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Reverend Manny: 21st Century FBI: An Embarrassment to Justice J. Edgar Would be Proud of

19.2.11

21st Century FBI: An Embarrassment to Justice J. Edgar Would be Proud of | Reverend Manny and the Twilight Empire - "the Secular, Humanist Revival" - With images of dictatorial crackdown filling the internet media machine, it’s an opportune time for the American citizenry to re-examine our own nation’s vast security apparatus. While reflecting on our country’s many dark connections to Mubarak and numerous other dictators, let us also reflect on how our nation internally copes with legal democratic challenges other than voting.

To quote Michael Schwartz


You don’t need an $80-billion-plus budget and a morass of 17 intelligence agencies to look at the world and draw a few intelligent conclusions.


Focusing on even one arm of our sprawling security structure, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, leaves one chilled at the direction personal rights are going in this country. Under the guise of protecting “national security,” the 21st Century FBI finds itself engaged in often unethical, undemocratic and even Stalinist methods for “monitoring potential threats.”


Much like in the 1950′s the FBI continues to maintain troubling relationships with the most vitriolic and violent members of the political right wing.
Reinvigorating the Red Scare in the 50′s, “Communism” became the excuse
to prosecute peace and international solidarity activists of the Cold
War Speculation Era. Now, in this strange new era of political fear mongering, “terrorism” is the specter-word tagged on activists the FBI wants to intimidate, harass or just flat out oppress.

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