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Blogs Cliopatria COINTELPRO Redux

Aug 4, 2011

COINTELPRO Redux

by Cliopatria

This is madness, and historically ignorant madness. It will end badly. Period. There is no substantial difference between a red scare and a brown scare. Political policing is political policing is political policing.