Top 10 Cartoonishly Evil Crimes Committed by the FBI

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The FBI are supposed to be the good guys, the ones protecting the public from evil. They’ve got none of the crazy skeletons in the closet that the CIA suffer from, and aren’t as generally mistrusted as the ATF. Yet we’re deluding ourselves if we think the FBI really has our best interests at heart. Over the decades, they’ve committed plenty of crimes that stretch all the way from ‘ordinary, everyday evil’ to ‘cartoon supervillain evil’. Trying to Force Martin Luther King Into Suicide Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech is widely regarded as one of the greatest ever given. It’s a stirring plea for equality that can still move even the most flinty-hearted of us to tears decades later. Yet at the time, not everyone thought it was such a success. The FBI, in particular, thought it was dangerously subversive. Their solution? To write King an anonymous letter telling him to commit suicide. Posing as a black citizen, an FBI agent penned a letter to the man they considered “the most dangerous negro.” Reading it now, it sounds like a furious internet commenter freaking out in the worst possible way. It calls King an “imbecile” and a disgrace to black people everywhere. It suggests he is evil, taking orders from Satan, involved in homosexual affairs, and lower than a beast. More chillingly, it ends on a reference to King’s extramarital affairs. The original letter included a tape of his liaisons the FBI made while illegally spying on him. Finally, the author signs off by telling King to commit suicide within 34 days or have his affairs exposed. King, thankfully, declined to comply. Giving Allies Free Reign to Torture and Murder We couldn’t get through an article like this without at least one mention of the CIA, so consider this one sort of a ‘bonus’ to all of the FBI misdeeds. The FBI’s secretive brother, the Agency has a long, long list of famously evil deeds to its name. To that list, we’d like to add the Phoenix Program. A response to Viet Cong terror tactics during the Vietnam War, the program was dreamt up by the CIA as a way of striking back. Using South Vietnamese volunteers, it arranged for mercenaries to enter villages, locate Viet Cong and then assassinate them. Unfortunately, the CIA decided the best way to motivate the South Vietnamese volunteers would be to pay them for every corpse. Sensing an opportunity, their assassins began torturing and killing as many innocent people as they could get their hands on. →Subscribe for new videos every day! http://bit.ly/toptenzsubscribe →10 Reasons Bruce Lee was a Superhuman: http://bit.ly/1Hl4mVu →Simon's VLOG: http://bit.ly/1mJlVdR Entertaining and educational top 10 lists from TopTenzNet! Brand new videos 7 days a week! Videos are published at 6pm EST every day! Subscribe to our Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TopTenz/ Other TopTenz Videos: Top 10 US Cities You're Most Likely To be Murdered In http://bit.ly/1Hzs00x Top 10 Brutal Dictators You've Never Heard Of http://bit.ly/1NRTRvt Text version: http://www.toptenz.net/10-cartoonishly-evil-crimes-committed-by-the-fbi.php Coming up: 10. Trying to Force Martin Luther King Into Suicide 9. Framing Innocent Men for Murder 8. Spying on the Supreme Court 7. Organizing Terror Plots 6. Blackmailing People With the No-Fly List (Allegedly) 5. Planning a Terror Attack on American Soil 4. Spying on People it Knew Were Innocent 3. Covering Up the Murder of Black Panthers 2. Giving Allies Free Reign to Torture and Murder 1. Allowing James ‘Whitey’ Bulger to Get Away with Murder Source/Further reading: http://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/11/12/7204453/martin-luther-king-fbi-letter http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/09/21/assets-and-liabilities http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/02/13/j-edgar-hoover-and-the-fbi-s-war-on-americans-civil-liberties.html http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/21/government-agents-directly-involved-us-terror-plots-report http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/opinion/sunday/terrorist-plots-helped-along-by-the-fbi.html?_r=0 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/lawsuit-alleges-fbi-is-using-no-fly-list-to-force-muslims-to-become-informants/2014/04/22/1a62f566-ca27-11e3-a75e-463587891b57_story.html http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/16/portland-man-tortured-uae-behest-of-fbi http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92662&page;=1 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/13/opinion/a-flashback-to-the-reign-of-j-edgar-hoover.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/g-flint-taylor/the-fbi-cointelpro-progra_b_4375527.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/93073500-9459-3bbb-a3e5-cde7a1cc2559 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1355683/ http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/09/21/assets-and-liabilities