July 11, 2020
MY CORNER by Boyd Cathey
“It’s Time to Abolish the FBI” – A New Essay at Chronicles Magazine
Friends,
I pass on to you today an original,
relatively short essay that I authored which has just been published at Chronicles Magazine. Therein I discuss
the horrific miscarriage of justice in the General Michael Flynn case and the
now largely undebatable fact that in far too many cases the FBI—like other
American Intelligence agencies--has become an unrelenting arm of the Deep
State, anxious to retain its power and authority at all costs, and furious at
any challenge to that position in our society. And entirely willing to go
outside our laws and Constitutional protections to secure its goals.
Chronicles
Magazine
It’s
Time to Abolish the FBI
By Boyd Cathey July 9, 2020
Now
that a federal appellate court has ordered the dismissal of
the case against Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, and outgoing intelligence
chief Rick Grenell has released classified documents which
cast the activities of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in a
horrendous light, the depth of corruption within our nation’s chief domestic
intelligence agency is abundantly clear.
What
should happen at this point is the de-authorization, termination, and
abolishment of the FBI.
Then
the United States should start all over with a newly authorized federal agency
dedicated to punishing specific violations of federal law, but with its powers
strictly curtailed, narrowly defined, and constantly regulated.
The
FBI scandal was run off the front pages by George Floyd’s death and the
resulting nationwide demonstrations and violent riots. But the underlying
corruption remains and it will not go away until it’s addressed. The present
FBI has become a mafioso-like arm of the administrative and managerial state.
It is an active agent in the continuing manipulation by the established power
elites to both control the nation and to snuff out any hint of serious
opposition.
The
outrageous case of Lt. Gen. Flynn should be abundant proof enough. What the
poisonous hands of our intelligence agencies did to this honored military
leader with a distinguished and unblemished record cries out for swift redress
and firm justice. They zeroed-in on him even after a thorough
investigation came up totally empty and attempted to entrap him into making
false statements. They effectively held his son hostage, compelling him to
confess to something he never did. They forbade him legal counsel in a kind of
“star chamber” procedure, used the legal bureaucracy to forcibly bankrupt him,
and refused to release documents that would have exonerated him. Many FBI head
honchos merit stiff jail sentences and time pounding rocks.
What
happened to Lt. Gen. Flynn is emblematic of what our intelligence agencies have
become in recent years: dutiful minions, apparatchiks of the elites who control
this nation, of the permanent managerial bureaucracy that strives to remain
unseen. This force of the State has for the last 75 years increasingly exerted
its influence and control over us all, allegedly in the name of our protecting
our democracy.
Is
anyone in America safe from government overreach?
Beginning
in the 1980s, the late scholar Dr. Sam Francis wrote impressively and
presciently on what was occurring in America and just how our country, founded
on delicately balanced principles of constitutional federalism, was sliding
into what can only be termed a kind of soft totalitarianism. Inspired by the
works of James Burnham, including The Managerial Revolution (1941)
and Suicide of the West (1964),
Francis described the utter inversion of the republicanism and liberty
envisaged and so earnestly desired by the Framers.
Francis’s
books, including Power and History: The Political Thought of James Burnham (1984), Revolution from the Middle (1997)
and most incisively and completely, his posthumous magnum opus, Leviathan and Its Enemies (2016),
repay close reading and study for what they said back then about where we are
and have gotten to now.
Popular
Fox News host Tucker Carlson in a sense takes up where Francis and Burnham left
on, in his bestselling book Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing
America to the Brink of Revolution (2018),
as well as in his on-air commentaries of what happened to Lt. Gen. Flynn.
Carlson has helped to document what our government is capable of doing to each
and every one of us if we get out of line or become a bit uppity by challenging
the powers-that-be within the Deep State.
The
Department of Justice decision to drop charges against Lt. Gen. Flynn and the
action of the appellate court are good things, but in context only small
events, small setbacks for the managerial Deep State elites. The charges were
never in the slightest supported by the facts, but were strictly political and
punitive, aimed indirectly at President Trump. We are perilously close to
losing all our God-given liberties. And, of course, all in the “name of our
democracy,” as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi often intones.
But
that “democracy” has come to resemble more the authoritarian “peoples’
democracy” of Communist China, or the “democracy” of the old German Democratic
Republic. It’s an immense charade masked by a deceptive façade, a smiling face
cast in stone ready to shut you down or make you disappear if you challenge its
unrelenting rule from above.
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