An Open Letter to the FBI

Fuck you guys.
Fuck you for Fred Hampton, Leonard Peltier and my friends the 17 too many to name that you’re after right now. I just wanna know how many times you have directly interfered with peace and justice in this country. I wanna know how many lives…

And I wanna talk about it. I want our stuff back, fuck, I want our spy back. She did the grunt work around here and I’ve never seen my tax dollars so well spent. I want to talk about your budget, FBI gone unchecked since 9/11. Tailing peace activists just to bill the time and tapping phones and raiding homes…

Looking for what? Proof that we disapprove of this government? Well, we haven’t been at all shy about that, have we? We show up on your Capitol lawns with our signs and our banners and our bullhorns and we SCREAM at your buildings, from behind your police lines I- I guess I should feel honored to have this much of your attention.

Tear gas in my eyes and all, those plastic zip-tie handcuffs as they round us up like cattle. And now the heat is really coming down, cause it was never a fair battle. And the Grand Jury inquisition has begun. It’s some of that good ‘ol fashion McCarthyism except now the red tag term is terrorism. Meanwhile, the real war criminals are accepting awards. Those torturers and wire tappers, patting each others backs at the podium.

Anyway, fuck them.
I came here to talk to you.
To ask what the hell we’re ganna do now that they’re kicking in doors in dinkytown looking for dissenters. They’re taking down posters off the walls, calling it evidence to be used against us and you’re next if you don’t think so. Anybody left with an opinion. Anybody here consider themselves outspoken?
I am talking to you.

So here’s a quick history lesson in FBI repression:

John Lennon. They tried to deport him- did you know that?- for speaking out against the war. It was right before the republican national convention of 1972 and Nixon was afraid it was ganna cost him re-election, so they tried to kick him out of the country for having a concert. You see? They were afraid of a concert.

Dr. Martin Luther King’s home was raided by the FBI (now we’re on to something). He received threats and harassment from them for half his Nobel Peace Prize deserving career, and was in the end assassinated. I read that he was under surveillance when it happened. That undercover police watched from across the street as King was shot. But they couldn’t kill the dream he started dreaming and we are still coming ready or not (and I do mean ready or not).

So give it up for the RNC8. We’ve got a real movement in this state and in case you haven’t noticed, it’s going on right now. And hold your breath for the peaceful 3 who’s reactivated subpoenas are hanging over all our heads. Don’t be silent. Tell everyone you can about this! Go to stopFBI.net and get involved! Call the president and tell him to call it off. We said end the war and the witch hunt, defend the first amendment.
Enough is enough!
No more attacks on them,
no more attacks on us.

Get involved: stopFBI.net
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