Where, racist? Your ideas about blue hairs and blond eyes are ideas from blue haired and blond eyes Nazis like Hitler, Göring and Goebbels and others. The idea to use blue eyed and blond haired agents is by the way an idea of J. Edgar Hover as far as I know. Question: Had been the FBI a forerunner organization of Gestapo and Stasi? And what now - under Donald Trump? ... 1000 time more worse?
Is Trump using such a concept? Is this the reason why Trump is setting the US justice system on fire? So that the judiciary can no longer do its actual job because it has to look after itself?
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“The FBI owes its existence to the brazen disregard of all legal and constitutional conventions.” This is how he soberly opens his brilliant new major reportage, before going on to prove in almost 600 exciting, fact-bursting pages that it has never recovered from this birth defect. On the contrary: the FBI has operated as a de facto illegal secret police force from the very beginning and “has served national security for decades primarily by bending and breaking the law.”
A devastating conclusion for a state that promotes itself worldwide as a shining example of democracy and freedom, even by force. The seeds were sown in 1908 by US President Theodore Roosevelt. He ordered the establishment of an investigation department in the Department of Justice. This had to be approved by Congress and the Senate, but Congress rejected it outright: a central secret agency spying on its own free citizens was simply un-American. The Attorney General ignored this, tricked, borrowed and begged together a budget and set up a Bureau of Investigation with 34 special agents.
Roosevelt primarily had an early kind of environmental protection in mind and raw material crime in his sights, but - as the former police chief of New York - also politically radical activities. Especially by alien enemies: anarchists, socialists, European immigrants. There were strikes, sabotage and spying. Various authorities collected dossiers, and the Bureau was happy to use them for mass arrests and internment. A huge amount of violence with minimal success - another ongoing pattern, as Weiner documents.
Perhaps liberal America would soon have put an end to this. Had it not been for the historical coincidence that two types of paranoia collided: the individual paranoia of the young lawyer J. Edgar Hoover and the collective paranoia exacerbated by the First World War and the Russian Revolution. The highly intelligent, hard-working Hoover made a steady career from April 1917, when the USA entered the war, became director of the - now - Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1924 and shaped it until 1972 through hatred, secrecy and competition against every other agency. ...
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