One of the things lost in the excitement of the first month of the Trump administration is the pending reform of the FBI. When Kash Patel was grilled by the Senate, he repeatedly made clear that reforming the agency was his top priority. This is one reason Senate Democrats are stalling his nomination. This paramilitary wing of the Blob is calling in every favor to preserve itself. That lawsuit seeking to prevent the DOJ from getting the names of the J6 agents is a similar move.
There is little questioning the underlying premise of the reform cause. The FBI has lost all credibility with the public after a string of scandals. Framing people is a terrible thing but creating elaborate traps for not-so-bright people, as we saw in the Michigan kidnapping hoax, is monstrous. Most people do not know this has been common practice for decades, but many people know it. Of course, you have the outlandish behavior of the FBI during the first Trump term.
The topic of reform starts with looking at how an organization reached the point where reform is required to save it. That is where the FBI is now. Many people think it might be best to just close it down entirely. The few necessary things it does could be transferred to other agencies or maybe to a new agency with a severely limited portfolio, something like an FBI-lite. When forty percent of the agency was used to go after the J6 people over the last four years, the agency is rotten to the core.
The number one reason the FBI is a mess is that it, like most police forces in the country, was turned into a paramilitary unit. After the North Hollywood shootout, where two heavily armed bank robbers tried to shoot their way through a police cordon, every police department has been transformed into a paramilitary unit. They got money for military grade weapons, body armor and tactical training. They also tapped into the military for equipment and the sort of men who enjoy military life.
The result is the police now function like British soldiers patrolling Northern Ireland during The Troubles or American Marines patrolling Afghanistan. No law enforcement organization group has been deformed more than the FBI by this. Years of selection pressure has resulted in agents who not only look at the general public with contempt, but look forward to confrontations with them. They arrive in full battle gear and have a hostile attitude to arrest mothers holding their children.
It is not an accident that the things the FBI is supposed to do have not gotten better over the last thirty years. Whenever some well-known crazy goes nuts and shoots up a public place, we always learn that this person was “known to the FBI.” We also learn they did nothing about it. Over the last thirty years, the FBI has been transformed from the nation’s top law enforcement agency into a heavily armed gang of thugs who only care about pushing around the average citizen.
You see this in the collapse of standards for FBI agents. A common video online is two portly agents, dressed like they are going to watch their kid’s t-ball game, paying a visit to a citizen over a social media post. The grotesque lack of professional standards jumps off the screen. People now expect higher standards from building inspectors and parking attendants than from FBI agents. The ones not playing soldier are slovenly couch potatoes with the disposition of a postal clerk.
The image of the FBI is a good example of the interplay between the aesthetic and the spiritual that we used to understand. The poorest man used to have a suit for going to church and for when he was buried, because the formal things in life were the important things in life, so it was reflected in your appearance. The Medieval scholar Erasmus, paraphrasing Quintilian wrote, “To dress within the formal limits and with an air gives men, as the Greek line testifies, authority.”
This is where to start with reforming the FBI. The first thing that should happen is every agent must pass a physical test, controlled for their age and sex, within the first ninety days or be fired. At the same time, the agents start wearing suits and the corresponding for female agents. Get rid of the casual clothes and you get rid of the casual attitudes they have toward their jobs. For most, showing up to work dressed like an adult will be terrifying, but maybe they should find other work.
Along the same lines, there is no reason for FBI tactical units. Agents get a standard sidearm that is locked up at their office when they are off duty. The automatic weapons, body armor, flashbangs, etc. all go back to the military. The guys who signed up so they can bust down doors will not like it, but they need to think about either going back into the military or signing up with an international security contractor. Free people do not tolerate paramilitary units operating in their society.
Of course, this will result in most agents leaving the FBI. The PT will eliminate a good chunk of them and the new dress code will filter out many more. The goons playing soldier will find the new culture intolerable. That opens the door for the next reform, which is a return to the old education standard. It used to be that the FBI required a degree in accounting. Then it is expanded to computer science. Now the ranks are littered with criminal justice majors.
In this age, the role of the FBI is to investigate technical crimes, like computer trespass, electronic fraud, corporate crimes, and other crimes that require intelligence. You not only need smarts to do this work, but you need technical skills. Reestablishing educational standards, like bringing back the dress code, is as much about fixing the culture of the organization as raising the quality of people in it. Smart people who take pride in their work tend not to beat up old ladies.
