It is beyond shameful that Americans have to read foreign papers to learn what is going on in their own nation. It is beyond shameful, and beyond dangerous, that the FBI has become a completely untrustworthy political actor:
The Boogaloo movement first appeared on the internet in 2019 in the form of memes and other random posts on internet message boards like 4chan, and individuals supporting the group have shown up to a variety of protest movements throughout 2020. Some self-declared “Boogaloo boys” have aligned themselves with far-left groups like Black Lives Matter, in supporting a system that removes the role of police from society. On the other side of the fence, some that claim to be attached to the movement have expressed support for white nationalism and other forms of extremism, others have run-of-the-mill libertarian ideals, while some seem to be more aligned with completely anarchist viewpoints.
Additionally, the group’s main aggregator website makes clear that the movement does not have the capacity to operate in every state. In fact, they don’t even have a chapter group link for 25 states.
The Boogaloo movement has been the subject of intense interest for the FBI, which appears to have thoroughly infiltrated the organization with undercover operatives and confidential informants. Over the past year, Boogaloo members have been arrested in countless sting operations. They’ve been charged with a variety of actions resulting from sting operations, from select members allegedly attempting to join the Hamas terrorist organization, to others seeking to “kidnap” Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
The FBI seems to be grossly exaggerating the capabilities of a fringe network of activists that does not have the capacity to mobilize significant numbers of people. Certainly, they do not present a threat of “insurrection,” or anything close. In leaking these bulletins to the media, it appears that the Bureau is once again, after four years of “Trump-Russia” madness, engaged in unsavory activism and attempts to manufacture a political narrative.
Go here to read the rest. As in the old Soviet Union, the media is a propaganda arm of the Deep State, and the secret police exist to keep the Deep State regime in power. Somewhere in the world to come Solzhenitsyn is weeping.
And ‘Antifa’ is just an idea. (An idea that deposits palettes of bricks all over downtown).
When I lived in Baltimore many years ago, one of the organizations calling itself the ‘Ku Klux Klan’ announced a march (in Washington, as I recall). Thirty-seven Klansmen showed up in rows and where taken into custody by local police. There were 5,000 counter-demonstrators, many of whom created quite a ruckus.
Not long after, the Anti-Defamation League estimated that there were about 8,500 klavern members in the United States, of which about 7,500 were organized into one of three multi-state federations. One was Bill Wilkinson’s outfit, one was David Duke’s and one was a descendant of Robert Shelton’s outfit. The ADL figured Duke and Wilkinson had about 3,000 followers each. Wilkinson’s outfit declared bankruptcy in 1983 and disclosed that their national membership was about 1,800. So you figure that maybe total klavern membership was about 5,000 and change. Shelton’s outfit was the defendant in a wrongful death suit filed around about 1987 in re a young man murdered by klavern members in 1981. They were compelled to turn over all of their property to the plaintiff. Their assets consisted of a quonset hut valued at $51,000.
By some accounts, klavern membership is generally around 2,000, with about 10% collecting subsidies from the FBI. Recall that up until the Appalachin meeting made the contention silly, J. Edgar Hoover maintained the Mafia did not exist as such. Your government at work.
There seems to be a history of FBI informants infiltrating organization and pushing some who are easily manipulated into crossing a line where arrests can be made, I have wondered why so many who are planning terrorist attacks are arrested for trying to buy explosives from an undercover government agent. Of course this may prevent attacks, but one has to wonder how much entrapment was involved. On the other hand often when there are terrorist attack it seems that others have previously reported suspicions to the FBI that was not investigated enough to have prevented an attack.
With the many blunders of the FBI one has to wonder why this organization exists. My suspicion is that the FBI is aligned with the Democratic Party for its survival.
Do you think The FBI fears infiltrating, investigating or prosecuting any of the Democratic Party Domestic Shock Troops because they would be defunded and closed? Since Trump was the enemy of the those who control the FBI they could attack him with impunity knowing that Trump had few allies and his party would always side with the deep state and Establishment.
My suspicion is that the FBI is aligned with the Democratic Party for its survival.
Naw, most of the higher ups are simply Democrats, which used, say thirty years ago, not to be the case. The FBI gets good press for smashing terrorist plots by having agents provocateurs in groups, who operate as the main instigators within the small groups they infiltrate. Real, and dangerous, terrorist plots almost always take the FBI and the CIA completely by surprise. 9-11 is the classic example. Both the FBI and the CIA need to be bulldozed and rebuilt from the ground up.
A. I think federal law needs to be amended so that the sort of perjury traps they attempted on Gen Flynn aren’t possible. The offenses he was charged with hardly exist in New York law, and where they do, it requires your signature on a written document.
B. Given that the police force in Slidell, La. records their interviews, that the FBI refuses to do so smells.
C. In 1992, an army of agents converged on the home of a screwball living in rural Idaho for failure to appear in a hearing on a weapons charge (which charge was instigated by an agent provacateur). By the end of it, a trigger-happy FBI agent had killed the man’s wife, his 11 year old son, and one other man. No punishment for him.
C. You ever notice the number of Justice Department lifers involved in the crooked fandangos discovered in the last several years? Mueller, Comey, McCabe, Sztrok, Rosenstein are all people who spent the bulk of their adult work life working for one or another unit thereof. Christopher Wray is a Bush II veteran whose primary function has been to stonewall congressional committees. And what did Wm. Barr, John Durham, and that fellow Huber out in Utah accomplish? Can it be detected with anything less powerful than an electron microscope?
I seem to recall a movie scene where some undercover agents barge into some nefarious group meeting, only to discover that the nefarious group was comprised solely of other undercover agents. Somehow, that seems to resonate here.
As time goes by the more I get convinced that Ruby Ridge was just standard operating procedure for the FBI. The only way that they varied from their plan was letting the public find out about it.
Watch an attempt be made to strip Trump of his Secret Service protection leaving him vulnerable to a potential Ruby Ridge on him. Of course they would have to first get past his private security.
Watch an attempt be made to strip Trump of his Secret Service protection leaving him vulnerable to a potential Ruby Ridge on him. Of course they would have to first get past his private security.
Jacqueline Onassis shlepped around Manhattan for 19 years without any security. The Nixons gave up their detail in 1986. Yet, for decades we’ve pretended Jimmy Carter’s life was in danger. Trump’s may actually be in danger, in part because the capacity of the liberal bourgeoisie to process contention has seen a virtiginous decline.
I don’t think Bernie Sanders was ever compelled to come clean about the contacts between his office and James T. Hodgkinson.
Watch an attempt be made to strip Trump of his Secret Service protection leaving him vulnerable to a potential Ruby Ridge on him. Of course they would have to first get past his private security.
Remember Aldrich Ames? Your government at work.
Kamala Harris could say in a state of union address “The only problem with James T. Hodgkinson is that he wasn’t successful” and nothing would come of it, except maybe a talking head or two accidentally shouting in agreement.
Heard on a FOX News show last night: the FBI knew before the 6th by surveilling groups on social media that there was going to be a violent incident at the Capitol on the 6th. Obviously they did not pass it to the Capitol Police.
Also Capitol Police requested National Guard back up for the day of the Trump rally a week or so before the 6th and were refused.
Hard to know what to believe.
CAM, your statement “Hard to know what to believe” certainly applies to nearly everything in the “news cycle” these days. I’m leaning toward a rule of interpretation: Anything that could be part of an intentional effort to destroy a person or group the Left doesn’t like, should be presumed to be such. For now, that presumption can remain rebuttable. I’m not sure how long that proviso will apply.