[86593] in Cypherpunks
Re: Federal motivation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Mon Sep 15 03:13:01 1997
In-Reply-To: <v03102802b04241f3ff05@[17.219.103.249]>
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 23:29:38 -0700
To: Martin Minow <minow@apple.com>, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
Cc: minow@apple.com
Reply-To: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
At 6:54 PM -0700 9/14/97, Martin Minow wrote:
>Remember, the Martin Luther King who was thrown in jail in Alabama
>in the early 1960's was the same Martin Luther Kings who received
>the Nobel Peace Prize a few years later, and who was killed for
>his revolutionary activities just a few years after that. Whether
>he was a hero or villian depends on who writes the history book
>and it is, ultimately, our responsibility to make sure that many,
>conflicting, history books can be written.
Most particularly remember that the director-for-life of the FBI used
telephone intercepts in an attempt to get this Martin Luther King to commit
suicide.
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