Grassley: Republican Calls to Shut Down FBI ‘Stupid’ — ‘We’ve Got to Have an FBI’

[Anti Federalist]

Grassley: Republican Calls to Shut Down FBI ‘Stupid’ — ‘We’ve Got to Have an FBI’

Why?


Grassley: Republican Calls to Shut Down FBI ‘Stupid’ — ‘We’ve Got to Have an FBI’

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/202...shut-down-fbi-stupid-weve-got-to-have-an-fbi/

PAM KEY 15 Sep 2023

Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) said Friday on Iowa PBS’s “Iowa Press” that it was “stupid” for Republicans to call to defund or shut down the FBI.

Anchor Kay Henderson said, “Senator, you have some of your fellow Republicans who have suggested defunding the FBI. You have one presidential candidate who’s saying dissolve the FBI. Are Republicans the law and order party still?”

Grassley said, “Anybody that takes that position is stupid for saying it. We’ve got to have an FBI.”

He continued, “And secondly, as Republicans, because you made a good point about Republicans saying this for the last three or four years, we’ve been making fun of the Democrats wanting to defund the police. It’s the same thing. You can’t defund. We don’t want to defund the police. You can’t defund the FBI.”

When asked about a potential government shutdown, Grassley said, “Before I answer that question in regards to Kay’s question, I want to follow up and say that obviously, things are right with the FBI, from my point of view. But you don’t defund the FBI. To make that point, you reform the FBI. I don’t think government is going to shut down. It’s cost money to shut the government down.”

 

[Anti Federalist]

Goddamn anarchists...

Background
In 1896, the National Bureau of Criminal Identification was founded, providing agencies across the country with information to identify known criminals. The 1901 assassination of President William McKinley created a perception that the United States was under threat from anarchists. The Departments of Justice and Labor had been keeping records on anarchists for years, but President Theodore Roosevelt wanted more power to monitor them.[14][page needed]

The Justice Department had been tasked with the regulation of interstate commerce since 1887, though it lacked the staff to do so. It had made little effort to relieve its staff shortage until the Oregon land fraud scandal at the turn of the 20th century. President Roosevelt instructed Attorney General Charles Bonaparte to organize an autonomous investigative service that would report only to the Attorney General.[15]

 

[PAF]

Goddamn anarchists...

Background
In 1896, the National Bureau of Criminal Identification was founded, providing agencies across the country with information to identify known criminals. The 1901 assassination of President William McKinley created a perception that the United States was under threat from anarchists. The Departments of Justice and Labor had been keeping records on anarchists for years, but President Theodore Roosevelt wanted more power to monitor them.[14][page needed]

The Justice Department had been tasked with the regulation of interstate commerce since 1887, though it lacked the staff to do so. It had made little effort to relieve its staff shortage until the Oregon land fraud scandal at the turn of the 20th century. President Roosevelt instructed Attorney General Charles Bonaparte to organize an autonomous investigative service that would report only to the Attorney General.[15]

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Anti Federalist again.


Because, Amerika stands for... freedom?

Were they mad because anarchists didn't "turn out the vote"?

Because they didn't "get a cut" of individuals hard work via taxes?

Because if you don't have "papers please", you are not you?

I heard that once one is in the mafia, organized crime, et al, one is in for life.


Back to the OP:

One popular presidential candidate wants to shut down the FBI (<--I am all for it, but not for this-->) and replace it with a "Police Apparatus", so that said Police Apparatus can actually do the job of Background Checks. He also wants to transfer 15,000 FBI Agents to the DEA.

 

[Occam's Banana]

Grassley: Republican Calls to Shut Down FBI ‘Stupid’ — ‘We’ve Got to Have an FBI’

Well, he's right. They really do have to have an FBI.

Just like the Roman Empire had to have Praetorian guards ...

... or the Nazis had to have the Gestapo ...

... or the Soviet-bloc commies had to have the Cheka and Stasi ...

... etc.

After all, you can't have a tyranny if you don't have any enforcers.

 

[acptulsa]

Were they mad because anarchists didn't "turn out the vote"?

Because they didn't "get a cut" of individuals hard work via taxes?

Because if you don't have "papers please", you are not you?

I heard that once one is in the mafia, organized crime, et al, one is in for life.

It wasn't an anarchist who killed McKinley.

Czolgosz found work in the Newburgh Wire Mill in 1891, participated in a failed strike in 1893, and subsequently grew bitter toward RELIGION and capitalism, quit the mill in 1898, and did not work again. Czolgosz attempted to join the Liberty Club, a local anarchist group, but its leaders did not trust him. He apparently got the idea of shooting McKinley after reading of an anarchist's assassination of King Humbert I of Italy in 1900, although he later claimed a speech by noted anarchist Emma Goldman delivered at Cleveland's FRANKLIN CLUB in May 1901 incited him.

Since when do actual anarchists listen to "Red Emma"? Remember, this was the time that socialists were "anarchists", and actual anarchists didn't exist. After all, how can you demonize people who leave other people alone? Better to say the big government fans are anarchists; they're psychos.

 

[PAF]

It wasn't an anarchist who killed McKinley.



Since when do actual anarchists listen to "Red Emma"? Remember, this was the time that socialists were "anarchists", and actual anarchists didn't exist. After all, how can you demonize people who leave other people alone? Better to say the big government fans are anarchists; they're psychos.

It's pretty cool when others ask: what is an Agorist? And then I get to explain it ;-)

 

[Occam's Banana]

Since when do actual anarchists listen to "Red Emma"?

I know of one who does: https://twitter.com/search?q=emma goldman (from:michaelmalice)&src=typed_query

https://twitter.com/michaelmalice/status/1166905669091504129

https://twitter.com/michaelmalice/status/1200542766868115456

https://twitter.com/michaelmalice/status/1328071636218679298

https://www.amazon.com/White-Pill-Tale-Good-Evil/dp/B0BNZ7XZ5T