Defund The FBI!
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Original Article
Posted By: RockyTCB,
8/12/2022 5:22:48 AM
No, that headline’s not a joke. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, once so popular it had its own TV show solely dedicated to its heroics, has become a hyper-politicized, jackbooted bully that no longer serves the American people or the U.S. Constitution, which its employees are sworn to protect. It has become, instead, the intelligence arm and domestic enforcer of the far left.
Did we say defund? Yes. But we don’t mean simply to cut its funding, as leftists have disastrously proposed for police forces across the country. We mean tear down the entire rotting edifice of the FBI and replacing it with a new agency that respects the Constitution
Reply 1 - Posted by:
watashiyo 8/12/2022 5:58:16 AM (No. 1245716)
Defund the FBI? Let's do it! Even with my meager SSI, I'm willing donate money to make that happen. And we should defund the IRS also. Go with the flat tax!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
5 handicap 8/12/2022 6:10:37 AM (No. 1245721)
It's well past time to try and hang someone like Garland or Wray or Bill Barr or Robert Mueller for TREASON!
Weinstein for sure!
Only then will the treasonous left know we're serious.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
chumley 8/12/2022 6:22:45 AM (No. 1245727)
Yes, tear it down, but replace it with nothing. We are better off with the criminals. At least they dont commit their crimes under protection of the law.
Where is the constitutional provision for federal law enforcement? I dont remember seeing any.
16 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
bpl40 8/12/2022 6:36:53 AM (No. 1245733)
Defund? Liquidate and assign to fifty states
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
mifla 8/12/2022 7:19:33 AM (No. 1245757)
This is something the Repubs can do after the next election. If they do not, then they are indeed useless.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
BarryNo 8/12/2022 7:26:37 AM (No. 1245761)
And where will the new agency gets its people from? The old FBI?
Tear it down, then carefully design something else that is accountable.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
hoosierblue 8/12/2022 8:35:11 AM (No. 1245814)
Why not do it right #1 and de-fund the FBI, DOJ and the IRS. Also Get rid of the Dept of Energy, Education, Agriculture, FDA, and any other monster govt agency that is more useless than beneficial. We could put the money into enforcing our borders and reducing our national debt.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Pegmo 8/12/2022 8:46:47 AM (No. 1245832)
Power to the states where it belongs. Decentralization is the key. Maybe feds can then focus on the common defense which they own and ignore.
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The only power congress seems to have is what they fund. They are funding all the new IRS agents. They are funding Ukraine. They are funding useless vaccine build up. Why would anyone think they will defund the guys who might knock down their door next?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
moebellini3 8/12/2022 9:17:27 AM (No. 1245876)
Think about it, 87,000 new FBI agents, paid by the taxpayers, are being hired to attack the hard working conservative voters in this country. Hired to harass and bankrupt small businesses that vote republican. Hired to impose their will on anyone who opposes their political views. It's not good enough that democrats already have Anitfa and BLM doing their dirty work, now they are going to hire 87,000 new attack dogs to destroy their opponents. You see, the ghost of Joseph Stalin lives in the communist democratic party. Got it....
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 8/12/2022 9:44:32 AM (No. 1245915)
The FAA is an example of a part of the Federal government that operates well within its Charter and does not arrogate power it was not granted at its inception. Of course the FAA reports to the NTSB, which is another story.
All these abuses of power in government occur because of a total lack of transparency. Let us see the emails between Congresspukes and FBI leaders for example. Make all their communications public knowledge without having to FOIA to get them. We can never have trust in an institution that has the power to imprison without charge and then throw away the key. We fought a war with the King of England over such egregious exercise of power. We were successful then and we will be again and again and...
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
DVC 8/12/2022 10:21:08 AM (No. 1245973)
Absolutely. Close the agency, fire all the people who manage to avoid prison.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
griddog1 8/12/2022 10:44:46 AM (No. 1246013)
They need to go. Start over nobody respects them anymore or trusts them. They are the enemy of America.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
griddog1 8/12/2022 11:01:13 AM (No. 1246032)
"Sin will take you farther than you want to go, keep you longer than you want to stay, and cost you more than you want to pay. –” R. Zaccharias
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Orwell's greatest fear was not the politicians but the faceless bureaucrats and his nightmare has come to pass in the form of all our alphabet agencies. The are completly unaccountable to anyone and need a complete and thorough housecleaning and i know just the man for the job come 2024.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
MDConservative 8/12/2022 11:26:39 AM (No. 1246075)
American 'fraidy cats demanded "reform" after 9/11, and the Congress and President gave us the Patriot Act...if you opposed it, you were NOT a patriot. The People were given countless assurances of safeguards, that the FISA courts and the good intentions of our Intel/Law Enforcement Community would protect us from abuses. And those who raised questions were buried under such as "I got nothing to hide" "real patriot" sentiments. Back then Dubya could do no wrong.
More recently Congress had the built-in opportunity to kill the Patriot Act. Once again the 'fraidy cats" willing to sell out liberty for freedom carried the day. And here we are.
The first step is to repeal and bury the Patriot Act and its structures and processes. And be very careful about what with the UNIPARTY tries to replace it. What a tangled web was woven...
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
pmcclure 8/12/2022 1:05:58 PM (No. 1246192)
The entire cabal of wicked federal bureaucracies and "intelligence" agencies should be dissolved and rebuilt with constitutional safeguards against future corruption.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 8/12/2022 4:06:00 PM (No. 1246346)
The FBI should be chopped up into useful subcomponents that no useful political value. Their counter terrorism branch should be eliminated and ALL such agents should be limited to ONLY foreign agents or out of country issues. NO US citizens should be investigated by counter terrorism agents. If US citizens break US laws, arrest them for that, NOT "domestic terrorism".
Will all this have some negative effects? Probably. But the corrupting influence of Washington makes it IMPOSSIBLE to maintain a Federal police force that is pristine. They will NEVER be able to do their jobs free from political influence and them doing what they have been doing is a MAJOR threat to our free Republic. Given that choice, we will have to live without the FBI as constituted and some problems that come up with them removed from picture will have to be dealt with in other ways.
Elected politicians need to be immune from Federal coercion unless evidence of SERIOUS CRIMINAL activity is uncovered. Fishing expeditions against politicians and their supporters should be prohibited. Storm trooper invasions of private homes should be unthinkable unless severe criminal actions are already evident. Bureaucrats who violate this should be IMMEDIATELY dismissed with prejudice and prohibited from government service.
Elected officials MUST be in charge of Washington, not corrupt, bureaucratic idiots like Wray. Further, any bureaucrat that has damaging information against a politician and tries to use through coercion should be thrown in jail. Disclose it to the media, police, or congressional oversight, OK. But using it to force actions to benefit should be criminal.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
rochow 8/12/2022 9:58:56 PM (No. 1246625)
It started with Mueller, really exploded with the garden gnome Comey and now the final straw the evasive liar Wray. Tear the place down and start with another name and an entirely new bunch of people. Everyone in this institution got infected and we do not need them any longer!
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