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Chakab

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5. Does this surprise anybody? Comey has repeatedly blamed the protest movement for basically

Reply to Stellar (Original post)

Tue Jul 12, 2016, 11:09 PM

Jul 2016

anything and everything that's related to crime over the past few years.

I'd also point out that there is sitting Democratic President, whom the FBI director serves at the pleasure of, but the ensuing rant how the Democratic establishment doesn't actually support any of the grassroots movements in spite of the lip service that they pay to them during election years wouldn't be in the spirit of "party unity."

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FBI Greenlights Crackdown on Black Lives Matter Protesters [View all] Stellar Jul 2016 OP

+1, seeing the shooter lambasted BLM in his manifesto uponit7771 Jul 2016 #1

When will the FBI crackdown on killer cops? pdom694 Jul 2016 #2

So now we live in a country where the kkk isn't considered a terrorist group but they'll do this. craigmatic Jul 2016 #3

The FBI doesn't have to give them the greenlight SickOfTheOnePct Jul 2016 #4

A lot of people are unclear on such things. Igel Jul 2016 #7

How the fuck else are we supposed to blame Obama then? Glassunion Jul 2016 #11

Does this surprise anybody? Comey has repeatedly blamed the protest movement for basically Chakab Jul 2016 #5

COINTELPRO never really went away MrScorpio Jul 2016 #6

Meet the new FBI mountain grammy Jul 2016 #8

sounds like the chaney 1% doctrine. Javaman Jul 2016 #9

Correlation is not causation. Nothing in the excerpt supports the headline's claim. . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jul 2016 #10