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enhanced_deficit
11-14-2014, 06:02 PM
This incredible news was leaked yesterday about how US freedom agencies handled MLK:

'You filthy, abnormal animal’: graphic contents of anonymous letter sent by FBI to Martin Luther King

Civil rights leader was urged to kill himself over ‘sexual orgies' with 'evil playmates'


http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03104/martin-luther-king_3104426b.jpg The letter to Martin Luther King was written by a deputy of FBI chief J Edgar Hoover Photo: Getty Images

By Rosa Prince, New York
5:08PM GMT 12 Nov 2014

It was accompanied by a cassette recording containing evidence of King’s now well documented extramarital liaisons, which the FBI had obtained by wiretapping his homes and hotel rooms.
Employing deliberate misspellings and awkward constructions, it reads: “Lend your sexually psychotic ear to the enclosure.
“You will find yourself in all your dirt, filth, evil and moronic talk exposed on the record for all time …
“You will find on the record for all time your filthy, dirty, evil companions, male and females giving expression with you to your hidious [sic] abnormalities.
“It is all there on the record, your sexual orgies. Listen to yourself you filthy, abnormal animal.
“You are on the record. You have been on the record – all your adulterous acts, your sexual orgies extending far into the past. This one is but a tiny sample.
“You will understand this. Yes, from your various evil playmates on the east coast to [name redacted] and others on the west coast and outside the country, you are on the record. King you are done.”
The letter opens by comparing King to Henry VII, going on, in a section withheld from the public until now: “…and his countless acts of adultery and immoral conduct lower than that of a beast.”
It concludes by apparently urging King to take his own life within 34 days – thought to be a reference to a date on which he was due to collect the Nobel Peace Prize in Sweden.
“There is but one way out for you. You better take it before your filthy, abnormal fraudulent self is bared to the nation.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11226618/You-filthy-abnormal-animal-graphic-contents-of-anonymous-letter-sent-by-FBI-to-Martin-Luther-King.html



November 12, 2014



FBI's "Suicide Letter" to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Dangers of Unchecked Surveillance





https://www.eff.org/files/2014/11/12/mlkletters.jpg

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/fbis-suicide-letter-dr-martin-luther-king-jr-and-dangers-unchecked-surveillance

Anti Federalist
11-14-2014, 06:25 PM
Charming.

http://www.whale.to/b/32157_429603760441442_1722164806_n.jpg

phill4paul
11-14-2014, 07:47 PM
Charming.

http://www.whale.to/b/32157_429603760441442_1722164806_n.jpg

Not intentionally malevolent?

GunnyFreedom
11-14-2014, 08:25 PM
Not intentionally malevolent?

No, pretty sure the malevolence is intentional with this one. :p

DFF
11-14-2014, 09:26 PM
Although harsh, a lot of the accusations in that letter, specifically those alleging King was an adulterer who engaged in orgies, and also a subversive communist, were absolutely true.

http://www.crmvet.org/crmpics/mlk-billboard1.jpg

King's main handler and speech writer (he wrote the "I have dream speech) was Stanley Levison, who in the 1950's was a high-ranking member of the Communist Party USA.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fa/Stanley_Levison.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Levison

Additionally, Baynard Rustin, a homosexual activist, and one of King's closest advisers, was also affiliated with Communism.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/BayardRustinAug1963-LibraryOfCongress_crop.jpg/220px-BayardRustinAug1963-LibraryOfCongress_crop.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayard_Rustin#Influence_on_the_Civil_Rights_Moveme nt

The "dreamer" was not who people think he was. I makes me cringe to see a monument to this guy in Washington. But this lets you know who's now in charge of the country.

http://beforeitsnews.com/contributor/upload/7162/images/5673_obama_lenin.jpg

NorthCarolinaLiberty
11-14-2014, 09:40 PM
"You better take it before your filthy, abnormal fraudulent self is bared to the nation.”

Coming from a homosexual who never acknowledged it. The irony is thick.

presence
11-14-2014, 09:52 PM
all your adulterous acts, your sexual orgies extending far into the past

Shaming a man about the mad women he's been sleeping with? This was supposed to be effective how?

