Trigger warning: This article contains material some readers may find disturbing.
I believe that it is in the best interest of the United States to dismantle the Federal Bureau of Investigation (among other agencies). The FBI actively hurts the country as a matter of course, habitually aids and abets vile criminals in perpetrating their crimes, and claims victory when it “catches” criminals and terrorists “in the act” when they themselves often times encouraged and carried out the actual crimes (or, at least, engaged in entrapment).
Dismantling the FBI should be a point of unity between the political parties — We all have a principled interest in doing away with the FBI. We can come together on this issue.
FBI Helped Maintain “Russiagate” Lies
The story that the President had been colluding with Russia, that he was a Russian asset, and that his election had been a Kremlin operation, positively saturated the media coverage of the 2016 and 2020 elections, and most of the news cycles in between.
We now know the entire “Russiagate” news cycle was a whole-cloth fabrication, a manufactured scandal, that originated as a swiftboat campaign by the Hillary Clinton campaign. Alarmingly, corrupt insiders within the Department of Justice (including the FBI), in tight cooperation with the eagerly enabling and ever-partisan media/tech complex, took this politically manufactured story and ran with it, enabling a dangerous and anti-American lie that would obstruct and distract for nearly 5 years.
Ironically, former British spy Christopher Steele, a key source of the fraudulent information on supposed Russia connections, was viewed by American intelligence at the time as a Russian agent himself, and the FBI knew about this when they decided to run with the politically convenient investigation anway. Sometimes, reality is more entertaining (or terrifying) than fiction.
I don’t know about you, Dear Reader, but I was getting genuinely scared about Russia for a while there. Did they actually infiltrate our leadership? What if the “news” wasn’t so “fake” after all? Now, I’m pissed off about the absolute pervasiveness of the lie, and how sinister and cynical it was, and how thoughtlessly it was disseminated as though it were true because, if it was, it would be very good for one specific political faction — a faction that was feeling very hurt by their recent loss. The filthy political corruption of all involved is starkly visible here.
The FBI undermined public confidence in our election system, and they did it on purpose.
Be careful about letting yourself get whipped into a righteous emotional frenzy on bad information.
FBI Covered Up Vile Sex Crimes
When informed in July 2015 that Dr. Larry Nassar was sexually abusing women and girls, the FBI decided to ignore it. For over a year, they failed to act on the accusations, and neglected to tell state and local authorities if they planned on doing anything at all. During that time, the number of women and girls abused by Nassar continued to climb.
McKayla Maroney, a US Olympic gymnast, recalls the phone conversation she had with an FBI agent, during which she was asked “Is that all?” The two other gymnasts that came forward with similar accusations were not interviewed by the FBI. For 17 months, the FBI failed to properly document Maroney’s conversation with the agent. When it was finally documented, the FBI lied about what Maroney had said.
One of the FBI agents assigned to the case, W. Jay Abbott, was hoping to land a job with USA Gymnastics, or with the US Olympic Committee. When asked during an internal investigation about his job queries, Abbott lied about them.
Ultimately, for over a year, the FBI willfully covered up accusations of sexual assault for more than a year. It wasn’t until Nassar was found to be in possession of child pornography that anything was done. During that time, after the FBI had been told and before they were forced to do something about it, Nassar abused around 70 more women and girls.
I don’t know what more can be said about this case. This on its own is enough to justify dismantling this filthy, corrupt agency, and scattering its scraps to the wind.
FBI Did January 6
According to the New York Times (in a story that confirmed reports that had been venomously dismissed as “conspiracy theories” only months earlier) the FBI had informants in the crowd of protestors on January 6, and those informants were in direct, live contact with members of the so-called “Proud Boys.”
“As scores of Proud Boys made their way, chanting and shouting, toward the Capitol on Jan. 6, one member of the far-right group was busy texting a real-time account of the march. The recipient was his F.B.I. handler.”
If it was true that the events of Jan 6 were planned, and that this planning happened in cooperation with the ill-defined “Trump inner circle,” as was the initial narrative spun for regurgitation onto our screens, that means the FBI knew about this, and decided to do nothing. That seems to be something of a pattern for them.
If, on the other hand, January 6th was not planned in advance, and if it did not involve Trump or anyone close to him, then we’ve been systematically lied to for several months, and lied to for nakedly political reasons by the very institutions who should be keeping the public apolitically informed.
That systematic lie, if it had been true, would have been very convenient for the political wing that decides what your screens tell you is important. If there is a lesson from January 6, it is what I said above: Be careful about letting yourself get whipped into a righteous emotional frenzy on bad information.
We know that the protestors that entered the Capitol, contrary to the ongoing shouts of power-lusting congressmen, were calmly allowed into the building by law enforcement, and told to remain peaceful. In this video, at the 20-second mark, a police officer can be heard saying “I disagree with it, but I respect it,” as protestors are allowed to peaceably (if a bit loudly) enter the Capitol building. The video shown by the power-lustful congressional committee was knowingly misleading.
It’s better to have no intelligence agency at all than to have one that actively works against us, and habitually aids the most vile of criminals, all while lying to the public about important matters in a politically convenient way.
Dismantle the FBI, and stop listening to those power-lusting individuals who accuse their opponents of the very worst things they can invent.