Betrayed!

In his new movie Judas and the Black Messiah Shaka King portrays the murder of Fred Hampton, the leader of the Illinois Black Panther Party by F.B.I. agents in the late 1960s.

This was done in response to a J. Edgar Hoover (Chief of the F.B.I.) directive to stop the rise of a Black Messiah.   

This would appear to be part of a pattern.

Left-wing Messiahs John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy were both murdered in mysterious circumstances.

And Martin Luther King and Malcolm X were also murdered.

Could it be that these Messiahs were  deliberately eliminated in response to the rise of the youth revolution of the 1960s.

In Australia there were also suggestions that the F.B.I. and the C.I.A. were involved in the dismissal of the left-wing Whitlam government in 1975.

Hard-line Conservatives saw all left-wing politicians as Communists and felt justified in removing them.

This can be clearly seen in the McCarthyism of the 1950s and the American response to Communism in the Vietnam War.

Recently Raymond Wood, an ex-undercover N.Y.P.D. policeman, before his death, alleged that the N.Y.P.D. and the F.B.I. covered up details of a plot to bring down the Black Power leader Malcolm X.

Wood's job was to infiltrate civil rights organizations and encourage leaders to commit crimes in order to destroy them.

If this is true then the threat of the left-wing youth movement of the 1960s was put down by J. Edgar Hoover and his conservative allies.     

This is a tragedy that is yet to be fully revealed.

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