Feds Watchin'

Feds Watchin’:

How They Tune In When We Get Turnt

 Up Ima be fresh as hell if the feds watchin’

                                        Feds Watchin’  2 Chainz



Many people across the country are upset over the outcome of the George Zimmerman trial for the murder of Trayvon Martin. And rightly so. The trial was a miscarriage of so called justice if I’ve ever seen one. However, the fact that we can’t sleep on. is that for the past two weeks the whole ‘hood has been on trial.

  From the day that the George Zimmerman trial began, most of the focus of the media was not on the death of an innocent 17 year old Black kid, but on how Black folks in Sanford, Florida and ‘hoods across America were gonna react if Zimmerman was found not guilty. While people in this country claimed to be on a nightly “verdict watch,” in reality, they were on a 24/7 “riot watch.” What is interesting is that the tactics the Feds used to monitor black rage in Sanford were the same ones that they have, historically, used over and over again when they think that there is the possibility of “urban unrest.”


The preemptive strike against the hood has gone on for decades. One of the strategies that they used in preparation for the Zimmerman verdict was to call together “local leaders” (preachers/community organizers) in order to get their followers to remain calm after the verdict was announced. They have used this tactic before. During the pre-LA Rebellion in 1992, the Po Po instituted a program called “Operation Cool Response” where they reached out to the same group of folks to keep the streets from gettin’ rowdy. So, since one of the current catch phrases in Hip Hop is “turnt up” maybe they call this ”Operation Turnt Down?”

Also, according to media sources such as USA Today, the Sanford Police Department set up snitching operations called “rumor control hot lines” to keep tabs on the streets. So, if you heard your next door neighbor blastin’ F*** the Police by NWA verdict night, it was your civic duty as a law abiding citizen to call the snitch hot line and drop a dime. This tactic has also been used before..

According to Dr. Patricia Turner in her book. “Heard It Through the Grapevine,” rumor control networks go as far back as World War II as “an effort to prevent potentially adverse hearsay of all sorts from gaining credibility.”

The media has, also, long played a role in snitching on the hood. I’m sure that many freedom fighters during the Black Power Movement were confused as to how statements they made to a mild mannered news person wound up in their court case file. According to Samuel Yette in his classic work, “The Choice: The Issue of Black Survival in America” , in 1969, the Justice Department subpoenaed the “unpublished notes of reporters from Newsweek, the New York Times, CBS and Time Life” who had interviewed members of the Black Panther Party.

I also found it strange that the pre -verdict police predictions of no violent protests in major cities across America was followed by a post verdict CNN map pinpointing protests across the country that they claimed to be nonviolent. So the question becomes, how did they know? There had to be some level of surveillance both pre and post Zimmerman verdict.

What is most ironic is that barely a month ago, white America was all up in arms by the “Prism” revelation by Edward Snowden that accused the government of using social media and cell phone data to spy on American citizens. If there had been an announcement that a Tea Party or a National Rifle Association protest had been monitored because of unsubstantiated threats of violence, you can best believe that there would have been hell to pay. But since many people in power think that Black people are only interested in rap music and reality shows, there was no such outcry.


African Americans did not really need an Edward Snowden to tell us that we're being watched, as researchers such as the late Steve Cokely ,warned us about the intelligence community 20 years ago. We have a long history of being under the microscope via the military or the Feds that goes back to the Marcus Garvey Era of the early 20th century.

And more information is being revealed everyday. One of the most interesting things that came out of the trial coverage was Fox News’ revelation that the US Justice Department’s Community Relations Service, took an active role in the Trayvon Martin rallies, last year. The agency was set up in 1964 and, supposedly, serves as a “peacemaker for community conflicts over race.” But the same question must be posed that was asked of FBI agents during the Civil Rights Movement, “are you protecting us or are you watching us?”

Although the powers that be would like to downplay the outrage in the hood over the Zimmerman acquittal it must be noted that they invested a lot of time. money and resources to keep the hood in check.

The tactics that were used against the Black community during the recent Zimmerman trial seem to have been taken right out of the Richard Nixon playbook on “Law and Order” and anyone one who cannot see that is either blind or stupid.

Like Dead Prez once said:

Can You relate/We’re livin’ in a police state.


TRUTH Minista Paul Scott can be reached at info@nowarningshotsfired.com or call (919) 308-4233. Follow on Twitter @truthminista 
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Spies Like Us

Spies Like Us:
The Secret Relationship Between Rats and Rappers

TRUTH Minista Paul Scott



"Can't win a debate so they sponsor every threat to me/ I wonder if Agent 800 is standing next to me"

Young Lords- Immortal Technique



During a recent panel discussion, Hip Hop artist, Knowledge the Revelator, was just about to expose the diabolical plot of how they are using rap music to dumb down the masses. Suddenly, Alfred Jenkins aka "King Alfred" pimp slapped the person sitting next to him, which started a brawl that, abruptly, ended the conference. While fists and chairs were flying, Jenkins, quietly, exited through a side door where he was met by a man in a black suit and sunglasses, who handed him an envelope addressed to "Agent Rex 84..."

