Weaponized National Security Apparatus Makes for a Dangerous America

We face a security state that increasingly seems to conflate the regime with the nation as it weaponizes against the regime’s purported foes, while streets devolve into chaos and threats proliferate

Weaponized National Security Apparatus Makes for a Dangerous America

While America’s ruling regime engages in a War on Wrongthink, targeting perceived enemies— including those it sometimes resorts to creating—with all its might, actual enemies of the republic continue to be able to plot, plan, and sometimes strike.

In a new piece at the Epoch Times, I chronicle some of the most stunning examples of this disastrous dichotomy.

Here’s an excerpt regarding the unbelievable collapse of the Gov. Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping case, and recent related developments with respect to the January 6 prosecutions:

Several weeks ago in a Michigan court, a massive federal prosecution collapsed when a jury found that one of the most politically potent October surprises imaginable was a farce.

Recall that in the heat of the 2020 presidential election, the FBI revealed it had foiled a plot by a group of purported militiamen, allegedly enraged over Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s Chinese coronavirus policies, to kidnap her.

The accused, a ragtag “pro-Trump” and “anti-government” group allegedly behind the wild operation, seemed straight out of central casting in the mind’s eye of a left that increasingly characterizes its political foes as terrorists.

Gov. Whitmer, candidate Joe Biden, and the political class and corporate media predictably blamed President Donald Trump. “Look at what the Bad Orange Man provoked,” they roared. We will never know the extent to which this pre-insurrectionary narrative impacted voters, but in a pivotal swing state like Michigan that had hinged on such a small vote margin in 2016, and in the throes of a heavy early-voting election, the impact weeks out from election day could well have been meaningful if not decisive.

As the alleged conspiracy moved towards a trial, suddenly it began to unravel.

…The federal government had at least 12 confidential informants involved in the kidnapping caper. What’s more:

“Working in secret, they did more than just passively observe and report on the actions of the suspects. Instead, they had a hand in nearly every aspect of the alleged plot, starting with its inception. The extent of their involvement raises questions as to whether there would have even been a conspiracy without them.”

As James Bovard more recently detailed in the New York Post, one informant, Stephen Robeson, a man with a lengthy rap sheet, had organized key events to build the anti-Whitmer cohort. Another, Dan Chapel, would become second-in-command and lead the military training of the group. Bovard wrote:

…“It was all a setup. Shortly before that excursion, an FBI agent texted instructions to Chapel: ‘Mission is to kill the governor specifically.’ There were as many FBI informants and undercover agents as there were purported plotters in this case.”

A Michigan jury concurred with the assessment that this was a fed-concocted plot—that the government had entrapped the defendants.

…The investigation, heralded as a major coup by federal prosecutors, proved a calamity on the merits.

But politically, the feds succeeded in helping generate a data point used to justify its War on Wrongthink, which would be supercharged by Jan. 6, 2021. The plot, and the plotters, fit to a tee the National Terrorism Advisory Bulletins the Biden administration would put forth subsequent to the Capitol breach, claiming, albeit euphemistically, that the preeminent threat to America is the frothing mad MAGA mob.

Speaking of, there was another major acquittal in Washington D.C. in recent days—from the so-called insurrection. Despite prosecutors’ best efforts, for the first time a Jan. 6 defendant was acquitted on all trumped-up trespassing charges faced for having entered the Capitol, spent 10 minutes there, and left. He argued he had been “waved” in by security.

The judge overseeing the bench case concurred. If this precedent were to hold, potentially countless Jan. 6 defendants might be let off, as videos indicate that perhaps hundreds of individuals were let in by security that day. This, of course, further discredits the insurrection narrative.

As does the fact that a recent court filing suggests there were at least 20 federal assets “embedded around the Capitol” on Jan. 6, fueling further questions about what the government was doing that day, and why it’s so reluctant to answer questions about it, or disclose footage of it. How should the public perceive this revelation—which authorities have not disputed, unlike when questioned about a seeming provocateur in Ray Epps—in light of the government’s involvement in the Gov. Whitmer plot? And what should we make of the fact that as the intrepid Julie Kelly has honed in on, the director of the FBI’s Detroit field office under which the Whitmer investigation/operation was run was bumped up to head the FBI’s Washington D.C. office three months before the Capitol breach?

Read the whole thing here.