Re:Excerpt from CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944)
by culi on Saturday December 18, 2021 @07:58PM
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> overcome all the attempts to kill it and make meaningful progress
Well it certainly didn't overcome all events. The FBI violently executed the leadership of the Black Panthers through local police that had 0 repercussions for their (very illegal) actions. Cultural groups in the south like the Daughters of the Confederacy really ramped up their culture war and made sure to filter all history textbooks, put up monuments, etc. Cops have been able to kill black folks and totally get away with it for decades now
Imagine where we could be if Huey Newton did actually get elected to local politics. Or if the South didn't ramp up their culture war
Re:Excerpt from CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944)
by nebula8804 on Saturday December 18, 2021 @09:10PM
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Oh yea absolutely. A lot of these things you describe have direct consequences that affect us today. I guess I was mistaken by using the word 'all' as we are still fighting for this cause today.
I hate to bring this up but just think how differently things would have played out if the JFK assassination did not happen. I don't believe the conspiracy theories and so I consider it a black swan event. Where are we suffering from government sabotage today? Would BLM have turned out differently? Would we have even needed it in the first place if prior sabotage events didn't happen? Anyway this is leading into conspiracy territory but I just was wondering out loud.