I read a long paper by Churchill on this, and I have never felt so utterly convinced of the state's commitment to perpetuating a society based on racist exploitation. Even I was shocked by the FBI's literal war against a self-defense movement which engaged in completely legal--yes, completely legal--activity. The BPP's 10 point platform is hardly more radical than the UN Declaration of Human Rights, for example. But since the demands of food, clothing, shelter, and self-determination for those on the bottom of the social hierarchy are unacceptable, the FBI strategically spread disinformation, infiltrated, framed, and murdered in order to shut them up. If black (not to mention Native) people in this country advocate anything more radical, reasonable, and specific than CHANGE and HOPE on a large scale, we can see what happens.

Sisällyksestä:
Introduction: Beyond the Myth
Part I: The FBI as Political Police – A Capsule History
Birth and Formation; The COINTELPRO Era; COINTELPRO – Black Panther Party
Part II: A Context of Struggle
Why Pine Ridge?; The Pine Ridge Background
Part III: The FBI on Pine Ridge, 1972-76
The GOONS, Cable Splicer, and Garden Plot; Assassinations and Bad-jacketing; Informers, Infiltrators, Agents Provocateurs; The Oglala Firefight; The Disinformation Campaign; Perjury and Fabrication of Evidence; Other Political Abuses of the Judical System
Part IV: We Will Remember
A Legacy of Repression; Moving Forward