“We’re gonna need some more FBI guys, I guess.” – Die Hard
The Mrs. is a lot like an FBI agent. She never asks a question she doesn’t already know the answer to.
When I was just a wee Wilder, I began to doubt the government.
I was fairly young when I heard about the secret files that J. Edgar kept on powerful people in order so that he could maintain his perch atop the FBI® that he had created. Hoover had spent decades developing not only a United States Police Force, but the aptly-named Hoover sucked up all the data on people that he could. Hoover likely gave favors to hundreds of people by not sharing their dirty secrets so that he could maintain his perch. It was so bad that I think Hoover even invented the Memory Foam® mattress so he could blackmail people.
Hoover also was a genius at self-promotion. He made the “G-Men” a meme in the 1930s, trying to set up a propaganda campaign to convince the American public that the FBI®, instead of being an unnecessary internal police and propaganda forum, was instead just like Superman™ – the paragon of truth, justice, and the American way®. Oddly, both of those ideas are fiction.
Superman® challenged Chuck Norris to a fight. Loser had to wear their underwear on the outside.
Instead, the agents have spent their time illegally wiretapping (over 7,000 times by 1985, who knows how many more now) American civilians. The FBI© was more than happy to also jump in and get involved in:
- the ATF© created quagmire in Waco,
- entrapment of the innocent Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge and the murder of several people in his family,
- failure to investigate the massive Chinese investments in financing Bill Clinton in 1996 (ever wonder how they got all that access??),
- having an agent (Robert Hanssen) who was utterly in the pocket of the Soviets and, later, Russia,
- editing Wikipedia® to make the FBI™ look better,
- covering-up the Hillary Clinton® e-mail scandal,
- warrants to tap Trump’s campaign,
- Andrew McCabe,
- Pete Strzok, who never should have gotten a clearance based on the number of consecutive consonants in his last name without a vowel,
- using personal data (DMV photos) for a vast database,
- “losing” Hunter Biden’s laptop,
- despite having certainty that the Hunter Biden laptop data was 100% real, contained evidence of multiple crimes, and misled and intentionally tried to suppress laptop information by lying that it was hacked, despite knowing that it wasn’t.
Everything in italics above is from the last 10 years. This is another reason not to trust Italians, I guess. But in the last decade it’s almost all extremely partisan in nature, showing that the FBI™ could probably just be renamed the Grand Enforcement, Support, Tyranny and Police Organization (GESTaPO) of the Democratic Party. As the Leftists keep whining, they want to safeguard “Our Democracy”. Sounds very good until you being to understand that “Our” doesn’t include you or me.
In a moment of clarity, the FBI decided to dedicate themselves to the mission of fighting crime. Just kidding.
I do know that FBI® has done some good things in the past, especially when it came to rooting out commies after World War II. Say what you want about Hoover, but he did hate commies. But as it stands here in 2023, the FBI© has become a liability for anyone who is actually interested in freedom.
The problem comes from breaking the Constitution. The idea of Federalism is that we don’t have parallel laws, we have a single set of laws. If the state regulates insurance or regulates mustache length, why should the Feds do it, too? Well, what about kidnapping? That’s one that can cross state lines, right?
The Lindbergh kidnapping case led to a law that let the FBI® look into kidnappings.
Did you know you can fit 34 bananas in a kangaroo pouch? Also? I have a lifetime ban from the zoo.
The big idea was to look at crimes and figure out how to get involved. It turns out, the Federal government which was intentionally small because the Founding Fathers mainly just wanted to be left alone to mostly do what they wanted, as long as it didn’t violate state, county or city law. Federal law? There were a few back in the day (see: Whiskey Rebellion) but most laws were local. Murder someone and have it be a Federal issue?
Not going to happen.
Well, back in 1787 it wasn’t going to happen. But after decades of creeping laws encouraged by propaganda, the FBI™ only strengthened with time. Like a camel with a nose under the tent, the FBI© now looks into (spins wheel) things they don’t like (not illegal things, mind you, just things the FBI© didn’t like) said on the Internet.
My puns aren’t listed as a war crime. Yet.
The last example is real – the FBI worked with social networks and Internet companies to stop the spread of information that would be damaging to the Democratic party.
The FBI® is now a fully partisan appendage of state power. It always existed to support itself, but now it explicitly exists to support parties and politicians instead of the American people.
The fact that this doesn’t surprise anyone is perhaps the most telling thing about where we are as a people. The FBI™ is shown to be institutionally corrupt at the highest and lowest levels and (probably) irretrievably partisan for the Left and . . . no one is surprised.
Hmm, wonder why I’m getting all these hits from Washington and Langley?