I-khan said:
I hear ya and thanx for the explanation. Speaking of those agents, we need to figure out a way to weed out those agents, and it is not just limited to the western hemisphere, Kwame Nkrumah had a few snakes in his garden. (even though the biggest snake, Williams, was an african-american man working for the CIA.)
Well, brother I-Khan, think of a weed and it's origins, and how when left to fester, weeds actually overwhelm a garden. Even when it appears they've been eradicated, they sprout up again, seemingly out of nowhere. THis is our problem in "weeding" out informants and snitches, and agent provocateurs in our midsts. The environment for the creation of such people is so fertile and hospitable, they can be found on any street corner, university classroom, military unit, or in corporate America. Even Shaq wants to align himself with the agents of our destruction.
While I don't believe we can "weed out" these people, I do believe we can make them less effective, and more easily DETECTABLE, by changing our own behaviour patterns, and by devising standards and criteria for whom we will be led by, and how. We can actually learn MORE from them by allowing them to stay within the framework of an organization than by weeding them out, and kicking them to the curb. My own inner-machiavelli tells me that by getting enough info on someone whom we've reason to believe is a snitch, that we can neutralize him or her in that way, as well.
But, the bottom line is that we have to set standards, guidelines, and criteria for our own behaviour, and it must be circumspect to the letter. If it is, it becomes very difficult for someone of that ilk to operate successfully. One of the things about our organizations in the past was, that we were not always very circumspect in our own behaviour. We were loud, boisterous, and too expressive with our rhetoric and styles of dress. We made ourselves targets, not only with our incendiary rhetoric and cool uni's, but with some less than salutary behavior(boozing, drugging, and sleeping around with anything with a skirt on - particularly with WHite Chicks). That kind of behavior tells the world what your weaknesses are, and how those weaknesses can be used to crush you. We should learn from those mistakes, and proceed cautiously and intelligently. Thanks for starting a good convo, brother.