{"id":1437010,"date":"2023-11-04T22:05:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-05T02:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1437010"},"modified":"2023-11-04T22:05:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-05T02:05:00","slug":"fbi-following-bidens-instructions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/fbi-following-bidens-instructions\/1437010\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI = Following Biden’s Instructions?"},"content":{"rendered":"

FBI = Following Biden’s Instructions?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by James Bovard via JimBovard.com,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Does \u201cFBI\u201d now stand for \u201cFollowing Biden\u2019s Instructions\u201d? The FBI is doing backflips to boost Joe Biden\u2019s re-election campaign. Unfortunately, federal courts don\u2019t recognize law enforcement shenanigans as a violation of the Voting Rights Act.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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The FBI is categorizing Donald Trump\u2019s supporters as terrorist suspects, according to a\u00a0new report\u00a0in\u00a0Newsweek<\/em><\/a>. The FBI created \u201ca new category of extremists that it seeks to track and counter: Donald Trump\u2019s army of MAGA followers,\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>Newsweek<\/em>\u00a0revealed. The FBI is relying on the same counterterrorism methods honed to fight al Qaeda to go after the incumbent president\u2019s political opponents.<\/p>\n

Naturally, the latest Washington crusade against extremism has more malarkey than a White House summit. Federal bureaucrats heaved together a bunch of letters to contrive an ominous new acronym for the latest peril to domestic tranquility. The result: AGAAVE\u2014\u201canti-government, anti-authority violent extremism\u201d\u2014which looks like a typo for a sugar substitute.<\/p>\n

Recently, the FBI vastly expanded the supposed AGAAVE peril by broadening suspicion from \u201cfurtherance of ideological agendas\u201d to \u201cfurtherance of political and\/or social agendas.\u201d Anyone who has an agenda different from Team Biden\u2019s could be AGAAVE\u2019d for his own good. The great majority of the FBI\u2019s \u201ccurrent \u2018anti-government\u2019 investigations are of Trump supporters,\u201d William Arkin, a highly respected investigative journalist, reported in\u00a0Newsweek<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The FBI crackdown is following some of the most overheated political rhetoric of our era. Biden has denounced Trump supporters for \u201csemi-fascism.\u201d Biden\u00a0tweeted<\/a>\u00a0last November, \u201cDonald Trump and MAGA Republicans are a threat to the very soul of this country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Biden\u2019s Homeland Security Advisor Liz Sherwood-Randall declared, \u201cThe use of violence to pursue political ends is a profound threat to our public safety and national security\u2026it is a threat to our national identity, our values, our norms, our rule of law\u2014our democracy.\u201d And since Team Biden says that Trump supporters could be violent, suppressing them is the only way to protect \u201cthe will of the people\u201d or whatever honorific is used for rigged election results.<\/p>\n

In June, the FBI and Department of Homeland Security issued a warning: \u201cSociopolitical developments\u2014such as narratives of fraud in the recent general election, the emboldening impact of the violent breach of the U.S. Capitol, conditions related to the COVID-19 pandemic, and conspiracy theories promoting violence\u2014will almost certainly spur some domestic terrorists to try to engage in violence.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0In other words, alleging that there was election fraud in past elections can qualify a person as a terrorist suspect\u2014and justify suppressing their political activity in subsequent elections.<\/p>\n

Biden\u2019s FBI views Trump supporters as a deadly threat to democracy, thereby justifying subverting or crippling Trump supporters\u2019 ability to oppose Biden and other Democrats.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The FBI is required to have (or claim to have) solid information before launching a criminal investigation. But the bureau needs almost zero information to open an \u201cassessment.\u201d The FBI conducted more than 5,500 domestic-terrorism \u201cassessments\u201d in 2021, a 10-fold increase since 2017 and a 50-fold increase since 2013. \u201cAssessments are the closest thing to domestic spying that exists in America and generally not talked about by the Bureau,\u201d Arkin noted. The House Weaponization Subcommittee warned that\u00a0\u00a0\u201cthe FBI\u00a0appears to be complicit<\/a>\u00a0in artificially supporting the Administration\u2019s political narrative\u201d that domestic violent extremism is \u201cthe \u2018greatest threat\u2019 facing the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those assessments could prove perilous because the official demand for terrorists far exceeds the domestic supply. A top federal official told\u00a0Newsweek<\/em>\u00a0last year, \u201cWe\u2019ve become too prone to\u00a0labeling anything<\/a>\u00a0we don\u2019t like as extremism, and then any extremist as a terrorist.\u201d \u201cTrespassing plus thought crimes equals terrorism\u201d is the Biden standard for prosecuting January 6 defendants.<\/p>\n

