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Democrats Demand Homage to Hoover’s Ghost
American Greatness ^ | 26 May, 2023 | Thaddeus G. McCotter

Posted on 05/27/2023 3:46:30 AM PDT by MtnClimber

The FBI knowingly participated in the Democrats’ seditious undermining of a duly elected president.

Though the public was unaware at the time, the seminal Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) director, J. Edgar Hoover, was a political extortionist. Deftly manipulating both his political opponents and the press, Hoover was able to retain his job, pursue his causes, indulge his friends, and crush his enemies with impunity. The Constitution proved no bar to this venal reprobate whose innumerable violations of Americans’ civil rights were legion.

When death finally ended his arbitrary, capricious, and wholly unaccountable one-man reign over America’s national law enforcement, one would expect the response to be relief accompanied with the recognition of his maladministration and a refusal to permit a recrudescence of this sordid chapter in governmental abuses of power.

Instead, the FBI headquarters is named the J. Edgar Hoover Building.

The past is prologue in our disordered age. Recently, a gaggle of the self-professed “moderates” of the “New Democrat Coalition” sent a letter to U.S. House Appropriations Chairman Kay Granger (R-Texas), demanding ever more millions for the FBI and other federal law enforcement agencies.

Per Fox News, the signatories contend “the partisan Republican budget proposal that recently passed the House would cut critical resources, exposing communities across the country to increased levels of crime.”

‘The first duty of government is to protect the safety of its citizens,’ a letter sent by the New Democrat Coalition to House Appropriations Chair Kay Granger, (R-Texas), read. ‘Therefore, Congress has a responsibility to sufficiently fund essential programs that empower law enforcement agencies to address the diverse set of criminal threats facing the communities we represent.’

They’re asking for $569.6 million for the FBI in fiscal year 2024, to go toward ‘investigating extremist violence and domestic terrorism.’

Employing the same false reasoning that brought you the COVID lockdowns, these Democrats refuse to recognize that the first duty of government is to secure the God-given, constitutional rights of its citizens. This refusal allows the New Democrat Coalition to studiously ignore the FBI’s recent return to the politicized abuses of power of Hoover’s COINTELPRO heyday.

The public, however, cannot.

According to whistleblowers’ congressional testimony, the FBI has been “cooking the books” to falsely increase the incidences and locations of “domestic terrorism” to stifle political dissent.

As reported in the Washington Examiner:

‘Whistleblowers assert that the FBI pressured agents to reclassify cases as domestic violent extremism (DVE), and even manufactured DVE cases where they may not otherwise exist, while manipulating its case categorization system to feign a national problem.’ The whistleblower claims were made public in an 80-page report released Thursday by the GOP-led House Judiciary Committee and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, chaired by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio).

And who were some of these falsely labeled Americans? Fox News provides a partial answer: “The FBI targeted pro-life groups, Catholics, and parents attending school board meetings with investigations in an effort to ‘inflate’ the sense that they were a domestic terrorism threat, according to new whistleblower reports.”

The reason the FBI is inflating these numbers? For this, Andrew C. McCarthy—who has prosecuted actual terrorists—has an answer:

The projection of dystopian America mired in a terrorist war waged by the Democrats’ political adversaries is false. Since it doesn’t exist in reality, congressional Democrats and the Biden administration are trying to create it by FBI bookkeeping. As we’ve seen over the last eight years, and again this week with the release of the Durham Report, when Democrats say jump, the FBI says, ‘How high?’

“How high?” would also include going easy on Democrats like Hillary Clinton and Hunter Biden. For the whistleblowers who refused to jump and are instead bringing the truth to light, the FBI’s retaliation has been swift. Not surprisingly, the FBI denies it.

But, unlike the New Democrat Coalition, the FBI could not ignore the Russiagate scandal (although it did downplay it). For the confused members of the New Democrat Coalition, the New York Post provides a nice recap of the Durham report’s major findings. But here is a CliffsNotes version: the FBI knowingly participated in the Democrats’ seditious undermining of a duly elected president.