*confused*

AuH20
11-14-2014, 10:12 PM
Although harsh, a lot of the accusations in that letter, specifically those alleging King was an adulterer who engaged in orgies, and also a subversive communist, were absolutely true.

http://www.crmvet.org/crmpics/mlk-billboard1.jpg

King's main handler and speech writer (he wrote the "I have dream speech) was Stanley Levison, who in the 1950's was a high-ranking member of the Communist Party USA.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fa/Stanley_Levison.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Levison

Additionally, Baynard Rustin, a homosexual activist, and one of King's closest advisers, was also affiliated with Communism.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/BayardRustinAug1963-LibraryOfCongress_crop.jpg/220px-BayardRustinAug1963-LibraryOfCongress_crop.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayard_Rustin#Influence_on_the_Civil_Rights_Moveme nt

The "dreamer" was not who people think he was. I makes me cringe to see a monument to this guy in Washington. But this lets you know who's now in charge of the country.

http://beforeitsnews.com/contributor/upload/7162/images/5673_obama_lenin.jpg

Shhhhhh. The public cannot be allowed to know this.

FloralScent
11-14-2014, 10:31 PM
Although harsh, a lot of the accusations in that letter, specifically those alleging King was an adulterer who engaged in orgies, and also a subversive communist, were absolutely true.

There is not much doubt he was a trained, Communist agitator.

AuH20
11-14-2014, 10:47 PM
There is not much doubt he was a trained, Communist agitator.

It's amazing who America has been trained to emulate. The criminal Bushes, the psychopathic Clintons, and then we have complete frauds like this MLK fellow who was actually utilizing donated church funds to fuel his insane lifestyle.

DFF
11-14-2014, 11:21 PM
It is amazing indeed how the American public has been duped into idolizing all these wolves in sheep's clothing.

56ktarget
11-15-2014, 03:56 AM
Paulite logic:

MLK associated with former communists; therefore, he was a communist
Ron/Rand Paul associates associated with Nazis/stormfront; therefore, he is a Neo-Nazi

NorthCarolinaLiberty
11-15-2014, 04:16 AM
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Question for you 56K-Income-for-all. The other lib trolls on here manage to get green bars. Some of them a lot. How is that you managed a bunch of red bars?

Spikender
11-15-2014, 05:31 AM
Paulite logic:

MLK associated with former communists; therefore, he was a communist
Ron/Rand Paul associates associated with Nazis/stormfront; therefore, he is a Neo-Nazi

That moment when donations from private individuals = associations with them.

"Former communists". I don't know much about MLK's history or past I admit, nor do most people, but I'd like to know where this "Former" label comes from.

phill4paul
11-15-2014, 06:57 AM
Let me decide between the two: A Communist agitator with homosexual tendencies and a penchant for the naughty or A secret police force that is held unaccountable for it's actions. Never thought I'd come down on the side of a Communist agitator.

enhanced_deficit
11-15-2014, 07:56 AM
November 12, 2014



FBI's "Suicide Letter" to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Dangers of Unchecked Surveillance



https://www.eff.org/files/2014/11/12/mlkletters.jpg

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/fbis-suicide-letter-dr-martin-luther-king-jr-and-dangers-unchecked-surveillance



US defends marshals in wake of secret cellphone spying report (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/11/15/us-defends-marshals-in-wake-secret-cellphone-spying-report/)

Published November 15, 2014
Wall Street Journal: Citizens' info collected by spy planes
WASHINGTON – A Justice Department official on Friday defended the legality of a program to scoop up data (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/11/14/secret-us-spy-program-targeted-americans-cell-phones/)from thousands of mobile phones as the secret operation came under scrutiny from lawmakers and caught the federal agency that regulates the nation’s airwaves by surprise.
The Justice Department, without formally acknowledging the existence of the program, defended the legality of the operation by the U.S. Marshals Service, saying the
agency doesn’t maintain a database of everyday Americans’ cellphones.




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FloralScent
11-15-2014, 08:07 AM
Let me decide between the two: A Communist agitator with homosexual tendencies and a penchant for the naughty or A secret police force that is held unaccountable for it's actions. Never thought I'd come down on the side of a Communist agitator.

Now the international Communists run that secret police force. There are better ways to combat the things you don't like about your own country than to give it to the Communists.

amy31416
11-15-2014, 08:10 AM
It's amazing who America has been trained to emulate. The criminal Bushes, the psychopathic Clintons, and then we have complete frauds like this MLK fellow who was actually utilizing donated church funds to fuel his insane lifestyle.

Hagee is probably just as bad.

amy31416
11-15-2014, 08:18 AM
Paulite logic:

MLK associated with former communists; therefore, he was a communist
Ron/Rand Paul associates associated with Nazis/stormfront; therefore, he is a Neo-Nazi

"Former" communists? Don't think that's the case.

And I'd like to hear the names of the Ron/Rand associates who were involved with Nazis. The pic of Don Black doesn't count--Ron didn't know who he was.

