Lawfare: An Invention of Donald Trump?

I can entertain the assertion that Donald Trump has weaponized the government, but...

what I cannot entertain is that weaponization of government is something new. And I must say, anyone who believes that weaponization of government is a new thing has simply not read enough history. So. Let’s just take a couple of steps back.

John F Kennedy

Now you might believe that the CIA had a hand in JFK’s assassination, or not. But what is historical fact is that the CIA tried to entrap JFK in a war via the Bay of Pigs invasion. Fortunately for all of us, JFK managed to avoid the trap. He then fired CIA Director Allen Dulles in direct response. Subsequent to his assassination, and you cannot make this up, Allen Dulles was appointed to the Warren Commission charged with investigating JFK’s murder, by none other than LBJ. I will leave you to your own conclusions.

See The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government.

Richard M. Nixon

Most don’t recall that Nixon was one of the most popular Presidents ever; his “approval ratings began high, with an initial approval of 59% in January 1969, and remained above 50% through much of his first term, reaching a peak of 67% in January 1973 following his second inauguration.” Then came Watergate, after which so many other -gates have been named. CIA involvement you ask? Several of the break-in perpetrators had CIA ties, and …

…evidence suggests the CIA may have had its own agenda. According to author Jim Hougan, the CIA was reportedly conducting its own illegal domestic operations, including surveillance of clients of a call-girl ring near the Watergate complex, and the Watergate break-in was sabotaged to protect these activities.

The CIA also destroyed Watergate-related documents shortly after the arrests, and a CIA officer named Robert F. Bennett, who later became a U.S. senator, admitted to feeding story leads to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward to steer the investigation away from CIA involvement.

Despite these revelations, CIA Director Helms publicly denied any agency involvement during his testimony before the Senate Watergate Committee, a claim that was empirically dubious given the evidence of the agency’s deep entanglement.

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The end result was Lawfare against Nixon, resulting in his resignation.

See The Nixon Conspiracy: Watergate and the Plot to Remove the President

And So Many Others

RFK? Malcom X? MLK? We will probably never know the whole stories, like with Epstein, but were I a betting man I would bet heavily on government involvement in all of these assassinations. Assassination is the literal weaponization of government. The 60’s were a particularly nasty era; for more on that see The Cointelpro Papers: Documents from the FBI’s Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States.

Obama and Biden

Anyone who cannot accept as fact that both Obama and Biden engaged in weaponization of government is simply willfully ignorant or suffering from normalcy bias.

Speaking of which, get used to the fact that weaponization of government is the norm, not the exception.

And I have merely scratched the surface.

What Then, Is To Be Done?

If as I claim, “weaponization of government is the norm, not the exception,” then desiring less weaponization of government has but one solution: LESS GOVERNMENT. A lot less.