Stay Free - Russel Brand - December 14, 2023


Here’s the News: Vivek Ramaswamy Calls Out FBI & Claims Jan 6 Was An Inside Job?

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Vivek Ramaswamy has claimed that January 6th is an inside job, and that the 9/11 attacks on the U.S. Capitol were actually the work of the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO), a group run by the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ( ATF) and the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). In this episode, Russell Brand and Dana Bash argue that this is a case of entrapment, and argue that the FBI may have been involved in a cover-up of the events that took place on that day, and may have even been responsible for the deaths of some of the thousands of people who were arrested that day in response to the protests that erupted in the streets of Washington, D.C. on the day of the protest against the government's decision to shut down all access to the protest on Capitol Hill, and the subsequent indictments and indictments that were brought against those responsible for those responsible, as well as those who were released to the public by the DOJ, ICE, DEA, DOJ, DOJ and other agencies involved in the cover-ups and the DOJ's decision-making process, including the use of torture, surveillance, surveillance and surveillance techniques, to cover up the truth about what really happened that day and the possible involvement of the government in the attack on the Capitol in the first place. What does that mean, and how could this be possible entrapments? and how did the FBI get involved in this cover up this kind of thing? What role did the government agents play in 9/cover-up, and why they were involved in it, and what was done so thoroughly? . And what role did they have to do so much so to ensure that the truth was kept hidden from the public and the American public ? and why was it so thoroughly covered up? And how did they did it? All of these questions are answered in this episode by Russell Brand, Dana Bash, and more! Stay free with Russell Brand on this episode of Stay Free With Russell Brand! Remember, there's an episode every single day to educate and elevate our consciousness together! Stay Free! - The Awakening Wanderers. - Remember there s an episode EVERY single day, 7 days a week, to elevate and elevate your consciousness together. Stay free, and enjoy the journey to truth and freedom! . . . and by awakening.

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00:00:42.000 No, here's the fucking news! 0.97
00:00:51.000 Hello there you Awakening Wanderers, thanks for joining us on our voyage to truth and freedom. 0.99
00:00:54.000 Now is the time to awaken.
00:00:56.000 We have no choice, you've sensed that.
00:00:58.000 Whether you stand at one extreme of this apparently polar argument or the other, this surely is a time where we have to alter our systems.
00:01:06.000 There's no question, there has to be a deep, deep awakening within us individually and the appetite to change the world together.
00:01:13.000 Vivek Ramaswamy has emerged as perhaps the first millennial presidential candidate well
00:01:19.000 familiar with the tropes of online spaces and able to nimbly navigate territories opened
00:01:25.000 up perhaps by Trump and certainly by independent media content creators.
00:01:30.000 Vivek Ramaswamy in the context of presidential primaries has talked about January 6th is
00:01:34.000 an inside job, 9/11 needs to be investigated, the FBI set up criminal dynamics in order
00:01:40.000 to make arrests.
00:01:41.000 Now that latter used to be a trope of the left, people used to continually say "oh
00:01:45.000 the FBI". 0.66
00:01:46.000 In fact Chris Morris' film recently covered that very subject that people are encouraged
00:01:50.000 to set up terrorist organisations then arrested for having terrorist organisations.
00:01:55.000 That kind of deep mistrust of the state which is now regarded as a kind of an alt-right
00:01:59.000 perspective is a 1960s leftist perspective actually or at least it was for a brief while.
00:02:04.000 So let's have a look at some of Vivek Ramaswamy's rhetoric and then let's look at the FBI and their history for establishing apparently criminal dynamics then making arrests.
00:02:13.000 And let's look at the nature of these organisations and their relationship with the public at large.
00:02:19.000 Why am I the only person on the stage at least who can say that January 6th now does look like it was an inside job?
00:02:25.000 That the government lied to us for 20 years about Saudi Arabia's involvement in 9-11.
00:02:31.000 I would say looking at the facts of the video footage that have come out, Dana, it is shocking that you still haven't gotten a clear answer of how many federal agents were in the field that day.
00:02:39.000 Look at now the video footage of actually throwing explosives and rubber bullets into what was a peaceful crowd, then releasing to the public what came in response to that.
00:02:48.000 But now look at the video footage that was released, and I'm glad we're talking about it because viewers deserve to look at that footage.
