@kathimmel
🥥 The fact that exemplary organizers like #FredHampton could bridge racial divides and bring people of all backgrounds together must have infuriated #JEdgarHoover -- a racist, reactionary divider and crypto fascist. 🥥

Today in Labor History June 15, 1950: As part of their Cold War hysteria, the Senate opened an investigation of 3,500 alleged "sex perverts" (i.e., homosexuals) in the federal government. The “lavender” scare paralleled McCarthy’s witch hunt against anarchists, communists, socialists and labor leaders. McCarthy hired attorney Roy Cohn as chief counsel for the lavender committee. Together with J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI, they got scores of LGTBQ people fired from their government jobs because of the fear that their sexuality had already, or would in the future, make them easy targets for blackmail by the Soviet Union. Both Cohn and Hoover were believed to be gay.

This video clip is the trailer for the 2017 documentary “Lavender Scare.”

https://youtu.be/ZuIYssjmlv0?t=67

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #lgbtq #homophobia #fbi #JEdgarHoover #Sexuality #RedScare #McCarthy #ColdWar #communism #anarchism #socialism #soviet #russia

Why is so little known about the 1930s coup attempt against FDR?

Business leaders like JP Morgan and Irénée du Pont were accused by a retired major general of plotting to install a fascist dictator

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/11/trump-fdr-roosevelt-coup-attempt-1930s

#history #fdr #TheGuardian #democracy #fascism #depression #JEdgarHoover #conspiracy #coup #wallstreet

@sim @nerthos
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Homosexuality was not a big #blackmail tool. Instead, #gambling on fixed horseRaces was actually #JEdgarHoover's thing.

Today we know, especially with the #JeffreyEpstein case and the #CIA(?) teams that recorded and archived any #pedophilia, is among how they've been exercising #control. While posing as a wealthy #investor, Epstein himself was a conduit of both #insideInformation and #childSex and #sexTrafficking — take your pick.

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