Of the State, by the State, for the State

From my primary "I Protest" Substack (August 2022) at donaldjeffries.substack.com

This previously published article is more relevant now than ever, with the advent of DOGE. Any serious dismantling of the bureaucracy has to include our destructive intelligence agencies, which alone have all but destroyed our civil liberties.

The recent raid on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate has triggered even establishment Republicans. Normally the Marco Rubios of the world are just fine with our nakedly aggressive, out of control law enforcement. But Trump’s persona has the potential to rile up millions of otherwise pretty docile supporters.

It’s ironic that this happened shortly after Trump began resuscitating his stale, Richard Nixon-style “law and order” mantra. Trump also recently called for the death penalty for drug dealers. He has always expressed his admiration for law enforcement. Instead of abolishing Orwellian asset forfeiture laws, which are at the heart of the corrupt policing for profit system, Trump and his first Attorney General William Sessions sang its praises, and wanted more funding for it. Trump loves the police, and thinks they can do no wrong. Except maybe when they raid stately Trump Manor.

This raid on Mar-a-Lago had all the typical Trump elements in it. The federal judge who signed the search warrant happened to be one of Jeffrey Epstein’s old lawyers. But, in true Trumpian fashion, the Orange Man had, of course, appointed him to the bench. Just like Christopher Wray, the odious FBI director who went after Trump with a vengeance after….being selected by the great actor. Trump is unique in American political history for having his own nominees and aides being openly in opposition to him. I’d still like to know how many he chose for his administration that actually voted for him.

The Left is ecstatic over this. Other than a long perp walk in an orange jumpsuit, followed by a noose around the neck, this has to be the next best satisfying event for them. Well, testifying before the laughable January 6 Commission is bound to leave them panting with pleasure as well. Ooh, the drama of courageous Liz Cheney grilling this fake Enemy of the State. Maybe she could spank him, like Stormy Daniels is alleged to have done. That would be like bottled Viagra for those with TDS.

There are rumblings about “defunding” the FBI. Now, if this happens, I will be more shocked than I was when Trump won the presidency against the Queen of the Deep State. It’s hilarious to see the GOP finally outraged about the excesses of law enforcement. Where were they these past few decades, when countless “no knock” raids (which they enthusiastically supported), broke down the wrong door and killed residents in the wrong house? There is even some talk of “defunding” the FBI. Presumably, the same “Woke” forces who wanted to defund the police during the BLM summer, but came to adore them during the “insurrection,” would object.

Don’t get me wrong, the FBI should be defunded. So should the CIA, the NSA, the DIA, and the rest of our intelligence agencies. They’ve always been unaccountable, with budgets that remain top secret. Remember the Palmer Raids, at the end of the disastrous Woodrow Wilson administration? A young J. Edgar Hoover was in the center of that, as “communists,” “anarchists,” and other Enemies of the State were rounded up. The FBI would be created in its wake, seeing as how it was successful and all. They’ve never looked back since.

Has the FBI ever served the cause of justice? They were instrumental in framing Bruno Richard Hauptmann for the Lindbergh Baby kidnapping. They pushed the idea that Albert DeSalvo was responsible for all the “Boston Strangler” slayings, when the evidence suggested otherwise. They enticed Joran Van der Sloot to Peru, and framed him for the murder of a young girl, after our dishonest media unfairly pinned the murder of Natalee Holloway on him. I’ve done extensive research into the Holloway case. Maybe one day I’ll have a book published about it.

In the 1990s, Dr. Frederick Whitehurst became the first successful whistleblower in FBI history. He detailed the troubling history of misconduct in FBI labs, complaining to his superiors in 1994 about, “alterations of reports, alterations of evidence, folks testifying outside their areas of expertise in courts of law.” Whitehurst declared that “really what was going on was human rights violations. We have a right to fair trials in this country… And that’s not what was going on at the FBI lab.” Thanks to his revelations, it was determined that forensic hair analysis, which had been used for decades, was inaccurate more than ninety percent of the time.

