EPISODE · May 17, 2023 · 16 MIN
J Edgar Redux?
from Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show · host Dave Bowman
Look, I get it. we should all be pissed off. Left, right, center. What we learned this week is that J Edgar Hoover was alive and well in the one institution that we were told that we could trust. Efrem Zimbalist Jr, and Tom Clancy novels not withstanding, we learned that abuse of power infects every alphabet agency and hall of marble buildings across the government. i do not care what party you say you are, if this doesn’t piss you off, you’re the real problem. That said, and the famed Nuremberg Defense aside, can we please stop labeling our opponents – both sides – as “Nazis?” They aren’t. And our petty little political differences do not justify the disrespect it shows to the victims of the Holocaust. In the end, the FBI isn’t the real problem. But like so many other societies, we refuse to address the actual problem…
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Look, I get it. we should all be pissed off. Left, right, center. What we learned this week is that J Edgar Hoover was alive and well in the one institution that we were told that we could trust. Efrem Zimbalist Jr, and Tom Clancy novels not withstanding, we learned that abuse of power infects every alphabet agency and hall of marble buildings across the government. i do not care what party you say you are, if this doesn’t piss you off, you’re the real problem. That said, and the famed Nuremberg Defense aside, can we please stop labeling our opponents – both sides – as “Nazis?” They aren’t. And our petty little political differences do not justify the disrespect it shows to the victims of the Holocaust. In the end, the FBI isn’t the real problem. But like so many other societies, we refuse to address the actual problem…
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