So the FBI normally tries to swing domestic elections?
So I guess in the 2020 primaries we should request the FBI choose which candidate they least like? Will also have Assange hack and release every candidates emails before the general election as well....because that feels like sound democracy to me.
I was gonna save this for a thread tomorrow
When the Police chose a Mayor
In the years after WWII, civic officials in Los Angeles developed plans to provide public housing in an airy, pleasant neighborhood near downtown Los Angeles called Chavez Ravine. Poor and working class families would no longer need to live in stifling industrial neighborhoods, but could enjoy the pleasures of suburbia opening up to the middle class of the day. The housing was supported by a popular Los Angeles Mayor, Fletcher Bowron, with Frank Wilkenson, an idealistic advocate for the poor, spearheading the effort as head of the Los Angeles Housing Authority. Noted architects Richard Neutra and Robert Alexander were chosen to design the prestigious Chavez Ravine project.
With the active intervention of the LAPD (and the support of J Edgar Hoover’s FBI), the planned housing would be scrapped. Fletcher Bowron, a favorite to win re-election as mayor, was to lose to an anti-public housing Norris Poulson. Frank Wilkinson was to become persona non-grata. The result was nothing short of a political coup.
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Enter the Los Angeles Times. Enter Police Chief Parker, known for his brutality and racism. Enter the FBI’s J. Edgar Hoover who had been keeping tabs on Wilkinson since 1942. Cue the personal attacks against city councilmen who favor Elysian Park Heights. Cue an onslaught of editorials linking public housing to “creeping socialism.” Cue the rumors that Frank Wilkinson is a Communist.
On August 29, 1952, while Frank was testifying in a routine eminent domain hearing about Chavez Ravine, an attorney for the real estate lobby suddenly pulled a dossier out of his briefcase and stood up. “Now Mr. Wilkinson, will you please tell us what organizations, political or otherwise, you have belonged to since 1931?” Stunned, Frank turned to his LAHA attorney who shrugged. Frank answered – detailing his professional associations, but refusing to reveal his political affiliations which, he stated, were irrelevant to the issues at hand. At which point the situation swiftly deteriorated. The hearing was suspended; the City Council immediately passed a resolution calling upon the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) to investigate; and the courtroom filled with news reporters.
“In thirty minutes,” Frank recalls, “I went from being one of the more respected citizens in city government to being a total outcast.”
The next day, he was suspended from his job.
from www.americanpopularculture.com/...
Frank Wilkinson, in the McCarthy era, was unable to find a job. A Quaker friend hired him as the night janitor at a department store — it was too dangerous to have a known communist sympathizer visible to the public during the day.
The land that had been purchased to provide model low income housing was instead sold to the Walter O’Malley organization to construct a baseball stadium for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Police officials, supposedly serving the public, had participated in a political coup, swaying an election based on unfounded charges of subversion. The charges were amplified through the then-new media of television. An entire community lost their promise of affordable housing due to this political manipulation. Respected government officials had their professional careers ruined.
Law enforcement was the agent for bringing down a popular politician advocating a progressive agenda.
When the Police chose a Mayor
I'm not one of these no nothing Trump supporters b
i mean breh they arent inventing what the Queen did. she's a protected criminal