00:02:54.000 Capitol Police literally letting people in, who were then now prosecuted, some of whom have gone on to commit suicide because of what the government's doing.
00:03:01.000 That is a case of entrapment.
00:03:03.000 And I think the government has not been transparent about this, which is why I then brought up another case where the government, now 20 years later, with declassified documents, tells us that they lied to us at the time.
00:03:13.000 So I do think we have a government that's consistently lied to its people.
00:03:17.000 An inside job suggests that everybody who attacked the Capitol was part of some...
00:03:23.000 I didn't say that, but I was saying that there is entrapment going on.
00:03:26.000 So interesting attempt to reframe the meaning of an inside job.
00:03:30.000 That means that the whole thing was entirely created, a complete construction.
00:03:34.000 As Vivek points out, that's not what he said, perhaps, but that the events wouldn't have unfolded in the way they did had it not been for the presence of state agents potentially provoking and exacerbating the conditions.
00:03:46.000 And increasingly, that seems likely, even perhaps evident.
00:03:50.000 There's entrapment going on and this looks like a case of entrapment and if you look at even over the last day... What do you mean by entrapment?
00:03:55.000 Entrapment means that the police go to people to do something otherwise that they otherwise wouldn't have done and then they arrest them for actually doing it.
00:04:01.000 So do the FBI frequently create conditions and situations or have they historically created conditions and situations that they then intervene in and claim that is the resolution of a case?
00:04:13.000 And if that proves to be true does that reveal to us Details about how the state functions, creating conditions and situations that are advantageous.
00:04:21.000 Could that apply to January the 6th?
00:04:23.000 Seems that it's possible.
00:04:24.000 Could that apply to 9-11?
00:04:25.000 Could every single conspiracy in American history somehow have tendrils in a deep state agency exploiting events to create opportunities to legitimize further authority or to amplify power?
00:04:37.000 Let's have a look at it.
00:04:38.000 The government's henchmen have become the embodiment of how power, once acquired, can be so easily corrupted and abused.
00:04:44.000 Indeed, far from being tough on crime, FBI agents are also among the nation's most notorious lawbreakers.
00:04:50.000 That shouldn't be true, should it?
00:04:51.000 That should be untrue.
00:04:53.000 It shouldn't be true that the Federal Bureau of Investigation contains criminals, or at least people that conduct criminal But we spoke to those FBI whistleblowers a little while ago.
00:05:03.000 they recounted how the investigations into January 6th and the investigation prior to
00:05:07.000 January 6th had left them with a lot of questions about partisan behaviours and even criminal
00:05:13.000 behaviour.
00:05:14.000 Whether the FBI's plan in undercover agents in churches, synagogues and mosques, issuing
00:05:18.000 fake emergency letters to gain access to Americans' phone records, using intimidation tactics
00:05:24.000 to silence Americans who are critical of government, or persuading impressionable individuals to
00:05:28.000 plot acts of terror and then entrapping them, the overall impression of the nation's secret
00:05:33.000 police is that of a well-dressed thug flexing its muscles doing the boss's dirty work.
00:05:38.000 The FBI, I suppose, are like many institutions now.
00:05:42.000 Your impression of them might alter depending on where you stand in the cultural space.
00:05:47.000 It's extraordinary for me to see the media championing the CIA or the FBI.
00:05:52.000 Being cynical about claims of malfeasance from either of those agencies is an indication of where establishment power now is.
00:06:00.000 When we talk about conservatism, that word generally means a kind of Christian conservatism, a moral conservatism, even social conservatism.
00:06:06.000 I've always thought of it as the desire to conserve, restrain and control power.
00:06:11.000 And I feel that what's being conserved now is neoliberal democracy.
00:06:15.000 And it's no kind of democracy at all.
00:06:18.000 It's the type of democracy where you're not offered genuine alternatives, where your vote and opinion are ultimately irrelevant, and apparently where the deep state manipulate conditions in order to legitimise power and regulation.
00:06:30.000 And that's exactly what we're talking about in this story.
00:06:33.000 Clearly, this is not a government agency that appears to understand, let alone respect, the limits of the Constitution.
