-- Faustine
Still, if you read the documentation, COINTELPRO was quite a formidable program.
According to the FBI documents, a major objective of the COINTELPRO program was to detect when the Panthers did bad things, and use those bad things to generate adverse publicity for the panthers. But we know the panthers often did bad things without getting any adverse publicity at the time, which would indicate the program was not very formidable at all. An organization like the FBI will always find threats to security, regardless of whether those threats exist, and will always take actions against those threats, regardless of whether the threat is real, or the means legitimate. We should not conclude from this that all alleged threats are unreal, any more than we should conclude them all to be real, nor should we expect the FBI's actions to be competent or effectual. The FBI is doubtless formidable when its resources are marshalled against a lone guy with no money and few friends, but it seems somewhat less effectual against more formidable targets. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG dejpk8/VC1gQ+BWcMYsPjabAau5ab5Ux6d4TvfaK 4XFYqIaMT1SgApEjCSCmpCaMCTvaB7yOldgC7IF8n