According to Derek Chezzi’s Yahoo! Canada News blog, there have been a lot of clicks about Tommy Douglas and the RCMP files. Tommy Douglas said in 1961, ""My friends, watch out for the little fellow with an idea." Mr. Douglas’s ideas scared the crap out of establishment so much that the RCMP kept a hefty file on Douglas, but never found anything.
Along with files about the Greatest (evil, lefty) Canadian, today the Independent Online published details of the top-secret FBI/MI5 for John Lennon. The files reveal "trivial" and "public information". Andrew Gumbel writes:
"Yes, ladies and gentlemen, we can now reveal to you the shocking
news that John Lennon – despite his bewilderingly long hair and his
mystifying habit of lying in bed for days at a time – was a peace
activist who opposed the Vietnam War, spoke out against British
military intervention in Northern Ireland, met and gave interviews to
leading anti-war advocates on both sides of the Atlantic, and was even
known, on occasion, to open his cheque book to put his money where his
mouth was.
We can further reveal that, according to one of J Edgar Hoover’s
confidential sources – on whose reliability and competence more in a
moment – he experimented with illicit drugs, and was busted once for
possession of marijuana."
It just shows how these things work – if ‘someone’ (with the power) decides that you are a threat, then they will investigate you for years and years until they find what they want, even if it doesn’t really exist. The question needs to be, who is ordering these types of investigations, and why are they not being held accountabe for, if nothing else, the waste of resources.
