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On August 9, “The FBI shot and killed a Utah man who allegedly made online threats to kill President Joe Biden and New York prosecutor Alvin Bragg.” In establishment media reports on the FBI action, “allegedly” gets a workout.
The FBI shot dead Craig Robertson, a 74-year-old woodworker who had allegedly threatened other politicians, including Gavin Newsom and just about every Democrat except Jimmy Carter. Reports on the shooting did not include original-source documentation of the alleged threats.
According to NBC, the FBI received a tip from “a social media company” pertaining to a user called @winston4eagles. The FBI believed the person with that user name to be Robertson. He allegedly told the FBI to get a warrant and they showed up at his house in force in the early hours of August 9.
Video of the engagement does not reveal whether Robertson was armed or fired shots before the FBI shot him dead. The FBI claims Robertson brandished a .357 revolver but it was “unclear if Robertson fired the weapon.” This was hardly the only unusual aspect of the killing.
Threats to the president of the United States are normally handled by the Secret Service. The Service told reporters the action against Robertson was an “FBI-led effort.” As it happens, deployment of deadly force is longstanding FBI practice.
This month marks 31 years since the FBI deployed massive military force against a single family. For choosing to live in rural Idaho, U.S. Army veteran Randy Weaver and his family were smeared as “white separatists.”
In the Ruby Ridge siege of 1992, brought on by an ATF entrapment scheme, the FBI deployed some 400 heavily armed agents, helicopters, and armored personnel carriers against Weaver and his family. The rules of engagement allowed deadly force against any family member seen with a firearm, but in effect it was shoot on sight.
On August 21, 1992 federal marshals deploying 9mm submachineguns shot dead Weaver’s son Samuel, only 14 years old and not wanted for any crime. On August 22, 1992, FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi shot dead Randy’s wife Vicki Weaver as she held holding infant daughter. Vicki Weaver was unarmed, not under arrest, and not wanted for any crime. Snipers are trained carefully “to acquire” the target, so there is little chance the shooting was accidental.
At the time of the siege, Attorney General William Barr spent two weeks organizing former attorney generals to defend FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi. Louis Freeh, Clinton pick for FBI boss, expressed “regret and sorrow for Mrs. Weaver’s death,” which he claimed was “tragic but accidental.”
Freeh later recommend Larry Potts, special agent in charge at Ruby Ridge, to be deputy director of the FBI. Deploying deadly force is the key to FBI advancement, but preventing deadly violence against Americans is a different story.
In 1993, the FBI failed to prevent Islamic terrorists from bombing the World Trade Center, which claimed six victims. Two years later, the FBI failed to prevent the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 with 168 dead. The lessons went unlearned.
For all its money, power and resources, the FBI failed to prevent Islamic terrorists from hijacking airliners and crashing them into the Pentagon and World Trade Center. The September 11, 2001 attack claimed 3,000 lives and billions in damages.
In 2009, the FBI was monitoring the communications of Maj. Nidal Hasan with al Qaeda terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki. The FBI’s Washington office dropped the surveillance, and on November 5, 2009 at Fort Hood, Texas, Hasan shot dead 13 Americans and wounded more than 30 others. For President Obama, it was “workplace violence,” not even gun violence. No word whether, as with 9/11, anybody in the FBI was disciplined, demoted or discharged.
In 2012, the Department of Homeland Security released Hot Spots of Terrorism and Other Crimes in the United States, 1979-2008. This study classified persons judged to be “suspicious of centralized federal authority” and “reverent of individual liberty” as “extreme right-wing terrorists.”
In 2013, Challengers from the Sidelines: Understanding America’s Violent Far-Right, from the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, warns about the “anti-federalist movement.” Members of this movement “espouse strong convictions regarding the federal government, believing it to be corrupt and tyrannical, with a natural tendency to intrude on individuals’ civil and constitutional rights.” They also support civil activism, individual freedoms, and self-government.
That same year, the FBI failed to prevent Islamic terrorists Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev from bombing the Boston Marathon in 2013, killing three and wounding 281. Local police, not the FBI, killed Tamerlan and captured Dzhokhar.
Two years later in 2015, the FBI failed to prevent Islamic terrorists Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik from gunning down 14 people in San Bernardino California. The victims included blacks and Hispanics but the massacre was not called a racist hate crime. San Bernardino police, not the FBI, took down the terrorists with no loss of innocent life.