As the earlier U.S. House’s Republican Judiciary Committee Staff Report of November 4, 2022, concluded:

The FBI’s Washington hierarchy [is] ‘rotted at its core,’ maintaining a ‘systemic culture of unaccountability,’ and full of ‘rampant corruption, manipulation, and abuse.’ . . . The FBI has abused its law-enforcement authorities for political purposes, and how actions by FBI leadership show a political bias against conservatives.

Like Hoover, today’s Democrats view the Constitution as an obstacle not to be obeyed but overcome. And they have been rewarded for it. In contrast to Hoover, who sought to stop political change, the Left aims to “fundamentally transform” America. But neither end justifies the use of unconstitutional means. At least in Hoover’s era, both parties had to be politically extorted to ignore his abuses of power. Presently, the Democrats do not just willingly ignore such abuses of power—they embrace them.

In submitting their monetary demands, the New Democrat Coalition laughably proffer that they are taking a stand against crime by increasing funding for a federal law enforcement agency that has abused its powers against American citizens, especially the Left’s political opponents. Unlike the rest of us, Democrats are most pleased with the weaponization of the FBI’s police and counterintelligence powers against the Left’s enemies.

In the cold, autocratic logic of the Democrats: why not accelerate when you are already on a roll . . . especially when all it takes is half a billion more taxpayer dollars to pay homage to Hoover’s ghost?


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: fbi; sedition

1 posted on 05/27/2023 3:46:30 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

The DOJ is actually prosecuting the J6 defendants for the crime of sedition when DOJ/FBI were the participants in the real sedition.


2 posted on 05/27/2023 3:46:43 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Democrats Demand Homage to Hoover’s Ghost

“Mister we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again”


3 posted on 05/27/2023 3:54:39 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: MtnClimber

“Recrudescence”? Egad. Why not just say ‘recurrence’ or ‘renewal’?


4 posted on 05/27/2023 4:17:33 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Perhaps we should be less concerned with who we might offend and more concerned with who we inspire.)
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To: MtnClimber

The FBI has even become the DeFacto Praetorian Guard, deciding who will and who will not become the next president.


5 posted on 05/27/2023 4:18:20 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: MtnClimber

“The first duty of government is to protect the safety of its citizens,’ a letter sent by the New Democrat Coalition to House Appropriations Chair Kay Granger, (R-Texas)”

A democrat said this with a straight face?


6 posted on 05/27/2023 4:18:50 AM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: TalBlack

He probably meant protect them from themselves, not foreign enemies.


7 posted on 05/27/2023 5:20:36 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: MtnClimber

Whatever his shortcomings, J. Edgar Hoover was a patriot whose bureau put many gangsters out of business and rolled up the Axis spy rings in this country during WWII. He was just about the only one in the Roosevelt administration who was aware of the Communist menace and Soviet espionage and the only one who did anything about it.


8 posted on 05/27/2023 6:30:57 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: MtnClimber

“The FBI knowingly participated in the Democrats’ seditious undermining of a duly elected president.“

Incorrect:

The Democrats knowingly participated in the FBI’s seditious undermining of a duly elected president.


9 posted on 05/27/2023 9:10:23 AM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: Fiji Hill
"J. Edgar Hoover was a patriot whose bureau put many gangsters out of business..."
He denied that there was organized crime and partied (in drag) with the Mafia. He also pulled the rug out from under McCarthy by feeding him information and not backing him up. He did a pretty good job of rubbing out bank robbers and small-time stickup artists like Bonnie and Clyde if they got too famous (unfortunately taking out a carload of park rangers in the process).
10 posted on 05/27/2023 2:25:03 PM PDT by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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To: Hiddigeigei
He denied that there was organized crime and partied (in drag) with the Mafia.

Total BS! Most likely an old KGB smear.

11 posted on 05/27/2023 7:56:15 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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