2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumIs Counter Intelligence Infilitrating BlackLivesMatter, Other Agencies Or Campaigns?
http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/COINTELPRO/cointelpro-methods.htmlhttp://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2015/01/_black_panthers_vanguard_of_a_revolution_chronicles_the_mission_of_the_revolution.html?wpisrc=topstories
http://www.chomsky.info/articles/199909--.htm
Right Wing organizations would certainly not like the people and the people in power of BlackLivesMatter and the civil rights actions of the Sanders, and his campaign. Hope that no infiltration of counter thesis happens to the Sander's campaign or BlackLivesMatter.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)Everyone knew O'Malley was entering the race.
Sanders has no realistic chance of winning, so why else is he running but to prevent O'Malley from gaining traction?
See how these stupid conspiracy theories work?
cali
(114,904 posts)from both governmental and non-governmental groups. Not saying it had happened with BLM, not it's not ridiculous to speculate, whereas your comments about Bernie, written to illustrate a ct are easily blown out of the water.
PatrickforO
(14,558 posts)Anytime any group of people ever gets together and begins asking for policies that will give them a better life, you can COUNT on them being infiltrated by government spies and provocateurs. Most times nothing comes from it, but if the movement starts looking like it will be powerful, expect its leaders to be tarred with baseless accusations, and if that doesn't work, then the provocateurs will move forward with violence so that violent police intervention is justified.
That's how it works.
DhhD
(4,695 posts)movement, for cover as they may have found a weak spot in those at the top of the BlackLivesMatter, organization. All of us for democracy, are for the cause of shutting down inequality for all Americans. Left wing volunteers want to see injustice disappear, not lag on.
joshcryer
(62,265 posts)I mean one of the founders was even at the SC disruption (where O'Malley and Sanders were berated unmercifully).
DhhD
(4,695 posts)these leaders are doing with regard to working with other organizations that work to stop injustice and the loss or democracy.
joshcryer
(62,265 posts)There has been no denouncement from BLM leaders on the Seattle actions.
zazen
(2,978 posts)People are in a state of shock and denial about climate change. The immediacy of profound racism in the criminal justice system and economic ruin has much more potential to get people out onto the streets, now.
This (failed) attempt to have African Americans arrested on stage and hauled off while Sanders was speaking would have, rather conveniently, harmed both causes and, most importantly, is already driving a wedge between these two causes, which are both really part of the same greater cause of addressing profound inequalities.
I don't want to be paranoid and there's Occam's Razor, yada yada yada, but I'd expect to see actual dirty tricks in the future even if this one wasn't directly orchestrated by an oligarch's "communications consulting" firm.
ananda
(28,834 posts)And that establishment would want to keep people divided and
especially divide the Black vote or else keep them from voting.
Why anyone would buy into this is beyond me, but it happens.
In the face of such extreme economic oppression and institutional
violence, what are people going to do? The only real answer is to
organize and force change, and that is what BLM SHOULD be doing.
What they're actually doing is playing out some kind of wish to be
relevant at the expense of their allies -- in other words, playing into
the hands of the enemy as though they identify with it.
That tells me that the oppression is so strong and deeply felt that
the oppressed feel as though they have to help or identify with the
oppressors. It's like an abuse syndrome -- if I can just change myself
in just the right way, they'll like me and accept me and I'll make it.
For this, I guess the rightwing sets up just enough tokens to make it
look as though this could really happen... even though those tokens
are more like weird zombie bots than real people: Condoleeza Rice,
Colin Powell, Clarence Thomas, Michael Steele, Ben Carson, and that
tea party guy I can't remember his name.
When a POC identifies with Palin, that is the abuse syndrome on
steroids. And it's just so sad because we're all just humans together
in this trying to figure out a decent way to live for everyone.
DhhD
(4,695 posts)..