{"id":1609697,"date":"2022-08-17T06:16:53","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T10:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1609697"},"modified":"2022-08-17T06:17:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T10:17:21","slug":"flashback-ron-paul-warns-against-fbi-corruption-in-1988","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/flashback-ron-paul-warns-against-fbi-corruption-in-1988\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Ron Paul Warns Against FBI Corruption in 1988"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fflashback-ron-paul-warns-against-fbi-corruption-in-1988%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1609697&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Following the raid of former president <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/republicans-demand-garland-brief-homeland-security-on-trump-fbi-raid-slampolitically-motivated-witch-hunt\/\">Donald Trump\u2019s home<\/a> at Mar-a-Lago by the FBI, conservatives across the country are now questioning whether our national law enforcement agencies are genuinely following the law or instead being used as political weapons in order to intimidate opposition.<\/p>\n<p>Many Republicans, both elected and those seeking various public offices, are loudly criticizing and even going as far as to call for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/gop-far-right-wants-fbi-destroyed-and-defunded-2022-8\">complete abolishment<\/a> of the FBI entirely.<\/p>\n<p><em>Human Events<\/em> editor Jack Posobiec, following the raid, tweeted that \u201cI don\u2019t know who needs to hear this but Ron Paul has been talking about disbanding the FBI and abolishing the Fed for longer than many of you have been alive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And he\u2019s right. We have the video to prove it.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I don&#8217;t know who needs to hear this but Ron Paul has been talking about disbanding the FBI and abolishing the Fed for longer than many of you have been alive<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rosary Extremist Poso \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@JackPosobiec) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackPosobiec\/status\/1557115555726901248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Ron Paul\u2019s Warning About the FBI<\/h3>\n<p>A Twitter follower of Posobiec\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackPosobiec\/status\/1557112323608805377?s=20&#038;t=cB5EzjTlT_PHdwdLjNMbmQ\">posted a video<\/a> from a 1988 interview with Dr. Ron Paul that was done during his first presidential campaign as the Libertarian Party nominee that cycle.<\/p>\n<p>For those who may not be familiar with the Good Doctor, Ron Paul served <em>three<\/em> stints in Congress \u2013 from 1976 to 1977, from 1979 to 1985, and from 1997 to 2013.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He also ran for President three times \u2013 as a Libertarian in 1988, and as a Republican in 2008 and 2012 \u2013 becoming famous for huge single-day fundraising pushes called \u201cmoneybombs.\u201d He used his candidacies to bring issues like monetary policy, foreign policy, and corruption to the forefront.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"subscribe\" class=\"email-signup inarticle\">\n<h4>Support Conservative Voices!<\/h4>\n<h5><strong>Sign up to receive the latest<\/strong> political news, insight, and commentary delivered directly to your inbox.<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<p>Here is his warning about the FBI, 34 years ago:<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-block full\">\n[embedded content]\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/the-fbi-is-now-the-federal-bureau-of-intimidation\/\">The FBI Is Now the Federal Bureau Of Intimidation<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor most of our history we didn\u2019t have those institutions,\u201d Paul said to the interviewer. \u201cThe FBI came in during the First World War and interestingly enough, the one thing Woodrow Wilson did, he used the FBI to spy on American citizens and actually arrest them if they disagreed with his foreign policy about going to war in Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Paul continued, \u201cIsn\u2019t it interesting how recently they used it in the Vietnam era? Democrats used it then. Republicans used the FBI to spy on 100 different groups in this country, including the churches who disagree with the policy in Central America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Paul concluded that \u201cIt almost looks like the FBI was designed to spy on Americans who disagreed with policy, especially foreign policy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the interview following his statements, Paul did concede that the FBI was not entirely a domestic threat to civil liberties, particularly since it does fight crimes at a national level, but Paul asserted that the general functions of the FBI could be handled between different levels of state law enforcement and the Department of Justice.<\/p>\n<h3>Have Our Fears Become Reality?<\/h3>\n<p>When looking back the FBI\u2019s own behavior during the Trump administration alone, from their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.presidency.ucsb.edu\/documents\/campaign-press-release-ex-fbi-official-pleads-guilty-falsifying-document-spy-trump\">illegal spying<\/a> of the 2016 Trump presidential campaign to actions of former special agent <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/04\/25\/trump-takes-aim-at-strzok-page-texts-its-a-coup\/\">Peter Strzok<\/a> and others that furthered the \u201cRussiagate\u201d narrative, conservatives are now admitting that Ron Paul\u2019s warning decades ago rings true.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-block full\">\n[embedded content]\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/after-fbi-raid-trump-fires-back-with-epic-new-video-promising-the-best-is-yet-to-come\/?utm_source=right-rail-trending\">After FBI Raid, Trump Fires Back With Epic New Video Promising \u2018The Best Is Yet To Come\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In an interview with \u201cThe Dive\u201d days after the Mar-a-Lago raid, Dr. Paul continued to stick to his guns by saying the exact same thing that he said all those years ago, hoping that Republicans and Americans who value the rule of law and the Constitution will take action before things become too dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat they should do is eliminate the law and order responsibility in Washington and the federal government,\u201d said Paul, adding that the right prescription would be to return that responsibility back to individual states and smaller localities so that situations such as the \u201cbig political stunt\u201d that was the raid on Trump\u2019s home can never happen again.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of Ron Paul\u2019s warning now and from all those years ago? 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