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Abolish the FBI

By Jacob G. Hornberger | FFF | January 23, 2024

Among the worst mistakes America has ever made is to bring into existence the Federal Bureau of Investigation — the FBI.

A national police force is an essential part of any tyrannical regime. Just look at any tyrannical foreign regime, either right wing and left wing, over the past 100 years. I will guarantee you that you will find a national police force. It serves as a useful adjunct to a big military-intelligence establishment to keep people in line.

Of course, we are all familiar with such things as COINTELPRO and the FBI’s murder of innocent people at Waco and Ruby Ridge. We are also familiar with the FBI’s fierce opposition to Martin Luther King and the civll-rights movement as well as the virtual certainty that the FBI orchestrated King’s murder. We are also familiar with former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover’s longtime penchant for keeping secret files on people’s personal lives with the aim of blackmailing them into supporting whatever the FBI wants. We are also familiar with the FBI’s ardent support of the Vietnam War, the Cold War, and the anti-communist crusade. We are also familiar with the FBI’s active role in America’s political system.

Less familiar is the FBI’s ubiquitous practice of inducing people to commit crimes in order to justify its continued existence and its continued receipt of taxpayer-funded largess. That practice involves entrapping people into committing crimes and then proudly patting itself on the back for “keeping America safe” by supposedly busting dangerous criminals.

An example of this sordid practice is detailed in a January 19, 2024, article in the New York Times that involved four men whose lives were partially destroyed by the FBI as part of its attempt to make itself look good by creating and encouraging a crime supposedly committed by those four men.

The four men — James Cromitie, Laguerre Payen, David Williams and Onta Williams — were from Newburgh, New York, and became known as the “Newburgh Four.” Given the FBI’s history of viewing Martin Luther King and the civil-rights movement as communist agents, it’s not surprising that the FBI targeted four Black men for its entrapment scheme. The fact that they were poor also figured into the FBI’s plot, given that the FBI used the lure of big amounts of taxpayer money to induce the men to commit a crime.

The scheme was part of the FBI’s post-9/11 plot to invent criminal conspiracies to commit terrorist attacks. That’s what the FBI did with the Newburgh Four. The FBI used the services of an informant named Shahed Hussain. The FBI had Hussain infiltrate various mosques and identify poor people who could be induced to engage in acts of terrorism. That would enable the FBI to exclaim, “We’ve busted terrorists! We’re keeping you safe! Give us more taxpayer money!”

Hussain promised the Newburgh Four $250,000 if they would agree to participate in a terrorist plot. After several months of refusing the offer, the four black men, at least one of whom was unemployed and broke, agreed to participate in bomb plots at various synagogues.

The men were busted and given 25-year jail sentences. They had served 14 years in jail until a heroic federal judge recently ordered their release. As reported in the New York Times article, the judge, Colleen McMahon, called the case “notorious.”  She pointed out that “nothing about the crimes of conviction” had been of the “defendants’ own making.” She pointed out that the FBI’s agent in the crime, Shahed Hussain, was a “small time grifter and petty drug dealer.”

Judge McMahon correctly pointed out that the “real lead conspirator was the United States.” She added, “The F.B.I. invented the conspiracy; identified the targets; manufactured the ordnance.” The New York Times pointed out that McMahon added that the FBI “federalized” the charges — ensuring long prison terms — by driving several of the men into Connecticut to view the “bombs.”

After 14 years in jail on FBI-manufactured crimes, the Newburgh Four are free. But the best way to ensure that the FBI doesn’t destroy other people’s lives is to abolish it. Its dismantling would go a long way toward restoring freedom and justice in America. Anyway, criminal justice belongs at the state and local level, not the federal level.

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  1. Shuttering the FBI or even suggesting it, strikes at the heart of the permanent bureaucracy. Totalitarian regimes need to keep potential real threats in check or in jail. And they do it in the US with FBI’s Cointelpro and rotten to the core permanent bureaucrats in the Just Us Dept. like the Us Attorney going after Trump.  And if real threats are lacking the FBI will invent them like they did in Michigan. They think like Stalin and they treat American citizens like Stalin treated the Russian proletariat. They think we’re stupid and superstitious. The FBI behaves like the Nazi Gestapo. But the media projects the FBI’s image as fighting bank robbers and bad guys.  

    When I was a full time organizer with Lyndon LaRouche’s organization during the 70s, 80s and 90s. The FBI ran several operations against LaRouche and the members.

    But it wasn’t until 1983 that the “Just Us” Dept went after LaRouche with a vengeance. LaRouche’s plan was to replace MAD doctrine with his own strategic defense using laser technology. LaRouche’s proposal was incorporated into the SDI program in 1983.  

    Reagan’s March 23, 1983 televised address when he used the last few minutes to make a pitch for LaRouche’s laser defense concept, really set things into motion, on both sides. Long time LaRouche enemy, Henry Kissinger, wrote a letter to the FBI Director asking for an investigation into LaRouche’s finances. From there a GET LaROUCHE task force was created by CIA banker John Train. It included people from David Brinkley’s TV show First Camera, Readers Digest, and the ADL, plus a few others. The New York Slimes slandered LaRouche, calling LaRouche a “Political Extremist”. 

    In October 1986, 400 local, state and federal law enforcement officers raided LaRouche’s offices in the wee hours of the morning. They arrested 8 or so of LaRouche’s people. They carted off everything from the offices and sent it to FBI Hq at Quantico. They were looking for something they could hang an arrest warrant on. 

    Several intense hours passed whenl a hundred or more law enforcement agents surrounded LaRouche’s private farm. The were waiting for instructions.  LaRouche had earlier sent an urgent message to the Reagan whitehouse explaining what was going down. It was obvious to LaRouche they came to kill him. Suddenly, the assault team left. 

    LaRouche survived that day but the Feds and “Just Us” dept wreaked havoc on LaRouche’s organization and LaRouche personally. The federal government shut down all of LaRouche publications and the Fusion Energy Foundation which LaRouche had created in 1974 to promote the development of commercial Fusion energy.  The judge ordered a ban on loan repayments to individual supporters who had lent money to the organization.  This was later used in the Boston court trial where gov. prosecutors claimed that LaRouche deliberately stopped paying off loans. The judge had allowed no mention of what the feds had done to prevent loan repayment or that LaRouche publications were shutdown by court order. subscribers were left without their subscriptions they paid for which had a long term effect on the support base.

    The Boston trial ended in a mistrial when the judge bailed out after LaRouche’s attorney’s uncovered a letter during discovey, written by Ollie North to President Bush asking Bush to stop LaRouche’s people from interfering in Iran-Contra, Bush’s drugs for guns operation in Nicaragua. Did you ever wonder where Crack cocaine came from? Now you know.  

    LaRouche was tried again in Alexandria, VA by Judge Albert V Bryan of Rocket Docket fame. LaRouche was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison. He spent 5 years in a Minnesota federal prison where he wrote two or three more books. ”The Science of Christian Economy” and “There Are No Limits to Growth”. Both are in paperback on Amazon.

    LaRouche lived another 13 years after being released on parole from prison. We made an urgent appeal to Trump to exonerate LaRouche but to no avail. You have to ask yourself, why Trump didn’t exonerate LaRouche? The same institutions and in many cases the same people that went after LaRouche went after Trump. And why didn’t he exonerate of pardon Snowden and Assange. Failure of command can have devastating consequences for a nation under totalitarian rule.

    Yes the FBI should be shut down. So should Wall Street, Black Rock, State Street and Vanguard. They are all part of the same Military-Industrial-Financial complex and the enemies of peace and economic development.

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