And, #AnotherThing...

The #IT hasn't #AgedWell... #TwasEverThus

And, #AnotherAnotherThing...

Why would #SH and #JM #SignOff their #TextMessages to #OneAnother; #Surely they #EachHave #CallerDisplay / #CallerID... And/Or #Know from whom their #TextMessages are #Coming...

#IT's #VeryStupid... But, #IT's also #Fictional; #So... #That's... #OK

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I know that everyone seems to love on Jimmy Carter, but I imagine the people of East Timor celebrated his demise just like you celebrated Kissenger's. He did love the old Shah too, amoung other policy horrors

#Carter, #TwasEverThus, #USPol

And it was Robert F Kennedy, who personalised authorised COINTELPRO. In 1975 the Church Committee report on the secret FBI programme concluded that

“Governmental officials—including those whose principal duty is to enforce the law—have violated or ignored the law over long periods of time and have advocated and defended their right to break the law.”

And of course nothing has changed in terms of the US state’s ability to “expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize" activist movements, except to the extent of the technology they can use for it. #twaseverthus

And it was a democrat senator who brought in the Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950, under which the US state excluded or imprisoned and deported so called alien subversives. One such victim was the great Claudia Jones who was deported for writing an article entitled “Women in the Struggle for Peace and Security" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia_Jones #twaseverthus
Claudia Jones - Wikipedia

#twaseverthus Democrat president Harry Truman initiated the anti left wing witch hunts, even before McCarthy. The Truman doctrine began at home

Here is Medgar Evers, a Black liberal, who was murdered by white supremacists with the active collaboration of the police and FBI.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoVYQ2c_TNY

#MedgarEvers, #USPol, #TwasEverThus

Medgar Evers - www.NBCUniversalArchives.com

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And here is the Patriot Act which authorised warentless surveillance, indefinite detention of non citizens and a host of other horrors. It finally ceased to be law under Trump.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act

#TwasEverThus, #USPol, #PatriotAct

Patriot Act - Wikipedia

Here is the state bombing its own citizens because a small group of anarch-primativists were preaching black power and animal rights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBZXRK_1vAQ

#TwasEverThus, #USPol

MOVE Bombing at 30: "Barbaric" 1985 Philadelphia Police Attack Killed 11 & Burned a Neighborhood

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Here is the Democratic National Convention 1968 where the state unleased terrifying violence to prevent people peacefully protesting the establishment's war

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Democratic_National_Convention

#TwasEverThus, #USPol

1968 Democratic National Convention - Wikipedia

Here is CLR James. He was expelled from the United Status for believing that every cook can govern.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUnO8lfoVBk

#CLRJames, #TwasEverThus, #USPol

C. L. R. James interview on his book "Black Jacobins" (1970)

Trinidadian historian Dr. C.L.R. James discusses his book "The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution." The book was originally...

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