“For its entire existence the FBI has served as the strong arm of the federal government. Beginning in 1909 as the Bureau of Investigation, no one’s life, liberty, or property has been safe since. Ostensibly created to investigate anarchists, bootleggers, kidnappers, bank robbers, crimes on federal property, and later, the KKK, the FBI would soon find its true calling: political repression, personal destruction, and terror.”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/fbi-enemy-freedom/
Related posts:
Paul Craig Roberts: “The world will not survive the neoconservatives' doctrine”
Bill Bonner: How to Invest Like the Swiss
As Canada Collapses, Do We Need to Ask Why?
Jacob Hornberger: Wrong Message in the Ulbricht Case
5 Urgent Questions for 2013
Google $22.5 Million FTC Fine Has No Teeth
How Will White House Find Legal Grounds to Bomb Syria?
Peter Schiff: What Doesn't Kill Gold Makes It Stronger
Bill Bonner: Don’t Be Fooled By the Wealth Inequality Debate
Big-Spending Republicans Seek Tax Hikes on Blue States
Michael Scheuer: In Mali, the interventionist establishment already is lying about “unintended conse...
Never Mind the Wall—They’re Building Warehouses for Immigrant Children
Bitcoin: Open source money whose time has come
California Crashing
Is the lawlessness of Obama's drone policy coming home?