Click here to access article by Dr. Stuart Jeanne Bramhall from OpEd News.
The article contains a plethora of links and references to sources which reveal the sophisticated forms of social control used by the US ruling class to promote their interests and contain dissent that might harm their interests. They prefer these methods because they avoid the more blatant use of police state methods that are in direct and open conflict with a "democratic" ideology, and because the latter methods often create militant political resistance.
The author is now living in New Zealand after fleeing Seattle due to FBI harassment because of her activist and intimate relationships with African-Americans, some who had been members of the Black Panther Party. So she knows her subject well. In the article she writes about her activities in relation to a campaign for single-payer medical insurance, and some of her insights regarding the uses of astro-turf organizations and COINTELPRO operations to control, divert, disrupt, and destroy legitimate campaign organizations.
