Russiagate re-confirms that “national security” isn’t about keeping Americans safe from terrorists. It’s about ensuring that unelected and unaccountable persons with unlimited access to US tax dollars remain in charge of the US-Justin Raimondo

4/1/19, “Defeating the Counter-Revolution,” Justin Raimondo, AntiWar.com 

“In Russia-gate we see the real purpose of the system of universal surveillance: to track and control the channels of dissidence in this country. Centralized in the upper reaches of the “intelligence” community, such a store of knowledge can be weaponized at a moment’s notice. 

This time they were weaponized, as the President put it, in an attempt to overthrow the duly elected government of the United States – and not for the last time, either. There are people in this country – powerful people – who feel entitled to the almost unlimited power they wield. They will stop at nothing to preserve and defend it.… 

We barely escaped losing our old republic and succumbing to rule by an unelected bureaucracy of intelligence officials…. 

It was and is a conspiracy theory built largely around the conceit of the perpetrators. After all, how could their candidate – smooth, (over-prepared), backed by over a billion bucks, leading in every poll, and so obviously destined to take the prize – wind up defeated?… 

The scenario of an empowered national security apparatus exercising veto power over who should and should not exercise power was set in place long ago – just about the time the Surveillance State was set up to supposedly protect us from terrorism. Did anyone really think that setting up a special set of rules unconstrained by the rule of law and the Constitution would exempt political figures, dissidents, presidential candidates from the same kind of surveillance as a wannabe terrorist from Somalia?

 We can and must defeat them by disempowering the instruments of control – the FBI, the CIA, and the entire national security bureaucracy – and making an example in this most egregious case. John Brennan must be charged and prosecuted. The FBI cabal that turned a federal law enforcement agency into an arm of an incipient police state must be held accountable in a court of law…. 

The Establishment Counterrevolution has been defeated – but only for now. They’ll be back, and so must we – ready to fight to keep what we have won.”



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