it's fred hampton's birthday. a revolutionary leader of the black panthers, he was assassinated at age 21 by cops in coordination with the FBI as part of its murderous COINTELPRO subversion program. today perhaps more than ever we need to heed his words:
also instructive to know how they got to him: the FBI bribed someone to give them critical information used to plan the assassination. local cops then burst into his house, and as hampton lay sleeping next to his pregnant gf killed him w/ a hail of bullets
what is not mentioned in that clip is that the FBI rat did not just provide them with critical information, he also drugged hampton and others in the house in preparation for the raid (h/t @moose_ul_man) 
as chomsky notes, the fact that COINTELPRO, a vast domestic terrorism program involving every level of the state, is never talked about in the dominant ideology indicates its nature. for a more detailed analysis of the program see chomsky.info/199909__/
