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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93King_suicide_letter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93King_suicide_lette... Let's not pretend that things are

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93King_suicide_letter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93King_suicide_lette... Let's not pretend that things are materially worse than they were back then. We certainly aren't blackmailing civil rights leaders into suicide anymore within the FBI.

eiji 6y ago
No. We just try to jail them or their children. E.g. Michael Flynn.
- maerF0x0 6y ago
  You're being downvoted. Can you please explain what you mean, how it relates and link to sources?
cwkoss 6y ago
How do we know they aren't? King letter only came to light because citizens stole it from an FBI office. Maybe the FBI just has tighter security now.
- ta17711771 6y ago
  Ding-ding-ding.
nabnob 6y ago
That's actually not true, and that's a really big assumption to make without evidence or direct experience. Radical activists today still face state suppression. I know of a communist in Austin who had an FBI file because he led lots of actions, which (I think) he discovered through FOIA requests. In 2018, the Austin PD colluded with two people who claimed this guy assaulted them while he was armed, which was completely false. He's in prison now.