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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 1138915" data-attributes="member: 2189">Political targeting has been a more common practice by gov&#039;t than most people would like or want to admit.&nbsp; Not just the IRS but also the FBI in their infamous <a href="http://vault.fbi.gov/cointel-pro" target="_blank">CoIntelPro </a>aka Counter Intelligence Program.&nbsp; The FBI would infiltrated numerous groups of varying beliefs and issues using not only informants but even provocateurs to instigate disruption, even violent outcomes to tear apart a given movement.&nbsp; The Civil Rights movement bared the brunt of this program but then various so-called rightwing/conservative groups also were no immune either.&nbsp; Even today the FBI still play the classic game of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/opinion/sunday/terrorist-plots-helped-along-by-the-fbi.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0" target="_blank">enabler, instigator, provocateur</a> and thus raises moral and ethical questions about such practices.Political targeting is not something new but rather something of a long standing traditional practiced by both parties while in power to the benefit of their maintaining power.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 1138915, member: 2189"] Political targeting has been a more common practice by gov't than most people would like or want to admit. Not just the IRS but also the FBI in their infamous [URL="http://vault.fbi.gov/cointel-pro"][COLOR=#ff0000]CoIntelPro [/COLOR][/URL]aka Counter Intelligence Program. The FBI would infiltrated numerous groups of varying beliefs and issues using not only informants but even provocateurs to instigate disruption, even violent outcomes to tear apart a given movement. The Civil Rights movement bared the brunt of this program but then various so-called rightwing/conservative groups also were no immune either. Even today the FBI still play the classic game of [URL="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/opinion/sunday/terrorist-plots-helped-along-by-the-fbi.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0"][COLOR=#ff0000]enabler, instigator, provocateur[/COLOR][/URL] and thus raises moral and ethical questions about such practices. Political targeting is not something new but rather something of a long standing traditional practiced by both parties while in power to the benefit of their maintaining power. [/QUOTE]

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