Progressive organizer Darializa Avila Chevalier demands the expulsion of NYC Councilmember Vickie Paladino for suggesting the government should “neutralize” Democratic Socialists.
The big problem here is that Paladino is right. The FBI and CIA have assassinated leftists before and I’m worried they will again. And it is in large part their purpose.
It would be great to see this style of grievance politics turned on the right for once though. I’m not holding my breath.
I mean…
“There was a time in our history, not too long ago, when the CIA/FBI would’ve made sure unabashed revolutionaries like this were neutralized one way or another,” said Paladino (R-19). “In fact, that was basically the entire point of having them.”
Paladino appeared to be referring to the FBI’s Counterintelligence Program (COINTELPRO), which surveilled, infiltrated, and tried to disrupt groups and movements that fought for civil rights and against the US war in Vietnam. COINTELPRO was involved in the 1969 raid in Chicago in which police killed Black Panther Party leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark.
She is right…
It doesn’t mean it was OK, it definitely doesn’t mean we should keep doing it…
But the most incorrect part of what she said, was implying Trump doesn’t have them doing the same shit right now, it’ll just take a while before we hear about it.
The CIA is 100% overthrowing a democracy right now somewhere.
