[HN Gopher] Malcolm X family says letter shows NYPD and FBI cons...
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       Malcolm X family says letter shows NYPD and FBI conspired in his
       murder
        
       Author : AndrewBissell
       Score  : 28 points
       Date   : 2021-02-21 19:53 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.theguardian.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.theguardian.com)
        
       | TechnoTimeStop wrote:
       | This is totally technology and hacker news related - upvote
       | upvote upvote
        
       | chordalkeyboard wrote:
       | Crashes when going into reader mode.
       | 
       | The insufferable self-righteousness of journalism is justified
       | when they expose truths like this but that justification is
       | mooted when they "expose" "truths" by putting them on a
       | disfunctional webpage.
        
         | mark_l_watson wrote:
         | There is nothing wrong with the web page. The Guardian, one of
         | my favorite sources of news (NPR being another) has a solid web
         | site, please try again.
         | 
         | If it is true what the article says, I think that it is healthy
         | for our country to get it out, clean the air, and try to learn
         | to have more over site in the future.
         | 
         | One of the shining moments for democracy in the USA was when
         | McNamara admitted that he and President Johnson lied repeatedly
         | to the US public about the Gulf of Tonkin episode to get us
         | into the Vietnamese war. I hope that that was a learning
         | experience for everyone to trust but verify what the government
         | says.
        
           | chordalkeyboard wrote:
           | > There is nothing wrong with the web page. The Guardian, one
           | of my favorite sources of news (NPR being another) has a
           | solid web site, please try again.
           | 
           | It repeatedly crashed on my ipad, I'm a web consumer, if I
           | can't access content on a modern device, the webpage is in
           | fact broken.
           | 
           | > If it is true what the article says, I think that it is
           | healthy for our country to get it out, clean the air, and try
           | to learn to have more over site in the future.
           | 
           | This is absolutely true, and indicates that journalists like
           | the grauniad are negligent in putting important information
           | on webshites.
           | 
           | > One of the shining moments for democracy in the USA was
           | when McNamara admitted that he and President Johnson lied
           | repeatedly to the US public about the Gulf of Tonkin episode
           | to get us into the Vietnamese war. I hope that that was a
           | learning experience for everyone to trust but verify what the
           | government says.
           | 
           | "Trust but verify" certainly, I'll verify that TS SAP's are
           | being executed according to the will of the people, just as
           | soon as they give me access.
        
             | smt88 wrote:
             | It's impossible for a website to be crashproof because they
             | can't control OS or browser bugs (of which iOS has many).
             | Safari has never neen stable for me on any device.
        
         | tehwebguy wrote:
         | Journalists largely post to whatever website will pay them, and
         | whoever pays them is more and more often a newspaper or org
         | owned by private equity. Lots of people in between those doing
         | the journalism and those deciding on dark patterns.
        
       | anaisbetts wrote:
       | If you know anything about the story of Fred Hampton this is
       | absolutely zero surprise. He was full-on poisoned then
       | assassinated in cold blood while unconscious by the FBI, in front
       | of his pregnant girlfriend.
        
         | baybal2 wrote:
         | My business law professor in Canada was one of attorneys for
         | survivor families in Hampton case.
         | 
         | He started as a criminal lawyer in Chicago, but had a very
         | short career because he completely ruined his track record by
         | often defending Panthers, and blacks in general, and
         | predictably loosing every time.
         | 
         | Had he have a choice to pick clients, he said he would've
         | declined, but being a young lawyer he had to put bread on the
         | table somehow.
         | 
         | First, he said made it for money, but then he got a near
         | personal enmity with the judge, and continued just for the sake
         | of inflicting just one defeat on them.
         | 
         | It was around late seventies when he noticed judges casually
         | smoking with prosecutors in between court brakes.
         | 
         | And then he decided to move to Canada, and continue his career
         | there.
        
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