FloralScent
11-15-2014, 08:18 AM
Hagee is probably just as bad.

Without a doubt. He can't speak a paragraph without shilling for Israel. I'm sure his fat pockets are full of shekels.

FloralScent
11-15-2014, 08:20 AM
"Former" communists? Don't think that's the case.

And I'd like to hear the names of the Ron/Rand associates who were involved with Nazis. The pic of Don Black doesn't count--Ron didn't know who he was.

Don is a neocon asset.

phill4paul
11-15-2014, 08:26 AM
Now the international Communists run that secret police force. There are better ways to combat the things you don't like about your own country than to give it to the Communists.

Never considered giving it to them. Don't consider giving it to fascists either.

otherone
11-15-2014, 08:29 AM
wait...
so y'all are behind the FBI's chicanery because the target was a bad guy?

FloralScent
11-15-2014, 08:31 AM
Never considered giving it to them.

They've got it, so now what?

phill4paul
11-15-2014, 08:35 AM
They've got it, so now what?

Who's got it? The "Commies?" "The Fascists?" Or the corporations? It get's pretty murky these days.

enhanced_deficit
11-15-2014, 08:47 AM
wait...
so y'all are behind the FBI's chicanery because the target was a bad guy?

EM. Not sure how you are arriving at that conclusion; I have not seen a single view in the thread that could be characterized as being "behind" this chicanery.
There are couple of opinions on accuracy of content of "accusations" made in the fbi letter to mlk. The way I read it, someone saying that xyz was a communist does not translate to their expression of support of freedom agencies spying on or writing such letters to xyz.

FloralScent
11-15-2014, 08:52 AM
It get's pretty murky these days.

The international banking community clearly controls all Western nations. Communism was never anything more than these same banker's 'thug' arm, it was never a real ideology. It's not all that murky if you think it through.

otherone
11-15-2014, 08:52 AM
There are couple of opinions on accuracy of content of "accusations" made in the fbi letter to mlk.

What difference does that make?

enhanced_deficit
11-15-2014, 08:56 AM
What difference does that make?

If someone says you are a communist or anarchist or whatever, that is no different than someone supporting freedom agencies spying on you and then sending you letters to intimidate you?
There is a gigantic difference between the two stances.

phill4paul
11-15-2014, 08:56 AM
The international banking community clearly controls all Western nations. Communism was never anything more than these same banker's 'thug' arm, it was never a real ideology. It's not all that murky if you think it through.

Labels make it so. Especially when they are muddied together. The only applicable term that covers the whole to me, is authoritarianism.

otherone
11-15-2014, 08:59 AM
If someone says you are a communist or anarchist or whatever, that is no different than someone supporting freedom agencies spying on you and then sending you letters to intimidate you?
There is a gigantic difference between the two stances.

What's this thread about?

enhanced_deficit
11-15-2014, 09:04 AM
What's this thread about?

While there is historic significance of the news that is subject of this thread, it is really about what is highlighted in post #16 (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?463086-You-filthy-abnormal-animal%E2%80%99-graphic-contents-of-anonymous-letter-sent-by-FBI-to-MLK&p=5701707&viewfull=1#post5701707)of this thread.

Tywysog Cymru
11-15-2014, 09:51 AM
As soon as this thread showed up I knew people would rush to demonize MLK jr:(.

amy31416
11-15-2014, 10:29 AM
wait...
so y'all are behind the FBI's chicanery because the target was a bad guy?

Can't speak for anyone else, but hell no. And I don't think MLK was a bad guy, just someone with very different opinions.

pcosmar
11-15-2014, 10:48 AM
No, pretty sure the malevolence is intentional with this one. :p

He set the tone and standards for the industry.

AuH20
11-15-2014, 11:06 AM
Let me decide between the two: A Communist agitator with homosexual tendencies and a penchant for the naughty or A secret police force that is held unaccountable for it's actions. Never thought I'd come down on the side of a Communist agitator.

They are both terrible (and King's problems go far beyond being a Communist) but Hoover had the larger, more intrusive organization behind him.

AuH20
11-15-2014, 11:13 AM
Can't speak for anyone else, but hell no. And I don't think MLK was a bad guy, just someone with very different opinions.

A good guy doesn't use church funds for illicit activities. Malcolm X was the good guy actually. He pissed off the Nation of Islam by railing against the pedophilia ways of his leader Elijah Muhammad.

Tywysog Cymru
11-15-2014, 12:13 PM
King was also a great anti-war activist, and would be condemning Obama today for his warmongering if he were still alive.

Danke
11-15-2014, 12:21 PM
Coming from a homosexual who never acknowledged it. The irony is thick.

