{"id":553371,"date":"2022-09-30T06:04:30","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T10:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=553371"},"modified":"2022-09-30T06:04:30","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T10:04:30","slug":"federal-bureau-of-intimidation-the-governments-war-on-political-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=553371","title":{"rendered":"Federal Bureau Of Intimidation: The Government\u2019s War On Political Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cIn so many of the little places of everyday life in which life is lived out, somehow democracy doesn&#8217;t exist. And\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.historyisaweapon.com\/defcon1\/zinnfbi.html\">one of the creeping hands of totalitarianism running through the democracy is the Federal Bureau of Investigation<\/a>\u2026 Because why does the FBI do all this? To scare the hell out of people\u2026 They work for the establishment and the corporations and the politicos to keep things as they are. And they want to frighten and chill the people who are trying to change things.\u201d\u2014Howard Zinn, historian<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That is how the government plans to get rid of activists and dissidents who stand in its way.<\/p>\n<p>This has always been the\u00a0<em>modus operandi<\/em>\u00a0of the FBI (more aptly referred to as the Federal Bureau of Intimidation): muzzle anti-government sentiment, harass activists, and terrorize Americans into compliance.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, while these overreaching, heavy-handed lessons in how to rule by force have become standard operating procedure for a government that communicates with its citizenry primarily through the language of brutality, intimidation and fear, none of this is new.<\/p>\n<p>The government has been playing these mind games for a long time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rutherford.org\/publications_resources\/john_whiteheads_commentary\/federal_bureau_of_intimidation_the_governments_war_on_political_freedom\">https:\/\/www.rutherford.org\/publications_resources\/john_whiteheads_commentary\/federal_bureau_of_intimidation_the_governments_war_on_political_freedom<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn so many of the little places of everyday life in which life is lived out, somehow democracy doesn&#8217;t exist. And\u00a0one of the creeping hands of totalitarianism running through the democracy is the Federal Bureau of Investigation\u2026 Because why does &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=553371\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-553371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=553371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=553371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=553371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=553371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}