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The FBI is an enemy of freedom
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Posted on 12/19/2017 8:05:25 AM PST by JP1201

Former FBI special agent Clint Watts has responded to tweets from President Trump critical of the FBI by branding the president an “enemy of the state.” Watts claims Trump’s tweets will “sow doubt” and “hurt” the abilities of the FBI, “so he is an enemy of the state whenever he is pushing against the FBI in that way,” he concluded.

With the possible exception of the BATFE, it would be hard to imagine an entity within the federal government more out of control and in need of — dare I say it? – abolition. Getting rid of the FBI would be a giant boon for the freedom of the American people. As President Harry S. Truman put it, “We want no Gestapo or secret police. The FBI is tending in that direction.”

For its entire existence the FBI has served as the strong arm of the federal government. Beginning in 1909 as the Bureau of Investigation, no one’s life, liberty, or property has been safe since. Ostensibly created to investigate anarchists, bootleggers, kidnappers, bank robbers, crimes on federal property, and later, the KKK, the FBI would soon find its true calling: political repression, personal destruction, and terror.

Communists, real and imagined, were the first to find themselves under the FBI’s ominous glare. World War II provided an opportunity for the FBI to serve a legitimate role, by investigating acts of espionage, but that would take a backseat to mass arrests of innocent Japanese Americans and warrant-less searches of their property.

J. Edgar Hoover, the first FBI director and its longest serving, then began compiling a list of “sexual deviants” in April 1950 so that homosexuals could be purged from the federal workforce.

Hoover disliked civil rights leaders as well, and the FBI’s COINTELPRO – for “counter intelligence program” – targeted Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

The FBI was also linked to political assassinations in the 1960s, including that of Illinois Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton in Chicago, and the wiretapping of congressional offices.

To protect its Mafia informants, the FBI allowed four innocent men to be imprisoned for life in 1965 (two would die there); forty years later a congressional committee called it “one of the greatest failures in the history of federal law enforcement.”

The Bureau’s record of failure would only continue, and grow more tragic. In the early 1970s the FBI sought to undermine the American Indian Movement (AIM) by supporting a corrupt tribal leader at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, Richard Wilson, who formed a private militia to intimidate his political opponents. In the case of Leonard Peltier, an AIM activist and outspoken critic of Wilson’s, allegations were raised that FBI agents threatened a witness in order to secure Peltier’s murder conviction in 1977.

In September 1992, an FBI sniper killed the wife of Randy Weaver as she stood at the door of her family’s cabin in Idaho, unarmed and holding her ten-month-old baby. In April 1993, the FBI used a tank to attack the Davidian complex outside Waco, Texas, after a fifty-one day standoff. All seventy-six people inside died in the resulting fire. The FBI claimed for years that no incendiary devices were used in the assault, but an investigation by William Gazecki proved this to be false. In 1996 the FBI leaked the name of Richard Jewell in connection with the Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta. He was hounded mercilessly by the media. Ultimately he was completely exonerated.

The FBI’s shady deals and shoddy work would ooze into the next century. An internal report in 2003 called into question thirty years of bullet sample evidence collected and analyzed by the Bureau. Yet a full year would pass before the FBI ended its corrupted practice, and not until 2007 would the agency identify the three decades of cases (!) affected and notify prosecutors that potentially flawed testimony was used. In the war on terror, the FBI has become associated with highly questionable tactics, providing encouragement and resources, even bribes, to manufacture “terrorist” suspects who later provide glowing headlines and boost budgets for the FBI.

What place does a FBI have in a free society? No place.


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1 posted on 12/19/2017 8:05:25 AM PST by JP1201
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FBI = KGB


2 posted on 12/19/2017 8:06:44 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents-Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: JP1201

Elliot Ness is dead. No one is untouchable, and sometimes, believe it or not, the FBI can be wrong and/or do bad things.


3 posted on 12/19/2017 8:07:35 AM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: JP1201

The state has become the enemy of the citizens.


4 posted on 12/19/2017 8:08:02 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents-Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: JP1201
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFbLG0Ttv7k

"We are not Weasels!" - Weasel Comey

5 posted on 12/19/2017 8:09:50 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: Lurkinanloomin
The state has become the enemy of the citizens.

Happens a lot...down through history.

6 posted on 12/19/2017 8:10:24 AM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (RATs, RINOs...same thing)
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To: JP1201

That’s way over the edge. The FBI for the most part is an efficient organization peopled with patriots. The bad eggs all seem to be at or near the top. That’s where cleaning must be done.


7 posted on 12/19/2017 8:10:25 AM PST by McGavin999 ("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jefferson)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFbLG0Ttv7k

“We are not Weasels!” - Weasel Comey


8 posted on 12/19/2017 8:10:37 AM PST by Paladin2
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuZlgX1AawQ


9 posted on 12/19/2017 8:10:52 AM PST by Paladin2
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Federally Biased Investigations....................


10 posted on 12/19/2017 8:11:03 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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"We are not Weasels!" - Weasel Comey

My favorite, somebody referred to "Rosenweasel"....It sounds authentic.

11 posted on 12/19/2017 8:11:58 AM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (RATs, RINOs...same thing)
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The substance of this post has ramifications for ALL of our civilian law enforcement people. And we can start the “cleansing process,” by making it a Federal Law that no law enforcement agency anywhere have at it's head, some one who is “appointed” by the local “city fathers". Every one of them needs to be elected directly by the people they serve and thus accountable directly ONLY to them. Because today we have these “big city” police commissioners who are eunuchs who serve their governments, and not their people.
12 posted on 12/19/2017 8:12:25 AM PST by vette6387
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A former Fibbie says the duly-elected President of the United States is an enemy of the state?

Where was he when we had a Mooslim foreign agent in the White Hut?

13 posted on 12/19/2017 8:17:37 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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"In September 1992, an FBI sniper killed the wife of Randy Weaver as she stood at the door of her family’s cabin in Idaho, unarmed and holding her ten-month-old baby."
14 posted on 12/19/2017 8:18:20 AM PST by Bonemaker
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Ness was treasury and apparently Hoover did not care for Eliot.


15 posted on 12/19/2017 8:19:52 AM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

“We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. F.B.I. is tending in that direction.”

Harry Truman. May 12, 1945


16 posted on 12/19/2017 8:21:40 AM PST by PGR88
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17 posted on 12/19/2017 8:22:47 AM PST by Bonemaker
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To: JP1201
"J. Edgar Hoover, the first FBI director and its longest serving, then began compiling a list of “sexual deviants” in April 1950 so that homosexuals could be purged from the federal workforce. "

Shame he didn't include himself.
18 posted on 12/19/2017 8:23:54 AM PST by LIConFem (I will no longer accept the things I cannot change. it's time to change the things I cannot accept.)
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And yet we’re all supposed to pretend like they have some kind of unimpeachable reputation because...


19 posted on 12/19/2017 8:26:43 AM PST by RC one (The 2nd Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
"The state has become the enemy of the citizens."

Obama's Legacy.

20 posted on 12/19/2017 8:36:22 AM PST by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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