With every passing day, the United States government borrows yet another leaf from Nazi Germany’s playbook: Secret police. Secret courts. Secret government agencies. Surveillance. Censorship. Intimidation. Harassment. Torture. Brutality. Widespread corruption. Entrapment. Indoctrination. Indefinite detention. These are not tactics used by constitutional republics, where the rule of law and the rights of the citizenry should reign supreme. Rather, they are the hallmarks of authoritarian regimes, where the only law that counts comes in the form of heavy-handed, unilateral dictates from a supreme ruler who uses a secret police to control the populace. That danger is now posed by the FBI, whose laundry list of crimes against the American people includes surveillance, disinformation, blackmail, entrapment, intimidation tactics, harassment, governmental overreach, abuse, misconduct, trespassing, enabling criminal activity, and damaging private property, and that’s just based on what we know.
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Editor's notation:
There is an inadvertent reference in this episode to Herbert Hoover instead of J. Edgar Hoover as FBI Director.
Show Notes
Robert Gellately: Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany
Paul Craig Roberts: Gestapo America
Dr. Rafael Medoff: “The American Papers that Praised Hitler”
Christopher Hitchens: “Imagining Hitler”
Eric Lichtblau: “In Cold War, U.S. Spy Agencies Used 1,000 Nazis”
How Thousands Of Nazis Were ‘Rewarded’ With Life In The U.S.
The U.S. Government Turned Away Thousands of Jewish Refugees, Fearing That They Were Nazi Spies
How U.S. intelligence agencies used 1,000 Nazis as Cold War spies — then covered it up
SS Police State
The FBI Walks a Perilous Line Between Surveillance and Outright Spying
FBI program instructs teachers to report radical students
The FBI: An American Cheka
Robert Gellately: Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany
Monitoring America
Employers can use FBI database for real-time background checks
James Comey: Statement Before the House Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies
How Hitler suspended the right to mail and telephone privacy
U.S. Postal Service Logging All Mail for Law Enforcement
The Gestapo Still Sets the Bar for Evil
Department of Pre-Crime
The Gestapo is Born
While Nixon Campaigned, the F.B.I. Watched John Lennon
Hitler’s Silent Partners
The FBI: The Silent Terror of the Fourth Reich
Battlefield America: The War on the American People
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