Last month, the Associated Press reported that Muslim students at "a dozen campuses in the Northeast" were being spied on by the NYPD. Coincidentally, around the same time, the NY Confidential website released a report that alleged that a 2008 meeting of Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network was also infiltrated by the NYPD following the trial of the police officers who killed Sean Bell.

Although it came as a shock for some, the "Alphabet boys" (as Young Jeezy would say) have long sent snitches into organizations; both criminal and political.

One of the earliest rats to infiltrate a Black organization was James Wormley Jones (Agent 800), who spied on Marcus Garvey and the UNIA during the 1920's. According to a February 11, 2011 article posted on the FBI website, "A Byte Out of History," other agents assigned to the UNIA included, Earl Titus, Authur Lowell Brent and Thomas Leon Jefferson. Also, according to the PBS documentary, "Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind" one of Garvey's closest associates, Herbert Boulin, "owner of a Harlem based Black doll company, " was an informant known as "Agent P-138"

Later, Civil Rights organizations came under scrutiny by the Feds.

More than a decade ago, researcher Steve Cokely, shed light on a March 21, 1993 "Memphis Commercial Appeal" article that accused the NAACP's former board chairman, Joel Spingarn of being a major in the Military Intelligence Division, who, "used his post to obtain critical information for MID, such as a list of the organization's 32,000 members. "

The same newspaper also reported in a September 12, 2010, article that noted civil rights photographer, Ernest Withers, was not only an FBI informant but took the pictures at the scene of the Martin Luther King assassination.

It is more widely known that the Black Panthers and other "militant" movements of the late 60'-early 70's were heavily infiltrated by informants such as William O'Neal, who supplied intel to the Feds that led to the murder of Fred Hampton" and BOSS (Bureau of Special Services) agent, Eugene Roberts, who, not only was spying on Malcolm X when he was assassinated but, according to John Potash in his book "The FBI War on Tupac Shakur and Black leaders," was later an original member of the New York Chapter of the Black Panther Party of which Tupac's stepfather and mother were also members.

Although, Tupac Shakur inherited the legacy of government persecution from Mutula and Afeni Shakur , he was just one in a long line of rappers from NWA to the Wu Tang Clan under investigation by the Feds. Back in 2000, Cedric Muhammad of Blackelectorate.com began releasing a series of "Rap COINTELPRO" articles exposing this fact.

So why would federal and local law enforcement agencies still be interested in a music that has become increasingly apolitical since the early 90's?

According to Supreme Understanding, author of "How to Hustle and Win," "Hip Hop is just a euphemism for the Black and Brown underclass." The author who also released the widely circulated guideline, "How to Spot an Agent," also said, "Hip Hop is not as apolitical as people think. Many mainstream artists have a political element."

Perhaps the most detailed evidence of law enforcement's attack on Hip Hop is the first hand report of the the NYPD's "first Hip Hop cop," Derrick Parker. The book mentions the infamous "Hip Hop binder" that the Miami police used to keep files on Hip Hop artists as well as other surveillance activities against New York rappers.

What is not often mentioned is that, although, Parker was primarily assigned to watch rappers, he also tailed the late Black nationalist, Dr. Khalid Abdul Muhammad, whose voice was sampled on early Public Enemy, Ice Cube and Tupac Shakur songs. This is proof that you don't have to be a criminal nor a Hip Hop superstar to be under the watchful eyes of the Alphabet Boys.

Just as the FBI used the techniques that it developed fighting the mob during the '30's on activists during the Civil Rights Era they have used the same techniques that they use to go after drug dealers on Hip Hop artists of today.

This has raised a lot of questions that always go unanswered.

Since, according to John Potash, a FBI agent was present when Biggie Smalls was murdered, why didn't he stop the bullets? Also, with so much government surveillance going on, how can the Feds catch rappers like T.I. with guns but not see the trucks that are hauling them into the 'hood. And if they can catch members of street crime families trafficking drugs, how can they miss the planes and ships that are bringing them into this country?

This actually goes back to the Civil Rights era when activists asked if the FBI had so thoroughly infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan, why were civil rights workers still being murdered? The flimsy answer given, then, that they were an "investigative" unit not a "preventive" unit, I suppose, still applies today.

The mistrust of law enforcement leaves the 'hood caught in the middle between those who do dirt and hide behind the "anti-snitch" attitude of the streets and law enforcement agencies that refuse to admit why the "stop snitchin' " code was created in the first place.

If we are going to stop crime in the 'hood we must first have an honest conversation about government surveillance and its ramifications.

But until then, as GZA said on "I Gotcha Back"

"I gotcha back but you best to watch your front/because it's the brothas who front/they be on a hunt."


TRUTH Minista Paul Scott's weekly column is "This Ain't Hip Hop" a column for intelligent Hip Hop headz. He can be reached at info@nowarningshotsfired.com . Website NoWarningShotsFired.com Follow on Twitter @truthminista