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Posted on 11/20/2021 7:58:46 AM PST by MNDude
Barack Obama and Eric Holder did not create a weaponized DOJ and FBI; the institutions were already weaponized by the Patriot Act.
Instead, what Obama and Holder did was to take the preexisting system and retool it so the weapons of government only targeted one side of the political continuum. This point is where many people understandably get confused.
In the era shortly after 9/11, the DC national security apparatus was constructed to preserve continuity of government and simultaneously view all Americans as potential threats. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) were created specifically for this purpose.
What Barack Obama and Eric Holder did with that new construct was refine the internal targeting mechanisms so that only their ideological opposition became the target of the new national security system. This is very important to understand as you dig deeper into this research outline.
Washington DC created the modern national security apparatus immediately and hurriedly after 9/11/01. DHS came along in 2002, and within the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 the ODNI was formed. When Barack Obama and Eric Holder arrived a few years later, those newly formed institutions were viewed as opportunities to create a very specific national security apparatus that would focus almost exclusively against their political opposition.
The preexisting Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Dept of Justice (DOJ) were then repurposed to become two of the four pillars of the domestic national security apparatus. However, this new construct would have a targeting mechanism based on political ideology. The DHS, ODNI, DOJ and FBI became the four pillars of this new institution. Atop these pillars is where you will find the Fourth Branch of Government.
When we refused to accept their warped agendas.
The Domestic Enemies are in positions of power and they can’t tolerate being called out for their treasonous actions.
To Satan’s league all Angels are “domestic terrorists”.
They always were, because they want to be left alone.
By continuing to vote Democrats into positions of political Power.
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I’d have to find it but I believe after the disastrous Afghanistan pull out, he tweeted about no longer needing the Patriot Act any longer.
Terrorism is the targeting of the innocent.
Resistance is the targeting of the guilty.
This is how it’s done under communism.
Jack Posobeic
I remember G. Gordon Liddy on his radio show having trouble with at least some provisions of the Patriot Act.
Who tweeted? Obama?
Exactly!
Of course they didn’t become domestic terrorists. The left has labeled as terrorists mothers who speak assertively to school boards about the injustices the school boards are committing against their children.
Kyle Rittenhouse is considered a domestic terrorist. The innocent, uninvolved marchers of Jan 6 have been stamped as domestic terrorists.
The left does that because they want those innocent people to be thrown in jail and deprived of all their rights, and they don’t want jihadi terrorists to suffer any punishment. These are the people who helped organize the antifa/blm riots, who promoted them, who facilitated them, who gave them moral and material support, and who didn’t prosecute the rioters for arson, theft, assault, murder and rape.
Pretty much the way one could view Rittenhouse as the resistance, and the AntifaBLM mob as the guilty terrorists
Fascists don’t tolerate dissent because their beliefs are indefensible.
It’s important to understand this is not anything new, what is new is that these working assumptions are being formalized and “mainstreamed”, and codified into law and corporate policies.
The genesis goes back to the marxist organizations allowed to set up shop in America at various universities in the 1930s. “Critical Theory” is nothing new, and those who have studied it have been sounding the alarm for decades. “Critical Race Theory” is a modification insofar as class struggles aren’t as effective in a country that had such a mammoth “middle class” (another marxist term). Dividing by race and fomenting revolution is a much more effective strategy as far as they are concerned.
GWB with congressional (and popular) approval created the DHS and allowed a backdoor form of domestic spying by the security services. Popular understanding was that it was intended for use against foreign terrorists like the ones that took down the World Trade Center. But very quickly it became a failure because the actual muslim terrorist were still able to shoot up Fort Hood and a Miami nightclub.
So we loaded and cocked “a weapon” (Republicans) then left it lying on the table for unethical Democrats like Barack Obama and Eric Holder to point at conservative citizens like the Tea Party and now Public School Parents. We were pretty stupid — and just to be clear I include myself in that company.
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