This seems to be a well-informed and sensible article. It’s more than a little scary.
Was the Deep State issuing a warning? Don’t criticize us or this might happen to you.
“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.
no doubt, such responsibilities require a 120+ IQ and solid moral convictions. Anything less is likely a formula for disaster & abuse.
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.
“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.
Is the problem the leaders and upper echelon or does it go all the down the hill???
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.
bkmk
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.
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.
Yeah, well. Pretty sure everything named “bill and hillary clinton” is a front for something. Esp in arkansas.
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Here's one of your biggest problems. Local law enforcement backing up the feds. They don't do it in my county.
Malinowski had insufficient melanin for the DNC media to get interested, much less outraged.
“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.”
And that is actually part of the problem. Too many cops have a hyper-militarized point of view and see themselves as an occupying force. So we start seeing MRAPs and armored vehicles. We see them wearing plate carriers and their chests are festooned with AR mags, tourniquets and morale patches. They wear military camo and combat boots. They speak of police officers and “civilians”.
And one other other place I beg to differ. That cream of the crop has never actually been true in FBI or any other 3 letter agency. Any number of state and local departments have been just as respected, professional and effective. That “cream of the crop” is their own opinion of themselves.
The actual problem is that as power has been sucked and concentrated into DC for the last few decades, their police agencies have been able to throw their weight around like never before.
The various alphabet agencies know that no matter how egregious the offense, no one will hold them credible. The ATF and FBI has literally gotten away with murder for decades.
Spot on.
And I used to be part of: “the premiere law enforcement and investigative agency in the world.” (They recycle that statement often)
Under Obama many of these federal law enforcement agencies took a nose dive. The effects of strategic blunders are often felt years later and that is where we are at today.
Why? DEI.
Obama, Holder, Lynch, Comey... they pushed that hard and I am sure that legacy continues with Wray who appeared sort of a bureaucratic type of weak leader that would never stand in the way or take the initiative to correct something like that.
What you ended up with is folks being recruited that had no true skills developed in their past education and experiences that would help them be a good agent. We hired a lot of teachers, social workers, folks that might be nice people but really didn’t have any skills that were useful. We began hiring straight from college (young people) and in the past that was almost unheard of. The average age at the academy used to be 31.5 years and everyone had a past life (probably about 1/2 being former law enforcement or military).
But it gets worse. They began promoting people into senior ranks and even within the senior executive schedules there were OBVIOUS diversity hires, many of whom were simply not the brightest, most experienced, best trained, educated, or in other words “best qualified.” It was OBVIOUS. You ended up with a bunch of women, blacks, Latinos, and homosexuals (yes, them too) that were promoted according to the Peter Principal.
IMHO, even the first shooting where Trump nearly lost his head is a sad but perfect example. Some speculate and believe it was intentional. It’s simply not comprehensible that a professional organization of that size, with that many years experience, and that sort of budget makes such amateur mistakes. Surely, this must be the establishment trying to knock him off (so goes the reasoning)! But it does make perfect sense when you realize what we have been doing regards how we hire and promote folks today. Hats off to the guys that jumped before the President to protect him, they did well. But there are many pieces that all come together to provide security in the bigger picture and there were many amateur and I mean “WTF” sort of mistakes made.
If I hire clowns and promote clowns within my organization, maybe things begin to look like a clown show.
Maybe the out of control criminals have a lot to do with the law enforcement personnel. Fight fire with fire.