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Has any government agency burned its reputation with the American people more quickly than the FBI? It wasn’t all that long ago that the vast majority of Americans assumed it to be an unimpeachable group of selfless and patriotic law enforcement officials who had dedicated their lives to protecting the American people from all enemies, foreign and domestic. But Rasmussen Reports revealed in August that “a majority (53%) of voters now agree” with Roger Stone’s statement that “we have a group of politicized thugs at the top of the FBI who are using the FBI…as Joe Biden‘s personal Gestapo.” And we do. But maybe we always have, and just weren’t as aware of it as we are now. It turns out that the FBI that we thought was ramrod straight and incorruptible, the FBI of Eliot Ness and Efrem Zimbalist Jr., was using your taxpayer money to track none other than Aretha Franklin. Not exactly a dangerous criminal. And that’s the problem.
Kids, Aretha Franklin was and is known as the Queen of Soul, and for good reason. She was the extraordinary singer who gave us the unforgettable “R-E-S-P-E-C-T,” “I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You),” “You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman,” “Until You Come Back to Me (That’s What I’m Gonna Do),” and a host of others. Unlike today’s crop of songstresses, few of whom (if any) could tie Ms. Franklin’s shoes, she was a singer first and foremost, not a lecturer or political commentator. Nonetheless, the New York Post reported on Tuesday that she was “tracked by the FBI for 40 years as the agency repeatedly sought — but ultimately failed — to tie the Queen of Soul to ‘extremists’ and ‘radicals,’” as has been revealed in documents that have just been declassified.
Rolling Stone magazine obtained Franklin’s FBI file and found in it a record of “false phone calls, surveillance, infiltration and highly-placed sources” that the feds inflicted upon Franklin between 1967 and 2007. The file is full of references to “black extremists,” “pro-communist,” “hate America,” “radical,” “racial violence” and “militant black power.” It opines that Martin Luther King’s funeral, where Franklin sang, could turn into a “radical situation,” adding that “Sammy Davis Jr., Aretha Franklin… of this group, some have supported militant Black power concept.” Accordingly, King’s funeral could “provide emotional spark which could ignite racial disturbance in this area.”
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somehistory says
Totally agree. hoover was the “boss” in the beginning and his goons are still active and on the prowl. they pass down their methods and attitudes to the next group who want to be goons. Very few, it seems are really the “good guys” in dark suits and white hats. I know one of those “good guys.” But he’s a rare person, by all of the evidence presented.
somehistory says
And that song, is one of the best from that time and so much better than what comes today.
GreekEmpress says
Could put a whole new meaning to the title “Chain of Fools” right now, couldn’t we—
somehistory says
Indeed, GE, we could.
Aloha Akbar says
Sung to the tune of “I say A Little Prayer” by the ever dangerous, Aretha Franklin
The moment l wake up
Before you put me on wire tap
I whisper on the phone for you
While combing my hair now
Forensics collects the fall-out
I cut a little bit for you
Forever, forever
You’ll follow me ‘round & I’ll hide from you
Forever, and ever
You’ll never catch me, not scared of you
To gather, to gather
The evidence, ‘cos
To live without you would only be a pipe dream for me
Walter Sieruk says
The terrible reality is that when considering the awful events last this and this year it might be fitting that the Federal Bureau of Investigation should be closed as in shutdown forever.
For the FBI is no longer the grand all American law enforcement institution that it once was in past times when captured kidnappers and investigated Communists and anarchists in America and it had even a few times stopped some jihadists in the United States from setting of bombs and thus murdering people.
So now, after giving credit where it is due, the awful occurrences of the times strongly indicate that the institution that is the FBI has become not only influenced but even infiltrated and corrupted by the insidious and sinister extreme left -wing along with their comrades of the Red /Green alliance.
As observed its involvement in that despicable January 6, 2021, set up against the American Patriots at Washington DC in which with that mean old harpy, Nancy Pelosi, in some FBI agents in, uncover, were very readily to falsely arrest, in entrapment any concerned patriots who, at that rally who questioned that rigged hoax of a Presidential election in November 3,2020.
Even after that day FBI, agents went after in harassment some of the other patriots from that day of 1/6/22.
Barbara says
From the beginning the FBI did not take down any of the mob. Hoover got many perks from looking the other way. Kidnapping, bank robbers, all were criminals. Those criminals did get stopped.
david1508 says
That’s because the mob had incriminating photos of Hoover & his right hand man in compromising homosexual situations, which Hoover didn’t want getting out. The mob were therefore untouchable by the FBI as long as Hoover stayed in power, which was a long time.
somehistory says
hoover had the bads on many politicians and that’s why he “stayed in power” so long.
Walter Sieruk says
After that day new terrible men of the FBI have even gone after and invaded the homes by force and with false charges have falsely arrested some of those patriots had peaceful taken part in the march and rally in 1/6/21 in this nation’s capital. Those patriots form January 6 , 2021 and afterward unjustly arrested are now incarcerated and the Biden gulag. In Federal prison, Biden’s gulag, the patriots are denied their US constitutional rights and basic human rights, they are kept in small dark moldy cells , beaten severely by the leftists’ guards and given little food to eat and very poor-quality food at that. They are true political prisoners of the Biden regime.
Those good American patriots are treated just like the Chinese political prisoners of Communist China. It’s no wonder that Biden admires Red China so much that he has established polices that greatly favor that oppressive tyranny of mainland China.
Biden is showing his own tyrannical red mindset by having the FBI comply the Communist State police of China, along with its cruel brutal political prisoner system. What a hideous tyrant Biden is regardless of how much he fakes being “all American.”
The FBI /Biden atrocities new even reach to the harassment and perception of concerned Conservative parents who peacefully attend and PTA meeting and local community board meetings.
This Biden /FBI has even dared to commit that affront of classified those good conscientious parents as “domestic terrorists” That’s terribly slanderous and outrageous of the FBI to do so.
Meanwhile the actual, real, domestic terrorists who make up those two dangerous violent, vicious malicious lawless destructive and even murderous Marxist organizations Antifa and BLM aren’t put under investigation and arrested and imprisoned as they should be.
The days of the just and righteous days the of FBI are gone, This both and tragic.
Walter Sieruk says
The Federal Bureau of Investigation was once a good decent all American law and order institution.
Now it’s been terribly corrupt by subversive influence of such Socialists ,Communist pro -Sharia characters as Nancy Pelosi and that overseas villain ,George Soros ,and likewise the FBI ,as seen in that invasion /raid that the FBI is now a tool organization of Kamala Harris with their comrades of the Red/Green alliance.
To corruption of the FBI by the insidious sinister forces .just mentioned above, is so extensive that reform would be able to straighten that now crooked institution.
Therefore, that means that the FBI can no longer be numbered or counted as all American organization engaging in the right actions for the Republic of the United States and the security and safety of the American citizens.
Such horrendous as this is a reflection of the Wisdom found in the Bible. Which reads, “What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be numbered.” Ecclesiastes 1:15. [N.K.J.V.]
Keith O says
How pathetic is the FBI that they have to put the stink eye on a musician for 40years.
And how did they justify the use of resources and expense to do so.
Taking this into account, it’s no wonder the FBI stoop as low as they do with the use of entrapment and false flag operations.