Cointelpro And The Assassination of Tupac Shakur
By Thomas C. Mountain
01 September, 2015
Countercurrents.org
I first wrote about the assassination of American Rap Music superstar
Tupac Shakur almost a decade ago. I used the title “The Hand of The
Man in Tupac's Assassination” and I use the term “assassination” for
good reason.
Tupac was gunned down on the “Los Vegas Strip” in front of the mega
gambling casino Circus after a Mike Tyson boxing match.
Hundreds of people witnessed the killing and it had to have been
captured on multiple CCTV (close circuit television) systems used to
monitor the front of the hotel. The killers had to have arrived and
departed from the scene of the crime via the main thoroughfare, “The
Strip” and were certainly recorded doing so on hundreds of other CCTV
systems.
Yet to this day, almost two decades later, law enforcement claims they
have no idea who committed this crime. No photos extracted from the
multiple video cameras who recorded the assassination, not even the
license plate number of the killers vehicle.
It is so obvious that a cover up has taken place that even black
American superstar comedian and actor Chris Rock raised this in one
of his HBO comedy specials.
While Chris Rock may not consider Tupac’s killing an assassination,
all one needs to do is watch Resurrection, the documentary made about
Tupac’s life to understand how Tupac’s message to the youth of
America, and the world, was something that was not going to be
tolerated by those in the highest levels of law enforcement.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the USA has a long
history of targeting black American political activists, amongst
others, and through the notorious “Cointelpro” program, law
enforcement death squads assassinated hundreds of black, latino and
American indian activists during the 1960’s and 70’s.
After viewing the documentary on Tupac Shakur’s life it becomes
quickly apparent that Tupac met the profile for law enforcement
“neutralization”.
Tupac stood for everything the FBI, founded my a white supremacist, is
known to hate. His mantra of living the “Thug Life” with its portrayal
of the American Dream as the American Nightmare for black American and
latino youth, with a militant disrespect for law enforcement along
with almost all aspects of the American elite had not only sunk deep
roots amongst minority youth but had been taken up by millions of
white american youth (the majority of rap music is actually bought by
white kids of all demographics).
Tupac was not only talented but very charismatic and had begun a
career in Hollywood. His revolutionary message, though mixed with the
decadent lifestyle all to often part of the celebrity scene in western
society, was undeniable, and it was clear that Tupac was not about to
kneel down and apologize for earlier “indiscretions” a la Ice T and
Ice Cube ie “Cop Killer” and “F*** the Police”.
If Tupac was still alive today he would be more influential amongst
the youth of the USA, and internationally, than Barak Obama. Whether
he would have fallen for the Obamarama “change we can believe in” scam
is a good question.
But what is clear is that the FBI and its law enforcement network was
not about to take that chance. For law enforcement in the USA to
confiscate multiple video evidence of the murder of a prominent black
celebrity, and then say they have “no suspects” when they actually
have images of the killers of Tupac Shakur means only one thing, that
law enforcement must be involved in the killing. The fact that the
FBI had Tupac under 24 hours surveillance means that the Cointelpro
team almost certainly was near by when the shots were fired.
Tupac Shakur was assassinated, the US government had to be involved at
the highest levels and we should add Tupac Shakur’s name to the long,
bloody list of those murdered by the FBI and its minions in law
enforcement.
Thomas C. Mountain is an independent journalist living and reporting
from Eritrea since 2006. He can be reached @thomascmountain on
twitter, thomascmountain on Facebook or at thomascmountain at g mail
dot com
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