Ron Paul: “It’s Time To Abolish the FBI”

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Ron Paul says its time to abolish the FBI

Former U.S. Rep. Ron Paul says it is time to abolish the FBI after decades of corruption have made the agency unfit for purpose.

According to the American author, the “Twitter Files” shows us that Federal agencies such as the FBI view the First Amendment as an annoyance and an impediment.

Ron Paul writes: The FBI, we now know, was obsessed with Twitter. We learned that agents sent Twitter Trust and Safety chief Yoel Roth some 150 emails between 2020 and 2022. Those emails regularly featured demands from US government officials for the “private” social media company to censor comments and ban commenters they did not like.

The Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF), a US government entity that included the FBI as well as other US intelligence agencies expressly forbidden from domestic activities, numbered 80 agents engaged regularly in telling Twitter which Tweets to censor and which accounts to ban. The Department of Homeland Security brought in outside government contractors and (government-funded) non-governmental organizations to separately pressure Twitter to suppress speech the US government did not like.

US Federal government agencies literally handed Twitter lists of Americans it wanted to see silenced, and Twitter complied. Let that sink in.

This should be a massive scandal and likely it would have been had it occurred under a Trump Administration. Indeed, Congress would be gearing up for Impeachment 3.0 if Trump-allied officials had engaged in such egregious behavior. But since these US government employees were by-and-large acting to suppress pro-Trump sentiment, all we hear are crickets.

What is interesting about these Twitter revelations is how obsessed the FBI and its government partners were with satire and humor. Even minor Twitter accounts with small numbers of followers were constantly flagged by the Feds for censorship and deletion. But knowledge of history helps us understand this obsession: in Soviet times the population was always engaged in joking about the ineptitude, corruption, and idiocy of the political class. Underground publications known as samizdat were rich with satire, humor, and ridicule.

Tyrants hate humor and cannot withstand satire. That is clearly why the FBI (and CIA) was determined to see a heavy hand raised against any American poking fun at the deep state.

There is good news in all of this, however. As Constitutional Law Professor Jonathan Turley wrote over the weekend, a new Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll found that even though the mainstream media has ignored the “Twitter files,” Americans have not. Nearly two-thirds of respondents believe that Twitter was involved in politically-motivated censorship in advance of the 2020 election. Some 70 percent of those polled believe Congress must take action against this corporate/state censorship.

As Professor Turley points out, although the First Amendment only applies to the US government, “it does apply to agents or surrogates of the government. Twitter now admits that such a relationship existed between its former officials and the government.”

So now we have proof that the FBI (along with US intelligence agencies and the Department of Homeland Security) have been acting through “private” social media companies to manipulate what Americans are allowed to say when they communicate with each other.

Is there anything more un-American than that? Personally, I find it sickening.

We do not need the FBI and CIA and other federal agencies viewing us as the enemy and attacking our Constitution. End the Fed…and End the Federal Bureau of Investigation!

5 Comments

  1. no question, but what would happen is that the corrupt agents will trickle down to state bureau of investigations and set up shop in the states. we need convictions, and life sentences.

  2. Not just the FBI – same for the CIA, FDA, CDC, WHO, NIH, AMA & all the rest of the corrupted cabal agencies/groups. We’re going to see a big group of people executed for teason, murder & crimes against humanity.

    • Pretty much all the ABC agencies. Also the CIA puppet companies, Google (Alphabet) Facebook Twitter Abc Nbc Cbs Fox Amazon Apple. Pretty much every news and entertainment publishing company and mainstream news outlet. Netflix, Disney… you get the picture.

  3. There’s no Common Law. It makes no difference what the people think They’re fragmented divided narcissistic self centred and won’t do anything anyway except grumble.

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