Liberal advocates of a police state turn savagely against Edward Snowden

[timdog44]

17. Get real.

Most would have hated COINTELPRO who use the same kind of tactics as the right wing does to discredit the left wing.

Most liberals were doing or should have been doing the things that the COINTELPRO people were investigating. Protesting segregation. Protesting the VietNam war. Supporting Martin Luther King to the max. But most liberals back in those days wanted COINTELPRO to do what they did. Everyone, or most, wanted the red menace out. Go McCarthy. People hated the long haired dirty hippies who knew all the four letter words except soap. Who wanted the SDS? Who supported the Southern Christian Leadership Council? Or Stokely Carmichael? Who wanted all these groups? So COINTELPRO was brought in.

So even 50 years and more ago, we were asking for our rights to be taken away.