{"id":51777,"date":"2015-07-18T10:11:13","date_gmt":"2015-07-18T16:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/18\/tales-calculated-to-drive-you-hoover.html"},"modified":"2015-07-25T11:59:39","modified_gmt":"2015-07-25T17:59:39","slug":"tales-calculated-to-drive-you-hoover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/18\/tales-calculated-to-drive-you-hoover.html","title":{"rendered":"Tales Calculated to Drive You Hoover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fun little article on how Mad Magazine repeatedly tweaked J Edgar Hoover, whose FBI not only held ever-growing files on publisher William Gaines, but kept sending people over to the magazine&#39;s offices to &quot;firmly and severely admonish them concerning our displeasure&quot; over their satire in an iconoclastic vein.<\/p>\n<p>The remarkable thing to me is that the very <i>idea<\/i> of poking fun at J Edgar Hoover was so outrageous (to Hoover, at least, if not to his devotees) that the Bureau took it so seriously as to formally &quot;advise them of our displeasure.&quot; That this sense of <i>l&egrave;se majest&eacute;<\/i> didn&#39;t stop the magazine is a tribute to Gaines, et al., but is a reminder of the temptations and pretensions of power; had the FBI had any leverage in their files about Gaines, would they have hesitated to use it for the honor of their director and Bureau? If Hoover and his boys had access to NSA data routinely collected today, what further investigation would they have done to silence the mockery? And can we be sure that similar petty uses of that kind of data won&#39;t be similarly abused in the future &#8212; or that they haven&#39;t already?<\/p>\n<p>(More info here: <a href=\"http:\/\/cbldf.org\/2015\/07\/j-edgar-hoovers-fbi-unamused-by-mad-antics\/\">http:\/\/cbldf.org\/2015\/07\/j-edgar-hoovers-fbi-unamused-by-mad-antics\/<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/65966\/when-fbi-went-after-mad-magazine'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/s1YUVoM5KzOmJzM0663M__KOyXB6itAZOIPfYY3MdvG4tTZkIWYX3z1zXlZw-R8912G6u6fwYtQ-y97ZXQ3N2x01tz6fR7hYIkShFFvbJc7a=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/65966\/when-fbi-went-after-mad-magazine'>When the FBI Went After &#8216;Mad&#8217; Magazine<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nThe magazine wasn&#8217;t just polluting young minds; it had the gall to mock the honorable J. Edgar Hoover.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/NaCLhLY8iye'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fun little article on how Mad Magazine repeatedly tweaked J Edgar Hoover, whose FBI not only held ever-growing files on publisher William Gaines, but kept sending people over to the magazine&#39;s offices to &quot;firmly and severely admonish them concerning our displeasure&quot; over their satire in an iconoclastic vein. The remarkable thing to me is that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/18\/tales-calculated-to-drive-you-hoover.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tales Calculated to Drive You Hoover&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,133,11,715,17,358],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-censorship","category-media-comics","category-crime-punishment","category-homeland-security","category-poor-citizenship"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131961,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/07\/j-edgar-hoover-was-a-piker.html","url_meta":{"origin":51777,"position":0},"title":"J. Edgar Hoover was a piker","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 7-Nov-16 8:47pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Over the fifteen years since 9\/11, the FBI has shed the 1970s Church Committee restrictions and expanded its informant network, its HUMINT resources, and basically been told it can collect whatever information it wants, regardless of whether it's connected to a present investigation.But what can possibly go wrong? It's not\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":40331,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/07\/security-scandals-then-and-now.html","url_meta":{"origin":51777,"position":1},"title":"Security scandals, then and now","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 7-Jan-14 10:16am","format":false,"excerpt":"I think, from what we know to date, that one can draw a distinction between the FBI's actions in the 60s-70s and the \"homeland security\" (esp. NSA) activities today. (From what we know to date.) \u00a0There's no single point of tyranny as Hoover provided, and I haven't heard (or aren't\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11955,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/12\/23\/the_more_things_change_8.html","url_meta":{"origin":51777,"position":2},"title":"The more things change &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 23-Dec-07 9:38am","format":false,"excerpt":"Recently declassified papers indicate that in 1950, days after the Korean War started, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover pushed forward a plan to declare an emergency, suspend habeas corpus, and...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Home Improvement&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Home Improvement","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/home-improvement"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":136663,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/02\/the-flute-recital.html","url_meta":{"origin":51777,"position":3},"title":"The Flute Recital","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 2-Jun-18 2:09pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A few years back, the kid started going to a private flute instructor, to bolster his flute-playing beyond the work he was doing at school. The one that he was referred to by another student was Tamara Maddaford, who, if you are looking for flute instruction for your kid in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/james-hill-flute-2018-05.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/james-hill-flute-2018-05.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/james-hill-flute-2018-05.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/james-hill-flute-2018-05.png?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":14631,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/26\/its-not-from-nigeria-so-it-must-be-true.html","url_meta":{"origin":51777,"position":4},"title":"It&#8217;s not from Nigeria, so it must be true!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 26-Apr-09 10:07pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I mean, who would imitate the FBI's official computer letterhead? Federal Bureau of Investigation J. Edgar Hoover Building 935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20535-0001 \u00a0 Our Ref: FBI-75BFWDUS09\u00a0\u00a0 Attention Fund Beneficiary,\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Payment Release Instruction From The Federal Bureau Of Investigation\u00a0 Acting on the Intelligence report we received from the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Spam&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Spam","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/computer-security\/spam"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":129895,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/22\/the-end-of-a-gop-dynastic-streak.html","url_meta":{"origin":51777,"position":5},"title":"The end of a GOP dynastic streak","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 22-Feb-16 10:36pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Watching Rachel Maddow last night, she pointed out something ... kind of weird: the last GOP presidential ticket to win an election that didn't have either a Bush family member or Richard Nixon in the #1 or #2 slot ... was Herbert Hoover in 1928.That seems weird to me. Does\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51926,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51777\/revisions\/51926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}