00:06:39.000 Indeed, this same government agency has a pattern and practice of entrapment that involves targeting vulnerable individuals, feeding them with the propaganda know-how and weapons intended to turn them into terrorists, and then arresting them as part of an elaborately orchestrated counter-terrorism sting.
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00:07:45.000 Basically it works like this.
00:07:46.000 In order to justify their crime-fighting superpowers, the FBI manufactures criminals by targeting vulnerable individuals and feeding them anti-government propaganda.
00:07:55.000 Then undercover agents and informants equip the targeted individuals with the training
00:07:59.000 and resources to challenge what they've been indoctrinated into believing is government
00:08:03.000 corruption.
00:08:04.000 And finally, the FBI arrests the targeted individuals for engaging in anti-government
00:08:08.000 terrorist activities.
00:08:10.000 This is what passes for the government's perverse idea of being tough on crime.
00:08:14.000 So beyond investigating actual crime objectively separately occurring, they are involved through
00:08:20.000 counter-terrorism measures and counter-criminal measures in instigating crimes.
00:08:25.000 There are a few famous examples of where that's happened.
00:08:27.000 But for a moment, hold in your mind the idea that deep state agencies that were definitely present, concealed within the crowd on January the 6th, have on previous occasions caused, to a significant degree, to the degree where the people that had been imprisoned were acquitted, the crimes that they claim to be resolving.
00:08:43.000 And then, bearing in mind that what we're generally reporting on is elitist establishment globalist tendencies, look for a moment what's happening in Ireland. That just by being suspected
00:08:53.000 of being in possession of hate speech, and hate in this context is not clearly
00:08:56.000 defined, that the police will be able to go into your house and arrest you if they suspect you of
00:09:01.000 having hateful material on your phone or your devices. What it seems is being created
00:09:06.000 is the potential for amorphous laws to be applied in various territories and for deep
00:09:11.000 state and law enforcement agencies to arrest you for vague and obtuse crimes. So whether you're
00:09:17.000 looking at January the 6th in the presence of deep state agencies, the many historic
00:09:21.000 examples of the FBI being involved in the arrest of terrorists that they had in fact
00:09:26.000 ultimately groomed.
00:09:27.000 Or this tendency around the world to criminalise forms of speech, to refer to speech as being weaponised, it shows how what's being created, or at least I believe what's being augured, is a kind of global police state where increasingly we can be arrested for crimes that we maybe didn't commit or would not have committed had it not been for the intervention of law enforcement agencies, which seems extraordinary.
00:09:50.000 For example, undercover FBI agents pretending to be associated with ISIS have been accused of seeking out online and befriending a 16-year-old with brain development issues, persuading him to secretly send them small cash donations in the form of gift cards, and then the moment Matteo Ventura turned 18, arresting him for providing financial support to an Islamic terrorist group.
00:10:11.000 If convicted, the teenager could spend up to 10 years in prison.
00:10:15.000 That seems like exploitation designed to meet charters for the number of arrests required in order to legitimise a budget.
00:10:23.000 But this is not a unique case.
00:10:25.000 And one of the things we've seen in this country, the UK, is deep state apparatus designed for counter-terrorism turned onto the domestic population.
00:10:34.000 In fact, it was Matt Taibbi who explained that many counter-terrorist and counter-insurgent agencies, organisations and funding was turned to counter-Covid control.
00:10:45.000 This has happened in the last three years and is part of a broader trend not to criminalise an entire population, but to criminalise a significant portion of the population so that authoritarianism is legitimised.
00:10:55.000 Yet, as The Intercept explains, the only terrorist he is accused of ever being in contact with was an undercover FBI agent who befriended him online as a 16-year-old.
00:11:05.000 This law enforcement tactic has been criticized by national security researchers who have scrutinized the FBI's role in manufacturing terrorism cases using vulnerable people who would have been unable to commit crimes without prolonged government assistance and encouragement.
00:11:19.000 The Ventura case may indicate that authorities are still open to conjuring terrorists where none existed.
00:11:24.000 I think we all respect a degree of ingenuity and clandestine manoeuvring and operations.
00:11:30.000 But when a crime would not have occurred without the intervention of deep state agents, then that almost by definition means that there is no crime because it wouldn't have happened without their engagement and involvement.
00:11:41.000 That's obvious.
