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How the FBI targeted Camus, and then Sartre after the JFK assassination (2013)

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Re: How the FBI targeted Camus, and then Sartre after the JFK assassination (2013)

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Post by pessimizer »

throwaway8877 wrote: post #7
aebtebeten wrote: post #2

> ... there must be some kind of conspiracy between communists, blacks, poets and French philosophers. If you can connect these dots, then https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminati_(game) might be for you! (but see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson_Games,_Inc._v._U... )

There is necessarily no cross-links between all of them, but there is a link. If you can't imagine that a state that is obsessively dreaming about the world revolution and has a wide spy network and large group of naive sympathisers doesn't try to infiltrate all the possible influential counter cultures then you are a little too naive.

"If you can't imagine" is a bad start. If you're imagining people obsessively dreaming about destroying you, and using the naive "blacks" to do it, you're about a millimeter away from joining the fight against "Judeo-Bolshevism."

Re: How the FBI targeted Camus, and then Sartre after the JFK assassination (2013)

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Post by hk__2 »

throwaway8877 wrote: post #7
aebtebeten wrote: post #2

> ... there must be some kind of conspiracy between communists, blacks, poets and French philosophers. If you can connect these dots, then https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminati_(game) might be for you! (but see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson_Games,_Inc._v._U... )

There is necessarily no cross-links between all of them, but there is a link. If you can't imagine that a state that is obsessively dreaming about the world revolution and has a wide spy network and large group of naive sympathisers doesn't try to infiltrate all the possible influential counter cultures then you are a little too naive.

> If you can't imagine that a state that is obsessively dreaming about the world revolution and has a wide spy network and large group of naive sympathisers doesn't try to infiltrate all the possible influential counter cultures then you are a little too naive.

How are Blacks, communists and poets “counter cultures”?

Re: How the FBI targeted Camus, and then Sartre after the JFK assassination (2013)

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Post by pessimizer »

thriftwy wrote: post #10

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> I suspect

You can just read. The most surprising thing about WWII, at least to many Nazis, is that the US and Britain didn't join the Axis. German theories about race were largely drawn from British and American sources. The US fought WWII with a racially segregated military.

Re: How the FBI targeted Camus, and then Sartre after the JFK assassination (2013)

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Post by hughesjj »

pstuart wrote: post #4
zozbot234 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm pretty sure that " ... there must be some kind of conspiracy " is the literal definition of a Conspiracy Theory. Nice to see that even the FBI is into that fun stuff.

The FBI has a checkered history. We do need federal level policing but, like all policing, it needs to be buttressed by accountability and oversight.

Rip Fred Hampton. Hoover, he was a body remover.

Re: How the FBI targeted Camus, and then Sartre after the JFK assassination (2013)

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Post by jimbob45 »

pessimizer wrote: post #13
thriftwy wrote: post #10

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> I suspect You can just read. The most surprising thing about WWII, at least to many Nazis, is that the US and Britain didn't join the Axis. German theories about race were largely drawn from British and American sources. The US fought WWII with a racially segregated military.

Ooooh time to drop my favorite WW2 quote

When Pearl Harbor happened, we [Roosevelt's advisors] were desperate. ... We were all in agony. The mood of the American people was obvious – they were determined that the Japanese had to be punished. We could have been forced to concentrate all our efforts on the Pacific, unable from then on to give more than purely peripheral help to Britain. It was truly astounding when Hitler declared war on us three days later. I cannot tell you our feelings of triumph. It was a totally irrational thing for him to do, and I think it saved Europe.

Re: How the FBI targeted Camus, and then Sartre after the JFK assassination (2013)

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Post by [deleted] »

throwaway8877 wrote: post #7
aebtebeten wrote: post #2

> ... there must be some kind of conspiracy between communists, blacks, poets and French philosophers. If you can connect these dots, then https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminati_(game) might be for you! (but see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson_Games,_Inc._v._U... )

There is necessarily no cross-links between all of them, but there is a link. If you can't imagine that a state that is obsessively dreaming about the world revolution and has a wide spy network and large group of naive sympathisers doesn't try to infiltrate all the possible influential counter cultures then you are a little too naive.

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Re: How the FBI targeted Camus, and then Sartre after the JFK assassination (2013)

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Post by gilleain »

thriftwy wrote: post #10

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For examples of famous Hitler fans, one good example was Unity Mitford, one of the 6 Mitford sisters, daughters of an English baron.

Unity (and her sister Diana) were so close to Hitler that they were part of his inner circle of friends.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_Mitford

Re: How the FBI targeted Camus, and then Sartre after the JFK assassination (2013)

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Post by Exoristos »

zozbot234 wrote: post #3
aebtebeten wrote: post #2

> ... there must be some kind of conspiracy between communists, blacks, poets and French philosophers. If you can connect these dots, then https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminati_(game) might be for you! (but see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson_Games,_Inc._v._U... )

I'm pretty sure that " ... there must be some kind of conspiracy " is the literal definition of a Conspiracy Theory. Nice to see that even the FBI is into that fun stuff.

Wait till you learn about RICO.

Re: How the FBI targeted Camus, and then Sartre after the JFK assassination (2013)

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Post by jjackson5324 »

Funny enough, if you look at polling data of Americans... amongst people who actually lived during the JFK assassination & later investigation and kept up with all the details.... only about 11% believed the official narrative. More than 80% thought the official narrative was a lie.

Nowadays (when most Americans have just read about it in history textbooks), it feels like most people believe the official narrative and dismiss conspiracy theories as "crazy".

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