Comments by "Kim O\x27Brien" (@kimobrien.) on "Synagogue shooting suspect targeted Jews online" video.

What CNN is advocating is a return to unlimited secret police spying. They had this during the civil rights era. The FBI spies that were in the KKK did nothing before the KKK let lose its murderous attacks. The hard core in the KKK was the white policeman. At the same time the Cointelpro program was opperted by the FBI to target those who were fighting for racial justice. They sent a letter to MLK saying he should kill himself and the FBI had a policy to prevent the rise of a Black Messiah.
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@Robert Escher I don't think you know what your talking about. Their were many police state measures taken at the end of the 1940's through the 1950's. Things were much harsher back then. There were the Hollywood blacklists, the Taft Hartley law, the Attorney General's list of subversive organizations, the Smith (Gag) Act and Communist control act of 1954. Every where people wanted a job or government help people were required to sign or swear to government loyalty oaths. People were hauled before Congressional committees and were told that they must give the names of communists they knew. If you refused on 5th Amendment grounds you were given contempt of congress charges with a one year jail sentence. Most of these laws and the FBI's Cointelpro Programs were either found unconstitutional, unused or scraped by the early 1970's. A combination of the Cuban revolution, the Black rights fight, and the Anti war movement pushed back J Edgar Hoover's spies and their mission impossible tactics. Many of these tactics were exposed in Socialist Workers Party v Attorney General. after which a permanent Injunction was issued ending 40 years of FBI opened ended investigation and police state tactics. The reason they haven't returned to using these tactics is two fold. One is they are economically expensive with little to no return. The second is because they don't see themselves as needing them considering the political costs for those measures. if the class struggle heats up they may very well return to at least the secret parts of those measures because the real target of that kind of stuff is the trade unions.
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Oh and one more thing J Edgar Hoover was the FBI's head in both Democratic Party and Republican Party administions. Democratic Parties FDR started the Witch Hunt with both parties continuing it. The Smith (gag) Act was the first law to criminalize speech since the Alien and Sedition act of 1792. Smith was an anti labor senate Democrat from Virginia.
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@Robert Escher Like I said you don't know what your talking about. The Patriot Act measures were almost immediately challenged and pushed back. It took eight years to get Jimmy Kutcher's (the legless Veteran) job at the VA and VA benefits back. Did you have the FBI show up at your job asking questions? Did you have to sign a loyalty oath to get a student loan? Anne and Carl Braden were charged with sedition for selling a home to an African American couple. Carl Braden was hauled before Congress given a one years sentence upheld by 9 black robbed robbers of the Supreme Court.
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The Bradens were Journalist. Has Trump had any journalist arrested for sedition? Nixon was probably the biggest loser ever elected. He was the one who signed off on the end of the Attorney General's list. When he couldn't win in Vietnam militarily he tried to get diplomatic assistance from the sellouts in Moscow and Beijing while bombs rained on Vietnam.
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I do agree when the passage of such laws (Patriot Act) are a danger to free speech. The Smith (gag) Act was originally passed as a law meant to stop a NAZI 5th column before WW2.
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