© Ben Garrison
"We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. FBI is tending in that direction." — Harry Truman
With every passing day, the United States government borrows yet another leaf from Nazi Germany's playbook: Secret police. Secret courts. Secret government agencies. Surveillance. Censorship. Intimidation. Harassment. Torture. Brutality. Widespread corruption. Entrapment. Indoctrination. Indefinite detention.These are not tactics used by constitutional republics, where the rule of law and the rights of the citizenry reign supreme. Rather, they are the hallmarks of authoritarian regimes, where secret police control the populace through intimidation, fear and official lawlessness on the part of government agents.
That authoritarian danger is now posed by the FBI, whose love affair with totalitarianism began long ago. Indeed, according to the
New York Times, the U.S. government so admired the Nazi regime that following the second World War, it secretly and aggressively
recruited at least a thousand Nazis, including some of Hitler's highest henchmen as part of
Operation Paperclip. American taxpayers have been paying to keep these ex-Nazis on the U.S. government's payroll ever since.If the government's
covert, taxpayer-funded employment of Nazis after World War II weren't bad enough,
U.S. government agencies — the FBI, CIA and the military — adopted many of the Third Reich's well-honed policing tactics, and have used them against American citizens.Indeed, the FBI's laundry list of crimes against the American people includes surveillance, disinformation, blackmail, entrapment, intimidation tactics, harassment and indoctrination, governmental overreach, abuse, misconduct, trespassing, enabling criminal activity, and damaging private property, and that's just based on what we know.
Compare the FBI's far-reaching powers to surveil, detain, interrogate, investigate, prosecute, punish, police and generally act as a law unto themselves — powers that have grown since 9/11, transforming the FBI into a mammoth federal policing and surveillance agency that largely operates as a power unto itself, beyond the reach of established laws, court rulings and legislative mandates — to its
Nazi counterparts, the Gestapo — and then try to convince yourself that the United States is not a totalitarian police state.
Comment: Now what?