Posted on 06/03/2023 8:24:57 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I am a fan of Roger Simon. His articles are great examples of the Tom Paine tradition in American political writing. Yes, he writes as a citizen speaking common sense to his fellow citizens, but he gives us more to like. His every sentence displays his American sensibility. He writes as an American citizen speaking common sense to his fellow Americans.
In his recent article, he calls for the abolition of the FBI. His first words: "The FBI was a bad idea from its start." Not only is he right about that, but his thinking about what was wrong with the idea is as American as apple pie. Simon: "Since centralized power tends to corrupt, in many ways, this [the corruption of the FBI] was inevitable." That's the Founders' guiding thought in their astonishingly brilliant design of the American federal system. Thomas Jefferson put it this way:
What has destroyed liberty and the rights of man in every government which has ever existed under the sun? The generalizing and concentrating all cares and powers into one body.
And Lord Acton, the great historian of liberty and admirer of the American Founders, put it this way: "Liberty consists in the division of power. Absolutism, in concentration of power."
The Framers of the Constitution aimed to preserve our unalienable rights by preventing the concentration of political power.
The Progressives, the American left, the Democrats are all about concentrating political power. Unlike Lenin and Mao and Castro, they did not try to seize power in one fell swoop. They have been careful to do it progressively. At about the same time Lenin seized power in Russia, the Progressives began their project of concentrating power in Washington. They have been at it now for more than a century,
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Aye, the "progressives" boil the frog one degree at a time.
I think every government file from 1840-1925 should be released by the next president.
The feds have been lying to us for a long, long time. It’s time to come clean, and rebuild the nation our founders envisioned.
The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce…The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State.What does this mean? It seems to me that every state should handle its own Internal Investigations (e.g. OBI ( Ohio Bureau of Invetigations ), FBI ( Florida Bureau of Investigations ), TBI ( Texas Bureau of Investigations ) , etc. )
Federal Bureau of Instigation.
Careerists climbing the rungs by enticing the simple-minded, the gullible, the unbalanced, the mentally ill.
If they are stopping any real terrorist plots but they can’t tell us about the real ones, they can still dispense with the theatre of fools.
Go work on corruption. Look up, look inside, it’s all around.
As long as wse haved people like McConnell in office it will never happen.
They had the perfect opportunity to horse trade, but no guts.
It takes determination and guts to horse trade effectively.
Cars enabled gangsters to rob a bank in, say, Kansas, then quickly drive into Missouri, leaving the Kansas state police at the border. Rather than pursue, Kansas authorities would have to file extradition papers. By which time the robbers were gone and hidden.
The FBI -- Hoover's G-Men -- had jurisdiction throughout the U.S. They could pursue criminals from one state to another.
The FBI, from its start, steadily morphed, and slowly agglomerated power to the point where it is now America’s KGB
I don’t believe Congress ever established it in anything close to its present form, in fact, it its early days, Congress resisted it taking more power. Nonetheless, it took power anyway.
Could eliminating it be as simple as an executive order?
The Dept of Education, the FBI, the Dept of Energy, the ATF and about 20 other agencies need to go.
My proposal would be: By executive order, simply disarm the FBI. Declare they may not carry, use, or train on any weapons. They can continue to investigate and help DOJ prosecute, but if they want to do "raids" or fear for violence - they must coordinate with local police or US Marshals.
Was it created by Congress? If so, it will take an act of Congress to dissolve it. But the president can order a reduction in force with permanent layoffs.
I agree. Barry Soetoro sent the FBI to hell. It needs to go away. It’s now owned by the fascist communists. Hijacked by the Dung Beetle Party.
without something like the FBI, there is no body to investigate and file federal cases against those breaking federal law
The patriot act was a militarization of Leos… a posse comitatus work around.. This is the natural progression. J6 gave them more power than ever… the charges levied against these people are incredibly and inhumanely unjust. Be it a mobocracy or corruptocracy we live in… you can be sure… you are next.
The charges are definitely Hitler and Mao level death sentences to them and to our children and grandchildren.
The American experiment is over, unless there is a revival to reset basic human kindness and forgiveness. Only Christ camping… He shouldn’t, we don’t deserve it… but that is just His Grace.
So what you are really saying is that we need a federal coordination function to facilitate state-to-state law enforcement. Great, federal authorities can handle the paperwork, they can facilitate whatever local law enforcement needs to do, and the feds don’t need guns, their own arrest powers, training academy, or anything else to do it, including tanks, which I bet is on the FBI’s wish list.
Flush the alphabet soup!
The FBI budget is supposedly around 9 billion with 35,000 or so employees they deign to admit having. Can’t really imagine anything happening to it at this point. That’s a 9 billion dollar dug in tick that knows a bunch of dirty laundry with lots of folks willing to go to the mat to keep it dug in and sucking. It was probably too late 75+ years ago to do anything about any of the alphabet agencies, which basically function as guardians of the bureaucratic establishment empire in DC in order to keep themselves and their families fed and living well for generations.
Freegards
We’re living in a post-constitutional America.
92.1 % of D.C. are democrats that ain’t no coincidence Moe.
That was the excuse. But we already had the Marshals. Hoover had lots of great excuses, but really he just wanted to be powerful, and eventually he used his power to blackmail politicians, so he died in office. And the FBI still primarily gathers blackmail information to make sure nobody ever cuts their budget.
They should end. They will not.
Guns are their least powerful weapon. Though it was very important to Hoover that they have them, he even sacrificed a few of his own men to make it happen. It’s the “investigate” that gives them all their power. All those secret files.
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