The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was formed in 1865 in the aftermath of the Civil War. By 1870 it had spread to virtually all the southern states. Its mission was simple. It was to resist the Republican Party’s Reconstruction efforts in the South and in particular to intimidate through the use of violence those – white and black –who sought to overturn the existing social and political structure built on slavery.
The KKK was designed to crush all opposition to the status quo.
These days that job has apparently fallen to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Twitter avatar for @USATODAYUSA TODAY @USATODAY "Raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate."
Former President Donald Trump released a statement Monday saying federal agents searched Mar-a-Lago, his home in South Florida.
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Yesterday the FBI raided the residence of former President Donald Trump in Florida. The official explanation, to the extent there was any, was that the FBI was looking for documents that had been taken from the White House when Trump left office. Attempting to justify this action on that basis would be comical if this whole matter were not so deadly serious.
No one is seriously suggesting that Trump secretly ran away with classified documents and is now hiding them in this home in Florida. The entire “controversy” concerns the question of whether or not some of the papers Trump took with him properly should have been turned over to the National Archives. Keep in mind by the way that Trump didn’t pack any of the boxes that left the White House at the end of his term, so the real question is probably more a matter of whether or not employees of the General Services Administration made a mistake and moved out documents that should have gone to the archives.
Trump has been for some time cooperating with the National Archives and Records Administration as it attempts to answer this question. Employees of that federal agency have already been allowed access to all the documents in question. No one was preventing them from taking any and all documents that they determined properly should be in the archives.
In short, there was no coverup or wrongdoing. The FBI used the possibility that there might be additional documents that should be in the archives as a pretext to descend on Trump’s Mar a Lago estate with a small army and to conduct a search of the entire sprawling residence. That action had nothing to do with archives and preserving documents for posterity. It had everything to do with intimidating a political opponent and desperately searching for a way to avoid a disaster at the polls in November.
Joe Biden has presided over the most radical administration in American history. He has destroyed the economy, vaporized our southern border, lost Afghanistan, brought us to the brink of war with Russia, and is now doing his level best to get us into a conflict with Communist China. -- excerpt, rest at link above --
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
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