Meatspace,

[jamesd at echeque.com]

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> > > >  there are plenty of SDS and
> > > > Black Panthers running around today, the vast majority never 
> > > > went to jail.

Faustine:
> >> Of course they didn't. The bottom line is that their 
> >> organizations were  torn apart by operations conducted against 
> >> them,

James A. Donald:
> > This is incorrect.  The black panthers were torn apart because 
> > they murdered dissidents, and "dissidents" came to include anyone 
> > who wondered if Newton was snorting too much of the Black Panther 
> > funds.  The same is true to a greater or lesser extent of most of 
> > the other armed communist organizations.  The first target of 
> > those arms was always themselves, to a greater or lesser extent, 
> > though this was most dramatic and bloody in the case of the Black 
> > Panthers.

Faustine:
> The FBI explioted this mindset to the hilt--COINTELPRO kept them all 
> twitching like galvanic frogs. 

To blame COINTELPRO for radical leftist internal violence is as silly
as blaming Pol Pot and the Ukraine famine on the CIA.

If those radicals were being murdered by the feds, the radical left
would have been eager to have them investigated, instead of closing
their eyes and looking the other way, and suddenly dropping vanished
radicals down the memory hatch.

The way we all reacted shows that we all knew full well who was doing
it. 

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