1971 - COINTELPRO

I've always been fascinated by this story, and I am glad that PBS did something on it.
I feel that there was not a real expose or investigation into the contacts of what was in
the files, or what the FBI was up to back then. I feel like this was about the people who
were involved, and how there are very few people who do this, or can do this now.

Meanwhile, who knows what has changed or how things have changed and what is really
being done by the government for what reasons. We see these huge larger and larger
financial scandals, and corporate malfeasance, environmental messes and social programs
being cut and vilified even though the US economy is larger than ever.

I see the schools are not teaching anything about civics any longer, the media barely has
anything useful in it about poltiics, just the government story. There are hardly any talks
shows on TV or radio but these right wing repetiting slogans about how great everything
is.

The majority of people are impoverished in so many ways, and they have no idea what
life was like back when these people were alive and politically active. Meanwhile we seem
to be managed by politicians who think that the US has to converge with the other nations
in the world, to a general third world status. If you make a statement somewhere on the
Internet 4-5 people will come out of the woodwork to call you names if you say anything
that does not echo the party line.

I think the 1970's was kind of the last gasp, though I don't necessarily condone most of
the stuff that was done by the "counterculture" and can see why their antics upset the
status quo so much in a way. What are people's ideas on this program and this topic?