Darrell Castle talks about the FBI and how it has been converted and subverted from the world's premier criminal investigation agency that it once was to a weapon that serves the establishment to muzzle antigovernment activism and thought, and to harass and intimidate political opponents of the administration.

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THE FBI IS JUST A POLITICAL WEAPON

Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 7th day of October in the year of our Lord 2022. I will be talking about the FBI and how it has been converted and subverted from the world’s premier criminal investigation agency that it once was to a weapon that serves the establishment to muzzle anti-government activism and thought, and to harass and intimidate political opponents of the administration.

This is my return Castle Report after a week off and I find what the military refers to as a target rich environment. We grow ever closer to nuclear war over a country in Eastern Europe that is of no strategic interest to the United States at all. It seems likely, by an overwhelming margin, that people in Washington D.C. committed an act of war against Russia and also against Washington’s European allies by blowing up the Nordstream Pipelines as the President promised to do. Despite all those catastrophes I turn my attention inward to the FBI once again.

It turns out that inward is a proper way to refer to the FBI today because it, as well as many other agencies of government, have been directed away from foreign enemies and domestic criminals and focused on political opponents of the administration. They also specialize in intimidation and persecution of people who sense and believe that something is wrong in this society and therefore they express the desire for change.

You might not be aware of this fact but one of the FBI’s primary missions is the investigation of bank robberies and the apprehension of the robbers. Bank deposits are insured by the federal government and therefore bank robbery is a federal crime. In opposition to its primary mission, the FBI now commits as well as investigates, bank robbery. Hard to believe I know, but nevertheless true. The Los Angeles Times, to its credit, broke the story. It seems that the FBI has been very busy lately between raids on Mar-a-Lago and harassing peaceful protesters and prolife activists.

The LA Times report tells us that the FBI neglected to tell the judge who approved a warrant for the March 2021 raid on the Private Vaults Store in Beverly Hills California that the agency planned to keep the money its agents managed to pry out of every safe deposit box in that bank which contained $5000 or more in cash, precious metals, jewelry, etc. This story obviously didn’t break for something like a year and a half until the LA Times was informed of it. The Times article goes on to report that the failure of the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s office in LA to disclose the confiscation plan in the raid was revealed in FBI documents and depositions of agents in a class-action lawsuit by box holders who say the raid violated their rights. The specific information came from the recent testimony of a senior FBI agent.

The government tried to justify the raid by saying that hundreds of boxholders were hoarding illegally obtained assets, so I guess that supposedly freed the agents to steal everything in the private boxes. The report goes on to say that FBI agents took the personal belongings of a jazz saxophone player, an interior designer, a retired doctor, a flooring contractor, and a couple of Century City lawyers among hundreds of others. They photographed customers’ sensitive documents including passwords, credit cards, prenuptial agreements, immigration and vaccination records and bank records, which all made their way into government databases.

The agents defied the instructions of U.S. Magistrate Judge Steve Kim who set restrictions in the warrant he issued,