Defendants in at least thirty five cases where flawed FBI work helped convict them, were subsequently sentenced to death. Whitehurst’s disclosures supposedly resulted in some reforms, but color me skeptical. In 2004, mainstream media reported on a declassified internal FBI report that “details dozens of cases of agents fired for egregious misconduct and crimes, including drug trafficking, attempted murder, theft, misuse of informants and consorting with prostitutes” from 1986-1999. If the media reported something like that, imagine what they are covering up.

Despite the propaganda on the old television series The FBI, starring Efrem Zimbalist Jr., which was produced in cooperation with the Bureau, they have never been the “good guys.” During the inexcusable 1992 attack on Randy Weaver’s remote cabin in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, FBI sharpshooter Lon Horiuchi blew Randy’s wife Vicki Weaver’s head off as she was holding her infant child in the doorway of their home. Trump’s future Attorney General William Barr would testify as a character witness for this taxpayer paid assassin. The FBI’s conduct at Waco, which ended in the mass murder of American citizens by armored tank and a gas banned by the Geneva Convention, was hardly any better.

The FBI’s role in important crimes from the JFK assassination to the January 6 “Stop the Steal” protests in Washington, D.C., has invariably been crucial in terms of covering up corruption and wrongdoing. The COINTELPRO operation in the 1960s targeted those then considered Enemies of the State, which were mostly concentrated in the antiwar movement. Today, the Enemies of the State are on the Right, not the Left. There is no official COINTEL program, but there might as well be. Everyone reading this is considered an Enemy of the State to some degree. And never doubt that we are all being targeted.

In 1985, a U.S. congressional report found that from 1940-1960, the FBI had "installed over 7,000 national security surveillances," including many on American citizens. While under J. Edgar Hoover’s reign, the Bureau targeted civil rights groups and others on the Left as “subversives,” since at least the administration of Bill Clinton, it has been the militia groups, alleged “White Nationalists,” and the like who are the “subversives.” Remember, when homeschooling first started, it was considered “subversive.” One of the first homeschool advocates, John Singer, was shot and killed on January 19, 1979, while opening his mailbox, after being harassed by government forces at all levels.

Our illustrious “representatives” included financing for an additional 87,000 IRS agents in the just passed nearly trillion dollar “Inflation Reduction Act” (insert Doublethink joke here). It should be alarming to all that we have to worry about armed IRS agents, in addition to armed FBI, CIA, and local police. In 1976, one of those pesky tax protesters, Bill Smiley, was shot and killed after meeting with two IRS agents. They called it “suicide.” They do that a lot. As if police and the intelligence agencies aren’t enough to worry about, now we have lots more armed IRS agents. But they don’t want you to have guns to protect yourself.

Our local police forces have been out of control for a very long time. Militarized. Impacted by ticket quotas, lack of oversight, and inexplicable training in Israel. Their crimes, which nearly always go unpunished, have been documented in far too many heartbreaking videos available online. Shooting deaf people in the back because they couldn’t hear their orders, throwing elderly people out of wheelchairs- there seems to be no behavior too low for these thugs to engage in. Here’s another piece from my blog’s archive, which chronicles some of their escapades: Jolly Coppers on Parade

Remember, as I’ve noted, the Supreme Court has ruled that police are under no obligation to protect the public. So when they used hand sanitizer instead of rushing into a classroom to stop a gunman from shooting kids in Uvalde, they were only doing their duty. According to the Supreme Court. If local police are under no legal obligation to “protect and serve,” what obligation does an FBI or CIA agent have? The nature of their jobs ensures that they are far more likely to harm the public than “protect” it.

