What does it take to hire a thug to kill someone on your own side? What kind of mindset has so little regard for human life that it all becomes one big game of checkers?
Thug mindset. But this is not about Putin, but a much closer and more dangerous enemy of democracy.
In the 60s, the beginnings of political memory for most of us, it was the USA’s own FBI and CIA that ran false flag ops against American citizens that were deemed ‘enemies’ because of their skin color, ethnic origin and/or political beliefs. The famous thug, J. Edgar Hoover, has been written in history as using these tactics on, most famously, Martin Luther King. But run-of-the-mill ‘leftists’ were not left out, as anyone in the inner rings of political organizing at the time can attest. As late as the 1980s, when Bernie Sanders was running for national office, his rallies and gatherings were constantly barraged with ‘outside agitators’ stirring up trouble, filing false press reports, instigating violence and arson, and generally being a PITA. These spies and provocateurs, in a hint of things to come, often dressed in black and face coverings for demonstrations, but could just as easily be that dungaree-clad longhair in the next seat. ‘The man’ infiltrated these movements and caused injuries and chaos as well as information gathering and the famous ‘taking of names’. The police were in on it, of course, as were many local town pols, a traditionally conservative lot of shallow thinkers and racists.
‘Oh, the CIA NEVER does domestic ops’, goes the boilerplate. Two responses; one; who cares? A thug is a thug is a thug, and always bad news when hired by OUR government. And two; demonstrably false. My own dad, a most complicated man, a WW2 and Korea vet, recruited into OSS which became the CIA, on his deathbed, regaled me with stories of his own, quite secret, domestic ops. Face it. Our government lies to us, and that BS about what the CIA does and does not do is one of its biggest falsehoods. He was put out to pasture with no pension for alcoholism, after more than 25 years of service, including two wars behind enemy lines. Thugs.
Do you think that CIA gave up it’s thuggish ways? When? Why? All it’s records are sealed. I would bet (if I were a betting man, which I definitely am NOT) that CIA/NSA operatives are right here on KOS, reading this right now. They are everywhere. But this is not a screed on paranoia.
These tactics are in use to this day, as our Security apparatus is still run by racist, fascist thugs and executives. And it will continue until the Forces of Good retake (?) the reigns of power, prosecute the criminals and reorganize its institutions.
We MUST win the war. Losing big battles are tough, but life under fascism is tougher. Some of us out here are veterans, and we all swore an oath long ago, to protect and preserve the Republic. We don’t give up. ‘Get tired and grumpy and old, yeah, and sometimes die. But we don’t give up.