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superseded by the diktat of the Crown.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-20th
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
19th 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).
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