Patriot,

The Twitter files have proven beyond any doubt that the FBI
manipulated public opinion, suppressed information, and infringed
on the First Amendment rights of citizens across America with the
intention of impacting the 2020 election.

And this is only the latest scandal for an agency that has been
manipulating American politics for decades, from serial
blackmailer J. Edgar Hoover to the illegal COINTEL program.

The national police force is a hallmark of a totalitarian
society.

As I argue in my latest column, below: It's time to demand we
abolish the FBI.

For Liberty,

Ron Paul
Chairman
Campaign for Liberty

"Twitter Files" Make it Clear: We Must Abolish the FBI

As we learn more and more from the "Twitter Files," it is
becoming all too obvious that Federal agencies such as the FBI
viewed the First Amendment of our Constitution as an annoyance
and an impediment. In Friday's release from the pre-Musk era,
journalist Matt Taibbi makes an astute observation: Twitter was
essentially an FBI subsidiary.

The FBI, we now know, was obsessed with Twitter. We learned that
agents sent Twitter Trust and Safety chief Yoel Roth some 150
emails between 2020 and 2022. Those emails regularly featured
demands from US government officials for the "private" social
media company to censor comments and ban commenters they did not
like.

The Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF), a US government entity
that included the FBI as well as other US intelligence agencies
expressly forbidden from domestic activities, numbered 80 agents
engaged regularly in telling Twitter which Tweets to censor and
which accounts to ban. The Department of Homeland Security
brought in outside government contractors and (government-funded)
non-governmental organizations to separately pressure Twitter to
suppress speech the US government did not like.

US Federal government agencies literally handed Twitter lists of
Americans it wanted to see silenced, and Twitter complied. Let
that sink in.

This should be a massive scandal and likely it would have been
had it occurred under a Trump Administration. Indeed, Congress
would be gearing up for Impeachment 3.0 if Trump-allied officials
had engaged in such egregious behavior. But since these US
government employees were by-and-large acting to suppress
pro-Trump sentiment, all we hear are crickets.

What is interesting about these Twitter revelations is how
obsessed the FBI and its government partners were with satire and
humor. Even minor Twitter accounts with small numbers of
followers were constantly flagged by the Feds for censorship and
deletion. But knowledge of history helps us understand this
obsession: in Soviet times the population was always engaged in
joking about the ineptitude, corruption, and idiocy of the
political class. Underground publications known as samizdat were
rich with satire, humor, and ridicule.

Tyrants hate humor and cannot withstand satire. That is clearly
why the FBI (and CIA) was determined to see a heavy hand raised
against any American poking fun at the deep state.

There is good news in all of this, however. As Constitutional Law
Professor Jonathan Turley wrote over the weekend, a new Harvard
CAPS/Harris Poll found that even though the mainstream media has
ignored the "Twitter files," Americans have not. Nearly
two-thirds of respondents believe that Twitter was involved in
politically-motivated censorship in advance of the 2020 election.
Some 70 percent of those polled believe Congress must take action
against this corporate/state censorship.

As Professor Turley points out, although the First Amendment only
applies to the US government, "it does apply to agents or
surrogates of the government. Twitter now admits that such a
relationship existed between its former officials and the
government."

So now we have proof that the FBI (along with US intelligence
agencies and the Department of Homeland Security) have been
acting through "private" social media companies to manipulate
what Americans are allowed to say when they communicate with each
other.

Is there anything more un-American than that? Personally, I find
it sickening.

We do not need the FBI and CIA and other federal agencies viewing
us as the enemy and attacking our Constitution. End the
Fed…and End the Federal Bureau of Investigation!


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