COINTELPRO

Throughout the years the Black Panther party created a 10 point program as a list of demands from the American government. The Black Panther Party first publicized its original Ten-Point program on May 15, 1967. The points included, freedom, full employment, banning of capitalism, decent housing, education that reflected true African American history, black men to be exempt from war, immediate cease of police brutality, freeing all black men in the judicial system, with new trials. Included in…

neighborhoods were very much devoid of both white people and federal assistance, yet were also continuously plagued by abusive police practices and racially motivated police brutality. In such context, the extensive measures organized by the FBI’s COINTELPRO can be criticized on many different levels. Rather than supporting Panther initiatives to feed impoverished and hungry children, the U.S. government did everything in its power to underhandedly and systematically sabotage political activity…

is “war without fighting” either subduing the enemy troops without any fighting or the enemy even 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.…

The Civil Rights Movement, a turning point for African Americans during the 20th century, has had many fabled contributions. Among these is the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense , which did much to gain popularity as a Black Power association that worked to change American society through revolutionary tactics. Some tactics, focused on improving the black community through service, protection from police, and through politics. The party aligns itself more so with Malcolm X’s revolutionary…

Two civil servants who worked for the U.S Government gave birth to a baby boy, John Edgar Hoover on January 1, 1895. Three blocks away from Capitol Hill, Washington D.C he lived with his mother until her death in 1938, when Hoover was 43 years old. Hoover was highly competitive and determined to overcome a stuttering problem by learning to talk fast. He joined the debate team when he was in high school and achieved some notoriety. Hoover worked for Library of Congress because of his interest in…

Carl Bernstein, Amber Lyon, and Udo Ulfkotte all have a few things in common one of which is they are journalists. This is not unusual; except for these journalists have another commonality in that they all have spoken out about being forced to lie to the public by the CIA. They have basically failed to report accurate truth in much of their reporting under the direction of the CIA. The CIA uses mainstream media to gather information on individuals and groups to carry out propaganda campaigns…

Victims According to Bill Avery speech, “Now that’s being blown into dishonest narrative about hurting people killing people, planning to kill people. That’s just not true. We destroy government property.” Sergeant Brain McDonnell was a San Francisco police officer, who was wounded in the bombing of Park Police Station bombing in 1970. He was close to the blast and was serial injured and was rush to the local hospital where, three days later he dies from his wounds. Sergeant McDonnell served 20…

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…

police brutality for African Americans and wanted more African Americans to be elected in political office. In 1970, the FBI formed counterintelligence programs that were responsible for activities that weakened the movement by the creation of the Cointelpro. The FBI wanted to surveil and discredit this group, claiming it to be an enemy of the US. They sought to accomplish this by getting rid of programs created by the Black Panther Movement and making full use of the existing rivalries in the…

Edgar Hoover, a former director of the FBI who introduced “COINTELPRO,” an undisclosed action, which dishonored the black patriotic groups. The motive for this program was to uncover, dishonor, and most important compensate for the activities in which these black nationalists associated. This party’s enlargement triggered…