That was just a rumor to smear him.

Antischism
11-15-2014, 12:29 PM
As soon as this thread showed up I knew people would rush to demonize MLK jr:(.

Of course they would. A lot of people are apparently still heavily affected by the "red scare." Thankfully, Ron Paul has a different take.

One of my heroes is Martin Luther King because he practiced the libertarian principle of peaceful resistance and peaceful civil disobedience...

AuH20
11-15-2014, 01:33 PM
Of course they would. A lot of people are apparently still heavily affected by the "red scare." Thankfully, Ron Paul has a different take.

One of my heroes is Martin Luther King because he practiced the libertarian principle of peaceful resistance and peaceful civil disobedience...

Yet he voted against his national holiday. MLK was a piece of trash who publicly had a good message.

phill4paul
11-15-2014, 01:39 PM
Yet he voted against his national holiday. MLK was a piece of trash who publicly had a good message.

Ron pretty much voted against National anything.

GunnyFreedom
11-15-2014, 02:01 PM
Yet he voted against his national holiday. MLK was a piece of trash who publicly had a good message.

He also voted against Rosa Parks medal. You should know better than to assume Ron Paul voting against a holiday means he doesn't like the subject of the holiday.

DFF
11-15-2014, 02:07 PM
Paulite logic:

MLK associated with former communists; therefore, he was a communist
Ron/Rand Paul associates associated with Nazis/stormfront; therefore, he is a Neo-Nazi

Neither Ron or Rand Paul are "Nazis." That said, I'd take a Nazi over a Communist any day of the week.

Communists are the worst, of the worst, of the worst. And unfortunately we've got a few of these pinkos floating around these forums.

phill4paul
11-15-2014, 02:13 PM
Neither Ron or Rand Paul are Nazis. That said, I'd take a Nazi over a Communist any day of the week.

Communists are the worst of the worst of the worst. And unfortunately we've got a few of these pinkos floating around these forums.

Glad you've defined your enemies so well and made a top ten of who is better or worse. Lol.

Antischism
11-15-2014, 02:35 PM
Neither Ron or Rand Paul are "Nazis." That said, I'd take a Nazi over a Communist any day of the week.

Communists are the worst, of the worst, of the worst. And unfortunately we've got a few of these pinkos floating around these forums.

So you'd rather be under a Nazi regime than say, stateless/anarcho communism such as Catalonia in 1936? That's a pretty bold statement.

amy31416
11-15-2014, 03:13 PM
A good guy doesn't use church funds for illicit activities. Malcolm X was the good guy actually. He pissed off the Nation of Islam by railing against the pedophilia ways of his leader Elijah Muhammad.

I'll have to read up on these illicit activities, but I completely agree on Malcolm X. He just always seemed like an incredibly sharp fellow and a critical thinker.

DFF
11-15-2014, 03:15 PM
So you'd rather be under a Nazi regime than say, stateless/anarcho communism such as Catalonia in 1936? That's a pretty bold statement.

I am a libertarian Republican, so I'd rather not be under either, but there were aspects of of Hitler's Germany that were positives. Whereas with Communism in Russia and Eastern Europe, there were no positives.

It was all bad, unless you were a commissar or a high-ranking communist party official.

NIU Students for Liberty
11-15-2014, 03:23 PM
I am a libertarian Republican, so I'd rather not be under either, but there were aspects of of Hitler's Germany that were positives. Whereas with Communism in Russia and Eastern Europe, there were no positives.

It was all bad, unless you were a commissar or a high-ranking communist party official.

I'll bite. What was positive about Nazi Germany?

DFF
11-15-2014, 03:32 PM
Interest-free currency. Maximum employment. Extremely high standard of living while the rest of the world was in a depression. Paid vacations. Highways. Lots of other technical innovations.

Life was good for the Germans under Hitler. For those under Stalin though, they didn't have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of.

TheCount
11-15-2014, 03:33 PM
As soon as this thread showed up I knew people would rush to demonize MLK jr:(.

When I saw it yesterday, I meant to post "In b4 AuH20" but then forgot. :(

enhanced_deficit
11-15-2014, 04:26 PM
King was also a great anti-war activist, and would be condemning Obama today for his warmongering if he were still alive.

But one gets quite a different impression from MLK champions in government today and those around disgraced dronegangsta (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?433586-Majority-of-Americans-now-believe-Obama-is-quot-dishonest-and-untrustworthy) (alleged).


