For some reason, when I was a kid, we jokingly referred to the FBI as the Fat Boys Institute. Really, it made no sense but much of what we did was that way.
If you read the news in this era you know the FBI has become involved in a series of questionable circumstances: researching parents who attend and speak out against school boards as domestic terrorists, searching a former presidents home to possibly bring charges of God knows what.
Hey, this FBI nonsense has been going on for years. I can come up with two instances dating back fifty to sixty years. In the 1960's there was a very popular rock group called The Kingsman. They came out with a song titled 'Louis Louis'. It pretty much became a cult song for we kids who were in college even though the lyrics were difficult to understand. As it turns out there was a rumor going around that there were two sets of lyrics and the second one used pornographic words. So J. Edgar Hoover unleashed the FBI to track down and find out if this was the case. Nothing was resolved because there were no dirty words.
Recently, Mickey Dolenz, the only surviving member of the singing group, The Monkees, is suing the government to get all FBI material in its supposed spying on that singing group. Their crime? Supposedly, they sang songs opposing the Vietnam War.
The good news for people today regarding the FBI interfering in their daily lives is they're not being picked on. The bad news is this nonsense has been going on for 100 years.
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