the "RESPECT" thing that triggered it.

Meanwhile in reality, her music will live on as long as we are a civilization and those evildoers are now just dust in the wind

The FBI has the resources to closely follow and investigate a popular singer, but, doesn't seem to be able to investigate an openly corrupt candidate for high judicial office, nor one for high elective office, nor, be able to apprehend someone who has stolen numerous highly classified national security documents.

OK. very good. I guess they will just march around wearing their little "Junior G-Man" badges and their mommies will be so proud of them.

simply because they’re black. Totally outrageous, and I wonder how much useless surveillance is still going on today.

There are two sets of rules in America . . .

Cops took me in for being a bit too mouthy with them at an anti-El Salvador protest once, and hauled me in. That's when a FBI agent "intervened." Tried to bully me to become an informant. I was just smart enough to take whatever he dished out but not give up one word more than my basic name, age, address, like the Legal Aid guy told us to do. FBI boy started getting mad, nothing was working. I guess that's when he decided he could scare up a little 19 y/o by locking me up in a holding cell until I cooperated. Ha! Try again, bub!

I demanded and got my one call to have my mom's high-power attorney boyfriend spring me. Never heard from the feds again. Charges weren't ever filed, no magistrate appearance, so that wasn't on my record at all.

Still, the feebs don't talk to you without writing up everything they do. That means I have an FBI jacket, somewhere.

Everyone should have one, and wear it as a badge of honor.

And have an opinion.

You can't compare the two.

Means “equality.”

And that’s a threat to some in authority.

or maybe those agents really liked her songs?

here's one of my favorites:

I love it though. First time I've ever seen it. Bring it back out at christmas time, alright?

#1 priority, and it was African-Americans, college students, artists, and liberals he focused on.

right next to Hoover. It'll save me from having to make an extra trip to piss on their graves.

I absolutely loathed Hoover. He's on the same level of hell with Hitler, Mussolini, Idi Amin, Bin Laden, etc.

Hoover did not approve of his anti-Vietnam War activism. To him, being opposed to that war = being communist and anti-American.

Iirc, he tried and failed to get Lennon deported. The bitter irony is, if John Lennon hadn't stayed in the gun happy USA, he would probably have lived a lot longer.

still has the FBI database of anti-war protestors that Congress ordered to be destroyed. My right-wing mother worked for the Heritage Foundation in the 70s to help them organize a library, and she told me they had that database.

good client. When I was downstate, holy crap that was a long time ago.

Cleaned her carpets and a few pieces of upholstery for a few years, a couple decades or so ago.

Very memorable experiences.

harassed the great artist Irving Norman for yours.

It was nuts back then. Still is, but in a different way
and much more sinister now because it affects
voting rights and results.