Originally Posted by
Morgs153
"Now the republicans want to defund the FBI. I thought they were the party of law and order."
Lot's of people "thought" that too. Maybe back when Efrem Zimbalist Jr. was wheeling around in a Ford LTD on TV.
The FBI no longer represents law and order when they act as an enforcement arm of a political party. Through the last several years they have laid out example after example. Their conduct in the Russia collusion hoax, their entrapment of Michael Flynn, their abuses of obtaining FISA warrants, their admissions in their own e-mail threads, their hiding of, and slow dragging the investigation regarding Hunter Biden's laptop, their role in the fake Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping charade, and their likely insider role in some J6 activities. Many more examples of their ineptness exist.
I think they need to be moved out of DC. I think many agencies need to be moved out of DC. Most federal employees live in the DC sphere of influence. Just look at the counties of northern Virginia and the economic and voting demographics there. It is the land of the blue beast. High paid government employees marinated in big government largess. No matter the agency they work for. It isn't just the heads of those agencies who've become rotten, it is the career civil servants who populate the ranks. You can change the leadership but that's like getting new summer help.
I spent over three decades in law enforcement. I actually received some training from the FBI during my career. Today I have zero trust for that agency. None whatsoever.
Hey, just wait until those 87,000 new IRS agents hit the streets. You think they'll just be looking at the books of big shots? Yeah right. They'll be crawling up people's @sses with microscopes. Farmers, ranchers, landscapers, folks with small trucking companies, landlords, small business folks, anyone they think has been maybe doing a little cash on the side. Hey, probably a bunch of folks involved in racing too. When they come knocking, you wanna let them in? Hey, while were here, let's see that you got your guns safely tucked away. Show them to us. Still got the DEF hooked up on your diesel truck? Let's check some other things in the name of - compliance.
The left has been all over defunding police at the local level with municipalities and sheriff's offices. But they love engorging federal arms that they get to control. They hate locally elected sheriffs. They not only want to defund, but with their antics they want to make the career objective so displeasing for anyone to choose that it depletes the ranks of the cities and towns where crime is out of control. Someday they would love to suggest - feds to the rescue - and try and take over in some of those places. Control.