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Defending Rights & Dissent, a civil liberties group, cataloged known instances of First Amendment abuses and political surveillance by the FBI since 2010. The organization found that the feds devoted disproportionate resources to spy on peaceful left-leaning civil society groups, including Occupy Wall Street, Abolish ICE, and various anti-war movements.
The bureau seemed less interested in right-wingers, even though the far-right has been responsible for countless acts of violence and terrorism in the country. None of this should surprise us, the host of Redacted Tonight said.
"The FBI is not in the job of protecting you. They're in the job of protecting the ruling class system. So they don't focus on things that really harm us. They don't care about us. They care about maintaining the current power structure."
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Normal right wingers express themselves with words.
Normal left wingers express themselves through derogatory vitriol, disruptive violent protest, and physically assaulting or terrorizing anyone who disagrees with them.
The gun violence of lone wolf extremists cannot be used as an argument to silence EVERYONE who might identify on the right wing of things as most right wingers do not believe in lone wolf extremism. .The right is a status quo party as has already been stated.
The propensity of left wing extremists to completely disrupt life, commerce, and indoctrinate little children with their self righteous bigotry actually is a much larger problem.
The U.S.'s Bolshevik revolution 2.0, if successful, will create the next communist/fascist playground.
If you think the U.S. is fascist now you ain't seen nothing.
They are apparently in some kind of competition with the CIA, both of which operate domestically and overseas. Of course the CIA wins, but at least the FBI can lord it over local law enforcement and of course, all of us regular people. Justice and fairness is nothing more than a concept. What a mess.