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by anonymousiam 1477 days ago
I guess we had better call law enforcement to get the FBI prosecuted, and get them to start following the law. Who do we call? Certainly not the FBI.

Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?

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> I guess we had better call law enforcement to get the FBI prosecuted, and get them to start following the law. Who do we call? Certainly not the FBI.

>Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?

I don't speak latin, so I can't respond to your second point, but part of why I have been posting so anxiously lately is because I actually was groomed to join them, but decided not to due to all the illegal behavior.

Right when I was close to reconsidering, since I have a genuine interest in defensive cyber stuff + counter intel (in a nonpolitical way), I saw one of the teachers who used to terrorize me because she was convinced I was some kind of future spree killer running up on the capital as

The FBI is worse than useless -- they divert resources away from useful work to terrorize anyone left of neoliberal.[0,1]

When "my way" is just a return to Reagan era tax brackets[2], and using the money to fund things like... the EPA... which was established by the noted violent communist Richard Nixon[3]

;-)

[0] If I was posting from Germany I'd identify a member of the social democratic party, if I was Canadian I'd be in the New Democratic Party... and in the USA I'm "not a Democrat" and thus fair game to be denied employment and harassed as if I'll start guillotining people at any moment if I don't get my way. [1] https://theintercept.com/2020/07/15/george-floyd-protests-po... [2] https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/87inintxr.pdf [3] https://www.epa.gov/history/origins-epa

Oh that phrase.

It's me. I watch them :-)

(I'm just one guy though.)

We elect people to Congress and to the White House.
Yes, and who "we" are has changed significantly over time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_Presidential_elections...