Wednesday, August 22, 2012

A Time-Honored Practice?

The man who gave the Black Panther Party some of its first firearms and weapons training - which preceded fatal shootouts with Oakland police in the turbulent 1960s - was an undercover FBI informer, according to a former bureau agent and an FBI report. [More]
I certainly hope no "conspiracy theorists" point out how armed Panthers were exploited to gin up hysteria and pass the Mulford Act...

[Via spartywrx]

1 comment:

Pat H. said...

Yes, Ronald Reagan was a notorious Gun Confiscation Lobby member, in good standing.