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It really isn't difficult to find a number of examples of the FBI entrapping otherwise innocent people, assisting in political assassinations and planning false flag terrorist attacks
Help me out. Point me to some examples, so I know this isn’t just baseless slite that supports your hypothesis. It’s not something I remember reading in UK press.
miro_o-
The FBI was established by J Edgar "justice is incidental to law and order" Hoover in order to combat communists and other civil rights groups.
COINTELPRO is well documented - an FBI surveillance programme which among other things helped cover up the execution of Fred Hampton and Black Panther associates. It was via COINTELPRO that the FBI also tried to blackmail MLK into killing himself, and to an unknown extent encouraged the assassination of Malcolm X. More recently (last year I think without looking it up) a leaked FBI memo exposed illegal surveillance of "black identity extremists" - read "scary black people".
They've been called out by Human Rights Watch as having been actively involved in the planning of a number of terror plots, mostly for the purpose of entrapping suspects. Human Rights Watch concluded its report on FBI sting operations by suggesting that many of the entrapped suspects would not have committed any crime had it not been for the involvement of FBI intelligence officers. Check out the Newburgh Four for an example.
They were found to be investigating Standing Rock activists last year and were allegedly sharing information with private mercenary groups hired by DAPL. There have also been relatively recent reports of a prevalent revolving door relationship between senior FBI agents and corporations carrying out surveillance on environmental activists.
Also ACAB.
spiderpie
It really isn't difficult to find a number of examples of the FBI entrapping otherwise innocent people, assisting in political assassinations and planning false flag terrorist attacks, to name a few of their interests. They're perhaps a while away from being as outrageously evil as the CIA but nonetheless are not the friends of the American people.
I'm not sure I agree with your second point. Identity politics is useful to liberals like Obama not only because of the positive optics (how people are still falling for this shit is beyond me) but also because promoting individualistic culture wars has a divide and conquer effect. I guess we learned a lesson with Trump that the right is better at uniting against "PC gone mad" type junk than the "left" is at maintaining a coherent intersectional movement.
Edit: The end result of these kinds of idpol led culture wars is unimportant to the guys pulling the strings as long as they keep everyone fighting with each other. Obama and the Democrats thought they could play the game without risk of reprisal but their assessment was clearly very off.