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A Friend Indeed … My New Hero!

I have a new hero. His name is Steve Friend. For those who are perhaps unaware, Steve Friend is an FBI special agent … err, perhaps, more precisely stated, a suspended FBI special agent.

From the New York Post:

“Friend’s whistleblower complaint alleges that the FBI has been manipulating case-file management in order to falsely inflate the threat of domestic terrorism, and has been using unconstitutional and excessive force in efforts to persecute political opponents of the Biden administration.

Friend, a SWAT team member in Florida, was suspended by the FBI last week after refusing to participate in what he regarded as an unnecessarily heavy-handed raid over a January 6 misdemeanor.”

Imagine that! An FBI agent who is willing to risk his career standing up for principle. He believed that the heavy handed raid violated the suspects Sixth and Eighth Amendment rights. Agent Friend faced reprisals for speaking up internally. According to Friend, his immediate boss menacingly “asking how long I saw myself continuing to work for the FBI.”

However the heavy-handedness didn’t stop there.

On Sunday, 9/25, Friend’s wife’s Facebook account was suspended after she responded to an offer of support from a local chapter of Moms for Liberty (M4L), a conservative group that advocates for parental rights. 

About 30 minutes later, Mrs. Friend received a notification from Facebook that her account had been suspended because the “account, or activity on it, doesn’t follow our Community Standards.” 

At the Moms for Liberty end, Mrs. Friend’s Facebook message disappeared. In its place was a notification saying, “Message unavailable.” 

Hmmm!

BTW: I have few real goals left in life. I no longer have a bucket list like I used to … err, actually, I do have one thing left on my shrinking bucket list … to not follow Facebook’s so-called “community standards” and to be suspended from Facebook with my post relegated to “Message unavailable.”

Okay, Facebook, I dare ya!

9/27/22

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