NSA spied on Muhammad Ali, MLK & GOP Senator Howard Baker

Police State

Operation Minaret set up in 1960s to "monitor" anti-Vietnam

critics who dared to use free speech in public.

The National Security Agency secretly tapped into the overseas phone calls of prominent critics of the Vietnam War, including Martin Luther King, Muhammad Ali and two actively serving US Senators, newly declassified material has revealed.

The NSA has been forced to disclose previously secret passages in its own official four-volume history of its Cold War snooping activities. The newly-released material reveals the breathtaking – and probably illegal – lengths the agency went to in the late 1960s and 70s, in an attempt to try to hold back the rising tide of anti-Vietnam war sentiment.

That included tapping into the phone calls and cable communications of two serving senators – the Idaho Democrat Frank Church and Howard Baker, a Republican from Tennessee who, puzzlingly, was a firm supporter of the war effort in Vietnam reports the UK Guardian.

GOP Senator Howard Baker
The NSA was illegally tapping the
phone calls of US Senators.

The NSA also intercepted the foreign communications of prominent journalists such as Tom Wicker of the New York Times and the popular satirical writer for the Washington Post, Art Buchwald.

In a further paradox, the Washington debate leading to the formation of the Fisa court was spearheaded by the Church Committee – a Congressional panel named after its chair, Senator Frank Church. That was the same Frank Church who a few years before had himself been placed on the NSA watch list.

"I suspect Senator Church never had any idea the NSA was tapping his phone," said Matthew Aid, an intelligence historian specializing in the NSA.

Alongside King, a second leading civil rights figure, Whitney Young of the National Urban League, was also surreptitiously monitored. The heavyweight boxing champion, Muhammad Ali, was put on the watch list in about 1967 after he spoke out about Vietnam – he was jailed having refused to be drafted into the army, was stripped of his title, and banned from fighting – and is thought to have remained a target of surveillance for the next six years.

The agency went to great lengths to keep its activities, known as operation Minaret, from public view. All reports generated for Minaret were printed on plain paper unadorned with the NSA logo or other identifying markings other than the stamp "For Background Use Only".

They were delivered by hand directly to the White House, often going specifically to successive presidents Lyndon Johnson who set the program up in 1967 and Richard Nixon.

The lack of judicial oversight of the snooping programme led even the NSA's own history to conclude that Minaret was "disreputable if not outright illegal".

The new disclosures were prized from the current NSA following an appeal to the Security Classification Appeals Panel by the National Security Archive, an independent research institute based at the George Washington university.

"Clearly the NSA didn't want to release this material but they were forced to do so by the American equivalent of the supreme court of freedom of information law," said Matthew Aid, an intelligence historian specializing in the NSA.

Together with William Burr of the National Security Archive, Aid has co-authored an article in Foreign Policy that explores the significance of the new disclosures. In addition to the seven names of spying targets listed in the NSA history, the two authors confirmed the names of other targets on the watch list from a declassified document at the Gerald Ford presidential library in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

 In total, some 1,650 individuals were tracked by the NSA between 1967 and 1973, though the identities of most of those people remain unknown.


Glenn Beck, Justin Amash on NSA Surveillance

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Liberals use Children in Slavery Re-Enactment on Field Trip

Education - A "Profession" of Retards

• Retarded liberal "educators" used a school field trip to bully black children into reenacting their white guilt wet dreams on slavery.
• What next?  A field trip for Jewish kids to reenact the ovens at Auschwitz?
• No wonder kids are graduating as semi-illiterates knowing little to nothing about anything.

Retard Alert  -  Those who can do.  Those who can't teach.  Never have those words been more true.

African-American middle school students were forced to act as slaves, pretending to be sold at auction and standing in the darkness of a would-be slave ship, all while enduring racial epithets, a human rights lawsuit filed by a student's mother claims.

Sandra Baker told the Hartford Courant this week that her daughter, who is black, said she and other students in her seventh grade class were “terrorized” during a field trip to Nature’s Classroom in Charlton, Massachusetts. Parents of the students, who traveled from Hartford Magnet Trinity College Academy 45 minutes away, were not told their children would be participating in a slavery reenactment when giving permission for the trip.

