Love Your FBI

ALL GOOD, LOYAL PATRIOTIC AMERICANS SHOULD LOVE their country, in all its various aspects; black, white, male, female, young, old, army, navy, air force, marines, CIA,(central intelligence agency) FBI (federal bureau of investigation).

For you russian readers, both the CIA and the FBI are equivalent to the old soviet KGB, which should be enough to frighten you, and make you appreciate what you have. 

WE Americans should love everything american, to be truly patriotic. Fact is, though, sometimes its a mite hard lovin' the FBI. and here's why....

Right after pearl harbor, when world war two came to america,perhaps by invitation, my father, fresh out of law school and practicing with his father, decided to apply to join the FBI, basically, in order to avoid military service and combat, for which he was particularly unsuited.

However, the FBI turned him down, even though he was young, healthy, with a law degree. Maybe they saw through his ploy, knew why he was really applying. (he ended up joining the navy instead).

Then, there's this J edgar hoover character, who ran the FBI as an absolute dicator for, what, forty years? Hoover basically founded the law enforcement agency, and controlled it for longer than anybody should control anything, except his own life.

hoover was such an all powerful tyrannt that every president was afraid of him, because he had dirt on all of them, which was easy, with presidents like kennedy, johnson, and nixon. my father once wrote a letter to his congressman complaining about hoover, and the congressman wrote my father a very unfriendly response.

Later in my life, I was harmlessly protesing the first (of many) gulf wars in 1991, with hundreds of other people, while closely observed by the FBI. They hid in a nearby ten story building, with binoculars, suits, ties, sunglasses, and lapel pins.

Just a couple of years ago the FBI spent two years harassing one of my best friends, becuase they thought he was a serial killer, but, they eventually gave up, when they realized they were wrong. My friend was, and still is, a respected businessman in our city.

The FBI confiscated everything he owned, including his computers, which they tore apart. When they finally returned them to my friend, the computers wouldn't function, so my friend had to pay to have them repaired. The FBI never apologized to my friend.

Humorless, personality-less, these fibbies. maybe you can see why i have a hard time liking them. but i must try. after all, they are americans...