00:11:42.000 In another incident, the FBI used an undercover agent informant to seek out and groom an impressionable young man, cultivating his friendship, gaining his sympathy, stoking his outrage over injustices perpetrated by the US government, then enlisting his help to blow up the Herald Square subway station.
00:11:59.000 Despite the fact that Shaharwar Matin Siraj ultimately refused to plant a bomb at the train station, he was arrested for conspiring to do so at the urging of his FBI informant and used to bolster the government's track record in foiling terrorist plots.
00:12:14.000 In a way we're living in an artificial reality where the perception of FBI success is so important that they are willing to engage in creating a kind of performance of terrorism.
00:12:25.000 Now, this information I imagine is accessible because the dynamic they're describing is no longer the pertinent and defining dynamic of our news cycle.
00:12:33.000 Ten years ago, Islamist terror was an absolute priority in the American news cycle and the American psyche more broadly.
00:12:40.000 Now American culture has altered to the point where the extremes are both domestic, that there's a kind of neoliberal establishment extreme, I'm using their language, and the kind of MAGA extremism.
00:12:52.000 Now, at least in terms of news and public conversation, people don't talk about, oh there's terrorists, people talk about the migration crisis down there at the southern border, and people talk about extremists needing to be debugged.
00:13:02.000 That's the conversation now.
00:13:03.000 With no more enemies to fight abroad, except for the numerous economic wars being currently engaged in, the ire has turned on the domestic population.
00:13:11.000 Terrorists are now simply people you disagree with, and in order to legitimise the measures and funding, it seems the FBI have frequently engaged in creating incidents that otherwise wouldn't have occurred, just to perpetuate a cycle.
00:13:25.000 Of course no mention was made of the part the government played in fabricating the plot, recruiting a would-be bomber and setting him up to take the fall.
00:13:32.000 That's a crime that simply wouldn't have happened without FBI engagement.
00:13:35.000 They didn't solve that crime, they caused it and then stopped it.
00:13:38.000 It's like setting fire to your house, putting it out and then sort of wanting a medal.
00:13:42.000 Which is almost like a Joe Biden anecdote.
00:13:44.000 I almost lost my wife, my 67 Corvette and my cat.
00:13:49.000 These are Machiavellian tactics with far-reaching consequences for every segment of the population, no matter what one's political leanings.
00:13:56.000 But it's especially dangerous for anyone whose views could in any way be characterised as anti-government.
00:14:01.000 As Rosina Ali writes for the New York Times Magazine, That's an interesting trend that I've noticed elsewhere.
00:14:09.000 by blurring the lines between speech and action, and by broadening the scope of who is classified as a
00:14:14.000 threat.
00:14:15.000 That's an interesting trend that I've noticed elsewhere.
00:14:17.000 The blurring of lines between speech and action, hate speech and free speech,
00:14:22.000 of demanding new categories of criminalisation where laws already protect you.
00:14:27.000 Like it's already illegal to incite violence, it's already illegal to participate in riots,
00:14:32.000 and yet there are new laws being introduced as if to mitigate threats that really aren't there.
00:14:37.000 I suppose if your interest is increasing authority, you have to increase the necessity for that authority by claiming that there are threats that only that authority can counter.
00:14:48.000 For instance, it was reported that the FBI had been secretly carrying out an entrapment scheme in which they used a front company, ANOM, to sell purportedly hack-proof phones to organise crime syndicates and then use those phones to spy on them as they planned illegal drug shipments, plotted robberies and put out contracts for killings using those booby-trapped phones.
00:15:08.000 All told, the FBI intercepted 27 million messages over the course of 18 months.
00:15:13.000 What this means is that the FBI was also illegally spying on individuals using those encrypted phones who may not have been involved in any criminal activity whatsoever.
00:15:23.000 So the FBI was spying on innocent people, just as a matter of course, but we also know that data is compiled and exchanged across the world between Five Eyes countries, bypassing legislation that prevents that.
00:15:34.000 simply to prevent some crime that you may commit in the future.
00:15:38.000 Or God forbid, the law or perception might alter in the future
00:15:41.000 and suddenly the necessary data is already available for your condemnation and maybe even conviction.
00:15:46.000 Even reading a newspaper article is now enough to get you flagged for surveillance by the FBI.