In the end, the problems of the FBI are a microcosm of what has brought managerialism to the brink of collapse. They simply stopped caring about their core function and stopped caring about their own standards. This opened the door to mischief and the sorts of people who feed on mischief. It turns out that those old standards had a purpose after all. The lesson here is Chesterton’s fence. The reform of government starts with revisiting all the old, abandoned rules.
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‘At the same time, the agents start wearing suits and the corresponding for female agents’ Rong. You still don’t get it. NO females. When a female — even one — enters a male space, everything subtly changes. Men change their behavior and then, gradually, the organization begins to change to make it more ‘female friendly’. Women (and weak men) then bring in other women and guaranteed, they will organize and demand changes . . . a speech code . . . fudged standards . . . men helping out with the heavier duties . . . on and on. Soon… Read more »
NO females?
Too strict.
Depends on the job assignment. Unarmed, non-supervisory jobs doing desk or lab work? Sure.
Ray has a point. What I think you miss here is how the inclusion of women spreads a poison into the organization. To wit, Feminism of the current wave inevitably will try to undermine the logical assignments of agents, male and female, into different roles within the organization. So yes, women could indeed find roles within the FBI quite suited to their skill sets, however they will not be content with such and seek to expand within the organization into areas staffed by men—to the detriment of the whole. To this effect, one need not look specifically at the FBI,… Read more »
This is one of the things that has led to the explosion of the number of cops. Most criminals are young men and the women simply cannot handle them. When female cops arrest young men, it’s only because the young men didn’t fight. For every woman they hire, they need an extra man. Of course, the second there are women cops, there are demands for promotion. You end up with a bunch of incompetent women running the dept. They are also pretty infamous for suing the departments or for going on permanent disability (with full pay) the very first time… Read more »
Females are also more likely to resort to firearms when dealing with criminals.
Most police work is unsuitable for females. Ditto for the armed forces. The military once had a female component (e.g., the WACs and Army Nurse Corps) that did good work. Both the police and military should return to that model (although I will not hold my breath waiting foe it to happen).
There was the recent video of a female cop in Florida trying to disarm this brotha. In fairness he was being completely compliant. But due to either lacking sufficient hand strength or incompetence or the jitters, she managed to shoot the guy in the leg with his own gun. Just one incident but they add up. It should be obvious by now.
Ladies can do certain FBI jobs. My Mom worked in the FBI Fingerprint division in the old days, which was mainly run (well) by women. She says their theme song was “Some Day My Prints Will Come”…..
It’s been a few decades since secretaries started disappearing from offices. Men learned how to do our own typing on a computer, but we could bring back the secretary, subject to your policy. Fags who sneak in and claw their way to the top will want someone to flirt with, to relieve the stress associated with pretending to be straight and maintaining a wife at home. Otoh, we could do something else. Chesterton’s fence is useful imagery here. Now that being out of the closet is normalized, we ought to think about ways to keep it normalized while andrarchy and… Read more »
But, but what about Scully (lol)?
How about nobody with a name like Kash Patel.
Yep, I am also super pro-Patriarchy. Women have no business in most work, public life, politics, and voting. Of course there are individual capable and smart women, but so what? They and society are better off having healthy kids young. Men and women are different and that nature must be respected. Sperm is cheap and eggs are expensive, as heartiste would say. Women are inherently MORE valuable than men so let that value be used properly! And the presence of women will subtly or unsubtly deplete male camaraderie because of demoralization, lower standards, and the FACT that sexual competition over… Read more »
“Years of selection pressure has resulted in agents who not only look at the general public with contempt, but look forward to confrontations with them.”
I can’t think of a single federal law enforcement agency this doesn’t describe to a tee.
I’ll never forget all those fat men and women in full battle rattle with a giant FBI on their backs and chests KNEELING in front of criminals.
Unreformable. No courage.
Regular police did that too of course.
It was darkly comedic to see the same people who just a few years earlier shoved machine guns in the faces of farmers for selling unpasteurized milk go on to publicly signal allegiance to rioting savages.
Those thin blue line flags are now just another variant of the burn loot murder flags shitlibs adorn their yards with as far as I’m concerned.
Cops and criminals are co-workers. The job they share is to victimize and terrorize law-abiding citizens.
No police agency is reformable, except in the most traditional way.
Every problem is a list of people.
