To be fair, you have to admit that the FBI did eventually stop its surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King Jr.
Hadrian said 04/14, 10:03 AM
Indeed, after King was assassinated, the FBI stopped trying to get King to kill himself.
After King delivered his "I have a dream speech", an FBI memo called King the "most dangerous and effective Negro leader in the country." And the FBI worked hard at its goal of "neutralizing King as an effective Negro leader," including breaking into King's office, home and hotel rooms to install bugs.
After getting compromising information about his love life, the FBI even sent King an anonymous and threatening note. "King, there is only one thing left for you to do. You know what it is ... You better take it before your filthy, abnormal fraudulent self is bared to the nation." [1]
However, federal agents did spy on the widow of King for several years after his assassination in 1968. The FBI was worried about her following in the footsteps of the slain civil rights icon. [2]
But all that was back in the Vietnam era. We don't let events of that time influence our attitudes and actions 40 years later, do we? God damn, America. It's time to move past the past, isn't it?
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I'll take this as a forfeit ilikecaptialpunishment. Thanks for playing.
Hadrian | 04/23/08
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More than 50 years of cover stories about the 35th President
And it's that surveillance that makes me wonder how JFK and his brother Bobby always get a free pass on the issue of civil rights. JFK was too nervous about losing southern democrat voters to do anything substantial, and Bobby headed the MLK spying. Then again, that's revisionist history, folks. So next time you see any attempted inspirational propaganda bearing images of JFK and MLK together, think twice before you say, "Awww."
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