America stands for.

[unpossibles]

1. "suicide"

don't you mean "asymmetrical warfare?"

bastards. I guess they can't stand someone who actually preaches about peace, goodwill, and ending poverty.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

2. COINTELPRO

It defined the first ten years of my life as an attorney back in the 1970s.

You cannot believe what those fuckers did.

These fuckers are worse, I think, because the methods (and tools) are so much more sophisticated.

Eternal vigilance, and they've got to be stopped.

Read about COINTELPRO. I have a client who's been in prison for almost 30 years for a crime he didn't commit - set up by the COINTELPRO folks.

[redqueen]

3. ETERNAL VILIGENCE! YES!

It's the price of freedom.

Wish more people recognized that fact.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

5. What's really funny

is that Barry Goldwater had it right back in the early sixties. The older I get, the more the "real" conservative made sense and saw things clearly.

He was nuts about a lot of stuff, but, boy, as he aged, that man became someone quite remarkable, and, yes, eternal vigilance is the price we all must pay for our liberty. We keep learning that over and over.

[rniel]

4. Taxpayer money at work

It makes me want to puke, and not pay taxes anymore. The public has no say anymore, they are the deciders. Democracy is a big charade.

[WHAT]

6. I think MLK knew he was targeted, that makes him...

a very courageous man...

perhaps, more courageous than all the super heroes portrayed on gov't/mil exultation programs.