There’s truth to this unfortunately. Obviously, there is a place for police in a just civil society.
But in this clown society, the cops and “justice” system shield and defend the low-life criminals from the due justice from the people.
The feds have also turned every agency into police. They all seem to have an armed component now.
They’re arming agencies that have no business doing law enforcement work & of course the people they hare diverse so its extremely dangerous.
I am on the side of abolishing all secret police agencies. They are inconsistent with who we are, or were, or ought to be, as a nation. But the first step of any “reform” effort is decapitation. Send the entire 7th floor to the border to do actual work while they await being recalled and deposed. What would result from this? Some might be allowed to return to duty, even promoted. Others will be transferred to more suitable agencies such as the Bureau of Prisons. Some will be fired. Many will retire. And some will be prosecuted for their own… Read more »
This is a great idea. It has a strong overlap with my comment, but I think is much better in clarity. Yes. As they feel under threat of a job and a future you make them perform a duty that is essential to our cause. Identify with proper psychological profiling the ones who will respond to positive reinforcement on a joint mission with ICE and NorCom to fully engage in mass deportation. Likely their role will be to do enforcement on the merchant class and assist field agents with ICE and NorCom to punish merchants who. The next thing will… Read more »
Waco. ATF/FBI + Schumer + Reno + Clinton. There will be no reform without consequences. People who perpetrated crimes must be punished and kicked out. Pick the most egregious ones and make the cases high profile. Use the new media to include trial by media. Turnabout is fair play. As Sam Dickson has said, “We are in an alley fight.” Then these organizations need their instincts channeled for good. No more military adventures in the Hindu Kush. If we want a humanitarian military then it goes to South Africa to help Afrikaaners and Anglos to establish their own autonomous territories… Read more »
you can reform the fbi like you can reform a rabid dog.
Think of the crazies as the paramilitary wing of the blob’s agencies.
They love pushing law-abiding citizens around because it’s almost as easy as clubbing baby seals.
I think about the FBI killing that man in Utah. Yes, he spoke a lot of crap and he should have been charged. But you grab his butt when he’s out of his house. Kinda like what they did to the main character in the movie ‘Wargames’. They have heavy hands now.
This speaks to the militarization of federal law-enforcement agencies and police as a whole. One unnoticed aspect of DEI in the fed agencies (though perhaps not local police as they seem to be constantly understaffed) is that the slots for white men was reduced dramatically. The only white guys who had a preference that matched blacks and women were white men who had served in the military. As a result, govt agencies, particularly law enforcement agencies, are heavily staffed with ex-military men (and women). The same is also true for state and local police. Obviously, a certain kind of guy… Read more »
Forever wars make forever veterans, who need to be employed. Kind of like all that military hardware. Since we’re not in the business of conquering territory and handing out farms, maybe the wars need to be re-thought.
Exactly. These aren’t just ex-military guys. They’re ex-military with combat experience. And not combat experience against an organized, similar military but insurgencies where you patrol city streets and break into buildings to find bad guys who dress like civilians.
That kind of experience might just have an impact on what kind of FBI agent or cop you become.
Yes. For centuries the Romans had a much healthier way to deal with its veterans. The veterans colonies were positive. The Empire could reconstitute this idea but by putting the colonies or creating civic leadership by vets back in their home towns, counties and cities. This would bring back the talented and forged men that were taken from them and bring the money and rewards of Empire back to those communities. If you are going to have an Empire, it should benefit the Republic. Anyway, there is a lot in taking the Roman veteran’s colonies idea and adopting it for… Read more »
I think an even bigger problem is the hiring of non-white men and then creating a culture where subjugating and genociding White people is the most positive moral good. The Regime has really lit a giant bonfire and surrounded it with powder across the country with that one. The Biden regime we saw pictures of mostly blacks making arrests of White men. Remember that Daniel Penny’s trial was only a couple of months ago. He won, but the hostility of our enemies was only stoked by the outcome. We are in far greater danger of an anti-White regime whose enforcement… Read more »
“The ones not playing soldier are slovenly couch potatoes with the disposition of a postal clerk“. Reminds me of when Farage said Van Rompuy had the “charisma of a damp rag” and the appearance of a “low-grade bank clark.” It does beg the question “What is the actual scope of the FBI” and are they operating within the limitations of the law which I suspect has been far over reaching for decades. I find it interesting that many of the American police departments have started dressing like para-military members with combat boots, cargo pocket pants, etc., It sends a message… Read more »
I worked in a semi-rural county, with the largest city having a population of around 45,000. The sheriff’s department there not only had a relatively new military Humvee, but also some huge armored vehicle, bigger than a Sherman tank. Both were kept hidden in a big warehouse-type building.
