Letters to the Editor

On the FBI and Chuck Turner

I have been dying to weigh in on the Chuck Turner debacle. How many folks know or even care that the FBI paid their informant $3,000 to bribe politicians? In my mind Mr. Turner’s guilt or innocence runs a distant second to my suspicion of the FBI. The FBI has proven to be a disreputable institution. Those of us old enough remember the lawlessness of its cointelpro programs of the 1960s. More recently its Boston chapter’s complicity in Whitey Bulger’s reign of terror. So am I suspect of its handling of the takedown of Mr. Turner and Sen. Dianne Wilkerson? You bet I am. We all should be. I will never justify or condone wrongdoing, but when our law enforcement agencies use criminal tactics to bring down lawbreakers and use our tax money to do it, we should all feel a little uneasy.

Voy Cooks
Via e-mail

Kudos to Roving Camera

I think Roving Camera is a good way to let people give their opinions about what they think in our community, our city and our state. Everyone should be able to share their thoughts with others.

Eddy Nelson
Via e-mail

A note of sorrow

I am a former resident of Boston now living in Florida. Although I never met Elva Lee Abdal-Khallaq (Collins), I did know her husband and a couple of their sons. I would get my haircut at the barbershop and patronized A Nubian Notion.

I am extending my expressions of sympathy for the family and rejoicing and praising the long and wonderful life that she lived. May God bless you all.

Patricia Biles
(Formerly Patricia Walters)
Via e-mail

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Dec 16 16:06pm by Aron Hall [76.19.99.63]

Truly a Product of the Late 60s & 70s i Cant Understand How the FBI Continues its Course on How To Destroy Black Political Leaders and the People of this Country On Our Tax Dollars and we Seem Helpless to Stop it. if past Crimes where uncoverd it angers Me to see it Happen all over again I believe Chuck Turner And Sen Dianne Wilkerson where removed For a Bigger Picture and thats to Have Controlled Leaders in there Positons.Boston Being the State Most others Look to For the "LEAD"on Major law Inactments The Powers that Be Are Deceptive in there Practice to Clear Boston of It Current Leaders.Bostons Inner citys is Catching Hell Right Now and i swear I cant HEAR THEM LAUGHING., Just like the Search For Bostons own FBI Flunkie and Murderer Whitey Bulger it 's a JOKE