[lbo-talk] Query on French left.

[Carrol Cox]

Yes -- that, correctly will be the standard response: because it's old hat.
They did it to us in the '60s.  You just have to get out of the kitchen if
you can't stand the heat. Read the book on how the FBI murdered Hampton, and
the whole campaign to criminalize the Panthers, a campaign that was kicked
off by the FBI's horror of -- wait for it: THE BREAKFAST PROGRAM. Feeding
ghetto kids breakfast completely freaked the FBI, and they determined that
the Panthers had to be "crininalized" (their word). And remember the FBI
bugging King's hotel room to catch  him in sexual misbehavior! It's all old
hat. The Internet makes a difference, but it doesn't change the basics of
repression.

Carrol

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Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Query on French left.

  My other thought on Wikileaks: I've had a sinking feeling that this 
will all end badly in the long-run. Now that the antiwar left has 
rallied to the banner of total transparency, the principle will be 
turned around and used against it.

In other words, there will be something along the lines of, say - the 
next time there's a serious antiwar movement, mysterious "hackers" will 
deposit reams of files on the internet disclosing the internal 
correspondence of antiwar activists, maybe even including their personal 
correspondence. So-and-so has kiddie porn on his laptop; so-and-so said 
something positive about North Korea; so-and-so wrote in frustration 
that the cops at the last demo deserve to be shot; whatever.

I'm sure the standard response to this idea will be "they would have 
pulled stuff like that anyway," but I don't think so.

SA
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