FBI whistleblower Steve Friend complained of current FBI leadership, \u201cThere is this belief that half the country are domestic terrorists and we can\u2019t have a conversation with them. There is a fundamental belief that unless\u00a0you are voicing<\/a>\u00a0what we agree\u2026you are the enemy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Did the Biden administration secretly want\u00a0Newsweek<\/em>\u00a0to vindicate the fears of legions of Trump supporters? Perhaps those \u201cassessments\u201d are repeating a tactic used against Vietnam War protesters: FBI agents were encouraged to conduct frequent interviews with antiwar activists to \u201cenhance the paranoia endemic in such circles\u201d and \u201cget the point across that there is an FBI agent behind every mailbox,\u201d according to an FBI memo from that era.<\/p>\n

The more abusive the FBI becomes, the more outraged that Trump supporters sound, thereby justifying further FBI repression.<\/strong>\u00a0That also makes it easier for Team Biden to portray Trump supporters as public menaces.<\/p>\n

Biden\u2019s war on extremism could become a self-fulfilling prophecy that destroys American political legitimacy.<\/strong>\u00a0An official in the Office of Director of National Intelligence lamented, \u201cSo we have the president increasing his own inflammatory rhetoric which leads Donald Trump and the Republicans to do the same\u201d\u2014and the media follow suit. Biden is exempt from official suspicion even when he denounced Republicans as fascists who want to destroy democracy. Yet if Republicans sound equally overheated, Biden\u2019s FBI has pretexts to unleash the hounds.<\/p>\n

Is there any limit to the federal entrapment operations designed to spur headlines that make politicians applaud?<\/strong>\u00a0The latest FBI crackdown echoes a DHS campaign that was leaked to the press in 2021. Federal policymakers launched a \u201clegal work-around\u201d to spy on and potentially entrap Americans who are \u201cperpetuating the \u2018narratives\u2019 of concern,\u201d CNN reported. The DHS plan would \u201callow the department to circumvent [constitutional and legal] limits\u201d on surveillance of private citizens and groups. Federal agencies are prohibited from targeting individuals solely for First Amendment-protected speech and activities. But federal hirelings would be under no such restraint.<\/p>\n

Will the FBI\u2019s interventions in the 2024 presidential election be even more brazen than its 2016 and 2020 stunts?<\/strong>\u00a0Will the agency exploit its \u201cassessments\u201d to recruit knuckleheads to engage in another pre-election Keystone Kops plot to kidnap a governor, as it did in Michigan in 2020?<\/p>\n

The FBI has a sordid history of intervening in presidential elections since 1948\u2014if not before. A 1976 Senate report on FBI abuses warned, \u201cThe American people need to be assured that never again will an agency of the government be permitted to conduct a secret war against those citizens it considers threats to the established order.\u201d Unfortunately, Americans may not learn the damning details of another FBI \u201csecret war\u201d until long after the next election.<\/p>\n

Ironically, the Biden administration is vilifying anti-government opinions at the same time judges are exposing federal crimes.<\/strong>\u00a0Federal court decisions in July and September condemned the Biden censorship regime\u2014and those rulings were preceded by Supreme Court decisions striking down President Joe Biden\u2019s student-loan-forgiveness scheme and vaccine mandates.<\/p>\n

But Team Biden still presumes anyone who suspects the feds are violating the Constitution is up to no good.<\/strong>\u00a0In the same way that Biden based his 2020 election campaign on vilifying Charlottesville 2017 protests, so the Biden re-election campaign will vilify anyone who distrusts the feds. Regardless of the outcome, the 2024 election will be another boomtime for cynics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nSat, 11\/04\/2023 – 18:05<\/span><\/p>\n

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