Interested mostly in Hoover’s celebrity surveillance, Eastwood et al. barely mention COINTELPRO, and completely elide the assassinations of Fred Hampton and many other Black Panther Party members, the development of the violent proto-terrorist Secret Army Organization, the pervasive incitement of gang violence, and the vast array of life-ruining black-op schemes inflicted on tens of thousands of citizens.
The FBI’s reaction to the Civil Rights era protests–in actuality, every type of Constitution-desecrating espionage imaginable directed at virtually everyone who raised a left-of-Goldwater voice–is reduced to Hoover’s conservative-paranoid rants. There’s a danger here, for a viewer unfamiliar with history, to take Hoover as simply a blackmailing big mouth, and not a man whose opinions were actually realized by bloody federal misdeed, over and over again.
Monthly Archives: December 2011
Glenn Beck Freaks Out Over South Korean Skyscraper
Because everything in the world must revolve around Beck and the United States, no exceptions. . . He was pissed and the target was South Korea. His rage was so pure that he was demanding that the U.S. pull all of our troops out of the country immediately. Why? Because one of the S. Korea’s planned skyscrapers made him think of 9/11.
My church is this very chapel of democracy
Excerpt from the 2000 movie “The Contender”
David Attenborough: Wonderful World, BBC
The Gathering Storm
Wake up Europe, [and, until the OWS movement , the politically apathetic U.S.]
and smell the treachery.
Emma Goldman Occupies Wall Street
If ever there was a life that embodied the spirit that is driving the Occupy Wall Street movement it is that of Emma Goldman, who went to jail in 1893 for having stood on a soap box in Union Square in the midst of one of America’s worst depressions and, pointing at the mansions on Fifth Avenue, implored 3,000 unemployed men and women to ask the ruling class for work. “If they don’t give you work,” she cried, “ask them for bread. If they deny you bread, take it!” These words made those listening to Emma erupt in thunderous cheers; they also made J. Edgar Hoover describe her in 1919 (when he was urging the government to deport her) as The Most Dangerous Woman in America.
Rick Perry Playing to the Homophobic, Anti-Intellectual Cheap Seats, i.e., the Republican Party and Two Sardonic Atheists Responses
Rick Perry’s Campaign Video Playing to the
Homophobic, Anti-Intellectual Cheap Seats
Atheist James Kotecki Responds to Rick Perry’s
Knuckle-dragging Idiocy
Atheist Andy Cobb Responds to Rick Perry’s
Prefrontal Cortex Deficiency
The Advice John Lennon Would Have Given #OccupyWallStreet
50 Top Atheists in the World Today
Donald Trump Is a Perfect Ringmaster for the GOP 2012 Circus
Article By SALLY KOHN, Political Commentator
The GOP primary is an eight ring circus. So why shouldn’t Donald Trump play ring master for a night?
The Republican presidential candidates are doing everything they can to distract from the fact that their party’s policies put our economy in the dumpster and, if elected, they will all just do more of the disastrous same. The American voters see that the economy is, slowly but surely, getting better and backs President Obama’s plans to make it stronger while bucking at continued Republican obstructionism.
Voters and Democrats want America to succeed and can tell that Republicans–in Congress and in the campaign–only want Obama to fail, even if it means America fails, too. The dazzling side shows of the GOP primary are entertaining the voters, but they can tell the distinguish farce from the best interest of the future of our nation.
Still, with the always-entertaining Herman Cain out of the race and Newt Gingrich now trying to look more like a candidate than a curmudgeon, the clowns are running out of gags. Perfect timing for a man with implausible hair to preside over a debate with implausible political candidates.
Bring on the show! Every candidate should join in. American voters will no doubt tune in to see how many GOP candidates can fit in the clown car as they aim to drive our economy and our political system off a cliff.
Found here in U.S. News & World Report, dated December 8, 2011



