Defund the FBI

It’s been a gold star week for the men and women of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Nearly six months after the events of January 6, the FBI, under the direction of Joe Biden’s vengeful Justice Department, is accelerating the nationwide manhunt for anyone involved. Since June 23, agents have arrested 17 people from Florida to California. Charges range from assaulting police officers and criminal trespassing to something called “destruction of property in special maritime and territorial jurisdiction and aiding and abetting.”

The dragnet is part of the nonstop campaign of terror unleashed by the Biden regime against the political Right. Attorney General Merrick Garland, who compares January 6 to the Oklahoma City bombing and Capitol protesters to terrorists, pledged the “Capitol breach” probe would be his top priority. Garland last week bragged in a press release that his department reached the “benchmark” of arresting 500 people and warned he would “hold all January 6 perpetrators accountable” for their actions that day. His prosecutors routinely ask the courts to keep the accused behind bars awaiting trials that won’t start until late this year or perhaps even 2022; dozens have been held for months in a D.C. jail that specifically houses January 6 defendants.

FBI Director Christopher Wray, despite assurances his agency treats all protesters the same regardless of partisan affiliation (LOL), is happy to assist Garland in his mission. Wray insists “domestic violent extremists”—code for Trump supporters—pose the greatest security threat to the country.

The Elderly Menace His agency has been on a tear of late. One of the dangerous perpetrators captured by the FBI this week is Lois Lynn McNicoll, who was arrested in California on June 28. McNicoll,

FreeReign :" And to think, the Dems want to federalize our local police. "
That is the purpose of the series of attacks on the 2nd Amendment, and the effort to 'defund the police' - to eliminate all forms of self-defense.
Then the populace will have no other alternative but to depend on police for any form of protection. Then, the Dems will release their army of malcontents, AntiFa, and BLM on the populace, undoubtedly armed with homemade or with the police for their own protection.
And then the people will demand security at the expense of their God-given rights which have already been usurped and taken away.
Then the regime will Federalize the police at the behest and demand of the vocally loudmouthed 3% of the flaming commie/lib minority, just like what happened in Venezuela.
The commie/libs always want centralized government control, larger mega-sized bureaucratic agencies, where there is little local input or governance.
Meanwhile, the general population will ask themselves - " How'd that happen... ?"

I think if our Founding Fathers saw what the FBI and other TLA security agencies have become that they would say, "I told you so." There were significant arguments made by the Founders about whether to have a standing army. That came from the perspective of what a standing army could do to citizens of the new republic. They had just gone through decades of abuse by the British military prior to the Revolutionary War. At that time, the British military served two purposes. 1.) To wage war and provide defense to the British Empire, and 2.) to act as a spy agency and police force in the British colonies throughout the world.

Interestingly, there are direct lines from parliament's acts to the Bill of Rights. For instance, the Quartering Act goes towards the 3rd Amendment. Have you ever thought about why the 3rd Amendment is number three and not nine or ten? It was that important to our Founders. Our Founders fears were not so much about having soldiers living in our homes and eating our food, but that the soldiers would spy on behalf of government. The information gleaned by soldiers would then be used to prosecute subjects in the colonies. Our Founders followed up with the 4th Amendment because it was that important. The threat wasn't just in our homes, but everywhere we travel.

Think about all the government agencies geared toward collecting "intelligence" on American citizens. (By the way, they are citizens not criminals at that point.) They may not necessarily enter our homes, but there reach is much further than even 50 years ago and certainly more so than at the time of our founding. To our Founders, it was the behavior that revolted them, not the military, per se. It just happened that arguments against this behavior was exemplified by a standing army. If King George sent police to the colonies for the same purpose, they would have been equally loathed and the same arguments would have been made.

Now take a look at the physical make up of the FBI and other agencies. They are not Andy Griffith and Barney Fife with his revolver and one bullet in his pocket. They are paramilitary organizations with weapons, armored vehicles, tanks, aircraft, drones and bombs. They are completely capable of waging war on American citizens. Their disposition is not setup to fight foreign wars. It is to fight a war on American citizens.

The FBI, internal spy agencies and other federal law enforcement agencies have become a standing army, not in the defense of our Republic but an offense to its citizens. They need to be eliminated and never reconstituted. Law enforcement needs to be on the local level.

The FBI budget is around 9 billion with 35,000 or so employees they deign to admit having. Can’t really see anything happening to it at this point. That’s a 9 billion dollar dug in tick. It was probably too late 50+ years ago to do anything about any of the alphabet agencies, which basically function as guardians of the bureaucratic establishment empire in DC.

It’s hard to picture any modern politician getting rid of any alphabet agency or even reducing the budgets in the era of the 24 news cycle in any case.

Freegards

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