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Or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93King_letter

Interesting, true citizen action only revealed the FBI was the author of the blackmailing of MLK.

> On March 8, 1971, an activist group called the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI burglarized a local office of the FBI in Media, Pennsylvania, and stole classified documents. Parts of them exposed a secret FBI operation called COINTELPRO. Those documents were later sent to newspapers and members of the United States Congress.

Some might call this lawlessness, but in a society where the government is keeping secrets from its own constituents, this sort of actions are the only ones a citizen can realistically do to return from a lawless and corrupt government, sadly.

Shame some societies digress into this state in the first place, even bigger shame when they keep sliding deeper and deeper into it.

The corruption of government begins with its secrets. A truly free people keep no secrets.

COINTELPRO was the physical intimidation and enforcement operation when Operation Mockingbird's total information control of corporate media failed to convince people that democracy was real. Even when both got exposed, the corporate media basically ignored Mockingbird because they were complicit.

Fast forward to today, and the only difference is they now own all the Social Media and A.I. If you want truth in journalism, support small local journalists, and ignore corporate news.

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