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Originally Posted by alexamenos
There's nothing to debate on this subject -- of course the government does all kinds of crap to dissidents. There are ample examples of dissident groups that had just about as many undercover FBI agents as actual members. Very recently a member of some anarchist, SDS type of group outed an army mole in their ranks...I'm talking a few weeks ago.
Smear campaigns, punative IRS audits....common as dirt.
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A point Noam Chomsky makes often (and I think it's an interesting and valid point, obviously) is that the Watergate break-in was a crime of a very, very common kind. Nixon's plumbers and others were doing this sort of thing regularly to all sorts of political groups....it only caused a stir when they did it to the dems.
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Wonder what old Noam has to say about Barry's little red list. I haven't heard much from him lately.