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Teaser - Saving the DOJ

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Gaslit Nation

Politics, Society & Culture, News

4.74.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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In this week's Gaslit Nation bonus episode, we answer questions from our listeners at the Democracy Defender level and higher, including how to save the DOJ in a time of elite criminal impunity. To get access to this and every episode of Gaslit Nation, subscribe to the show on Patreon by signing up the Truth-teller level or higher on Patreon. You will not hear every episode unless you subscribe. Join our community of listeners today: Patreon.com/Gaslit

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0:00.0

The first thing to do is to fix the personnel of the DOJ because the DOJ is stacked with

0:11.6

traders, criminals, people like Charles McGonagall and others in the FBI who serve mafia syndicates.

0:21.5

The DOJ has often been used as a front for organized crime.

0:26.8

I think it's important to specify that the DOJ encompasses a lot of organizations within the broader banner,

0:34.8

some of which are less corrupt than others, but some of which are incredibly corrupt.

0:39.2

The first of which is the FBI itself, which historically has been used for the persecution of activists,

0:46.0

for illegal surveillance on US citizens, is supposed to be used for things like stopping terrorism,

0:53.4

stopping, oh, I don't know, a coup stopping mafia activity.

0:58.0

It increasingly is not.

0:59.9

I mean, honestly, it was never really formed for this purpose.

1:02.7

If you read any biography of J. Edgar Hoover, it was for selective prosecution of elements in American society

1:11.7

who they found threatening, say people like, oh, I don't know, Martin Luther King.

1:15.6

While other people like, say, Meyer Lansky could go on and do whatever they wanted.

1:22.0

They were notorious. The FBI was for denying that the mafia even existed,

1:27.2

and now that we have infiltration of our institutions by organized crime, they continue to do that.

1:33.0

So that's one of these agencies that sometimes I wonder, do we need this?

1:37.4

Should the whole thing just be broken apart?

1:40.3

You keep the parts that are actually out there trying to arrest terrorists and violent groups,

1:47.5

KKK types and whatnot. The rest of it, I'm not sure.

1:51.2

I feel similarly, I look at the DEA and how that has transpired over my life as a child of the

1:58.9

Reagan 80s as a child of an era where they helped the crack epidemic spread, used it as a pretext

2:07.6

to arrest Black and Latino and impoverished Americans.

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