In his recent article, he calls for the abolition of the FBI. His first words: "The FBI was a bad idea from its start." Not only is he right about that, but his thinking about what was wrong with the idea is as American as apple pie.
Simon: "Since centralized power tends to corrupt, in many ways, this was inevitable." That's the Founders' guiding thought in their astonishingly brilliant design of the American federal system.
Lord Acton, the great historian of liberty and admirer of the American Founders, put it this way: "Liberty consists in the division of power. Absolutism, in concentration of power."
The Progressives, the American left, the Democrats are all about concentrating political power.
At about the same time Lenin seized power in Russia, the Progressives began their project of concentrating power in Washington.
The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerceThe powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State.
The Department of Education has ruined American education - once a shining example to the world - and done so in a remarkably brief time.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/06/time_to_abolish_the_fbi.html
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