Who do we trust?
None. Everything this country taught me as truth was a lie, unless one has enough money to look the other way. It’s like talking to HR at work, nothing changes but they’ll still try to win you back with more lies.
They breed terror so they can come back to be a hero.
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The Deep State at work. It has always served conservative interests and established power.
Then why is the FBI hunting like 01/06 animals like a fucking Terminator? Still nailing those fuckers, seems like one every day, even after nearly 2-years.
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Maybe poor in the grand scheme of things, but these were mostly middle-middle-class and higher income people.
It’s like the 9/11 hijackers. Middle-class Saudis almost every single one.
In neither case were they uneducated, backwoods hicks. These were mostly people with a life, and much to lose, and pulled this shit anyway. And I find that far more horrifying than a buncha poor, angry dirt farmers, because poor stupid people can’t much traction in this world.
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It’s not very deep, the FBI has a lot of checks and balances for raids.
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In order to obtain a valid search warrant, the FBI must have probable cause. If the FBI believes there is probable cause they will present it to a magistrate (a judge). The judge will then decide if there is sufficient information to issue a search warrant.
Checks and balances.
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You didn’t have a link prior and Wikipedia isn’t a source to be trusted.
It doesn’t matter because a judge signs off any raid. You are welcome to file a grievance with that judge if you don’t like their decisions.
I trust Wikipedia more than I trust you and your…non-sourced claims. 🤷
The FBI’s political surveillance was not a result of popular hysteria, such as scholars used to claim, or a rational response to communist spying and the Cold War confrontation, such as a number of historians have recently argued. Instead, it was an integrated part of the attempt by the modern federal state, rooted in the Progressive Era, to regulate and control any organized opposition to the political, economic and social order, such as organized labor, radical movements and African-American protest.
- Red Scare: FBI and the Origins of Anticommunism in the United States, by Regin Schmidt, PhD
The FBI working against progress shouldn’t really be surprising when this is what they did in their formative years. It’s a big mistake to think we were stupid in the past and that we’re above doing what we used to do, today, and I’m really starting to wonder if intelligence agencies actually are a net positive the more I read about them, at least they seem like they’re well overdue for some radical reforming to ensure they act in the best interest of common people, rather than whatever they’re doing now and historically.
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Thinking of this from the prospective of “why have an IT department we don’t need them everything is working”. At least hopefully they have mitigated / prevented similar events you listed and we just never heard about them.
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I agree with you on 1/6.
Federal investigators foiled a massive bomb plot brought on by ~20 domestic terrorists who immigrated from another, restless, country and thought that wanton destruction would somehow galvanize support FOR their position on the conflict back home.
Can confirm that OUR feds are worth their (really small) pay.
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I’m really starting to wonder if intelligence agencies actually are a net positive
All of them, for the ruling class.
Fbi, dhs and cia need to be destroyed and remade with real oversight.
This happens too often
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Fascist Bureau of Intimidation strikes again.
