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In the US anything goes against dissidents
In the US anything goes against dissidents
Any threat to the status quo of capital will cause all cannons to be used to quell the “rebellion”
The list of activists, musicians, managers and promoters who died in strange circumstances is enormous. One of those cases is that of John Lennon. Photo: BOB GRUEN/EMI
The list of activists, musicians, managers and promoters who died in strange circumstances is enormous. Jimi Hendrix died from a drug overdose when he was no longer a drug addict; John Lennon, Michael Jeffrey, Donald Rex Jackson, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Otis Redding, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Mama Cass, Keith Moon, John Bonham, Bob Marley and Sal Mineo make up an index of more than 50 artists killed in situations doubtful
Alex Constantine, in the book Covert War on Rock, states that “intelligence sectors responded to the anti-war and civil rights movements by carrying out a program of covert assassinations.”
Provocative elements infiltrated the main civil rights organizations of anti-war, student, youth, feminist and political minorities. Each and every one of those identified as enemies of the system was subjected to close surveillance.
They planted false stories; They launched apocryphal proclamations of a violent or racist nature; They used disinformation to hold events and meetings in which false addresses or double summons were sent, and the content of the letters was changed to create discontent and internal divisions among the members and activists of the groups.
The leaders were blackmailed, the leaders were constantly harassed, false groups were created with undercover agents to carry out actions that provoked rejection in the population. Nothing was left to chance.
In 1971, the Police and the National Guard, summoned by Ronald Reagan, then governor of California, forcibly repressed the students of the University of Berkeley, who, together with various volunteers, had built the People’s Park in 1969. The The park was razed and, on top of it, a multi-story car park was built, in an attempt to erase the symbol of unity and utopia from the imagination.
With similar purposes, woodstockmania was created, a big business that sold thousands of records; Rock entered the circuit, attempts were made to domesticate it, make it commercial. Long hair, jeans and sandals became fashionable.
Propaganda accentuated the negative side of the counterculture, sold the image of drug addiction, psychedelia, and alcoholism, distorting the essence of the anti-war fight, of the fight against racial discrimination, against the intolerance of the system. Everything was perfectly framed in sex, drugs and rock and roll.
The CIA and the FBI worked together to prevent, at all costs, the fusion of the Black Political Revolution and the White Cultural Revolution.
This entire gigantic apparatus of covert war was also going to be directed against revolutionary Cuba. The CIA would do everything possible to avoid meeting points between Cuban socialism and the American counterculture.
Source: Imperialism of the 21st century: The culture wars.
FBI and Assassination of Malcolm X
Malcolm X’s Family Shows Letter Implicating FBI in His Assassination
February 21, 2021
Translated and edited by Walter Lippmann for CubaNews.
Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X prepare for a press conference at an unknown location. Photo: File.
The family of Malcolm X released a letter written by a deceased officer claiming that the New York Police Department and the FBI were involved in the assassination of the famed African-American activist.
Malcolm X was an influential speaker who rose to prominence as one of the prominent voices of Nation of Islam, an African-American Muslim group that supported black racial separatism. He spent more than a decade with the group before distancing himself and finally cutting ties in 1964.
Shortly thereafter, he moderated some of his initial comments on the benefits of racial separation.
He was assassinated in New York’s Audubon Ballroom as he prepared to deliver a speech. Three members of the Nation of Islam were convicted of shooting him to death.
The letter released at a press conference Saturday was attributed to former undercover NYPD officer Raymond Wood. His cousin Reggie Wood accompanied one of Malcolm X’s daughters at a press conference at the site where the Audubon Ballroom once stood to present the document.
Raymond Wood’s letter said he had been pressured by his NYPD supervisors to manipulate two members of Malcolm X’s security detail into committing crimes that resulted in their arrest just days before the fatal shooting.
Those arrests prevented the two men from taking over guarding the entrance to the event hall and were part of the conspiracy between the NYPD and FBI to assassinate Malcolm X, according to the letter.
“At the direction of my bosses, I was told to encourage leaders and members of civil rights groups to commit crimes,” Wood’s letter said.
Some historians and scholars have argued that the wrong men were convicted. Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance said last year that he would review the convictions in the case.
After Saturday’s press conference, Vance’s office issued a statement saying that “the review of this matter is active and ongoing.”
The NYPD said in a separate statement that it “has provided all available records relevant to this case to the district attorney” and “remains committed to assisting with that review in any way.” The FBI declined to comment on the matter.
Malcolm X’s daughter, Ilyasah Shabazz, said she had always lived with uncertainty about the circumstances of her father’s death.
“Any evidence that provides further insight into the truth behind that terrible tragedy should be thoroughly investigated,” she told the news conference.
(With information from Reuters)
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