The New FBI Powers: Cointelpro on Steroids

06-20-2011 • LewRockwell.com

What we are witnessing is a coup d’etat that is aimed at overthrowing our representative government and replacing it with one that outwardly may appear to embrace democratic ideals but inwardly is nothing more than an authoritarian regime. And the Establishment is counting on the fact that Americans will gullibly continue to trust the government and turn a blind eye to its power grabs and abuses. The relationship between the American people and their government was once defined by a social contract (the U.S. Constitution) that was predicated on a mutual respect for the rule of law and a clear understanding that government exists to serve the people and not the other way around. That is no longer the case. Having ceded to the government all manner of control over our lives, renouncing our claims to such things as privacy in exchange for the phantom promise of security, we now find ourselves in the unenviable position of being trapped in a prison of our own making. It is a phenomenon that Abraham Kaplan referred to as the law of the instrument: "Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding." Or to put it another way: to a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Unfortunately, in the scenario that has been playing out in recent years, we have become the nails to the government’s hammer. After all, having equipped government agents with an arsenal of tools, weapons and powers with which to vanquish the so-called forces of terror, it was inevitable that that same arsenal would eventually be turned on us. As Michael German, a former FBI agent, recently observed, "You have a bunch of guys and women all over the country sent out to find terrorism. Fortunately, there isn’t a lot of terrorism in many communities. So they end up pursuing people who are critical of the government."

1 Comments in Response to The New FBI Powers: Cointelpro on Steroids

Comment by Dr Stuart Jeanne Bra

Entered on: 6/21/2011 10:54:56 PM

Scott Crow's experiences are very reminiscent of my own experiences in 1987, when the FBI targeted me for my political activities. What started as unrelenting phone harassment and break-ins quickly progressed to several attempts to run me over and an affair with an undercover agent who railroaded me into a psychiatric hospital.

I write about all this in my recent memoir THE MOST REVOLUTIONARY ACT: MEMOIR OF AN AMERICAN REFUGEE (www.stuartbramhall.com

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