00:15:51.000 The agency served a subpoena on USA Today's Gannett to provide the internet addresses and mobile phone
00:15:56.000 information for everyone who read a news story online on a particular
00:16:00.000 day and time about the deadly shooting of FBI agents.
00:16:03.000 Whenever I learn stuff like this, I think, oh my God, if this is what we know, imagine what we don't know.
00:16:07.000 Imagine the kind of stories that might just be placed in media in order to sort of act as a kind of honey trap.
00:16:12.000 So, "Ha ha, look at the people that read all of that stuff, oh, look at the people that are following that."
00:16:15.000 I mean, one doesn't want to yield to paranoia and craziness.
00:16:18.000 But when you know that what is normalised as institutional practice within the FBI
00:16:23.000 sounds like criminality and sounds beyond normal practice, then it kind of fosters the possibility
00:16:30.000 that other nefarious activity may be taking place.
00:16:32.000 It's like when you hear that the Democrat Party invest in candidates that they wouldn't want to win because it biases the opinions of ordinary Republicans on the Republican Party as a whole or the Pied Piper strategy as it's known and commonly understood.
00:16:45.000 That, for me, suggests that there's a kind of a lack of fair play.
00:16:47.000 The FBI should be investigating crimes.
00:16:50.000 That's it.
00:16:50.000 And maybe having some undercover agents here or there.
00:16:53.000 But when it gets to the point that they're creating criminality in order to solve those crimes, what you have is, that's actually just corruption, isn't it?
00:16:53.000 I get it.
00:17:01.000 "This is the danger of allowing the government to carry out widespread surveillance, sting
00:17:05.000 and entrapment operations using dubious tactics that sidestep the rule of law. We the people
00:17:10.000 become suspects and potential criminals, while government agents, empowered to fight crime using
00:17:15.000 all means at their disposal, become indistinguishable from the corrupt forces they seek to vanquish."
00:17:19.000 I think this is a broad theme and phenomenon that we're living through now. As more and more people
00:17:24.000 become suspicious of the state, become suspicious of the media, our freedom and independent thought
00:17:30.000 becomes kind of criminal in so much as it's a threat to their hegemony. So they have to legitimise
00:17:35.000 ways of criminalising us because they know that they can't just say, "Well, it's criminal that
00:17:38.000 you're sceptical and cynical and oppositional." That's not a crime, but it would be a crime if
00:17:43.000 you were to, you know, hate the government and put a bomb on that subway.
00:17:46.000 Would you do that? 0.97
00:17:47.000 Oh, God, it'd be complicated.
00:17:48.000 Well, here's a bomb.
00:17:49.000 Well, how would you get in there?
00:17:50.000 You dress up.
00:17:50.000 I don't know.
00:17:51.000 Here's an outfit.
00:17:51.000 Would you do it?
00:17:52.000 No, actually, it seems wrong.
00:17:53.000 But you were going to do it, weren't you?
00:17:55.000 You're under arrest.
00:17:56.000 It seems like they're creating conditions to criminalise people.
00:17:59.000 This is, of course, a series of extreme examples.
00:18:01.000 But along with the other examples, I've noted a kind of bad faith mentality in many of our institutions.
00:18:08.000 It shows you that We're living in a very corrupt dynamic where your freedom is fundamentally a problem.
00:18:14.000 To go after terrorists, they become terrorists.
00:18:16.000 To go after drug smugglers, they become drug smugglers.
00:18:19.000 To go after thieves, they become thieves.
00:18:22.000 For instance, when the FBI raided a California business that was suspected of That's stealing, isn't it?
00:18:26.000 That's stealing.
00:18:27.000 I mean, I'd like to be able to do that.
00:18:29.000 I'd like to be able to go, we're taking all the stuff in those boxes.
00:18:31.000 On what basis?
00:18:32.000 Well, someone may have done a crime nearby.
00:18:34.000 forfeiture motions to keep the contents, which include millions of dollars worth of valuables
00:18:38.000 owned by individuals not accused of any crime whatsoever.
00:18:41.000 That's stealing, isn't it? That's stealing. I mean, I'd like to be able to do that. I'd like
00:18:44.000 to be able to go, "We're taking all the stuff in those boxes." On what basis? "Well, 0.54
00:18:47.000 someone may have done a crime nearby.
