In the Article “In the 1920s, A Community Conspired To Kill Native Americans For Their Oil Money”, Steve Inskeep explains how members of the Osage Tribe were being killed one by one at a unusual rate. Ernest Burkhart married Molly Burkhart with a scheme to murder her family and inherit the family's oil money. After they married one by one her family began to die, and they struggled to find a reason why. The worst part about it is a lot of government officials were apart of this scheme. Anyone who tried to stop or report the issue would end up dead within days.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation in an intelligence agency focusing on the collection of facts and information in order to achieve national security. Opinion of the bureau often varies due to the sum of information and knowledge that one have of the bureau itself. Tim Weiner critically depicted his own view-point in Enemies: A History of The FBI where he judges the FBI’s unlawful courses of action in exchange for security. Using declassified documents from the bureau and people he knew with great knowledge of the FBI, Weiner wrote his book following the history of the FBI from the early 1900s, when the bureau was first founded, until the modern days of the 2000s in order to show the negative direction the FBI had taken.
The Carolina Panthers got blasted from every direction in 2014, with injuries and personal mishaps and personnel blunders. Yet, Carolina was able to take advantage of a weak NFC South and make the playoffs with a losing record of 7-8-1. It’s hard to imagine anything going much worse in 2015 so the Panthers are likely to reward ticket holders with a division title and another shot in the postseason. Cam Newton is still the face of the franchise though he hasn’t proven himself to be a top tier NFL quarterback as of yet. That’s going to be hard to do in a Mike Schula offense that tends to run the ball and uses the pass like some kind of long handoff.
The Counterintelligence Program, also referred to as the COINTELPRO, was a Federal Bureau Investigation (FBI) secret program during the 1960s. The purpose of this program was to eliminate “radical” political opposition in the United States. One of the main targeted groups for this program was the Black Movement groups and leaders. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., an activist and prominent leader of the African American Civil Rights Movement, was assassinated by a sniper in 1968. The death of King is in connection to COINTELPRO, as there is evidence of a death threat letter.
The Carolina Panthers are a specialized football team in America Charlotte, North Carolina, who play in the National Football Conference (NFC) South division of the National Football League (NFL). The club is value just about 1.58 billion$, according to Forbes and is controlled by creator Jerry Richardson and his family, who have a 48.1 percent stake; the remnants of the team is detained by a group of 14 limited associates. The team leader is Danny Morrison, and the chief coach is Ron Rivera. The Carolina Panthers were declared as the league 's 29th contract in 1993, and began play in 1995.
The FBI has not always been the strong fighting force we know it as today. Before Hoover joined the Bureau it was next to nothing, local P.D. had more jurisdiction then that of the FBI. When Hoover heard this he thought it was like a sick joke without a punchline. So he made it his life mission
On May 2, 1967, Huey P. Newton, the minister of defense of the Black Panthers, said that “the time has come for black people to arm themselves against this terror before it is too late” (Document F). The group had changed to a violent point of view after they saw nothing was happening when they were
Cointelpro was a counterintelligence movement directed by Edgar Hoover. It was a series of illegal projects conducted by the United States of America, Federal Bureau of Investigation, to manipulate and disrupt political and social organizations in the 1960s. The purpose was to surveille , infiltrate, discredit, harassass through legal means, and use extra legal force and violence to suppress social movements . The FBI target all social movement, but their primary target where black nationalist leaders and a groups (Bassiri, 2017). Post 9/11, the same tactics were used against Muslim in the United States; their were subjected to unequal treatment with public policy change and unjust arrests.
Annotated Bibliography Books Dudley, William, et al., editors. Police Brutality. D.L. Bender, 1991. • Police Brutality gives information on how police brutality is a widespread issue in the United States and explains different controversies and cases that relate to police brutality. • The editors of this book include activists and nonfiction authors who provide reliable information on what happened during different incidences of police brutality and the viewpoints and controversies that come with it.
In contrary to peaceful protest and marches led by Martin Luther King there were other leaders who had more radical approaches to protest. Amongst these radical leaders are Malcolm X, Robert Williams, and the Black Panthers. The Black Panthers, a group created by in 1966, by Huey P Newton and Bobby Seale protected black communities patrolling areas with loaded firearms, monitoring police activities involving blacks. Since they were known for carrying loaded firearms FBI Director J Edgar Hoover considered the Black Panthers “the greatest threat to the internal security of the United States” (To Determine the Destiny of Our Black Community). The Black Panthers created the Ten-Point Program.
While Communism is not of major concern today, it was Hoover’s anti-communist manifesto that laid the foundation for the current FBI’s problematic methods of collecting information and persecuting innocent Americans. Spying and Censorship The Federal Bureau of Investigation has a long history of illegally spying on individuals of interest and innocent civilians, which originated from the practices of J. Edgar Hoover. Hoover “. disobeyed superiors and engaged in illegal surveillance as early as
motion, in order to send information to certain organizations beyond the executive branch of the Federal Government, as stated by Cathleen Thom and Patrick Jung (348). Hoover referred to communism as “the mad march of Red fascism,” because of American communists seeking to make a Soviet America (Weiner 24). The “zealots” of the communist party intended to overthrow the Government of the United States (26-27). Hoover had declared a war on communism, and he had multiple resources on his side. During his war on communism, Weiner explains that Hoover had thirty five undercover informants and sixty one FBI agents under his leadership.
The FBI also had to get tangible evidence from the social dissenter, so the operation called for undercover operatives to be placed in Rapoport’s class to “report on his subversive activities.” The danger Dr. Rapoport posed to the United States motivated the FBI field office in Ann Arbor to order the intellectual to be “embarrassed, discredited and spied upon in whatever imaginative ways” the local agents deemed necessary. This is just one of many cases of a gross abuse of power to physically drive an individual out of the United States for being critical of American policies. Valuable resources and manpower were used in instances like this all over the nation to simultaneously erode public trust and disregard real threats of subversion from state actors from 1947 to 1974. Another prominent and disturbing abuse of power stumbled upon by the Church Committee was against none other than the civil rights leader preaching non-violence,
The year is two thousand fifteen and the world is full of selfish, condescending, and rude people who are willing to step all over each other in an attempt to gain any sort of advantage. It was an autumn day as I wandered through the quite and simplistic forests of my hometown. The farther I journeyed, the more ominous the sky grew until I engulfed in almost complete darkness. Suddenly, I felt an urge to turn back when I was startled by a Florida panther. At first I was extremely surprised at his appearance, as panthers are nearly extinct, but as time passed I grew accustomed to his presence and him to mine.
Conflict, Racism and Politics: The FBI, the COINTELPRO Papers during the 1960’s American Civil Rights Movement. In my dissertation I intend to explore the issues surrounding the FBI and civil rights during the height of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, I will use the COINTELPRO Papers to provide the main foundation for my research. This will involve investigating how the FBI treated both Black and White Extremist groups such as the Black Panthers, The Nation of Islam and the KKK; and the more popular but less extreme groups such as the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. I will analyse the actions taken against each group, and compare the language used when keeping records on each of the groups.
