NSA spied on Martin Luther King, documents reveal

Posted by coherentpony on Wednesday September 25, 2013 @11:46PM
from the bbc.co.uk dept.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-24279394

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Re:NSA spied on Martin Luther King, documents reveal by dariusm5 on Thursday September 26, 2013 @12:03AM (#6448881)

It was not just the NSA that was targeting American citizens at that time. The FBI's COINTELPRO operations were aimed at "surveying, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting domestic political organizations".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

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Re:NSA spied on Martin Luther King, documents reveal by frank_boyd on Thursday September 26, 2013 @01:37AM (#6449110)

Now you know why OWS had no chance of succeeding.

This is how you kill justice, free speech and any other democratic movement. The thing is, this works up to a certain point, and then it blows up. If we're not going to correct the issue now, we (or maybe later generations, if we're "lucky") pay the price.

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