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Genki Hikari

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26. They weren't any nicer to white liberal women

Sun Oct 2, 2022, 11:07 PM

Oct 2022

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.

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Aretha Franklin Was Tracked By the FBI for 40 Years. Here's What's In Her File [View all] douglas9 Oct 2022 OP

It must have been Turbineguy Oct 2022 #1

Hoover, I would bet. Butterflylady Oct 2022 #2

They've always been with us haven't they? Sickening. mahina Oct 2022 #3

OK, so let me get this straight Otto_Harper Oct 2022 #4

The FBI is mostly Republican. We should not tolerate surveillance like this of US citizens Lonestarblue Oct 2022 #15

She was an African American woman JustAnotherGen Oct 2022 #22

+1 -K&R!! onetexan Oct 2022 #24

They weren't any nicer to white liberal women Genki Hikari Oct 2022 #26

All she had to do was be black JustAnotherGen Oct 2022 #27

Outrageous. Sexist and racist. Nt spooky3 Oct 2022 #5

REALLY THIS 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻 LenaBaby61 Oct 2022 #8

And, sadly, not at all surprising. Sky Jewels Oct 2022 #12

Hoover was paranoid about the civil rights movement. everyonematters Oct 2022 #6

R-E-S-P-E-C-T Kid Berwyn Oct 2022 #7

they had nothing better to fucking do? jeesh! orleans Oct 2022 #9

Been waiting to use this - packman Oct 2022 #10

You just couldn't wait until xmas, huh? SergeStorms Oct 2022 #18

So disgusting. Our national shame. yardwork Oct 2022 #11

J. Edgar Hoover was obsessed with communism and a racist to boot. He made anti-communism the FBI's Martin68 Oct 2022 #13

And Martin Luther King, Jr. Shrike47 Oct 2022 #14

And the Kennedys. He is high on my list of people I don't like. twodogsbarking Oct 2022 #16

I hope they bury Trump... SergeStorms Oct 2022 #20

And John Lennon. ShazzieB Oct 2022 #21

All anti-war activists were targeted by the FBI. The Heritage Foundation Martin68 Oct 2022 #25

I don't know this as a fact, I just know it's true - America is a racist country. walkingman Oct 2022 #17

Great woman... MiHale Oct 2022 #19

I guess J Edgar thought she was a commie. They also.. ananda Oct 2022 #23