This mostly-white county had some crime, but mostly because of a growing drug-abuse problem. I don’t recall seeing any bands of mujahadeen or Houthis around.
Years ago, a group of lawyers setout to catalog all of the Federal crimes. Once they reached about four thousand, it became clear that everything is against Federal law, because the laws are so vague and so prolific that anything can be construed as a violation of the law.
“…the laws are so vague and so prolific that anything can be construed as a violation of the law.”
And in this we return to a prescient Ayn Rand who long ago wrote:
“There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.”
It is a feature rather than a bug. It is like people who claim the tax code is so complex it is hard to do it lawfully. Reckon?
https://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/1594035229
It sends a message to the public that these people are members of an occupying Army intent on controlling the public. That’s a helpful analogy, and few people give any thought to the possibility that police forces are emasculating and socially divisive. Powerful policing turns the great mass of men into dependent, perfumed sissies who look to one of the local cops to be the first man in their lives. Local social hierarchy, which is natural, is disrupted so that capital and democracy can have obedient workers and docile tax payers controlled by armed farm hands. Men do not organize… Read more »
While agreed that slovenly appearance is an issue, if only that were the problem! During the Summer of Floyd, which we now know was funded through USAID and directed and coordinated by the FBI/DOJ, calls went out to “abolish the police!” Of course, nothing of the sort was intended by the deranged gay race communists. What they wanted was local law enforcement supplanted with thugs and monsters who take direct orders from D.C. They did not trust the political loyalty of local cops. Remember, when the tranny shot up the Nashville Christian school the FBI sealed her diary and records… Read more »
Their first Director was a homo and it went downhill from there. Get rid of it and start a different agency with mandate for white collar and paper crime, whatever. But NOT a paramilitary branch of the DNC, full of homos and feminists and liberals.
They tell you an awful lot about themselves just by leaving his name up there proudly on their building.
The first director, William J. Flynn, apparently was straight. He did resign after getting busted for setting up Irish and Germans on espionage charges during WWI. So unlike J. Edgar Hoover, a thug without being a fag.
Slovenliness is now endemic throughout our society and as a result, our culture has become more and more degraded. Go to any airport, at least in this country to get an eyeful. Hell, even in nice restaurants you’ll see slobs wearing sneakers, tee shirts and shorts. But when a supposed “premier” law enforcement agency follows suit, that’s trouble.
I get tired of seeing United States police dressed like Israeli soldiers ready to go into Gaza and snipe Palestinians when the problems were created by letting people who cannot be policed into this nation and not using the police and court systems properly to take care of the criminal element we had so now we are left with police looking like paramilitary units trained in Israel in every American city.
Because more than a few of the WERE trained in Israel.
Rise of the Warrior Cop by Stephen Balko is a great chronicle on how law enforcement agencies got out of control. They view us as the Israelis view the Gazans. Balko is a flaming cultural Marxist, but his critiques against civil asset forfeiture (where cops can steal your property even if you haven’t committed a crime) and the federal program to supply military-surplus equipment, vehicles and even helicopters to law enforcement agencies ring true. I’ve told this story before, but when I was commuting to my Air National Guard unit in full dress uniform, I got pulled over by the… Read more »
I had a similar incident years ago. I was driving a friends car and was set upon by a tactical unit. I was thrown onto eh ground and frisked. It turned out that the car they were looking for was a different make, model and color and the driver was black. I have since learned that this is so common there is an cottage industry for lawyers to sue the cops over this stuff. Now we have YouTube channels dedicated to it. Billions of tax payer dollars are pissed away because of it.
Did you get a settlement?
I have a good friend who is retired LEO of many years. He was stopped in his vehicle for a traffic violation. So what’s the big deal? Well this was in the city and the officers worked for the Park Services (IIR). They were part of a group of rookies “in training”. They were all lined up on a stretch of road and told to pull over everyone whom they saw violate a traffic law. Their performance was evaluated by their training officer. Of course, every other car traveling by was stopped for one or more “violations”. To keep the… Read more »
A relative of mine is LEO for small town in Indiana. Picture of him from ten 10 years ago and last year is stark – 10 years ago: small town bumpkin cop where rockin’ Under Armour wad high speed; today: tacticool and more wiermacht looking.
