Make Mine the FBI

I will start this out with I love the FBI. I am infatuated with the FBI and I get a gleam in my eye about the FBI. I love the FBI.

As a child, I grew up with J. Edgar Hoover running the best federal police force the world has ever known. They always got their man and they were always an agency you could count on and trust. Too many politicians have taken cheap shots at them and too many politicians like William and Hillary Clinton have tried to politicize this august body of the finest of Americans to be shills for agendas to benefit a few over the many, but still the FBI stands as a hallmark of the best.

I learned this week that Mr. Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch will be addressing the Indianapolis division of the FBI on understanding Islamic issues. This is proof again that even though Washington might never quite get things straight in assessing situations, there are always regional agents with insight which have enough individual initiative to do what it takes to obtain the factual information for their further education to protect the citizens from all threats, domestic and foreign.

It does distress me when politics and political shills get implanted in the bureau as it causes situations like 9 11 to come to fruition as information is not being shared, so investigations which would have brought up dealings the Clintons were a part of also shadowed real investigations which field agents were reporting, so nothing was done.
Yet, even in that Director Louis Freeh was stalwart in doing a fabulous job for America. The Clinton White House might have kept him out of the loop and invisible walls which the Bush administration inherited and had to be torn down, but the FBI continues on as the generational epitome of all that is good about federal law enforcement.

I remember the old days when agents carried the Colt 38 snubby with the infamous 158 grain semi wadcutter which to this day is known as the FBI load. I remember when they were issued the 10 mm and other larger firepower and a trend developed for all law enforcement to develop SWAT tactics and a shoot to kill on sight mentality. None of that was the FBI or is the FBI. Certainly rogue agents appeared who did such things in the Clinton years, but nowhere in the time which elapsed has this dogma been carried out by the FBI in even the most horrendous of situations since 9 11.
The FBI has lead the way in law enforcement with a protect and serve direction and not followed the spray bullets and pray an officer hits something which has been handed down to state and local police agencies influencing them.

Frankly, the FBI needs to be the direction law enforcement is and the FBI needs to be the agency which is setting the example which all law enforcement follows.
There is nothing more exhilarating or comforting to citizens or criminals to see those sunglass wearing professionals show up with the trademark FBI in bold letters on their jackets. Everyone knows integrity, ideals, honesty and fairness are behind those badges. That is a trademark which is now over 70 years old. It is something which never receives enough recognition. The FBI can be counted on to treat someone in Congress with as much fairness in the balance as a thug terrorist in some cave. They are professionals beyond reproach and my heart swells with pride at such wonderful people in protection of the security of the United States of America.

The FBI does this all without fanfare, without complaints, without begging for recognition and at the same time dealing with thee most hostile of creatures intent on murder, slaps by politicians and attempts to by executives to invoke a prejudice in the bureau.
They also do it all without tarnish and do what is correct every time no matter if someone is watching or not.

This is the Federal Bureau of Investigation who are perpetual heroes to America and the shining example of all America is around the world.

Not enough can or has ever been said extolling the virtue of these agents, but I am very deeply grateful those agents are there.

Thank you FBI for all you have done, all you are doing and all you will be doing in the future.

Make mine the FBI every time.

*salute