COINTELPRO targets

A. Analyzing the companies’ profitability ratios, I concluded that Target is the most profitable company compared to WAL-MART STORIES, INC. The larger percentage of the Return on Sales ratio for Target shows that this company is more efficient at generating profits from its revenue. Also, the Return on Investment is higher for Target than for Wal-Mart with 1.35%, which shows how efficiently each invested dollar produce a profit. Higher ROI shows better company’s performance. Another…

Identical twins are when one egg separates and becomes two. However because their genes are the same they will still lead same lives. As is the case with this article: Twins can be freaky, but we all understand why they're so disturbingly alike: Not only do they share the same DNA, but they also tend to grow up surrounded by the same people, playing with the same toys, and doing the same activities. They were most likely traumatized by the same cartoons and disappointed by the same birthday…

1895, in Washington, D.C., J. Edgar Hoover was the long-time director of the FBI (1924-1972) and spent much of his career gathering intelligence on radical groups and individuals and "subversives," Martin Luther King Jr. being one of his favorite targets. Hoover's methods included infiltration, burglaries, illegal wiretaps and planted evidence, and his legacy is tainted because of it. He died in Washington, D.C., on May 2, 1972. J. Edgar Hoover was a director of the Federal Bureau of…

J. Edgar Hoover was an intelligent man that used manipulation to his advantage and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to what it is today. Hoover worked for eight United States presidents and served as the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for 48 years. Prior to the Federal Bureau of Investigation being under the jurisdiction of J. Edgar Hoover it was named the Bureau of Investigation (BOI). Several members of the Secret Service were hired to become the first agents of the…

Mass surveillance will not work because various kinds of warrantless surveillance the government uses undermine privacy, causing a tension between the target groups and the government. As a necessary part of human rights, privacy allows individuals to live free and gives them a powerful feeling, which is essential to security and satisfaction. With privacy, people have their right to prevent their lives from being intruded by others. However, as the frequency of threats to U.S. national security…

surveillance tools to monitor citizens’ activities. During the Cold War, the FBI ran a domestic counterintelligence program called COINTELPRO protect the national security from hostile foreign threats; however, the program evolved into an effort to suppress non-violent protest groups and political dissidents with an array of illegal activities (Hutchinson). COINTELPRO negatively influenced the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. After the attacks of 9/11, the government has been again…

knowing it’s an enemy. The United States has had a long history of “War without fighting” on its poor and “African American” population. For example Cointelpro, Tuskegee Experiment, Eugenics, Planned Parenthood, Crack epidemic and the war on drugs all targeted the African American community.…

Post-WWII, the FBI argued that it could engage in surveillance sans authorization, so long as the Bureau determined that the “national interest” justified the surveillance. A notorious example of federal overreach was the FBI’s COINTELPRO operation, which suppressed domestic political dissent in the name of national security. The operation was uncovered, through the Freedom of Information Act, by reporter Carl Stern in 1973. The concept that law enforcement has the right to do “whatever…

The Black Panther Party for Self¬ Defense was founded in October 1966, in Oakland, California by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton. The party originated in California and it is now one of the first organizations in United States history to militantly struggle for ethnic minority and working-class emancipation. The black panther party was the largest black revolutionary organization that has ever been known to man. Strongly influenced by Malcolm X, the Panther Party’s intentions were to have…

The 60’s and 70’s was the era of Mexican American causes; they need for equality were based on the fact that they were excluded. They were poor un educated and were excluded from the national dialogue. During the early 70’s FBI and the U.S justice department did many dirty tricks to subvert the civil right and antiwar movement through sabotage, falsified testimony and they even went as far as killing leaders and organizers. Mexican American became frustrated and disillusioned with the…