00:18:49.000 Also, deep down, I've always wanted more money." It's hard to say whether we're dealing with
00:18:53.000 a kleptocracy, a government ruled by thieves, a kakistocracy, a government run by unprincipled 0.98
00:18:59.000 career politicians, corporations and thieves that pander to the worst vices in our nature 0.98
00:19:03.000 and has little regard for the rights of American citizens, or we've gone straight to an idiocracy.
00:19:08.000 This certainly isn't a constitutional democracy, however.
00:19:10.000 Yes, it's amazing isn't it?
00:19:12.000 Once in a while you step back and look at what's happening because we've been so embroiled in it and it's become so normalised and it's so difficult to qualify information.
00:19:20.000 There's always a counter narrative.
00:19:21.000 I realise I participate in this world to a degree and people have accused me of being a conspiracy theorist and reactionary but the simple truth is that agencies that are trusted with health behave in ways that are odd, receiving royalties, repressing
00:19:34.000 Agencies that are in charge of crime commit criminal acts.
00:19:34.000 information.
00:19:38.000 Media that you're supposed to be able to trust have financial relationships
00:19:42.000 and state relationships and biases that mean that they're completely unreliable.
00:19:46.000 So these, I've heard of kleptocracy, but I'd never heard of kakistocracy. 1.00
00:19:51.000 I think we're quite close to kakistocracy, a government run by unprincipled career politicians, 1.00
00:19:55.000 corporations and thieves that panders to the worst vices in our nature
00:19:59.000 and has little regard for the rights of American citizens. 0.91
00:20:01.000 I think we're in that one and moving towards idiocracy.
00:20:04.000 That's where I think we are.
00:20:05.000 We're at the worst bit of kakistocracy and no one would ever vote for that, would they? 1.00
00:20:09.000 Just on the basis of its name.
00:20:11.000 Would you be interested in cackistocracy?
00:20:13.000 It doesn't sound very good.
00:20:14.000 We're the cackistocratic party!
00:20:16.000 No thank you.
00:20:17.000 I'm afraid you've already voted for us because we lied.
00:20:19.000 We're actually called the Democrats.
00:20:20.000 Some days it feels like the FBI is running its own crime syndicate complete with mob rule and mafia-style justice.
00:20:26.000 This should start getting with the FBI and CIA, shouldn't it?
00:20:28.000 I'm sure there are good things that a Central Intelligence Agency or a Federal Bureau of Investigation could be doing, but at the moment, that's not what's happening.
00:20:35.000 So those kind of politicians, indeed, we began with the vague, somewhat incendiary in their rhetoric, and certainly populist in their approach, that say stuff, and I think it's Bobby Kennedy that said, I'd scrap the CIA.
00:20:45.000 You know, like, that's the kind of thing that appeals, because I think all of us deep down sense This isn't working anymore, is it?
00:20:51.000 There are things within democracies that are sort of wonderful,
00:20:53.000 but they're not actually happening.
00:20:54.000 If you went to the American Constitution and went, "Right, what is it that it says we're supposed to do?"
00:20:58.000 Yeah, that would work. Or the Magna Carta in our country, where it talks about the rights of the individual.
00:21:02.000 You'd go, "Yeah, actually, we've got ideas."
00:21:04.000 Where you land between libertarianism and anarcho-syndicalism and socialism and capitalism,
00:21:11.000 there's probably merits within all of these ideas.
00:21:13.000 But we're living in one of these new things, like kakistocracy now, 1.00
00:21:16.000 and no one's mentioning it, because they know that no one would vote for it.
00:21:19.000 In addition to creating certain crimes in order to solve them,
00:21:22.000 the FBI also gives certain informants permission to break the law,
00:21:25.000 including everything from buying and selling illegal drugs to bribing government officials and plotting robberies
00:21:30.000 in exchange for their cooperation on other fronts.
00:21:32.000 This is common practice, we all know about that from movies and stuff, and that in itself is already a massive line crossed.
00:21:38.000 USA Today estimates that agents have authorized criminals to engage in as many as 15 crimes a day, 5,600 crimes a year.
00:21:45.000 Some of these informants are getting paid astronomical sums.
