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Posted By: Trapper, 11/28/2022 12:39:47 PM

Dilating on the causes of Rome’s eclipse at the end of his book How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower (2009), the historian Adrian Goldsworthy minutes several parallels between Rome in its decline and contemporary America. [snip] Roger L. Simon, in a column for The Epoch Times, got it exactly right about the FBI. It must be dismantled, and not just the leadership, “but the whole organization and everyone in it.”

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Holy Smoke! When The New Criterion, a journal of the arts, culture, and humanities, etitorializes for the dismantling of the FBI, the FBI is in serious trouble.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: red1066 11/28/2022 1:01:09 PM (No. 1344206)
Why stop at eliminating the FBI. How about the DOJ, the EPA, Homeland Security, rein in the CIA, and NSA, and take a huge chunk out the State Department as well.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Zeek Wolfe 11/28/2022 1:14:53 PM (No. 1344214)
Making membership in the Democrat party a criminal offense might be a starting point to reverse the decay. Roman money was gradually debased and lost value throughout the empire. Even now, 2 thousand years later, Roman coins can be purchased at any coin store for small amounts, 5 or 10 dollars. I have a Vespasian (builder of the colosseum) coin worth about a 100 Biden inflationary dollars, but that is unusual. Democrats love inflation, always have.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Heil Liberals 11/28/2022 1:38:37 PM (No. 1344245)
A well written article that draws the same conclusion that I’m sure many Ldotters have drawn as well.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: davew 11/28/2022 1:39:29 PM (No. 1344247)
The Roman Republic descended into the Imperial period of emperors when their generals realized they could intimidate and even murder plebians and patricians to impose their will over the laws. Democracy was eventually unable to resist people who could exercise pure power over the chaos of weak governments. History has taught us that, in the end, might-makes-right tyranny is the norm and peaceful democracies are the occasional, brief, exceptions.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: slipstik 11/28/2022 1:45:46 PM (No. 1344250)
...and collapse.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: bpl40 11/28/2022 1:53:44 PM (No. 1344253)
The FBI is nothing but a creature of the poisonous, evil culture of mal-governance that has infested Washington. That culture, call it “the Swamp” whatever, needs to be done away with. Not an easy, minor or a painless operation.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: anniebc 11/28/2022 2:31:27 PM (No. 1344273)
Most of the world is in decline with good ole America's degenerates leading the way.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: stablemoney 11/28/2022 2:39:38 PM (No. 1344277)
The country is certainly in major decline. The population has been deceived into believing media and academic propaganda, i.e., lies. Expect 25-40% decline in American living standards over the next 10 years. Take a look at Great Britain, whose living standards are already 25% below American standards, or France which is headed into the tank. Germany and the Netherlands can get ready for the end of their prosperity. Woke will bring ruin, and a lot faster than they think.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Island Life 11/28/2022 6:36:40 PM (No. 1344362)
Well said #8. And we can thank His Honorable Barack Wokeness for getting us off to a good start.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Rightfromthestart 11/28/2022 9:46:08 PM (No. 1344464)
Fundamental Transformation. We are in the 14th year of Obama’s reign. The swamp was answering to him no matter what Trump said.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: DVC 11/29/2022 12:47:24 AM (No. 1344541)
I have been saying it for years. The FBI cannot be reformed, it must be erased entirely, and NOTHING replace it.
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