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Pentagon Official: King Would Support Iraq, Afghan Wars (VIDEO)

Posted: 01/14/2011 11:46 am EST

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/14/pentagon-official-mlk-support-wars-iraq-afghanistan_n_809031.html


Cory Booker equates Israel to dream of MLK (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?430895-Cory-Booker-equates-Israel-to-dream-of-MLK&)


http://ll-media.tmz.com/2013/09/26/0926-main-cory-booker-stripper-4.jpg

http://www.tmz.com/2013/09/26/newark...nate-campaign/ (http://www.tmz.com/2013/09/26/newark-mayor-corey-booker-twitter-stripper-senate-campaign/)

Protestors arrested, "Senators Menendez and Booker, The Blood is on your hands" banner (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?458798-Protestors-arrested-quot-Senators-Menendez-and-Booker-The-Blood-is-on-your-hands-quot-banner&)

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Outside the Gateway Center, where Menendez and Booker have offices. (Photo by Tom Bias)

AuH20
11-15-2014, 07:36 PM
I think we have a greater chance of seeing pigs fly then ever seeing King's FBI file.


"Meanwhile, Sen. Helms, with legal assistance from the Conservative Caucus, filed suit in federal court to obtain the release of FBI surveillance tapes on King that had been sealed by court order until the year 2027. Their argument was that senators could not fairly evaluate King's character and beliefs ans cast an informed vote on the holiday measure until they had gained access to this sealed material and had an opportunity to examine it. The Reagan Justice Department opposed this action, and on October 18, U.S. District Judge John Lewis Smith, Jr. refused to release the King files, which remain selaed to this day."


The courts have essentially locked it up for eternity (for 50 years in 1977), especially when the federal mafia spends millions of dollars on sad pieces like this.

http://ethicsalarms.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/king-memorial.jpg

AuH20
11-15-2014, 07:39 PM
I'll have to read up on these illicit activities, but I completely agree on Malcolm X. He just always seemed like an incredibly sharp fellow and a critical thinker.

Most of the stuff isn't pretty. The misuse of the church funds was worse than his Communist activity. Guy didn't have much of a moral compass but had a good line of BS.

BTW Malcolm X actually had integrity and was the real deal. Yet people still call him radical. Give me the radical with strong beliefs every day of the week.

DFF
11-15-2014, 08:52 PM
Communists in the Soviet Union erected statues of all their "heroes" as well, gave them holidays and transformed them into saints for the people to worship.

As far as King's FBI file, the fact that they've sealed it away for 50 (!) years tells you right there it's filled to the brim with damning evidence.

pcosmar
11-15-2014, 10:46 PM
Neither Ron or Rand Paul are "Nazis." That said, I'd take a Nazi over a Communist any day of the week.

Communists are the worst, of the worst, of the worst. And unfortunately we've got a few of these pinkos floating around these forums.

National Socialism (Nazi) is both real and common.. (and very dangerous)

Communism on the other hand does not exist and has never existed outside of philosophic fantasy.

There has never been a communist country. ever.

Russia,,China,, Cuba,, and all the others are not,,and never were communist.. despite all the rhetoric.

Communism is so contrary to human nature that it will never actually exist. (unless social controllers somehow succeed in altering Human Nature)

FloralScent
11-15-2014, 11:00 PM
National Socialism (Nazi) is both real and common.. (and very dangerous)

Where? The U.S.? The U.S. and most other Western nations are in hands of the globalists(Communists) and have been for some time.

AuH20
11-16-2014, 12:50 AM
National Socialism (Nazi) is both real and common.. (and very dangerous)

Communism on the other hand does not exist and has never existed outside of philosophic fantasy.

There has never been a communist country. ever.

Russia,,China,, Cuba,, and all the others are not,,and never were communist.. despite all the rhetoric.

Communism is so contrary to human nature that it will never actually exist. (unless social controllers somehow succeed in altering Human Nature)

Communism is simply a front for consolidating power. Most communists are simply dictators masquerading as champions of the commons.

CPUd
11-16-2014, 01:36 AM
The communism that people associate with USSR and Cuba is technically Marxist-Leninism. I don't know WTF they mean today, it is more a generic term for governments that people don't like.

scottditzen
11-16-2014, 01:11 PM
I am a libertarian Republican, so I'd rather not be under either, but there were aspects of of Hitler's Germany that were positives.

Just some friendly advice. If you're trying to win people over to your opinion, don't say this.

Antischism
11-16-2014, 01:15 PM
Where? The U.S.? The U.S. and most other Western nations are in hands of the globalists(Communists) and have been for some time.

I don't think you understand what communism is. It's like saying free market capitalism is awful and using the U.S. as an example of why.