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Jan. 6 and the Corruption of the FBI Quota System

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Today is Jan. 6, the anniversary of the 2021 protest that was weaponized by Democrats to persecute, prosecute, and vilify MAGA conservatives. It also ripped the mask off the corrupt Deep State, including how the FBI’s quota system turns molehills into mountains.

Jan. 6 was not an “insurrection,” the majority of protestors were peaceful, and Donald Trump himself explicitly urged peace that day.  Yet over a thousand Americans have been locked in jail, some for years on end without trial, and deprived not only of rights but even of basic necessities. These political prisoners have been abused and systematically targeted, even as criminals flood across our border and violent criminals are released onto our streets daily by Democrat DAs. The same government officials and media who justified the Antifa and BLM protestors burning down cities claimed that individuals who wandered around the Capitol snapping selfies were “domestic terrorists.” One of the most shameful offenders in the Jan. 6 debacle has been the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

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The FBI has since been exposed for having so many paid informants in the crowd on Jan. 6 that it lost count of the number, and FBI agents were accused of destroying evidence that could help Jan. 6 defendants. Regardless of speculations about what some have theorized was a “fedsurrection,” one thing is certain, according to FBI whistleblower Steve Friend: the FBI’s quota system encouraged agents to seize on Jan. 6 grossly to exaggerate the alleged problem of “domestic terrorism.” Friend and others have also insisted that the FBI specifically entraps individuals into criminal behavior they would not otherwise commit. This indicates that the theory Jan. 6 was a crisis created and manipulated by feds has legitimacy.

So what is the FBI’s quota system? Put briefly, it means that offices and agents are supposed to have a certain number of cases in different categories, with promotions, etc. at stake. Unfortunately, the quota system incentivizes agents to entrap individuals, and even to create crimes that don’t exist, since it requires agents to meet arbitrary statistical goals. Dinesh D’Souza’s film “Police State” (which also featured Friend) addressed how the FBI has spent years on this sort of entrapment and desperate invention of crimes that aren’t there.

Jan. 6 provided a particularly egregious example of the corruption encouraged by the quota system, with more than 1,200 Americans reportedly arrested in connection with the events. For context, per Friend, 9/11 was considered one case. When it came to Jan. 6, however, a separate case was opened on every single suspect believed connected to the event (including individuals who were not present in the Capitol or D.C. that day), giving the illusion of a massive country-wide problem with “MAGA domestic terrorism.”

Friend himself, while still an FBI agent, was switched from child sex abuse cases (and child trafficking and exploitation are among the biggest crime epidemics that America must deal with today, sadly) to Jan. 6 cases instead. Friend challenged the use of SWAT teams for Jan. 6 suspects who were not dangerous, prioritizing his oath to the Constitution over his “loyalty” to the agency, and he ended up losing his job. The FBI (like Joe Biden) is completely determined to pretend that Jan. 6 and MAGA are the greatest threats to America, and it will try to destroy anyone who stands in its way.

There was no sudden massive right-wing domestic terrorist threat; that was a myth created by Democrats after Jan. 6 and supported by the deceptive data partly enabled by the FBI’s disastrous quota system.

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