EDITORIAL FERGUSON, MISSOURI, THE NEW BLACK PANTHERS, AND THE F.B.I.: COINTELPRO 101 BY Phil Seahorn KSDK CHANNEL FIVE IN ST. LOUIS RECENTLY POSTED ON THEIR SITE A STORY ON HOW THE
NEW BLACK PANTEHRS PLANNED TO BOMB THE GATEWAY ARCH.IF YOU READ THE POST FROM KSDK, YOU’LL NOTICE A LOT OF “QUOTATION MARKS” SURROUND THE ALLEGATIONS AGAINST THE NEW BLACK PANTHERS.KSDK SEEMS TO KNOW THE REAL DEAL BEHIND THESE “ALLEGATIONS.” The Channel Five news department has been all over the stories coming out of North County in St. Louis as far back as 2011 on military maneuvers and equipment
running up and down the streets of North county neighborhoods. The station asked numerous questions, but the story eventually went away. HOWEVER, two other local media outlets covered this story of military buildup back in 2011 in the North county areas of St. Louis, Missouri AND the use of military equipment by St. Louis, Missouri cops as far back as 2010. Ferguson, Missouri is right in the heart of North County. So now we have these “allegations” by the Feds on how The New Black Panthers, amid the HUNDREDS of very vocal and highly televised threats coming from across the country against Ferguson Missouri residents, including very vocal threats by St Louis branch of the Ku Klux Klan, and THIS is what the feds come up with in terms of formal charges against Ferguson Missouri participants? I have to ask myself this question: what the fuck planet are these black folks who formed “the New Black Panther’s” from in the first fucking place? Who the fuck in their right mind would reform an organization that has become TEXTBOOK F.B.I. procedure in Fed school for fucking with and DESTROYING organizations of people of color who strive for advancement? That’s right. ADVANCEMENT. The PANTHERS back in the day started food banks, neighborhood watch groups, even created BLACK OWNED BANKS right in the hood. As a matter of fact, toward the end of the run for the Panthers back in the early 70’s, they had all but abandoned their interests in “killing whitey” and devoted all their time to the improvement in the communities of color around the U. S. back in the day.
The U.S. government decided that this advancement of people of color in the U.S. was WAY too premature, and created a whole set of government provisions solely designed to destroy the Black Panthers. This program was called COINTELPRO. As a very young child in the sixties with parents who were activists, I personally had a taste of the evil and sick shit that people of COINTELPRO used against my parents. My parents were involved in rent strikes back in 1968 for the Peabody Projects in St. Louis where we lived. These rent strikes were going all over the country. Black folks simply stopped paying rent to racist real estate owners and property managers. Black folks back in the day demanded better living conditions and controlled prices for rent. Since my parents were heavily involved in the St. Louis area locally, we would start to get threatening phone calls. Can you imagine what it’s like for a nine year old kid to pick up the phone to hear some white racist motherfucker going: “We’re going to kill all the niggers in the Projects, starting with you?” These tactics destroyed the Panthers back in the day. And the media and historians have stuck to the phase of the Panthers that dealt solely with white hatred, maligning the Panthers and COMPLETELY distorting their image. They did this with Malcolm X, who people only largely know for his period of hatred towards whites, and not his COMPLETE ABANDONING OF HIS HATRED and adopting a more universal approach to his teachings right before the Feds (and Cointelpro) murdered him. They NEVER tell that part about. So, this shit with the New Black Panthers? Completely in script with how the whole Ferguson Missouri thing is being laid down. This
is just keeping the racial angle to Ferguson front and center, and masking the REAL AND INSIDIOUS shit that is REALLY going down. I have included some links on how the F.B.I. has been setting up men of color for “domestic terrorism.” These charges against the Panthers, despite all the other threats made during the Ferguson debacle? Complete bullshit, and more of the “new” Cointelpro. It’s called The Patriot Act.
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LINKS ROLLING STONE article on how the Feds have been setting up men of color as ‘domestic terrorists”: http://guylawson.com/pdf/rollingstone/fearfactory.pdf
TOP SECRET AMERICA, the website project from THE WASHINGTON POST solely dedicated to uncovering the widespread misuse of appropriations and privileges thru The Patriot Act. In other words, how it’s being used to fuck with people, ESPECIALLY COMMUNITES OF COLOR IN THE.U.S. : http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/