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Kid Berwyn

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27. Fred Hampton and Mark Clark

Reply to Tommymac (Original post)

Mon Dec 5, 2022, 02:45 PM

Dec 2022

Last edited Tue Dec 6, 2022, 08:43 AM - Edit history (1)

J Edgar Hoover personally approved a bonus for the informant.

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Hey FBI: If it was good enough for Black Panthers, it should be good enough for White Supremacists. [View all] Tommymac Dec 2022 OP

This sounds a lot like CRT! Ray Bruns Dec 2022 #1

🤣 nt Tommymac Dec 2022 #2

Sounds like lessons that can be learned from history, which is sorta... brush Dec 2022 #3

If the FBI were saturated with Black Panther sympathizers during that controversy, Eyeball_Kid Dec 2022 #4

'struth! bringthePaine Dec 2022 #10

Yes the Black Panthers dared to help people IbogaProject Dec 2022 #5

Thank You for Shining the Light of Truth. Tommymac Dec 2022 #13

This. calimary Dec 2022 #16

Saint Ronnie got CA gun control orthoclad Dec 2022 #23

K&R, uponit7771 Dec 2022 #32

Yes, the Black Panthers was not terrorist organization despite the fact Solomon Dec 2022 #34

Hear Hear, Sir The Magistrate Dec 2022 #6

Fred Hampton jalan48 Dec 2022 #7

Thank You for the background. Tommymac Dec 2022 #9

I was in college when it happened. I've also read that Hoover used the Mafia during this period to jalan48 Dec 2022 #15

Like the CIA and cocaine orthoclad Dec 2022 #24

Reagan had to have his war in Central America. jalan48 Dec 2022 #28

The "War On Drugs" orthoclad Dec 2022 #29

That happened after the trial of the Chicago 8 started. Ilsa Dec 2022 #30

Post removed Post removed Dec 2022 #8

🤣👍 bringthePaine Dec 2022 #12

You thought that was funny? William769 Dec 2022 #18

no shit. bam...!!! llashram Dec 2022 #11

they did quite a job on occupy, too. mopinko Dec 2022 #14

Yes, they did. Tommymac Dec 2022 #20

I remember in the 00s, when we started to hear about Oaf Keepers Warpy Dec 2022 #17

I marched with the Singing Grannies in Cindy's 2005 Anti-War March in DC Tommymac Dec 2022 #22

Yeah I remember that! Richard58 Dec 2022 #40

Well, totally believable if you went through the antiwar 60s Warpy Dec 2022 #41

LIKE republianmushroom Dec 2022 #19

Since there are so many mentally ill white people IronLionZion Dec 2022 #21

The FBI did the same to the Weathermen and the demonstrators against the Democratic National Martin68 Dec 2022 #25

No to both. former9thward Dec 2022 #33

former8thward, I'm afraid you are wrong on both counts. Martin68 Dec 2022 #42

Your post that you made that I was replying to: former9thward Dec 2022 #43

You are right. The FBI was not involved insetting them up, just employing dirty tricks to put them Martin68 Dec 2022 #44

If Black and Brown people started buying assault-type weapons in the same quantities as their... Raster Dec 2022 #26

Fred Hampton and Mark Clark Kid Berwyn Dec 2022 #27

Wasn't there some Black Power group that got their house blown up? raging moderate Dec 2022 #31

This? ... ret5hd Dec 2022 #36

Thank you. That is it. Terrible. raging moderate Dec 2022 #39

Pennsylvania State Police bombed the MOVE commune in 1985... Kid Berwyn Dec 2022 #37

Yes. That was the one. Horrendous. raging moderate Dec 2022 #38

Great thread;. K & R Permanut Dec 2022 #35