The younger age cohort’s arrogance about job prospects will come to bite them. I see it with my nieces and nephews, and, to a certain degree, despite by warnings, with my own children. “I’ll just quit this job and easily get another”. If they make me “return to office” I’ll quit. If they make me follow the rules I’ll quit. If they don’t praise me and pat me on my head I’ll quit. Musk could, pulling a number out of my butt, get rid of 30% of the bureaucracy by just making them show up and not giving them “free”… Read more »
Suggestion:
The total end of the FBI Interview Form 302.
It’s an outrage that the FBI can conduct an unrecorded interview, take notes, write a memo…REVISE that memo weeks later under their supervisors pressure, and that has the force of a recording to a court of law.
Outrageous. The government is rich. They can record every interview. The purpose of a system is what it does…this one is ripe for abuse.
What honest citizen, knowing this, would EVER speak to an FBI agent?
I don’t think that an outfit that has gone totally rogue like the FBI can be reformed…Some agents would still remember the good old days when they could bully the population at will..Shut it down and start over with extremely strict standards…It’s well known in the legal community that interacts with law enforcement that many cops think FBI means Federal Bureau of Incompetence, taking over investigations after the cops have done the work and claiming credit…
There is much to be said for shuttering the Famous But Incompetent given a long long history of abuse. Howie Carr’s run-in with Whitey Bulger and the FBI happened a good while ago and is a clear example of the FBI as a corrupt quasi-criminal outfit.
The cops love the militarized stuff; It’s all the fun and coolness factor without any of the risk.
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All right all right, I’ll chuckle, and wait for Z’s response.
“They arrive in full battle gear and have a hostile attitude to arrest mothers holding their children.” Or in the case of Vicki Weaver, skip the arrest completely and have your slant-eyed FBI sniper (Lon Horiuchi) just dome her from sniping distance causing the infant to fall to the ground while the unarmed mother’s brains leak out nearby. In no universe that is even remotely just would Horiuchi not be in prison for cold blooded murder, but he got not so much as a slap on the wrist much less jail time. And that is the thing NONE of them… Read more »
I’d accept eliminating qualified immunity for cops if we simultaneously eliminated it for senators and congresscritters (who at least have time to meditate before they act). That could be a fair deal. Not that anybody GAS what I accept.
Z is spot on about what should happen but it will never happen. The blob sees the average American, White right of center variety, as the enemy. So, it is an occupation army by design. We will be told that making the FBI dress in suits and not act like an occupation army is fascist. Fascism seems like a good system. Plus, if you were fat but wanted to be a bad-assed military guy which, if you were paid the same, would you rather go after: violent street thugs, the cartel or a suburban woman? Would you rather spend countless… Read more »
Maybe add an IQ test as well. Why do I get the notion that all federal employees are on the left side of the Bell curve?
The accounting or computer science requirement was an IQ test. It was also a personality profile. Gonzo robo cop is not spending four years learning about financial statement analysis or polymorphism.
You could also have a law degree to qualify.
The accounting, law degrees and now comp sci degrees were required because the FBI mostly went after white collar crime and organized crime.
Not organized crime initially. Hoover was reluctant to go after them. Eventually the pressure became too much and he reluctantly established the “Top Hoodlum Program.” Rumor has it the mafia had the goods on him.
You’re right about the law degree — Nixon applied after earning his law degree from Duke.
In the present environment, such requirements would tend to disfavor DEI applicants, which is yet another reason why it’s a good idea.
Not disagreeing… but yes and no, Z.(Greetings, fellow white nationalists and dissidents!) 🙂 As far as the militarization goes – sorry. If you are going up against cartels, organized crime, terrorists or even a fortified crack lab – those guys have the hardware. That is not a job for a G Man with a 38 snub nosed revolver. Times have changed, and the bad guys have too. You can argue whether or not those kinds of tactical scenarios fall into their mission scope and make an argument. But whoever ends up going up against those guys needs the same equipment… Read more »
That happens only on television. The FBI does not go up against cartels or organized crime. As far as terrorists or fortified crack labs, they can rely on local police for these things.
