Law enforcement in the US is rife with fascists and right wing authoritarian followers. I don't know how badly the FBI is afflicted by people with that mindset but the FBI in the past has been a perpetrator of racist, antidemocratic, unlawful police state actions against US citizens. This can start out to be a well managed and properly lawful effort but years down the road, maybe it will become the tool of fascists. Who is guarding the guards?
I'm not concerned at this moment. Just making a note to myself to contact my elected representation in DC to ensure they actively oversee this new , necessary but potentially repressive department in the FBI.
I know the FBI is Trump and the right's new target for a reason, Donald is feeling the heat and is attacking it's source.
I never thought fascism ran so deep in local police forces, but it runs right along side racism and bigotry. The events of the past few years have demonstrated how deep the rot goes in the cops, from them taking sides in riots, to the large number of anti vaxxers among them, to their membership in the oath keepers and their presence at the capitol insurrection. Like many other segments of society, Donald drew those of low or flawed character to him like a magnet and in doing so he exposed them for what they really are. Many of these people are being purged from municipal forces and not by the feds either and the feds sure as shit see them as unreliable partners.
Serious police reform like so much else, will require meaningful majorities in the house and especially senate. Considering the state and recent history of the republican party and the fact they have no platform or constructive agenda, they should be wiped out in November. Only racism and fear keeps them alive, along with their very own domestic propaganda system that uses public airwaves to lie to the public. They also know they need to cheat to win, so that says something too.
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