FBI's highest compliment
The late folksinger Utah Phillips can take his place in the pantheon of train-hoppin', union-lovin' folk singers. The FBI took his leftist rabble rousing seriously enough to spend untold taxpayers' money to put him under surveillance for nearly a decade.The Trib's Nate Carlisle pulled Bruce "Utah" Phillips' dossier under the Freedom of Information Act and discovered Phillips, as they say, wasn't completely paranoid. People were, indeed, following him around.
FBI minions tracked Phillips' political activity all through the '60s as he protested the Vietnam War. Phillips ran for U.S. Senate as the Utah Peace and Freedom Party's 1968 candidate. Unfortunately, he lost and Utah was deprived of a Woody Guthrie Federal Building.
Utah's son Duncan Phillips proudly says the file vindicates his father's work:They thought he was somebody who had a voice in the movement that needed to be kept an eye on.
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The FBI remains paranoid. Their agents hate people; they hate anything and everyone to the left of Nixon and Cheney. The FBI is a bullshit organization of fanatics who don't give a poop about the Constitution, civil rights, freedom of speech, etc.
Like the Secret Service, they've become silly gun-toters who love to make civilians cringe. J. Edgar Hoover was as gay as can be, a cross-dresser, who publicly denounced and spied on homosexuals.
Today's FBI agents are not much different. Fanatics to the quick.
The FBI is so awful, it couldn't catch Robert Hanssen the worst American spy - mole - in our history, for nine years.
Inept, clumsy. Words to describe the FBI.
Geez, Georgia! Talk about paranoid.
If you really believe that your blanket characterization of the FBI is valid, you have some real problems. Don't get me wrong, there are probably a handful of inept and power-drunk agents out there. But to characterize all of them as "fanatics"? On the basis of what? The fact that they built a dossier on Utah Phillips, an avowed socialist during the height of the cold war and the red scare?
Give me a break.
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