In 2016, the FBI failed to stop Islamic State recruit Omar Mateen from shooting dead 49 people and wounding more than 50 at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. As in Boston and San Bernardino, local police, not the FBI, took down the mass murderer. That year, the FBI was branching out into election interference.
Counterintelligence boss Peter Strzok told his girlfriend “we’ll stop” Trump’s election and mounted the “Crossfire Hurricane” operation against President Trump. For the FBI, Trump’s supporters then became the Main Enemy.
In 2019, after mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, President Trump lowered flags to half-mast until August 8. According to Frank Figliuzzi, former FBI assistant director for counterintelligence, this was a secret signal to white supremacists meaning “Heil Hitler,” with H being the eighth letter of the alphabet.
On MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House,” Figliuzzi said the Trump administration should be viewed through the “lens of radicalization” and compared his supporters to a “terrorist organization.” Biden is all-in with it.
In a hate-drenched speech last September 1, Biden charged that those who want America to be great pose the greatest threat. Biden’s FBI brands protesting parents as domestic terrorists, and just about anyone less than worshipful of Joe Biden is smeared as a violent extremist, white supremacist and so forth. People of faith are a prime target.
Last year, a 25–member FBI SWAT team showed up at the residence of pro-life activist Mark Houck in the early morning hours.
“At least 10, 15 marked and unmarked units right in front of me,” Houck told reporters.
“Long guns pointed at me, heavily armored vests, ballistic helmets, ballistic shields, a battering ram.” Houck, a father of seven children, spotted an FBI agent in the back of the house, and at least five federal agents on his porch “with M-16s pointed at me and now my wife as she entered the opening of the door.”
Houck posed no threat and the FBI’s his militant action was over two alleged violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. In January a federal jury found Houck not guilty.
Craig Robertson “allegedly” threatened Biden and other Democrats, but the online record of threats is hard to find. There are no reports of the 74-year-old actually shooting or attempting to shoot anybody, and it’s unclear if he fired the .357 revolver he allegedly brandished. All depends on the word of the FBI, which mounted no such action at the home of actual terrorists Nidal Hasan, Syed Farook, Omar Mateen, or the Tsarnaev brothers.
The shooting of Robertson is reportedly under review by the FBI’s Inspection Division. This is an agency that reviews itself, so the head of the SWAT team and the agent or agents who killed Robertson will doubtless gain promotion.
At this writing, nobody in Congress is calling for an investigation of the killing, but if anybody thought it was basically an execution, it would be hard to blame them. The FBI, supposedly a nonpartisan bureau of “investigation,” has become Biden’s Geheime Staatspolizei and Einsatzgruppen, a roving death squad.
“Desire to wage war on ordinary Americans—to disadvantage them and even to kill them—had long been bubbling in the ruling class’s basements,” wrote the late Angelo Codevilla in 2019. Branding ordinary Americans as white supremacists, domestic terrorists, and violent extremists is a prelude to deadly violence against them.
Look for more of the same as the 2024 election approaches. The struggle against FBI violence is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
The FBI’s first response to murder Americans and never ask questions. They refuse body cameras when they murder Americans.
The terrorist cartel needs to be disbanded and it’s thugs arrested
The FBLie will never be trusted by the American people again! NEVER! And by the way, over the decades how many scandals has the FBLie now been involved in? And how many times has the FBLie already supposedly been reformed? It will never change. The FBLie began its existence as a political organization, throughout its existence it has been a political organization, and it will always be a political organization. The only thing that can reasonably be done with it is to get rid of it. Some of its necessary functions could be transferred to other LEOs, but as for the remainder of it, cancel it.
Absolutely! The FBI began as a clerical bureau and has de-evolved into a private army serving the whims of TPTB. Look at what happened to Roger Stone, General Flynn, and remember how an informant set up Randy Weaver. These people exist to keep us in line, not to protect our freedoms and rights.
It started out as agency designed to spy on the public.
Yeah, I find it hard to believe that Robertson didn’t even get a single shot off. Not that he could be blamed for shooting at rat bastards who broke his door down.
The FBI scumbags are lying, AS ALWAYS.
