http://www.democraticunderground.org/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7154153Oh my.
Doug's stupid ex-wife, who might, or might not, have been one of Charles Manson's "girls" on that ranch out there in the desert:
EFerrari (1000+ posts) Fri Dec-04-09 11:47 AM
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“The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Pantherâ€
Today marks the fortieth anniversary of the death of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton.
On December 4th, 1969, Chicago police raided Fred Hampton’s apartment and shot and killed him in his bed. He was just 21 years old. Black Panther leader Mark Clark was also killed in the raid.
While authorities claimed the Panthers had opened fire on the police who were there to serve a search warrant for weapons, evidence later emerged that told a very different story: That the FBI, the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office and the Chicago police conspired to assassinate Fred Hampton. Noam Chomsky has called Hampton’s killing “the gravest domestic crime of the Nixon Administration.â€
Today, on this fortieth anniversary of his death, we spend the rest of the hour on Fred Hampton. We speak with attorney Jeffrey Haas. He is the author of a new book, “The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther.†In 1969, Haas co-founded the People’s Law Office, whose clients included the Black Panthers, SDS, and other political activists. He was the attorney for the plaintiffs in the federal suit “Hampton vs. Hanrahanâ€, filed against the Chicago police. the prosecutor, and later the FBI.
Footage courtesy of the 1969 documentary “The Murder of Fred Hampton,â€produced by the Chicago Film Group. Now available through Facets multimedia in Chicago.
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/12/4/the_assassination...
Hampton's fiance who was at the scene describes what happened.
panader0 (1000+ posts) Fri Dec-04-09 11:59 AM
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1. I remember this well
In '68 I started as a freshman at Willamette in Salem. My roommate was a young black man, just 16 (Iwas 17). He had the long leather coat, with a large 'Free Huey" button. I learned a lot that year. Mulana(sp?) Ron Karenga came and spoke (pre Kwanza). Those were heady times.
EFerrari (1000+ posts) Fri Dec-04-09 12:11 PM
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3. Juan Gonzalez mentioned this morning that it was Hampton that coined the term rainbow coalition.
I was 13 in 69 and didn't learn about any of this until much later.
Slight correction needs made here; Doug's stupid ex-wife was 13 during most of 1969, but turned 14 three days before the terrorists were put out of commission.
EFerrari (1000+ posts) Fri Dec-04-09 12:03 PM
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2. Commemorate the 40th anniversary of Chairman Fred Hampton’s assassination
Friday, Dec. 4 – events in Chicago and San Francisco, details below
after which an image of some poster
On Dec. 4, 1969, 40 years ago, Chicago police led by Cook County prosecutor Edward Hanrahan as part of an FBI Counter Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO) operation stormed into Illinois Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton’s apartment at 4:30 a.m. Armed with shotguns, handguns and a .45 caliber machine gun and guided by a floor plan of the apartment provided by an informant, the police killed Defense Captain Mark Clark and critically injured four other Panthers.
They gunned their way through the apartment into Fred Hampton’s bedroom. There he lay sleeping, having been drugged earlier by an FBI informant. As he lay there, the cops stood over him and put two bullets in his brain, at close range.
Other Panthers, including Fred Hampton’s eight month pregnant wife, Deborah Johnson (aka Akua Njeri), were beaten, dragged into the street and charged with assault and attempted murder. Not one officer ever spent a day in jail.
http://www.sfbayview.com/2009/%E2%80%98i-am-a-revolutio...
glitch (1000+ posts) Fri Dec-04-09 12:11 PM
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4. Excellent show today.
The bit at the end where Cheney and Rumsfeld tried to subvert the Church Committee's investigation of COINTELPRO and how the assassinations went all the way up the chain to Nixon was a healthy reminder of exactly who these people were and are. Never forget.
The Spitzer interview was excellent as well.
EFerrari (1000+ posts) Fri Dec-04-09 03:51 PM
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5. One more kick before it goes down the memory hole.
BeHereNow (1000+ posts) Fri Dec-04-09 03:53 PM
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7. I'll kick it too!!! Great show today, thanks for posting the link.
Hampton was a threat to the PTB.
Just like Martin, Malcolm and the Kennedy brothers.
Paul Wellstone is in good company.
leftstreet (1000+ posts) Fri Dec-04-09 03:52 PM
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6. Thanks for kicking this. I missed it
gratuitous (1000+ posts) Fri Dec-04-09 03:56 PM
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8. I'm sure the cops had a real good reason
And besides, we've come so far since that time, haven't we? All post-racial and everything. We even have a black president!
