Abolish The FBI By Jacob G. Hornberger !!!
(2019-05-30 at 13:01:36 )

Abolish the FBI by Jacob G. Hornberger

As a libertarian, let me make my position clear with respect to the Federal Bureau of Investigation: It should be abolished, not reformed or reined in.

That is because in a free society there is no national police force.

Criminal justice, along with all the power a criminal-justice system entails, is best left at the state and local level.

National police forces are inherent to totalitarian regimes, such as those in Iran, North Korea, and China.

Thus, it is not a coincidence that the Framers did not provide for a Federal Bureau of Investigation in the Constitution, just as it is not a coincidence that our United States of American ancestors did not have a Federal Bureau of Investigation for more than a century after the United States Constitution called the federal government into existence.

In fact, if the United States of American people had been told after the Constitutional Convention that the Constitution was bringing into existence a federal government that included a national police force, it is a virtual certainty that they never would have approved the deal, in which case the country would have continued operating under the Articles of Confederation, a type of governmental system in which the federal governments powers were so weak that it did not even have the power to tax.

During his term in office, President Truman alluded to the nature and practices of the Federal Bureau of Investigation when he said, "We want no Gestapo or secret police. FBI is tending in that direction. They are dabbling in sex-life scandals and plain blackmail.. Edgar Hoover would give his right eye to take over, and all congressmen and senators are afraid of him."

It is now undisputed that Mr. Hoover, who was the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1924 until his death in 1972, was a serial blackmailer.

He and his agents would secretly compile information on United States of American citizens, including presidents and members of Congress, in order to blackmail them into doing what Mr. Hoover wanted them to do.

One of Mr. Hoovers principal areas of secret surveillance for the purpose of blackmail involved sexual activity.

He has his agents would conduct secret surveillance on peoples sexual activities, compile extensive secret files containing the information, and then blackmail the person with it.

One famous target of Mr. Hoovers blackmail was Martin Luther King Jr., a man who Mr. Hoover and his fellow cohorts at the Federal Bureau of Investigation were convinced was a spearhead in what they, along with the Pentagon, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Agency, were convinced was a worldwide communist conspiracy based in Moscow to take over the United States and the rest of the world.

The Federal Bureau of Investigations secret surveillance of Mr. King had discovered that he was engaged in an extramarital affair.

Mr. Hoover used the information to blackmail Mr. King with the aim of causing him to commit suicide.

The blackmail was: Kill yourself or we will disclose your perfidy to your wife and to the world.

And of course there was COINTELPRO, the massive illegal Federal Bureau of Investigation scheme to infiltrate and destroy domestic organizations that were suspected to be part of the supposed worldwide communist conspiracy that was supposedly based in Moscow.

In acts that would have made the communists proud, Mr. Hoovers FBI targeted for surveillance African-Americans, gays, war protestors, and leftists.

Okay, that is water under the bridge and Mr. Hoover has been dead for almost 50 years.

But guess whose name appears on the building in Washington, D.C., that houses the Federal Bureau of Investigation. It is called the J. Edgar Hoover Building.

Now, I ask you: What kind of people would honor and glorify a serial blackmailer by naming their building after him???

What kind of people would go to work for an organization that has named its building after a serial blackmailer???

I sometimes wonder whether a person who has been nominated to be Federal Bureau of Investigation director has demanded the removal of Mr. Hoovers name from the building as a condition of accepting the job.

From what I know, not one single FBI director in the last 25 years, including Christopher Wray, Andrew McCabe, James Comey, and Robert Mueller, has made such a demand.

Why not??

What is up with that, especially in an era when statues of Civil War heroes are being removed from the public square?

Is fighting for the Confederacy worse than being a serial blackmailer??

Like I say though, the real problem is not the fact that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has its building named after Mr. Hoover.

The name on the building just goes to the character of the people working inside the building.

The real problem is the FBI itself.

Our ancestors had it right.

A free society is one in which there is no federal police force.

If we want to restore a genuinely free society to our land, a necessary prerequisite is to abolish the FBI and leave criminal law enforcement to the states.

Reprinted here with permission from Mr. Jacob G. Hornberger of The Future of Freedom Foundation!! Their Great Website!!