What ought to be done is that State governments must forcibly disband FBI units on their territory, and if they resist use lethal force to suppress them.
The FBI, The FBI, The FBI. Where is the Republican House majority??? Oh wait-they are on their
MONTH long Vaca.(talk about Biden) Just wait til they get back and you’ll see.
Letters anyone.
Precisely. The disbandment must be initiated as soon as we get a decent prez and ag, hopefully, starting January 20, 2024. The behavior of these fed agencies is beyond supportable and has been for decades. Also, why does the IRS need the millions of bullets Janet Napolitano ordered under her watch. They act like it is a branch of the Marine Corps or Army. IF the IRS truly needs arms, let them make their case to a judge and local police department. The IRS does not need arms or bullets.
Well, it’s nice to know the shitheads in the FBI have their priorities straight . . . it’s us.
BTW. The Kremlin warned the Keystone FBI twice – to repeat – TWICE, about the Tsarnaev brothers.
The FBI asked those islamist duchebags politely if they were jihadists; they answered “no”, and with that single answer, the investigation was closed.
Jug-eared Barry said the FBI “did their job”. Turns out that he was right. The FBI gave them the Tsarnaevs wiggle room, and they used it.
But, by God, the FBI sure as hell dealt with that “old white guy” threat! Job well done, Stazi.
True on the Tsarnaev bros. Also true that the father of the guy who put explosives in his briefs tried multiple times to warn the Americans. But they wouldn’t believe him until the dope tried to explode his bomb but merely managed to burn his jewels. The top levels of our fed is full of corrupted fools out to make themselves rich.
So dose Biden want to disarm us all while sending out his armed SS(FBI)and confiscate our Cars, Red Meat, Gas Stoves Etc. to abide by all those Treaties? do we have more better reason to evict the whole rotten UN from America and the other Globalists like the WEF, CFR and have the Globalists reported to Siberia
Just catapult them into the Atlantic. It’ll feed the fish & boost the eco cycle
Maybe not! Their rot may do the opposite and cause an eco catastrophe!
It doesn’t help that our country has been ruled by Brits since 1789. It was also when we became a corporation. A private company cannot legally run a country. We need a Chain of Title fast to correct our status as American Nationals. Saying you are a US citizen is enslaving ourselves to a private company. We need a legit government to run our country and fast. As a people if we unite can establish a Social Compact, and begin the process of erecting a republic government. Study the “Law of Nations,” and the Bible.
Drop them one by one, with a chute, from about 30,000 feet. Delay the chute popping until about 15,000 feet. Give them plenty of time to ponder WHY they are making this last ride. Perhaps pin a nice little large print booklet to their harness. Make sure the chute is large enough to give them a gentle splash. More time to read their little bedtime story.
Ahh, are not fairy tales fun to ponder?
In the Sixties, the Left claimed that the FIB were Gestapo targeting them. Now Democrats (the children of those Leftists) are in power, the FIB are Gestapo targeting conservatives, and the Left (Democrats) are fine with that.
Don’t cha dare speak out against the totalitarian state or they might just send the gestapo out to knock YOU off too. That seems to be the message the administration and the bureau seek to send in these bi-annual pre-dawn raids.
Though the frequency has increased recently, their choices in incredibly soft targets is telling; a 75 year old man and completely disabled vet, but both whiter than snow. Theodore Deschler of Henderson, Tennessee was unarmed when he was shot and killed 3 days ago by the FBI in another pre-dawn raid. It comes as no surprise that sending a message was more important than the intelligence gathering, since home security footage of the event was missed in the latter case. Sloppy guys, just sloppy.
If being old, white, a veteran, and hating this corrupt government is target worthy…then I’m f**ked with a capital F, but I get up long before dawn every day and I’m never unarmed. From what I’ve been able to gather from other vets, I’m not alone in this regard.
If you read the article closely you’ll notice that the people who the FBI shoot seem to be white and conservative. I don’t believe in coincidences. I don’t think it is an intentional plot but is a reflection of FBI training that doubtlessly incorporates the Dem’s talking point that these people are “white supremacists” and, thus, the most dangerous threat to “our democracy” and the fact that it is simply easier for the FBI to get away with shooting a white person. No protest demonstrations, no riots and looting, no critical media coverage, no media coverage incorporating the decade’s baby or high school graduation pictures, no huge lawsuits in front of revenge-seeking jurors, no internal review boards conditioned to find FBI culpability, etc.