00:21:48.000 One particularly unsavory fellow, later arrested for attempting to run over a police officer, was actually paid $85,000 for his help laying the trap for an entrapment scheme.
00:21:56.000 I was running over that police officer's part in one of my schemes.
00:21:59.000 Oh, okay, there's $20,000.
00:22:01.000 Don't do it again.
00:22:02.000 I will, but I'm going to need another $20,000.
00:22:03.000 This scheme's not working.
00:22:06.000 How the hell are we going to keep paying this guy?
00:22:07.000 Could we use those jewels in that safety deposit box?
00:22:10.000 Well, it seems immoral, and yet here I am doing it, and you're paying for it out of your taxpayer dollars.
00:22:16.000 God bless America.
00:22:17.000 In a stunning development reported by the Washington Post, a probe into misconduct by an FBI agent resulted in the release of at least a dozen convicted drug dealers from prison.
00:22:26.000 In addition to procedural misconduct, trespassing, enabling criminal activity, and damaging private property, the FBI's laundry list of crimes against the American people includes surveillance, disinformation, blackmail, entrapment, intimidation tactics, and harassment.
00:22:40.000 At that point, you've actually crossed the line now.
00:22:43.000 There is this kind of understood affinity between criminal classes and law enforcement.
00:22:47.000 They're both gangs.
00:22:48.000 They've both got code words and clandestine rules and a particular nomenclature and a mentality of, like, keeping quiet about stuff, code to silence, surreptitious violence.
00:22:59.000 But when it's actual list of surveillance, disinformation, blackmail, entrapment, intimidation, now we're in the godfather of, like, I think I prefer the Corleone family.
00:23:07.000 At least they wear nice suits.
00:23:08.000 The FBI has been particularly criticised in the wake of the 9-11 terrorist attacks for targeting vulnerable individuals and not only luring them into fake terror plots, but actually equipping them with the organisation, money, weapons and motivation to carry out the plot's entrapment, and then jailing them for their so-called terrorist plotting.
00:23:24.000 This is what the FBI characterises as forward-leaning, preventative prosecutions.
00:23:29.000 We led so far forward, we led into people that weren't even criminals but just were children, arrested them, and put them in jail for things they might have done one day.
00:23:37.000 We leaned over so far forward, we crashed their heads onto the concrete of absolute corruption.
00:23:42.000 That was so far leading, I think I deserve a gold watch.
00:23:44.000 We're not giving you any gold watches for that!
00:23:46.000 Well, I'll give myself one then, from that safety deposit box.
00:23:49.000 There!
00:23:50.000 Still ticking.
00:23:51.000 The FBI has also repeatedly sought to expand its invasive hacking powers to allow agents to hack into any computer anywhere in the world.
00:23:57.000 Could we hack into any computer anywhere in the world?
00:24:00.000 No!
00:24:00.000 Absolutely not!
00:24:01.000 Another gold watch?
00:24:02.000 Suffice to say that when and if a true history of the FBI is ever written, it will not only track the rise of the American police state, but it will also chart the decline of freedom in America.
00:24:11.000 How a nation that once abided by the rule of law, and held the government accountable for its actions, has steadily devolved into a police state where justice is one-sided, a corporate elite runs the show, representative government is a mockery, police are extensions of the military, surveillance is rampant, privacy is extinct, and the law is little more than a tool for the government to browbeat the people into compliance.
00:24:29.000 There's a point where it becomes, I think, trans-political, i.e.
00:24:34.000 wherever you are on the political spectrum, you would be able to agree that that's gone out of control.
00:24:39.000 And if you're turning a blind eye to it because temporarily the FBI are sort of anti-Trump or they're anti-Black Lives Matter or wherever you fall on that scale, this is where you have to sort of recognise, hold on, that's This is how tyranny rises and freedom falls.
00:24:52.000 with everybody eventually, we need a massive reckoning and probably an agency that's gotten
00:24:57.000 that out of control. I think probably needs to, if not be radically re-evaluated, I'd say disbanded,
00:25:02.000 wouldn't you? This is how tyranny rises and freedom falls.
00:25:05.000 The powers that be are not acting in our best interests. Almost every tyranny being...