It’s conspicuously absent on TV for a reason. When it happens for real, it often gets squashed because the perps are the wrong color, or a member of the Blob might attract attention, or the killer was a jew or a troon. And a lot of it is psychological tactics too. If I kick down your door dressed in a muted 3 piece suit and my .38, you might well be tempted to take your chances with me. If five guys in black body armour, riot shields and MP5’s burst in… you are much more likely to put your hands… Read more »
there was an incident where a couple of fbi guys were outgunned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_FBI_Miami_shootout#:~:text=Two%20Special%20Agents%20died%20from,studied%20in%20law%20enforcement%20training.
Agree mostly.
After the North Hollywood shootout, where two heavily armed bank robbers tried to shoot their way through a police cordon, every police department has been transformed into a paramilitary unit. It’s been a long time since I read or saw anything about the North Hollywood shoot-out so correct me if I’m wrong. It seems to me though that the lesson taken from that could be the exact opposite of the one that was taken. As I recall, the police did contain and take those guys down using nothing but standard issue side-arms. I don’t even think any police were killed… Read more »
The Miami shooting made the FBI change tactics and get larger caliber weapons. You’re correct about the NH shooting, and Police armed began themselves better after 9/11.
From what I know, those gung-ho militant FBI types are a minority, and the ones who get sent out on raids. The majority of them are from certain ethnic groups (nepotism) and DEI hires, most of who would be completely worthless in shootings.
Ugh! Typo. Police began arming themselves better with military equipment after 9/11.
LAPD ran into a local gunshop and grabbed a few long guns which they used in the shootout.
A good example of where a citizens milita would have been handy.
In the North Hollywood case, the cops had to go to gun shop to get weapons that could take down the robbers. There were a lot of lessons that could have been drawn from the incident, but the one every agency drew was that they needed bigger guns.
One of the lessons the Left drew was that the government needs to take those weapons away from US citizens. Or the government agents need to be similarly armed.
During the north Hollywood shootout the police actually went to a gun shop & borrowed AR15s because they were so out gunned & the suspects were wearing armor that rendered their standard issue weapons pretty much worthless. In the the aftermath of the Dade County shootout they stopped using revolvers & for a time swore off 9mm before eventually going back to it later on. A 9mm went through a suspects arm into his chest cavity & stopped just before his heart. It was a fatal wound but not immediately incapacitating so as a result they decided it was too… Read more »
I remember the Dade County shootout much better than the North Hollywood affair. The FBI was at a disadvantage in Dade County because (1) the 9mm Parabellum pistols and .38 Special revolvers were unable to stop the principal assailant, despite repeated hits: and (2) the FBI had only pistols and shotguns, so the vehicles that the assailants were in provided reasonably good protection. The FBI briefly went to a 10mm pistol, but had problems with it, and have now gone back to the 9mm Parabellum, albeit with improved ammunition. In police departments equipped with rifles, the default option is some… Read more »
Lever actions are way more expensive, have way less ammo capacity, take way & are more difficult longer to load & are delicate & prone to all sorts of problems. They’re also much more difficult to service, much heavier, more difficult to use in general. Worst of all they’re way less modular & customizable than the AR15. They’re also designed to use rimmed cartridges which are pistol rouns which have way less effective range than the 5.56 or expensive niche calibers. That’s why neither the military nor law enforcement have ever adopted lever actions. Also, I disagree about former military… Read more »
The 10mm worked fine, but it’s a stout man stopper, little DEI hire females couldn’t handle shooting it, so back down they went to 9mm. Same reason most cop shops went away from the .40S&W. too stout for the 5’nothing chickie cops. The FBI Miami shootout is total incompetence by the FBI. One car never got into it cuz they were busy banging cop bunnies. Another agent tailing the bank robbers put his gun on the seat next to him so he could get it. When he rammed the car, the pistol of course slid off the seat and he… Read more »
I thought 10mm was a fictional caliber from the Fallout series.
The north hollywood cops had to go to a local sporting good store and borrow some long guns IIRC. (as all they had was sidearms and shotguns).
One of the bank robbers in the North Hollywood shootout shot himself in the head after being struck by a pistol round and the second was killed by rifle fire when shot from underneath the car and left to bleed to death as the police were allegedly searching from a ‘third gunman’ who did not actually exist.
The suspicion at the time is that the cops intentionally let the guy bleed out. I believe the perps mother sued the police over the incident but I don’t know how that turned out.
