Witch Hunt: FBI Visiting Conservative Bloggers After Tucson Shootings Paul Joseph Watson January 14, 2011 We can add another victim to the Tucson tragedy â the right to criticize government without fear of getting a knock on your door from the feds. Despite the fact that shooter Jared Loughner was not politically motivated, the FBI is now compiling a list of Americans deemed a potential threat because they criticized their representative â and targeting them with home visits. An Ozark man who ran a blog last year critical of Republican Congressman Billy Long was shocked to see an FBI agent turn up on his doorstep asking questions. The agent was accompanied by Green County Sheriff Jim Arnott, who had stepped outside of his jurisdiction to become involved in this act of political repression directed against Clay Bowler, a resident of Christian County. The FBI agent wanted to know if Bowler was a threat to Long because he had used an Internet blog to highlight claims of cronyism and corruption involving the Congressman before the southwest Missouri election in November, in which Long defeated Democrat Scott Eckersley to replace outgoing Rep. Roy Blunt. The most heated confrontation Bowler had with Long was when he asked him a question about political donations Long had made. The video clip of the incident shows Bowler calmly asking Long a question as the Congressman walks away. He ran a website called âLong is wrongâ in an attempt to prevent Long from being elected last year. The website has since been discontinued and Bowler hasnât had any contact with Long since September. Even the FBI agent who visited Bowler had to agree that his actions represented no kind of threat whatsoever. âIâm not a threat to Billy Long,â Bowler said Thursday. âI find the whole thought very funny, because Iâm such an advocate for constitutional rights that I would never do anything that would put in jeopardy those constitutional rights like the Second Amendment.â In the aftermath of the Tucson tragedy, the father of Christina Green, the 9-year-old girl killed in the massacre, pleaded with the nation that his daughterâs death should not be exploited as a justification to crush constitutional rights. In addition, it has been confirmed in triplicate that shooter Jared Loughner was not motivated by politics. Earlier this week one of his closest high school friends told ABC News that Loughner, âDid not watch TV. He disliked the news. He didnât listen to political radio. He didnât take sides. He wasnât on the left. He wasnât on the right.â Green County Sheriff Jim Arnottâs justification that itâs best to âerr on the side of cautionâ in targeting critics of government with home visits has no place in a free country. Perhaps Arnott would feel more at home in the former East Germany or the Soviet Union. âArnott confirmed to KSPR News that Bowler isnât the only local person whoâs been scrutinized in the wake of last weekendâs shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Gifford (D-AZ) during a meet-and-greet with constituents in Tucson, Ariz,â states the report, affirming that the authorities are compiling new lists of Americans who are now considered to be potentially violent threats for the crime of asking their own public servants uncomfortable questions. Separately it was reported that the FBI was preparing to visit other bloggers in the area. Targeting anyone who exercises their First Amendment right to redress their grievances against local representatives who are paid to serve them with home visits accompanied by FBI agents only has one outcome â it chills free speech and discourages other Americans from speaking out against the government. These tactics also have the impact of making asking questions of elected officials, the lifeblood of a free society, seem somehow abnormal or suspicious. Once again, vultures are still busy circling around last weekendâs tragedy, using it as a vehicle through which to advance their own authoritarian and anti-American agendas of political repression. Once again, vultures are still busy circling around last weekendâs tragedy, using it as a vehicle through which to advance their own authoritarian and anti-American agendas of political repression. Dissent is the highest form of patriotism, and any move to imply that asking questions of public officials or engaging in criticism of government is somehow suspicious or indicative of a violent individual is a damning indictment of everything America is supposed to stand for. Circumstances like these should only encourage Americans to become more vocal in their dissent while they still have any semblance of free speech left at all. In a seperate interview Bowler made a sardonic joke about the incident in describing himself as âa crazy guy who still believes in the American dream.â Watch the video below in which Alex Jones warns how a plethora of tyrannical campaigns have been initiated and designed to break up communities and turn citizens against one another. The justifications for these fascist programs are always a matter of national security. The real reason for these programs and even the events that brought them into existence is to set up a police control grid. VIDEO...... http://www.infowars.com/fbi-targets-critics-of-government-with-home-visits-after-arizona-shootings/
Well yes this is one of the central problems with our current system. The problem isn't the politicians as much as it is the voters that keep the two parties in place. We re-elect Congress at an alarming rate. Then only 9% say they actually approve of said Congressmen in job approval polls. I can't say I have any sort of solution other than introducing term limits. I think most people on both sides of the isle would support term limits, but lobbyists and politicians would fight tooth and nail to keep that from going anywhere.
I'll have to admit that AMT4SWA sometimes is a little off the wall. But, at least he is off the wall in the right direction!
AMT4SWA, Scary articles! Scary but true! I relly wonder just how many US Citizens have no clue that the things going on here now are the reasons people left Europe to come here long ago... It's unreal. In the 1920's, a guy could walk into a hardware store and buy a Thompson .45 machine gun with 50 round drum mags. Sure, the gangsters (criminals) would make that gun famous, but the gangsters were a .00001 percentage of the Thompson buyers according to Historical documentation. Guns haven't changed one ioda! People, on the other hand, have changed exponentially, and not for the better or we would still have machine guns sold in hardware stores...
Nooow you're talkin'. Term limits is mandatory to restart the United States Of America. But, here's how it has to be enacted: The currently elected office holders must be allowed to be "grandfathered in". Then, newly elected office holders would fall under the new term limits law. This is the only way term limits could ever be put into place because we all know that these thugs will play any trick in the book to maintain their post. Right now all we have is a perpetual master/slave society.
What are you going to do with your puny gun against a high-tech government directed military and police force? A little AR-15 based uprising would be smashed by a predator drone 4 miles above. The notion that you need your guns to protect you from the government is absurd. I'd be more worried about the secrecy and disappearing electronic freedoms.
The inability to buy Thompson .45 machine guns had nothing to do with the exodus from Europe to form this country. Just because many of us believe in way better gun control, doesn't mean we are government zombies. Ever read my posts about the government?? LOL Quit trying to get things mixed up, Leapy. (ESPN style)> Come on, man!