00:25:09.000 You just probably have different crises that you nominated as the crises that they'd utilised depending on your political persuasion.
00:25:14.000 secure has come about as a result of some threat manufactured in one way or
00:25:17.000 another by our own government. Again we're now totally in a territory that we
00:25:21.000 can all agree on. You just probably have different crises that you nominated as
00:25:26.000 the crisis that they'd utilised depending on your political persuasion.
00:25:29.000 What value does any anti-Trump rhetoric have when this is true? Like, he's a dictator!
00:25:35.000 He'll turn the country into the sort of dictatorship where a corporate elite runs the show, representative governments are mockery, police are extensions of the military, surveillance is rampant, privacy is extinct, and the law is little more than a tool for the government to browbeat people into compliance.
00:25:47.000 That's already happening!
00:25:49.000 Right, right.
00:25:49.000 So people are just, like, voting for someone because they're funny?
00:25:52.000 Yeah!
00:25:52.000 Think about it.
00:25:53.000 Cyber warfare, terrorism, biochemical attacks, the nuclear arms race, surveillance, the drug wars, domestic extremism, the COVID-19 pandemic.
00:26:00.000 There it is.
00:26:01.000 This is how it actually works.
00:26:02.000 So the FBI essentially are...
00:26:05.000 A significant part of manoeuvring deep state activity to respond to these apparent crises that are amplified by the media that benefit corporate elites.
00:26:15.000 And this lot are like sort of behind the scenes doing some shady stuff and then awarding themselves boxes of jewellery and gold watches every couple of months to celebrate.
00:26:24.000 In almost every instance, the US government, often spearheaded by the FBI, has, in its typical Machiavellian fashion, sown the seeds of terror domestically and internationally in order to expand its own totalitarian powers.
00:26:34.000 Consider that this very same government has taken every bit of technology sold to us as being in our best interests, GPS devices, surveillance, non-lethal weapons, etc., and used it against us to track, control, and trap us.
00:26:48.000 Are you getting the picture yet?
00:26:49.000 The US government isn't protecting us from threats to our freedoms.
00:26:52.000 The US government is creating the threats to our freedoms.
00:26:54.000 It is the source of the threats to our freedoms.
00:26:57.000 And as that becomes increasingly exacerbated, just your ability to think freely and speak freely and communicate freely and move freely are increasingly being manoeuvred, I think, into criminal acts.
00:27:09.000 I think that what we've heard described here in this article, where vulnerable individuals and marginal individuals that are mentally ill or from a currently maligned or previously maligned cultural group, these are piloting cases which will become normal and standard for any kind of dissent.
00:27:24.000 The only way to be free in this culture is to do exactly as you're told.
00:27:29.000 That's it.
00:27:30.000 And that's not freedom, is it?
00:27:31.000 And there might be a point where you go, well, I don't want to do what I'm talking about.
00:27:33.000 And you'll sort of stray out of it.
00:27:35.000 And you will be criminalized.
00:27:36.000 And the legislation will exist.
00:27:37.000 And the deep state apparatus will exist.
00:27:39.000 And the prisons will have been built.
00:27:40.000 And the prisons will be profitable.
00:27:42.000 And the judiciary will have been collapsed and corrupted.
00:27:45.000 And the media won't report on it responsibly.
00:27:47.000 And the government is comprised of people that whichever side you vote for ultimately support the whole system.
00:27:52.000 I mean, however much you love Trump, and I'm increasingly seeing what it is you're into, he didn't go, I'm disbanding the FBI, did he?
00:27:58.000 He didn't go, the CIA, I'm getting rid of it now.
00:28:00.000 It's too mental.
00:28:00.000 This swamp that Trump claimed that he would drain is pretty deep, and in real need of draining, I would say, based on that.
00:28:08.000 So I'm not telling you who to vote for, who to like, or who not to like.
00:28:11.000 I'm saying that, as Trump often talks about in his rhetoric, and as Vivek did here, the system itself is so corrupt, it would require, I think, a sort of almost complete dismantling, and that no one that seeks power, unless they're saying, I'm going to use that power to give it back to you through all sorts of forms of assembly.
00:28:27.000 I don't want power.
00:28:28.000 It would drive me crazy.
00:28:28.000 I'm already mental.
00:28:29.000 No.