FBI Cuts Civilian Rights Watchdog, Keeps Anti-Black Extremists on Board
The FBI, which famously surveilled Martin Luther King Jr. and infiltrated the Black Panther Party (Operation COINTELPRO, anyone?), now finds the SPLC—a group documenting white supremacists and neo-Nazis—too controversial. This isn't about principle; it's about political convenience. The Bureau, which until recently was training foreign police forces at Israel's instruction through the Georgia
International Law Enforcement Exchange (GILEE) program, suddenly gets cold feet when faced with criticism from figures like Elon Musk, who finds being called a 'right-wing extremist' worse than actual documented extremism. So, identifying hate groups is out, but collaborating with a foreign power's security apparatus to surveil citizens is perfectly fine. How many 'civil rights' watchdogs need to
be defunded before we admit the state prefers to be unwatched?