The girl told her mother that on the four-day trip in November 2012, the class was forced to pretend to pick cotton, simulate the quiet confinement of riding on a slave ship, and reenact the Underground Railroad - the network that slaves used to travel north and reach freedom before the American Civil War in 1861 reports RT News.
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White instructors, who assumed the roles of slave owners and oppressors, told the students that while on board the “ship,” they would have no choice but to go to the bathroom on each other and would be thrown overboard if they were sick.

“I went into a dark room where I had to sit on my bottom with my knees together,” the girl wrote in a statement read by her father this week in front of the Hartford school board. “My legs fell asleep and were hurting.”

She went on to describe how the students were told they would be whipped if they attempted to escape, some even forced to dance for their “masters.”

“I had to hold my head down and could not make eye contact with the white masters,” the 12-year-old stated. “I heard the instructor ask kids behind me to open their mouths so their teeth could be checked. Some were asked to jump up and down.”

Jon Santos, the director of Nature’s Classroom, told The Washington Post that the three-hour exercise was meant to teach students empathy for what slaves were put through, along with lessons about modern day bullying (the current liberal pussy buzzword of the day).

A social worker and mediation specialist (now there is a bullshit occupation) working for Hartford Magnet Trinity College Academy spoke with students earlier this year after they were put through the slavery simulation. An April report seen by the Hartford Courant noted that while some of the students said they have a new found “appreciation for what we have today,” others were clearly upset.

One student wrote that he “started to believe some of the things the group leaders were saying,” and another wrote that it “did not feel like it was a joke, did not know if the leaders were joking.”

Students told the social worker that the staff members – who Santos said average around 25 years of age - used terms such as “Going to get the dogs to eat you” and “Dumb dark-skinned Negro person, how dare you look at me.”

They also reportedly said, “You’re not a person, you’re property,” and “Don’t look me in the eyes, you’re worthless, keep your head down.”


George Carlin  - Stupid People  

 

The Suicide of the United States - American Elites Turn over the Nation to Hispanic Foreigners

RIP USA 1776 - 2013

Both the Liberal and Conservative political Elites hate their own culture

and do everything in their power to import millions of new people into

the US, re-distribute the wealth to them and grant them political power

over American citizens of Hispanic, African, Asian and European heritage.

Insanity  -  The Supreme Court ruled Monday that states cannot on their own require would-be voters to prove they are U.S. citizens before using a federal registration system designed to make signing up easier.

Liberal and Conservative justices locked arms and voted 7-2 to throw out Arizona's voter-approved requirement that prospective voters document their U.S. citizenship in order to use a registration form produced under the Federal "Motor Voter" voter registration law.

Conservative Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented from the court's ruling.

Self Loathing  -  The over educated political elite snobs in Washington hate their own nation and culture.

You see this hate with Congressional act after act to undermine American workers and push jobs and businesses to relocate to Mexico or Asia.  You also see it in the endless bipartisan pandering to a mostly Hispanic wave of immigration.

All of American society must bow down to one ethnic group in the form of employment, welfare, bilingual education, serving on juries, bilingual food labels, bilingual restaurant menus, driver's licenses for illegals and now even voting in elections.

Somehow immigrants from Russia, Japan, India or Nigeria can manage on their own.  The Washington Elites have chosen Hispanics as the "official" favored race of the United States.

And the moronic, mouth-breathing American voters just roll over and reelect the same bastards of both parties who are screwing them over.

(Associated Press)

"Black Americans need not apply."
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Democrats and Republicans pander to Hispanic foreigners while African Americans citizens experience massive unemployment. Looks to me like pro-Hispanic and anti-Black racism.
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Democrats and many Republicans are falling all over each other to both import and legalize millions of new workers when technology and outsourcing are abolishing jobs faster than they can be created.  Democrats are looking for welfare state voters while many Republicans are lackeys of the Chamber of Commerce that is looking for endless new immigrants in low wage and high tech jobs in order to drive down wages.
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See our article:  Immigration bill would “hammer working Americans.” - African Americans need not apply.