Then of course there was the “investigation” into Hillary Clinton’s infamous emails. The Queen of the Deep State admitted to deleting over 30,000 emails, destroying a laptop, and her minions apparently used a sledge hammer and bleach in doing so. Very Hollywoodish. Predictably, “no evidence” of wrongdoing was found. Christopher Wray, the guy Trump-who vowed to “lock her up” during the 2016 campaign- appointed as FBI director, defended his Bureau in wake of the meaningless report, which resulted in, as usual, no one being punished, least of all Hillary.

That’s the thing about the FBI. No Deep State criminal is ever found culpable by them. Lots of citizens have been framed and railroaded by them, but no one with any power and influence. J. Edgar Hoover was notorious for claiming the Mafia didn’t even exist. Today’s FBI is just as notorious for focusing on truly imaginary “White Supremacists,” whom our beloved President Biden has declared are the “greatest threat” to America. Just like those J6 defendants, imprisoned for over a year, some in solitary confinement and beaten, denied all due process, are a grave threat to “democracy.” The kind of “democracy” Ukraine, for example, enjoys. The kind where your penis-piano playing president locks up the guy he beat in the last election.

And, to paraphrase Rodney Dangerfield, the CIA are “no winners either.” From toppling elected officials abroad, to assassinating them, to being implicated in the assassination of President Kennedy, to setting up a brothel, to dousing unsuspected people with LSD (like Frank Olson, who went on to “jump” from a high rise window), to introducing crack cocaine into the inner cities, to promoting ugly, culture-killing “modern art,” to backing fake counterculture figures like Timothy Leary and Gloria Steinem, just to name some of their nasty activities. JFK wanted to abolish the CIA. Why aren’t we abolishing these unconstitutional and destructive agencies?

Many of my old friends on the Left, after they contracted the incurable Trump Derangement Syndrome, began singing the praises of the “eighteen intelligence agencies” that found he “colluded” with Russia, or whatever. Why, exactly, do we have eighteen intelligence agencies to begin with? They have served no purpose other than to harass and even murder abroad and, unfortunately, here at home as well. They haven’t “protected” us from anything, least of all themselves. If they were gone tomorrow, would any of us even know?

One of the main reasons I will never be a conservative is their almost blind faith in law enforcement, and by extension federal agencies like the FBI and CIA. Just read my books for a sampling of their crimes and cover-ups. And I’ve only scratched the surface. Of all the worthless government agencies, none are more worthless than those dealing with “intelligence.” What is it they say about military intelligence- that it’s an oxymoron? I would say any government “intelligence” agency is an oxymoron. But an extremely dangerous oxymoron.

Like Alfred Hitchcock, I tremble in fear of encountering “the law.” At any level. One of the worst sights any citizen can see are those flashing blue lights in the rear view mirror. Maybe others get warning tickets, but not me. The best you can do is remain silent. Certainly don’t mention anything about your rights. They don’t like it when you do that. In their eyes, you have no rights. And the courts have historically agreed with them; you don’t. I don’t know what it’s like to be questioned by the FBI. I’m sure it wouldn’t be a pleasant experience. You could wind up like one of the alleged Boston Bomber’s friends; killed during questioning by the FBI. Nothing to see here.

Shed no tears for Donald Trump. I don’t see him ever winding up behind bars. People at his level are above all that. And the entire thing, like the Alex Jones trial, may just be another distracting spectacle. But a spectacle with a frightening message: we can and will do things like this, and no one can stop us. Americans love those SWAT teams. Unless they show up at their home. Police are still worshiped in many places. Every security guard is basically a cop groupie. People still respect FBI and CIA agents. Certainly more than they respect “conspiracy theorists.”

As I study hidden history, I understand more and more that we didn’t arrive at this point by accident. In this case, unconstitutional roadblocks to “stop” drunk driving, and no-knock police raids led directly to the FBI’s disquieting visit to Mar-a-Lago. The Fourth Amendment is important, too, just like the First, Second, and all the others. Whether it’s Donald Trump, Alex Jones, or John Doe from the local trailer park, we have to stand up for the rights of everyone. Even when we know they wouldn’t stand up for ours.