The Federal Bureau of Instigation

WHEN composing the Constitution, the Founding Fathers – leading statesmen and thinkers of their time – were very adamant on the idea of limited government. The encroachments and horrors the royal government could enforce on the colonies were the result of an unchecked, imbalanced, and singular organ of government that was not subject to limits, and even if there were any they could be superseded by the diktat of the Crown. In speaking on the subject, James Madison wrote in the Federalist No. 51 that, “In framing a government…you must first enable the government to control the governed; and the next place, oblige it to control itself” (Bernstein 2015, p. 89).

However, written constitutions are not infallible instruments, and this is one of many reasons why statism is inherently dangerous and unwise. For many years now we have found ourselves in increasing violation of federal self-control and have entered a perverted age of overreach. We are surrounded by numerous departments and agencies that represent the legitimization of this plague of overreach. Now, the long-ago spoken words of Benjamin Franklin ring ever eerily through history: “A republic, if you can keep it.”

From what data we can reconstruct from contemporary documentation, America’s criminal record was actually quite mild for the first, healthy century of the republic’s history, before the conception of any overgrown federal agency. With the exception of the two periods of domestic war (the Revolutionary and Civil), homicide in America flattened from the low-30s per 100,000 in the colonial era to somewhere around 8 per 100,000 by the 1900s (which is a decrease of 75%). In fact, what the statistics show us is that crime did not begin taking off until the early-20^th century, when the federal government began to expand beyond its limitations and federal law enforcement slowly came into being.

Indeed, the superfluity of expanding and federalizing law enforcement was accepted by a number of congressmen at the time, such as Representative Walter Smith who once said, “Nothing is more opposed to our people than a belief that a general system of espionage is being conducted by the general government,” this being in regard to the first congressional hearings into the overreach of the federal agencies of the time.

With the rise of the FBI, the CIA, NSA, and all these various alphabet agencies we have seen a devilishly centralized effort to continuously expand federal powers and trample upon the Constitution, for no reason other than a pursuit of power. In 2001, America was introduced to the PATRIOT Act, which we were so exhaustively promised had “bipartisan consensus support” (so obviously it was good for us) and would “[enhance] our ability to find, track, monitor, and prosecute terrorists operating here in the United States.” Of course, this was a blatant lie, as it not only violated the Fourth Amendment but the Tenth Amendment and Necessary and Proper Clause.

          In fact, in their practice, we see that these agencies, the most prominent of which being the granddaddy of them, the FBI, have covert mission statements totally separate from what we are told. Their missions are a pursuit of power, being the rooks and enforcers of a shadowy Elite that have hated the American Experiment since the beginning and want a return to a rigid paternalist and aristocratic culture (See Griffin 2016, Scott 2017, and Sutton 2003). The FBI’s track record throughout its decades of existence, spearheaded for much by chief elitist hack J. Edgar Hoover and then nannied by successive generations of ancillaries, proves this fact. In reality, what the FBI has contributed – if it can be called that – to the American public over the last 112 years can be summarized no better than by calling it, rightfully so, the Federal Bureau of Instigation.

          The FBI’s public mission is, hilariously and ironically, to “protect the American people and uphold the Constitution of the United States” (despite being in violation of it) and to be “ahead of the threat” (despite being the threat). As I have stated, its performance throughout most of its history has not been anything near this. For example, even in 1921 the Congress was acknowledging the then-Bureau of Investigation’s “orgy of terror, violence, and crime” perpetrated against unionists in Butte during a strike. Let us not also forget the infamous and oft-forgotten COINTELPRO, which used a number of extralegal and constitutionally unsound strategies to subject a number of suspicious groups to surveillance.

The eternal excuse used by the FBI, and other agencies, too, in validating their unconstitutional practices is something along the lines of, “It is for the public good!” Let us not forget the record-low violence before the rise of federal overreach, and how even without oppressive surveillance a number of scandals and conspiracies were readily and efficiently exposed throughout the 19^th century. Plus, there is sufficient modern-day evidence that the traditional law enforcement apparatus is obsolete. There is nothing “for the public good” about these gross transgressions of our Constitution and liberties. The very meaning of “the public good” is to support and defend the Constitution, not to warp it into something unrecognizable!

From the Waco siege, which saw exaggerated and dubious evidence used by another federal overextension to lay waste to dozens of American citizens (not defending the Branch Davidians; simply, criminals have their rights, too), to the world-infamous PRISM mass surveillance program orchestrated by the NSA (and its Five Eyes partners), what we see is not care for American people or the public good, but for abusing the people in pursuit of expanding government power and enforcing the State’s will. Based on a report by the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School we can confidently conclude that 138 terrorism or national security prosecutions since 2001 have included government informants. As The Nation put it, “Nearly every major post-9/11 terrorism-related prosecution has involved a sting operation, at the center of which is a government informant.”

