From: Michael M. Butler (butler@comp-lib.org)
Date: Fri Jun 14 2002 - 08:19:41 MDT
Let me make one thing plain that was only implied poorly in my previous
communication: Oakland PD and LAPD have been commensal (informally) since at
least the SLA-Cinque De Frees[sp]-Patty Hearst days. I don't know a lot of bad
stuff about Oakland PD at present. But I can't say I'm not skeptical.
"Michael M. Butler" wrote:
>
> I have never known what to make of this affair. It's less clearcut than, say,
> the burnout of MOVE in Philadelphia. Cointelpro and [its purported child] LA's
> "Glass House" were no strangers to intrigue.
> And the recent LA-Rampart scandal's roots go back years and years. The whole
> 1960s-70s Efram Zimbalist Junior Clean-as-a-Whistle Dragnet image was intended
> to rehabilitate LA's sordid police past.
--
butler a t comp - lib . o r g
I am not here to have an argument. I am here as part of a civilization.
Sometimes I forget.
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