I also found that odd. Look at the number of jihadists that got away with mass murder before the FBI noticed anything. Yet, was there ANY evidence warranting the raids on two disabled veterans, beyond Facebook posts? I think it’s time to be very afraid. Like they say, if you’re not a bit paranoid, you’re a bit naive.
Good article, BTW.
My husband had a good and close friend who had been in the second group of Navy Seals. He lost his faith in our gov because of what his team uncovered the jungle of Cambodia. Prior to that event, the guy was really patriotic. But witnessing that he could not wait to get out. He had over 20k bullets plus how knows how many weapons in his home when he died from cancer a few years ago. Our gov has been corrupt for quite some time.
Are you suggesting that Apocalypse Now might not be fiction?
…………………“Desire to wage war on ordinary Americans—to disadvantage them and even to kill them—had long been bubbling in the ruling class’s basements,” wrote the late Angelo Codevilla in 2019.”…………………… Branding ordinary Americans as white supremacists, domestic terrorists, and violent extremists is a prelude to deadly violence against them.”
This part about bubbling in the ruling class’s basements, explains the situation very clear.
Most Americans just dont know enough world history to be able to make sense of our current (internal) situation.
The Nobles are putting us in our places, and we better smile about it and realize how lucky we are. Or else.
“The Nobles are putting us in our places…” As some have described it, a neo-feudalism.
Well, Brandon did threaten us with F16s.
Quite something when the most corrupt politician we have had for a prez has the gaul to threaten voters with our own military and military weapons. It is difficult to measure the hate i feel for the crook.
So many incidents… the ‘Draw Muhammed’ story:
According to published reports, the FBI had been investigation Robertson since last March. It is impossible to believe they couldn’t have found a more opportune way to take a 74 year old, overweight man who walked with a cane into custody, other than a pre-dawn raid with a SWAT team. In fact, many reasonable people might think someone was breaking into their home.
More to the point: It’s been 19 days since this happened and there has been no release of body-cam video. Something stinks–and no one in the mainstream media or the Republican Party gives a damn.
True, without doubt. For sure they could have taken him in IF they had wanted to.
Their deed was done to send a message.
Just like Brandon and his team met with the DOJ prior to indicting Trump. Illegal, unethical for sure. But they could not care less. IF decent people are elected in Nov 2024, this corrupted fbi and doj and irs must be abandoned, defunded, and reborn with new management. With management that understands and adheres to our Constitution. Enough with crooks who make themselves rich off us.
The FBI will release the bodycam footage at the same time it releases the Nashville tranny shooter’s manifesto.
Yes the FIB (intentional) should be disbanded but don’t forget the 87 THOUSAND IRS Gestapo waiting to get THEIR turns! The recruiting ads called for those who WOULD USE DEADLY FORCE – why??? Is this ANOTHER NATIONAL DEMOcrat ARMY Unit???? The next R President – preferably PRESIDENT TRUMP – needs to end the 87 before it gets too far along. If we need MORE INCOME TAX REFORM then continue with what PRESIDENT TRUMP started – eliminate all deductions – put a minimum tax on ALL INCOME so EVERYONE has skin in the game!! And the FIB?? DISMANTLED – crime labs going to US Marshals !! CIA?? Scattered into a BILLION pieces (inflationary since JFK’s time)!! ILLEGALS?? ABSOLUTELY NO BENEFITS other than a map to the SOUTHERN BORDER!! Those who HIRE ILLEGALS – same map!!! We are in a WAR whether we admit it or not – we’ve been INVADED by MILLIONS of MILITARY AGE MEN from MANY NATIONS – including CHINA!! How does one get to OUR Southern Border from CHINA???? So many issues need to be fixed and it will take a STRONG MAN with a STRONG TEAM to get it done! It can’t all happen in four years but it needs to happen or we won’t have a Nation to call HOME!
One huge problem we have are the rinos. Consider they voted for the inflationary bill that also gave us those 87K new auditors to go after the middle and lower class of we citizens. Actually, there are only a few true nonrinos in the House. Even fewer in the Senate. One here in AZ is Juan Ciscomani – the fool even voted to NOT censure Schiff for his years of lying until enough stink was raised with the fool so that he changed his vote (probably reluctantly) to vote to censure on the second time around. Rinos are possibly worse than commie Dems because they pretend to be Republican but are truly not.
