{"id":178219,"date":"2019-02-05T18:50:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T23:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/02\/05\/they-will-always-be-j-edgar-hoovers-boys\/"},"modified":"2019-02-05T18:50:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T23:50:00","slug":"they-will-always-be-j-edgar-hoovers-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/02\/05\/they-will-always-be-j-edgar-hoovers-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"They Will Always Be J. Edgar Hoover&#8217;s Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>And now, we discover that, in response to KKK and neo-Nazi violence, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/feb\/01\/sacramento-rally-fbi-kkk-domestic-terrorism-california\">the FBI went after the people protesting against them<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p>Call me old fashioned, but I find being on the side of the KKK and Nazis vaguely un-American:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The FBI opened a \u201cdomestic terrorism\u201d investigation into a civil rights group in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/california\">California<\/a>, labeling the activists \u201cextremists\u201d after they protested against neo-Nazis in 2016, new documents reveal. <\/p>\n<p>Federal authorities ran a surveillance operation on By Any Means Necessary (Bamn), spying on the leftist group\u2019s movements in an inquiry that came after one of Bamn\u2019s members was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2017\/jul\/25\/yvette-felarca-trump-protest-charges-activism\">stabbed<\/a> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2016\/jun\/26\/white-nationalist-rally-stabbings-california\">white supremacist rally<\/a>, according to documents obtained by the Guardian. The FBI\u2019s Bamn files reveal: <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: blue;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/fbi\">FBI<\/a> investigated Bamn for potential \u201cconspiracy\u201d against the \u201crights\u201d of the \u201cKu Klux Klan\u201d and white supremacists.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: blue;\">The FBI considered the KKK as victims and the leftist protesters as potential terror threats, and downplayed the threats of the Klan, writing: \u201cThe KKK consisted of members that some perceived to be supportive of a white supremacist agenda.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: blue;\">The FBI\u2019s monitoring included in-person surveillance, and the agency cited Bamn\u2019s advocacy against \u201crape and sexual assault\u201d and \u201cpolice brutality\u201d as evidence in the terrorism inquiry. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The FBI\u2019s 46-page report on Bamn, obtained by the government transparency non-profit <a href=\"https:\/\/propertyofthepeople.org\/\">Property of the People<\/a> through a records request, presented an \u201castonishing\u201d description of the KKK, said Mike German, a former FBI agent and far-right expert who reviewed the documents for the Guardian.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue;\"> \u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Shanta Driver, Bamn\u2019s national chair, criticized the investigation in a statement to the Guardian, saying, \u201cThe FBI\u2019s interest in BAMN is part of a long-standing policy \u2026 Starting with their campaign to persecute and slander Dr. Martin Luther King, they have a racist history of targeting peaceful civil rights and anti-racist organizations, while doing nothing to prosecute the racists and fascists who attacked Dr. King and the movement he built.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The FBI launched its terrorism investigation and surveillance of Bamn after white supremacists armed with knives faced off with hundreds of counter-protesters, including Bamn activists, at a June 2016 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2016\/jun\/26\/white-nationalist-rally-stabbings-california\">neo-Nazi rally in Sacramento<\/a>. Although numerous neo-Nazis were suspected of stabbing at least seven anti-fascists in the melee, leaving some with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/may\/25\/neo-nazi-rally-california-stabbing-police-target-black-activist\">life-threatening injuries<\/a>, the FBI chose to launch a inquiry into the activities of the leftwing protesters.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><\/span><br \/>I really do believe that the FBI needs to to be fumigated to get the cockroaches descended from Hoover out of the organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And now, we discover that, in response to KKK and neo-Nazi violence, the FBI went after the people protesting against them. Call me old fashioned, but I find being on the side of the KKK and Nazis vaguely un-American: The FBI opened a \u201cdomestic terrorism\u201d investigation into a civil rights group in California, labeling the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[506,364,526,590,398],"class_list":["post-178219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bigotry","tag-evil","tag-law-enforcement-misconduct","tag-protests","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}