The Assassination of Black Panther Fred Hampton, 43 years ago

[zerozero]

audio segment from Smiley & West

http://www.smileyandwest.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/120210swhaas.mp3

http://www.mintpress.net/state-surv...the-state-of-americas-extrajudicial-killings/

(MintPress) – Yesterday in 1969, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Chicago Police Department assassinated Fred Hampton, a revolutionary Black Panther leader in what Dr. Noam Chomsky has called “the gravest domestic crime during the Nixon administration.”
Hampton’s murder came at the height of the Counter Intelligence Operations (COINTEL Pro) era of duplicitous government operations aimed at overthrowing “subversive” political movements in the U.S. In the wake of Hampton’s murder and the demise of the black power movement, state surveillance has shifted to more insidious forms, including, most notably, the proliferation of drone technology under the Obama administration. As drone technology develops, authorities can keep tabs on political movements and employ violence, unlawfully, to assassinate influential leaders without due process of law.

Fred Hampton

“We’re going to say this long after I’m locked up, after everyone is locked up. You can jail a revolutionary, but you can’t jail a revolution,” said Hampton in a public speech before his death.

Fred Hampton was one of the more charismatic leaders of the Black Panther Party in the late 1960s. His presence helped galvanize support for the movement and advanced the cause of African-American rights and social justice.
Hampton and the early Black Panther leadership helped create the Free Breakfast Program for children in underserved communities. At the height of the program, the Free Breakfast Program fed approximately 10,000 children across the U.S. in poor, underserved communities of color.

The party helped to open free health clinics and a bevy of free social programs aimed at helping communities forgotten or ignored by state and federal governments. “If it’s criminal to feed children and the hungry, if it’s criminal to start a program where the only prerequisite that people have to have to involve themselves in this program is to be hungry, then we are going to continue to be criminal,” Hampton said in a 1968 interview.
However, the work of the Black Panthers was coupled with a revolutionary orientation, promoting a shift away from capitalism and toward socialism as a means to create a new society based upon racial and economic equality.

In a sudden raid, the FBI and Chicago police stormed Hampton’s apartment on the morning of Dec. 4, killing the 21-year-old man in a hail of bullets as he slept. Initial police reports showed that the authorities exchanged fire with the Black Panther leader while trying to serve a routine warrant. However, later investigations showed the police attack to be an illegal assassination.

While the militant presence of armed Black Panthers’ people’s armies drew condemnation, the fundamental critiques of racial disparities and inequity drew significant support among disenfranchised communities of color and sympathetic progressive whites.

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

Who cares about that shyt, Jigga was born that day.

Spoiler

 

[zerozero]

Who cares about that shyt, Jigga was born that day.

Spoiler

so Ether Day and Fukk Hoover Day is at the same time

 

[zerozero]

I actually don't know much about this event just found this on youtube

 

[Juneya]

"I arrived on the day fred hampton died... uhh... real nikkas just multiply... "

 

[zerozero]

"I arrived on the day fred hampton died... uhh... real nikkas just multiply... "

negged

democracy now episode about this: http://www.democracynow.org/2009/12/4/the_assassination_of_fred_hampton_how

 

[OsO]

a great leader of the people, murdered by the state.

and this is with whom you wanna place ya faith? :getthiswork:

 

[IVS]

Fred Hampton was really about the people. Sure nuff we don't have any leaders like this anymore. All the real leaders got bodied and now the phonies have taken over.

 

[zerozero]

Fred Hampton was really about the people. Sure nuff we don't have any leaders like this anymore. All the real leaders got bodied and now the phonies have taken over.

Just 21 years old breh if the FBI hadn't destroyed these 60s/70s movements the crack era might have turned out very different

 

[thekingsmen]

Just 21 years old breh if the FBI hadn't destroyed these 60s/70s movements the crack era might have turned out very different

The crack era wouldn't exist if the Original BPP was intact.

 

[Blackking]

Fred Hampton was really about the people. Sure nuff we don't have any leaders like this anymore. All the real leaders got bodied and now the phonies have taken over.

And the fact that Hampton and those men and women were so young is crazy as sh1t to me. I think about myself at 21.. no way am I dropping that many quotables in public, outside, leading movements.

Killing and jailing our real leaders has fcked us up for a long time.

 

[NYC Rebel]

And the fact that Hampton and those men and women were so young is crazy as sh1t to me. I think about myself at 21.. no way am I dropping that many quotables in public, outside, leading movements.

Killing and jailing our real leaders has fcked us up for a long time.

Fred is the main reason I tell young cats to lead and stop letting the grey beards take ownership.

MLK was in his early 20's when he took the helm. The selfishness of today's modern day black "leaders" shows itself in their use of Just for Men.

They have no interest in grooming young leaders, caught up in their own success and "wealth."

 

[Blackking]

Fred is the main reason I tell young cats to lead and stop letting the grey beards take ownership.

MLK was in his early 20's when he took the helm. The selfishness of today's modern day black "leaders" shows itself in their use of Just for Men.

They have no interest in grooming young leaders, caught up in their own success and "wealth."

The black elite and old civil rights guys have a strangle hold on 'black leadership'.. and the media loves to put these clowns on TV. I mean, I like a few of them, I even like some things about Sharpton..

But basically what we have left are the n1ggas that watched our leaders get shot and imprisoned or the guys who spent there time at Universities writing philosophy papers getting out of touch with our community. shame.

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

The crack era wouldn't exist if the Original BPP was intact.

The BPP had the right idea, but let's not get carried away here.

It's fukked up how they did Fred Hampton though. Killed him in his bed next to his pregnant wife. He was a charismatic leader and had people who swore by him, so he became a prime target for assassination. I don't know how William O'Neal, the black snitch who set him up can live with himself.

 

[thekingsmen]

The BPP had the right idea, but let's not get carried away here.

You underestimated the power of the BPP. You have no clue on how it influenced the very gangs that were created in the inner city. Now fully corrupt the gangs help the drugs continue the flow into the community.

You are getting carried away.