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Our Out-of-Control Federal Law Enforcement Agencies
Imprimis ^ | AUGUST 2024 | Ryan Cleckner

Posted on 10/09/2024 2:32:07 PM PDT by Retain Mike

In March of this year, Bryan Malinowski, the executive director of the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport in Little Rock, Arkansas, was killed by agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) during a pre-dawn raid of his home. It was an unwarranted and indefensible killing of a kind that should never, ever happen in a free country like the United States. Because we have a media that no longer serves in its traditional role as a government watchdog, this incident was not widely reported. Because too many members of Congress no longer take seriously their responsibility to protect the rights of those who elect them, the ATF has suffered no repercussions.

I served in the military as a Special Operations sniper and Sniper Team leader in 1st Ranger Battalion. I could have gone on to become a sharpshooter on a police SWAT team or even joined the FBI or one of the other three-letter federal agencies that were widely considered, in the past, to be the cream of the crop in terms of law enforcement. Sadly, they are no longer thought of in the same way.

The flip side of the increasingly thuggish character of these agencies is their diminished effectiveness in fulfilling their core missions, to the point that the American public cannot help but notice. Consider the recent assassination attempt—very nearly successful—on President Trump. The U.S. Secret Service and the FBI are being anything but transparent about their investigations and seem to be going out of their way to make it as difficult as possible for Congress and the public to learn what happened.

(Excerpt) Read more at imprimis.hillsdale.edu ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: atf; donutwatch; fbi; secretpolice
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1 posted on 10/09/2024 2:32:07 PM PDT by Retain Mike
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To: Retain Mike

This seems to be a well-informed and sensible article. It’s more than a little scary.


2 posted on 10/09/2024 2:40:49 PM PDT by ChessExpert (Scarborough: "This is the Best Biden ever.")
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To: Retain Mike

Was the Deep State issuing a warning? Don’t criticize us or this might happen to you.


3 posted on 10/09/2024 2:44:41 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: Retain Mike

“killing of a kind that should never, ever happen in a free country like the United States. “

Ah, yes. There’s the trouble. America is in no way a free country, it is something else.


4 posted on 10/09/2024 2:47:58 PM PDT by Sarcazmo (I live by the Golden Rule. As applied by others; I'm not selfish.)
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no doubt, such responsibilities require a 120+ IQ and solid moral convictions. Anything less is likely a formula for disaster & abuse.


5 posted on 10/09/2024 2:48:52 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist! )
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To: Retain Mike

Good analysis but as often happens, terrible conclusion missing the point by a mile.

The answer is not Congress but THE CONSTITUTION and dismantling the 80%+, $3+ trillion unconstitutional portion of the federal government, which is BY FAR the greatest threat of our lives, liberties, and wellbeing.


6 posted on 10/09/2024 2:52:14 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Retain Mike

“that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
Abraham Lincoln

We are now a government of the government, by the government, and for the government. Its only purpose is to perpetuate itself. By any measure, the federal government is out of control and illegal as it stands. Federal debt alone is unsustainable. Read the declaration of independence. In its current state, the federal government has gone far beyond what prompted the original colonies to revolt against King George.


7 posted on 10/09/2024 2:52:25 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Retain Mike

Is the problem the leaders and upper echelon or does it go all the down the hill???


8 posted on 10/09/2024 2:54:49 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: Retain Mike

Putting the best possible light on the Feds, they have a long history of being completely retarded when it comes to choosing the time and place to contact someone they want to arrest.

As pointed out in this piece, they could have gone to Malinowski’s place of work — an airport — where they could be certain he would be unarmed. Instead they chose an early-morning raid at his home (the most dangerous place they could have chosen). This isn’t all that new, though. A couple of decades ago, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s department told the Feds that they would not be providing assistance for any warrant services until they could get their act together after a similarly botched raid on a guy suspected of being a weed distributor.

Of course, now a lot of people suspect that this is more than mere incompetence, and is a deliberate effort to drop the hammer on otherwise law abiding people, in pursuit of a political agenda.

Could be one of those situations in which both apply — operational ineptitude is the mechanism used to push a political agenda desired by those in control.


9 posted on 10/09/2024 2:56:11 PM PDT by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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To: antidemoncrat

Yes. This is why they pick a popular celeb and take them down occasionally. To instill fear in the rest of us. Martha Stewart comes to mind.


10 posted on 10/09/2024 2:56:26 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Retain Mike

bkmk


11 posted on 10/09/2024 2:59:18 PM PDT by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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To: Retain Mike
Anarcho-Tyranny: every action is politicized and there is no rule of law.

Politically favored groups and individuals go unpunished (black criminals, Antifa, pro-Hamas goons) while the politically disfavored are subject to arbitrary and draconian punishment (gun owners, Republicans, anyone questioning the 2020 election, grandmothers protesting at abortion clinics).

As COVID showed, the vast majority of law enforcement don't give a rat's patooty about the Constitution and care only about the pay and benefits that most of them would never earn in the private sector. They're a modern Praetorian Guard.

12 posted on 10/09/2024 3:00:20 PM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: Retain Mike

Too many foreigners, freeloaders and refugees working in our agencies. Dumb policy. I don’t know whether the RATS are selling these jobs to foreigners or hiring them for other services. Sure does suck for Americans though.


13 posted on 10/09/2024 3:03:13 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Remember, the illegal aliens and thieving foreigners don't want AMERICA TO BE GREAT AGAIN.)
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To: absalom01

Not to mention the personal aspect of a bunch of wannabe Rambo’s acting out their fantasies.


14 posted on 10/09/2024 3:03:32 PM PDT by hopespringseternal
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To: Retain Mike

Yeah, well. Pretty sure everything named “bill and hillary clinton” is a front for something. Esp in arkansas.


15 posted on 10/09/2024 3:10:44 PM PDT by xoxox
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To: hopespringseternal

having been swatted in 1987 - way before it was cool - I can confirm. Ramboettes, too, btw.


16 posted on 10/09/2024 3:11:23 PM PDT by xoxox
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To: hopespringseternal

That would be part of weaponizing incompetence.

Just a theory, but it’s hard to square the Feds behavior over the years with any fully innocent explanations.


17 posted on 10/09/2024 3:15:20 PM PDT by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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To: Retain Mike

just fedthugovt

-fJRoberts-


18 posted on 10/09/2024 3:48:35 PM PDT by A strike (do people who slow up, speed down?)
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To: Retain Mike

just fedthugov

-fJRoberts-


19 posted on 10/09/2024 3:49:03 PM PDT by A strike (do people who slow up, speed down?)
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To: Retain Mike
..together with Little Rock police, they showed up..

Here's one of your biggest problems. Local law enforcement backing up the feds. They don't do it in my county.

20 posted on 10/09/2024 4:05:41 PM PDT by eastexsteve
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