We can look at cases like Khalifa Ali al-Akili, who was so exhaustively pursued by two “jihadists” that he figured something was fishy, spoiled the sting by reporting it, but was still [dubiously] arrested on possession of firearms. The story of the provoked and entrapped “perpetrators” of the Newburgh terrorist “plot”, all radicalized by the FBI (if you can call it radicalization, considering one tried to back out and one was mentally ill). Or, lastly, the case of Mohamed Osman Mohamud, an otherwise fine Somali-American teenager who was practically groomed into a jihadist by the FBI.

The beginning of this year presented us with yet another good example of FBI conniving. The ideology of choice for the Deep State is radical leftism/Marxism due to the faux utopianism it promises, which – once adopted – turns into tyranny. This being the case, those ideologies that are not consistent with it (namely, anything individualist and capitalist) are demonized in order to suppress them and make room for the favorite child, Marx. Consequently, on January 6 an at-first peaceful-yet-rambunctious anti-Biden demonstration was held at Capitol Hill, but – as wonderful investigative journalism by Revolver News has shown – this event was infiltrated by the FBI; a massive sting operation, essentially, like what many Muslim-Americans have been subjected to.

The reason for our “loyal protectors” and “guard dogs” is quite simple, and Thomas Paine explained it in another context once, “The greatest tyrannies are always perpetrated in the name of the noblest causes” (although, Paine was a bit of a double agent in reality). Peace and security are very noble causes, and these nefarious government forces at work seek to use these in pursuit of power. Scared about your neighborhood being blown up by state-sponsored Islamic radicals? Petition your congressman to vote for the Protect America Act! Oh, scared of your family dying from a virus with a 97% survival rate? Make sure you vote for the guy that wants the State to make decisions for you!

The Deep State is essentially utilitarian, both using and inventing crises to enact major changes. Fear exists that random Muslims in the U.S. will be radicalized (on the off-chance by actual terrorists), and so Big Brother passes legislation allowing for domestic dissemination of propaganda. The Deep State desires a neocolonial Scramble for Arabia, and so they manufacture fear via 9/11 to get the public to greenlight forever wars. We are told to only believe in one, obtrusive solution to our security issues, and vote to surrender away more and more of our liberties for the noblest causes.

This scheme also has an international focus, just as the Deep State actors behind it, and is behind much destabilization and democratic backsliding, mostly perpetrated by the Five Eyes cartel, which includes the Federal Bureau of Investigation. While most people are led to believe Islamic terrorism is produced ex nihilo because Muslims are evil, Operation Cyclone and other secret projects prove otherwise, and still to the present it can be our doing. From questionable allegations of chemical attacks that lead to rapid Coalition retaliation in Syria, to the funding of rebels that prolong a covert regime change operation against a democratically-elected man whose only crime is being anti-imperialist, we see this Anglo-American/elite concert to play with geopolitical tensions to produce favorable conditions. We can even discern that there was a certain hand in the rise of ISIS by the Five Eyes regime.

The best resource you can find to understand how fear and security are fundamentals of statecraft is the essay by Robert Higgs, “Fear: The Foundation of Every Government’s Power.” No other text puts it so comprehensively and clearly, explaining how tyranny requires a climate of fear. While in the ancient era of monarchy it only took the mountains-moving decrees of Pharaoh or Shahanshah to instill emotion in the People, we now have the modern vehicles of executive diktats and government agencies to perform this effect. In the words of a wise man, “All who gain power are afraid to lose it.” The Elite have been scared since the Enlightenment and seek to return to the days when things were static, predictable, and secure (for themselves, mostly).

In essence, this is no polemic of the FBI solely, but of the whole international network of government bureaus that respond to a perpendicular bureaucracy and goal. Whoever this Deep State is precisely does not matter, even though we can amuse ourselves discussing that for hours, because they have no identity, just various faces they put on. They are loyal and tagged to nothing nor nobody except their Fifth Column of allies.

The best thing we can do is be everything they are not: civil, liberal (traditional sense), and informed. The Third Reich, Soviet Union, and other historical tyrannies perpetuated themselves by suppressing their crimes from the People, and then keeping the odd freethinker in line through force. We are approaching this point, I hate to say it, but by informing ourselves and others, partaking in a sort of evangelism, we can begin to turn the tide against it while we wait for someone to gain office that can help us out.

Remember the words of the great General Washington, friends: “Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?” (Fitzpatrick 2007, p. 301) We can all be men of ability, rising above indoctrination and conditioning, and we need to be men of ability. Not for our sakes alone, but for the sake of all who have come before, will come after, and are now, and deserve liberty.

 

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• John C. Fitzpatrick (ed.), The Writings of George Washington, vol. 14 (United States Government Printing Office, 2007).
• Griffin, G. Edward, The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve (5th ed.; American Media Inc., 2010).
• Madison, James, “Federalist no. 51.” The Federalist Papers, edited by Richard B. Bernstein, pp. 87-91 (Arcturus Publishing, 2016).
• Scott, Peter D., The American Deep State: Big Money, Big Oil, and the Struggle for U.S. Democracy (2nd ed.; Rowman & Littlefield, 2017).
• Sutton, Anthony C., America’s Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones (TrineDay Press, 2003).