The surveillance state and the bad old woke, anti-American FBI of the Biden regime era won a big victory on Thursday, when the Senate Appropriations Committee voted to block Orange Man Bad from keeping the bureau in Washington. That may not seem to be a big deal, but it is.
The feds, you see, are itching to move to a new complex in Greenbelt, Md., that would embody the gigantism and megalomania of the left’s vision of the federal government, and give the once-great agency plenty of space to increase the harassment of ordinary Americans who dared to dissent that began while Old Joe was pretending to be president. Trump will be gone by Jan. 20, 2029, and then the authoritarianism can begin creeping again.
The Hill reported Thursday that the Appropriations Committee “voted 15-14 to adopt language that seeks to block funding from being used to relocate the headquarters from its current J. Edgar Hoover Building site to any location other than the Greenbelt, Md., site selected by the General Services Administration in 2023.”
It’s not just a relocation. The Greenbelt site is set to be used for a staggeringly massive new FBI complex that will be double the size of the Pentagon. If you have ever flown into Washington, you can often see the Pentagon from the air and get a clear idea of how immense it is. If the Democrats get their way, the feds will have a playground that makes the Pentagon look like some third-tier accountant’s cubicle.
J. Michael Waller, senior analyst for strategy at the Center for Security Policy, explained back in 2023 that “riveted into the colossal new project are woke regulations to ensure that the FBI center will comply with diversity, equity, LGBTQ+, and climate change political goals.” Of course.
The current FBI building, one of the ugliest in Washington, covers two city blocks. The new headquarters, notes Waller, “will be built on one of three sites in suburban Virginia and Maryland. Those sites are large parcels of 58, 61, and 80 acres. That means, at minimum, the new FBI headquarters complex would be twice the size of the Pentagon building.” That will be true despite the fact that “covering about 29 acres plus a five-acre courtyard, the Pentagon, until recently, was the largest office building on earth.” The new FBI may even end up being bigger than the Kremlin, which covers 66 acres.
Why does the FBI need all this space? The better to surveil you with, my dear. The better to make your life miserable if you happen to have been in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. The better to hound you if you’re a parent who is angry because your child has been subjected to the critical race theory in primary school. The better to harass and terrorize you if you’re a pro-life activist. The better to manufacture “white supremacist terrorists” so as to justify the bureau’s ridiculous claims about what constitutes the largest terror threat the nation faces today. Yes, all that stopped when Old Joe shuffled off to Delaware for good. Many Democrats, however, regard 2024 as a speed bump. They’ll get back in the saddle in 2028 or thereafter, and resume implementing their sinister agenda.
The Greenbelt site was saved courtesy of Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-D), who was the deciding vote in the committee’s 15-14 decision to block Trump’s attempt to stop the massive new complex from being built. Also leading the fight against Trump was Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Grandstanding), whose state will be the site of the Orwellian new complex.
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“A few weeks ago,” Van Hollen announced, “the administration just announced that it wanted to snatch the $555 million that had been set aside for down payment on that selected site and use it instead to move the FBI into the Ronald Reagan Building. No analysis done with respect to security requirements, no analysis done with respect to FBI mission requirements, no review of the underlying statute as to the purpose of the Ronald Reagan Building, no analysis of what they would do with current tenants in that building.” FBI “mission requirements” according to whom, Van Hollen?
Murkowski and Van Hollen, of course, are part of the political elite class. They don’t have to worry about being on the wrong side of corrupt, compromised, anti-American feds. Ordinary people, however, do.
The only hope now to keep this monstrosity from being built is to keep voting out those who want to see it built.