The Weaver murders were a first degree homicide. Barr was culpable.
Not to be outdone, Janet Reno orchestrated the mass murder at Waco.
The only prosecution was of targets who survived.
This was just practice in preparation for another Waco like event against MAGA.
The FBI hasn’t had a good massacre in a while and they need a refresher
I wonder what(if Anything)The FBI would have done if he had made similar”Threats”against TRUMP???
Nothing. Because similar threats were made against Trump and nothing happened.
They would have visited him to enquire if he had enough guns and ammo to do the job.
And to offer him a getaway car and driver.
The FBI needs to be rebulilt from top to bottom
Hasn’t that been done? Better to tear it down entirely.
If the need for something like it arises again, then no former agent or official should be employed.
Certainly at and near the top.
In the lower 85% or so there are surely thousands of loyal Americans wishing they could still do an honest job for all of us. No doubt they hurt worse than we do about what they see and know inside!
If that were the case there would be hundreds of “whistleblowers” instead of a small handful. The salary and perks, along with the opportunity to rise in the ranks and the negative consequences for refusing to participate in what is clearly illegal activity is enough motivation to “do the job” without question. Look back to the 1930’s and 40;s in Germany and it’s easy to see there is no shortage of men willing to obey any order given. I see little to no evidence, among those 85% in the lower ranks, they have a problem with the “management”.
An excellent summary of the FBI’s follies, failures, and fakeries.
Recall the death threats against Trump by some has-been Broadway octogenarian, Johnny Depp, non-comedian Kathy Griffin, holding Trump’s bloody head in her hands and the dream of blowing up the White House by the unctuous Madonna. No 6 a.m. full scale raids 9n their houses. The FBI needs to be dismantled, like the rest of the alphabet agencies.
Sounds like Germany in the 1930’s
Barr was such a disappointment, probably because I didn’t know his background with Clinton in AK. Once I found out about that, it made a lot of sense.
Thanks for a great summary of a travesty in our country.
Like any bully, the Fascist Bureau of Intimidation prefers sleeping, unarmed citizens without body armor, or better yet, unarmed women with infants in their arms, to facing actual armed terrorists.
Trigger Happy FBI this is not the works of the NRA Its Der Ferhrer(Biden)and his own SS
Unhappily the old guy was unable to take out at least one of those FIB murderers on his way down.
This article is one of the best most concise outlines of the FBIs recent crimes against citizens and the Republic I have read in one article. The FBI has engaged in illegal acts many of a political nature since its inception. Now the FBI seems to believe it is omnipotent and actually acts as though they are a fourth branch of government! They refuse to release documents to Congressional Representatives that have over sight of their activities. These documents they withhold are to protect their favored politicians, Democrat leftists! We the People as citizens of this Republic must bring these outlaws under control, hopefully that job will begin after the 2024 election, if not the Republics’ survival is at stake! Please vote for responsible government! Thank you Mr. Billingsley for this outstanding article!
The FBI are not about protecting America, or Americans. The protect, cover up for corrupt democrats. And they kill off anyone seen as a threat in any way shape or form to those corrupt pigs
Randy Weaver described himself as a ‘white separatist’, there’s no smear there. His own words: “I’m not a hateful racist as most people understand it. But I believe in the separation of races. We wanted to be separated from the rest of the world, to live in a remote area, to give our children a good place to grow up.”
He also broke the laws of Idaho by selling sawed off rifles to ATF agents. If you don’t like the laws, you can put in the work to change them. If you do the crime, better be prepared to do the time.
His ridiculous attempt to hide from multiple massive agencies doomed his young son and he knew it before his death.
What’s the name of the person who killed Craig Robertson?
I have read in credible sources that the Federal agency you named engaged in encouraging and then entrapping in the aledged “sale” of the “sawed off” firearms.
WHY do you blame Randy Weaver for the clear choice those agents made when they targeted his Son for death? NOT Randys doing. It is ALWAYS the one holding the firearm decides when and how to take the shot. That was 100% on those agents. And don’t even THINK about the Nurenburg Defense of “I was only followink Orders”. That guy holding the firearm is 100% responsible.