One of the more egregious sins of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, uncovered during the Nixon administration, was the secret war government waged against the left. So give the Trump regime points for transparency.
Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Authoritarian Creep Stephen Miller are using the assassination of Charlie Kirk to launch the next wave of its assault while the facts surrounding Tyler Robinson’s actions remain murky.
Court documents expected Tuesday may inform the public about Robinson’s “leftist ideology.” But the Tyrannical Triumvirate is moving ahead with their own indictment of an entire political philosophy.
Without offering a speck of evidence.
Hoover, the FBI’s notorious anti-communist director, waged covert and often illegal operations under the banner of COINTELPRO, bureaucratic speak for Counter Intelligence Projects. The stated objectives were to:
"expose, disrupt, misdirect, or otherwise neutralize" groups that the FBI officials believed were "subversive by instructing FBI field operatives by instructing FBI field operatives to:
Create a negative public image for target groups (for example through surveilling activists and then releasing negative personal information to the public)
Break down internal organization by creating conflicts (for example, by having agents exacerbate racial tensions, or send anonymous letters to try to create conflicts)
Create dissension between groups (for example, by spreading rumors that other groups were stealing money)
Restrict access to public resources (for example, by pressuring non-profit organizations to cut off funding or material support)
Restrict the ability to organize protest (for example, through agents promoting violence against police during planning and at protests)
Restrict the ability of individuals to participate in group activities (for example, by character assassinations, false arrests, surveillance.
Sound familiar? Except current FBI Director Kash Patel can’t hold a candle to Hoover. Or even Miller, whose official title is White House Deputy Chief of Staff.
Perhaps the most well-known “op” was directed at the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.
While Robinson is reported to have confessed to Kirk’s murder on the campus of Utah Valley University, the facts behind the shooting have yet to be revealed in legal documents.
All we have is Utah Governor Spencer Cox’s claim Robinson has a “leftist ideology” and some suggestions through social media posts that the 22-year-old may have had some common cause with a far-right movement that considered Kirk — and Trump — of not being right-wing enough.
A perfect void for the Trump, Vance and company to fill. Using both legacy and social media to spread their version of the “facts.” Much like former Attorney General William Barr did in advance of the release of the Mueller Report on Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Sitting behind the Resolute Desk with the assembled White House press corps, Trump continued his insistence the nation’s woes were purely the fault of “radical left lunatics,” conveniently claiming he was “not familiar” with the assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman until he was reminded by reporters.
But citing some of the right’s favorite targets like antifa — a decentralized movement of anti-fascist and anti-racist groups — he vowed a crackdown.
“We have some pretty radical groups and they got away with murder,” Trump said, without naming additional groups. He added that he was talking to the attorney general, Pam Bondi, about bringing charges under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act against “some of the people that you’ve been reading about that have been putting up millions and millions of dollars for agitation.”
While Trump did not name those “people you’ve been reading about,” Kirk and Miller didn’t hesitate in pointing at some of the right’s other favorite hobby horses, starting with George Soros and the Ford Foundation.
With Vance as “guest host” of Kirk’s podcast and Miller at the other mic, the pair declared open warfare. This was Miller:
“With God as my witness, we are going to use every resource we have at the Department of Justice, Homeland Security and throughout this government to identify, disrupt, eliminate and destroy this network and make America safe again for the American people.”
“There is no unity with the people who celebrate Charlie Kirk’s assassination, and there is no unity with the people who fund these articles, who pay the salaries of these terrorist sympathizers who argue that Charlie Kirk, a loving husband and father, deserved a shot to the neck because he spoke words with which they disagree,” Vance said, specifically mentioning the George Soros-founded Open Society Foundations and the Ford Foundation as likely targets.”
All this in the face of evidence that while both sides of the spectrum have committed domestic political violence, the majority comes from the right. A reality offered by none other than the Charles Koch-backed, libertarian Cato Foundation:
“Eighty-three percent of those murdered since 1975 were killed by the 9/11 terrorists. The Oklahoma City Bombing [linked added] accounts for about another 5 percent. Those murdered since 2020 account for just 2 percent. Terrorists inspired by Islamist ideology are responsible for 87 percent of those murdered in attacks on US soil since 1975 . Right-wingers are the second most common motivating ideology, accounting for 391 murders and 11 percent of the total. The definition here of right-wing terrorists includes those motivated by white supremacy, anti-abortion beliefs, involuntary celibacy (incels), and other right-wing ideologies.
Left-wing terrorists murdered 65 people, or about 2 percent of the total.”
Let’s recall that even if Antifa had an infrastructure, it stands pretty much alone against the right’s Proud Boys, Oath Keepers and Three Percenters who helped organize the January 6, 2021 violent attempted coup against a duly elected government.
And the reaction to Kirk’s murder, violent and otherwise, has been coming from the right.
The Washington Post, which once could proudly claim to have played a leading role in forcing Richard Nixon to resign, fired Karen Attiah for “one post — [quoting Kirk’s] own words on record.”
The same news organization that backed Attiah when she help expose the role of Saudi Arabia in the murder of Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.
Another example of the “sanewashing” much of the legacy media has done with the words of Trump and his allies. Another way to describe it is more direct — self-censorship.
But that was tame in comparison to the threats aimed at Massachusetts Democrat Seth Moulton after an appearance on CNN:
“I pray some good ole MAGA boy blows your [expletive] brains out, you [expletive]. You know, we have most of the guns, and you won’t find very many Democrats at the shooting ranges,” one person said.
What did Moulton, who managed to annoy large portions of the left for a comment about transgender female athletes, say to earn such venom?
“There are people who are trying to polarize us further, divide our nation further, and just blame the left even while those of us on the Democratic side are by and large saying we all need to turn down the rhetoric. So let’s be serious where this violence is coming from.”
Those people are led by the Tyrannical Triumvirate, looking to offer what former Trump aide Kellyanne Conway called “alternative facts” to obscure what may very well be unhappy real facts.
And maybe, just maybe, keep changing the subject from Jeffrey Epstein.
The legacy media has been frequently and correctly tagged with the bad habit of “bothsiderism.” But when it comes to declaring where political violence is concentrated, it must keep the spotlight focused.
Excellent
Thanks Gina