I just got to thinking about all this paramilitary gear and where they stage it. Does every large city have the FBI’s paramilitary vehicles parked somewhere? The FBI typically works out of an office building. I would imagine their gear is housed in an industrial park somewhere?
It doesn’t seem like this stuff would get used a lot and I’m sure they have it on some kind of a replacement schedule, so more money flushed down the toilet. A trillion here, trillion there …
If the Chicago PD can have off-the books warehouses, the FBI most certainly can.
There’s a secret—”unmarked” at least—police armory in my neighborhood, at the official outer border of the city. Its design seems meant to give the impression that it’s some fire department thing, but the people going in and out are too fat for that (one hopes, while on fire).
When the local BLM/antifa deployment was nearby, burning down a mall etc. within sight of it, the place was more guarded than usual—but the big doors on the big building did not roll up. Whatever’s in there is reserved for us.
If you took a poll asking whether the FBI should be abolished, my guess is you wouldn’t get much more than 30% saying yes, and that’s being optimistic. This is at least 6-8 years after any honest and informed person should have been able to see that the Russia Hoax was a hoax. Which, if they cared at all, should have led them down a rabbit hole of how corrupt the agency is, were they not already aware. So the problem is a lot bigger than the FBI. It’s just a symptom. You could even say the majority is getting… Read more »
Pull back and nuke it from orbit; it’s the only way to make sure!
More seriously, I tend to agree with those commentators who find that the FBI is unreformable and should be abolished. It’s been misused since the days of J. Edgar Hoover.
Where is Efrem Zimbalist Jr. when you need him?
Sucking J Edgar Hoover’s d**k?
OT: is it just me or is Musk et als the antithesis of Rand’s Atlas Shrugged? I think i know who Howard Roark is…
It’s been funny to watch men make the comparison. (You know, funny.) It takes a shocking feat of psychotic will to make oneself see in Musk a world-historic super-alpha romance novel protagonist instead of an unusually repulsive dork throwing “autistic” (retarded) tantrums and taking wholly false credit for others’ work (or nobody’s, because it was never done). I’d prefer to be wrong about this, since he’s /ourleader/ now, so, a challenge: There’s a great corpus of Elon poasting out there on the tubes. He gets fucked up and flips out on the internet a lot. Compiled this work would rival… Read more »
I would add that the 7th floor of FBIHQ was infested with politically motivated ideologues who slavishly and eagerly did the bidding of the worst elements of the blob. In the grand old tradition of the firing squad, these traitors should meet their fate sans the cigarette and blindfold. That would send a message none will find ambiguous.
“Free people do not tolerate paramilitary units operating in their society.” This happened long ago with PDs across the US. It is no way limited to the FBI or other federal police. The other aspect of the militarization of the cops is the anarcho-tyranny that has been unleashed in much of the country. They refuse to enforce the law against the criminal class while enforcing every jot and tittle against the law abiding citizen, particularly in civil offenses with fines. We also have armies of cops literally robbing people on the side of the road of any cash or valuables… Read more »
“a heavily armed gang of thugs who only care about pushing around the average citizen”
Boffo line. Zman’s essay leaves out the political rot at the very top. Like all careerists, the scum floating at the top are interested in protecting their pay, promotion and retirement, to the point of actively undermining the legitimate government of the republic.
I don’t think I am alone in thinking the FBI is the worst organization in the entire Blob.
I thought that back in the old days, FBI agents had to have law degrees. Or maybe that was just a mythology created to make them seem legit.
The fbi has been killing mothers holding their babies in their arms since theclinton years.
[…] ZMan does a reversion. […]
Another first class piece of writing. Anyone who can bring Chesterton ,Erasmus & Quintillian into an article about reforming the FBI is to be applauded. Hopefully it’s wage bill will be reduced somewhat soon.
Break it up. Fire all the agents. Reconstitute something for white-collar crime only, including against white collar criminals operating out of Nigeria, India, Philipines, etc. If lone eagles on the internet can penetrate these rings (and they are already doing this successfully), then a federal agency should be able to do the same but with muscle.
Reminds me of this little gem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb1MVFDy_tw
I do believe that if someone had a pistol pointed at me I would get on the ground ASAP. Apparently, the ATF thinks differently.
Police forces also get Israeli-style training, sometimes by actual Israelis. So the civilian population gets the Palestinian treatment.