15-02-2015, 08:41 PM
Yes, the film looks very good. I was a big supporter of the Black Panthers. JEH was not...nor was the CIA and other intel agencies, powers that be....they were scared ****less by them - citizens taking control and power over their own lives and standing up to the Police and authority...can't have that in a neo-Feudal society! ::knight::
Sadly, with [Reichstag Fire] 9-11, unPatriot Act, Militarization of the police, complete electronic spying on everyone, Heimat Security, purchase of the Judiciary, Legislative and and Executive branches (as well as the media) et al., any such movements now will be infinitely more difficult - just as they are infinitely more needed.
Few know of the lunch programs of the Panthers and other very positive and non-confrontational things they did. They were murdered, set one against the others by infiltrators, and targeted for destruction...as were so many other progressive groups. Now we are left with a neofascist police state hiding behind a fig leaf of former democratic rights and privileges (now all but gone)....with teeny tiny vestiges of freedoms, left due to inertia alone. ::face.palm::
Sadly, with [Reichstag Fire] 9-11, unPatriot Act, Militarization of the police, complete electronic spying on everyone, Heimat Security, purchase of the Judiciary, Legislative and and Executive branches (as well as the media) et al., any such movements now will be infinitely more difficult - just as they are infinitely more needed.
Few know of the lunch programs of the Panthers and other very positive and non-confrontational things they did. They were murdered, set one against the others by infiltrators, and targeted for destruction...as were so many other progressive groups. Now we are left with a neofascist police state hiding behind a fig leaf of former democratic rights and privileges (now all but gone)....with teeny tiny vestiges of freedoms, left due to inertia alone. ::face.palm::
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass