The FBI as tyranny's enforcer

If democracy is foolish enough to give us free railway passes and salaries, that is its problem. – Joseph Goebbels

The Friday Letter / No. 461 / Orlando, Florida

The Socialist Democrats didn't get Merrick Garland on the Supreme Court. Their consolation prize is making them just as giddy: Garland has completed the transformation of the FBI from a law enforcement agency into a political enforcement arm of the Democrat Party, ordered to smother all dissent and arrest those who resist.

G-Men (1935)

Frankly, it's becoming a bit tiresome to hear about the great men and women at the FBI who just want to do their jobs. Many of them are great, for sure. But if two of them – they always call in pairs – knock on your door and “just want to ask you some questions,” politely ask them to vacate your property. You don't have to talk with them. Nothing good will come from this experience. Just ask Michael Flynn or Clarence Page.

In a memorandum, Garland ordered to FBI to start investigating people who ask questions and protest at school board meetings about mask requirements for school children and other tyrannical acts. He calls these acts of terrorism, “a disturbing spike in harassment, intimidations, and threats of violence.” Watch a little non-legacy television and you'll see videos of taxpayer-parents being arrested by police thugs just because they exercised their constitutional right to question government.

It wasn't so long ago that most of us thought this is the stuff of Nazi Germany's early days, that it could never happen here. It's happening here.

For another viewpoint on this, see Neal McCluskey's piece at The Federalist.

Trump must let 2020 RIP: Time to look ahead

To win in 2024, President Trump needs to stop carping about 2020 and focus his energy, all of it, on telling the American people what he intends for his second term. Someone needs to find his ear on this. The situation is desperate, and everybody knows it.

The 2020 election is over, and Joe Biden is president. It's not going to be reversed. Trump can look at the embarrassment Hillary Clinton brought upon herself by continuing to claim that she won in 2016. She did not. Maybe Trump won in 2020, maybe he didn't. We'll never know. Continued attention to this distracts from the mission at hand.

Trump and Company can remind us that the election was sullied by massive voter fraud, the evidence of which is irrefutable. It's important that voters never forget this. But it doesn't change the 2020 election. It is time to fight the next war, not the last one.

Trump is demanding that the New York Times and Washington Post be stripped of their Pulitzer Prizes for their false, disingenuous reporting on the Russian collusion hoax. The Pulitzer Prize is a joke, an award leftists give themselves for their efforts to destroy liberty. Trump and all of us should ignore it.

As we say often and loudly, Donald Trump is the essential president. Joe Biden and his inept handlers remind us of this daily.

Trump knows how to protect the border. He knows how to deal with Communist China. He knows how to create jobs and bring existing ones back home. He knows how to create economic prosperity, including energy independence, and he knows how to lift the poor into the middle class. He knows how to end a war without abandoning American citizens behind enemy lines. He knows how to remind armchair generals that he, not they, runs the military.

Whining Republicans like Liz Cheney and Mitt Romney and media insufferables like Peggy Noonan can suck their thumbs and crybaby all day long about Trump's immature tweets. People like this who will never support Trump regardless of his skill as a negotiator and strategist need to be ignored. They are the old, tired Republican Party. This is now the Party of Trump, and everyone knows this also.

Donald Trump is the essential American president.

Assuming the country even survives until January 2025, Trump will walk into the Oval Office with three guns pointed at his head: the CCP military threat, our lack of national borders, and our economic dependence on enemy nations.

Today Communist China could shut down the electrical grid in many parts of the nation and cut off our drinking water supply. (See this piece from the Washington Examiner). Dictator Xi is probably waiting for the Biden handlers' response to his invasion of Taiwan to see how to move forward on that one.

Trump will need to fire most of the Pentagon leadership, clean house at the CIA, and clear-cut the FBI root and branch. He will need to be ruthless – like Guy Odom describes in America's Man on Horseback – in fumigating our major bureaucracies, especially the Justice Department.

He must announce the day after the election that Fauci, Milley, Wray, and Yellen will not spend one day in his administration. Think of the angst he could have avoided when he took office in 2017 by not retaining Jim Comey as FBI director.

If he wants to display some of his famous braggadocio, he can announce today that his administration will round up and deport, to the extent it is able, the millions of illegal aliens Biden has allowed into the country, that their free ride on the backs of American taxpayers will come to an end in 2025. Make this clear, now, so that the world is forewarned.

Let blacks and other racial minorities, and the white working class, know that the prosperity Biden's team intentionally destroyed is only temporary. Trump controlled inflation and created economic prosperity and optimism once. He can do it again.

He must let China, Iran, North Korea and all the world's other thugs know that the United States will stand by her friends and bring back the world's honor and respect. He needs to let Iran know that a nuclear attack on Israel will result in Iran's annihilation.

Donald Trump is the essential American president. But he needs to think of himself as the president for 2025, not of 2020. That part is over. It's time to look ahead.

Short takes on the news

An Obama-appointed federal judge might have got mixed up on events when she awarded 45 days in the hoosegow to a protester who entered the Capitol last January. Judge Tanya Chutkan was furious over comparisons between the Jan. 6 incident and the summer of 2020 riots that killed dozens and left behind billions in property damage along with countless destroyed middle-class livelihoods.

Quoted by the Associated Press, she said it was false equivalence “to compare the actions of people protesting, mostly peacefully, for civil rights” to protesters “trying to overthrow the government.” She was correct, sort of, if you acknowledge that she got it backwards. The comparison is between anarchists who committed murder and arson and those who – unarmed, non-violent, and mostly foolish – wished to let the world know they weren't happy with the status quo.

The “mostly peaceful” line has become a staple in state-friendly journalism, the most famous being the MSNBC reporter who described on-camera the “mostly peaceful protests” while downtown Portland, Ore., was burning behind him. The only unnatural death at the Capitol was the shooting death of Ashli Babbitt, an unarmed and nonviolent Air Force veteran, by Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd, who was never charged with her killing. . . .

Emerson College in Boston may kick the Turning Point USA chapter off campus because it criticized the Communist Chinese Party, Campus Reform reports. . . .

Tucker Carlson wonders why an E-4 who loses a rifle faces serious discipline, while generals who lose wars get promoted.

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