Justice Corrupted: J Edgar Hoover Tried to Destroy the Left, Liberals Enabled Him. Today, the left is weaponizing the legal system to take out enemies

[basquebromance]

The left has corrupted the U.S. legal system. Wielding the law as a weapon, arrogant judges and lawless prosecutors are intimidating, silencing, and even imprisoning Americans who stand in the way of their radical agenda. Their "enemies list" even includes parents who dare to speak up for their children at school board meetings, not to mention Donald Trump

Similarly, J Edgar Hoover believed in the power of the federal government to do great things for the nation and its citizens. He also believed that certain people—many of them communists or racial minorities or both—did not deserve to be included in that American project. Hoover rose to power and then stayed there, decade after decade, using the tools of state to create a personal fiefdom unrivaled in U.S. history.

J. Edgar Hoover Tried to Destroy the Left — and Liberals Enabled Him

J. Edgar Hoover is notorious for his decades-long campaign to stamp out the Left by surveilling and even killing radicals like Fred Hampton. What is less well known is that liberals played an important role in enabling Hoover’s antidemocratic crusade.

jacobin.com

 

[Polishprince]

Your story is a load of shit. Mr. Hampton was shot by the Liberal Chicago Police Department and Cook County State Attorney's office.

Not the FBI and its celebrated Homoamerican lawman J. Edgar Hoover.

 

[busybee01]

The left has corrupted the U.S. legal system. Wielding the law as a weapon, arrogant judges and lawless prosecutors are intimidating, silencing, and even imprisoning Americans who stand in the way of their radical agenda. Their "enemies list" even includes parents who dare to speak up for their children at school board meetings, not to mention Donald Trump

Similarly, J Edgar Hoover believed in the power of the federal government to do great things for the nation and its citizens. He also believed that certain people—many of them communists or racial minorities or both—did not deserve to be included in that American project. Hoover rose to power and then stayed there, decade after decade, using the tools of state to create a personal fiefdom unrivaled in U.S. history.

J. Edgar Hoover Tried to Destroy the Left — and Liberals Enabled Him

J. Edgar Hoover is notorious for his decades-long campaign to stamp out the Left by surveilling and even killing radicals like Fred Hampton. What is less well known is that liberals played an important role in enabling Hoover’s antidemocratic crusade.

jacobin.com

It is the right that has corrupted the legal system. We have right wing judges who openly shill for Republicans. The Supreme Court refuses to step in before they overturn it, causing harm to this country. Individuals who threaten school board members should be prosecuted. It is Republicans who are lawless.

 

[Calypso Jones]