[Vigilanteman]

I do not know if J. Edgar Hoover was gay or not. I'm inclined to believe that maybe he was. If so, he was clearly the controlled type which didn't let it interfere with his work. It might also explain why he was so adamantly against having openly gay people in the FBI and extra supportive of the Boy Scouts for their same policy. Or maybe it was because in his work, he simply came to understand their mindset very, very well.

JEH was a superb public servant. He rejected attempts to give him more power and fought off repeated attempts by a scumbag press to hamstring law enforcement and bring him down personally.

Yes, he made mistakes. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. may have been a womanizer, but he was not a Communist. A lot of Communists, however, tagged along with his movement and helped hijack it after he was killed. They may have even had something to do with having him killed.

Those were tough times and I challenge anyone to find someone from that era who could have handled things better than J. Edgar Hoover did. There was no FBI equivalent of Ruby Ridge or Waco when Hoover was in charge.

Hollywood, of course, is anxious to slime the memory of a great public servant so we'll forget what the FBI used to be.

[chuckles]

....."Martin Luther King, Jr. may have been a womanizer, but he was not a Communist.".....

Sorry, but it was JEH that tied him to the communist groups through wire taps and following him. He was more than friendly with some bad figures in the '60's.

[rlmorel]

I am sick of this crap.

If anyone wants to see how accurate the criticism of J.Edgar Hoover is and was, you need only to view criticism of the following people by the left and the media, and their treatment in the history books and news:

Joseph McCarthy
Richard Nixon
Barry Goldwater
Ronald Reagan
John Ashcroft
and more...

None of these people were saints, but none were the epitome of evil that the Left makes them out to be.

The Left largely controls what we see in the news and history textbooks, so I discount much of what we know about J.Edgar Hoover.

I love the fact that the libtards who scream the loudest and longest about trampling of the rights of citizens, deplore J.Edgar Hoover (who opposed internment of Japanese US Citizens) and they love Franklin D. Roosevelt (Who supported and ordered it)

I am sick of lying down and letting these liberal pieces of crap dictate their version of history.

[T-Bird45]

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. may have been a womanizer, but he was not a Communist. A lot of Communists, however, tagged along with his movement...

Sorry, I think you need to read more on this subject and remember what your grandmother probably told you years ago: you are or become who you hang around with so pick your friends carefully.