It has occurred to me that the federal government has actually become something of a feudal state. Each bureaucracy is like it’s own dukedom, answerable to no one and really a sovereign state in its own right. Each one of them has its own “army” of armed federal police.
And there is one thing to keep in mind when dealing with their various “crimes” and prosecutions: Federal prosecution is fundamentally different than state prosecutions. Most state laws are Ten Commandments “right/wrong” based; “Thou shall not kill; thou shall not steal.” Federal prosecution is all sovereignty based: “How dare you object to the authority of the Federal Government to control your life!”
The example of this is the prosecution of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVay. The statutory violation was not Murder, or a felony-murder Arson-Murder. No, it was “Destruction of Federal Property Resulting in Death.” The “crime” wasn’t killing people, it was attacking the authority of the Government of the United States.
This is actually important in the context of this story. The FBI raid on Cindy Archer’s home perfectly fits the rationale of the purpose of the FBI as set out in Federal criminal law. That body of law is not there to protect us.
It is there to protect the feudal government that exists solely to rule over our lives.
I don’t disagree with what you say.
But this was state government misbehaving, not the feds.
Something for freepers who think our only issues are federal to think about. State (and counties and cities) can be every bit as oppressive as the federal government.
The people involved in these abuses should be prosecuted at the federal level for conspiracy to violate the civil rights of those they went after. Or possibly for RICO gangsterism.
WI needs a special prosecutor.