Steve Friend, 37, a respected 12-year veteran of the FBI and a SWAT team member, was suspended Monday, stripped of his gun and badge, and escorted out of the FBI field office in Daytona Beach, Fla., after complaining to his supervisors about the violations.
He was declared absent without leave last month for refusing to participate in SWAT raids that he believed violated FBI policy and were a use of excessive force against Jan. 6 subjects accused of misdemeanor offenses.
This American hero, the father of two small children, has blown up his “dream career” because he could not live with his conscience if he continued to be part of what he sees as the unjust persecution of conservative Americans.
“I have an oath to uphold the Constitution,” he told supervisors when he asserted his conscientious objection to joining an Aug. 24 raid on a J6 subject in the Jacksonville, Fla., area. “I have a moral objection and want to be considered a conscientious objector.”
Friend, who did not vote for Donald Trump in the 2020 election, said he told his immediate boss twice that he believed the raid, and the investigative process leading up to it, violated FBI policy and the subject’s right under the Sixth Amendment to a fair trial and Eighth Amendment right against cruel and unusual punishment.
So much for the rule of law when the highest law enforcement agency in the Department of Justice violates the law protecting whistle blowers.
Tyranny has supplanted natural human order across western countries. This should be the flashing poster to the populace that something is terribly awry, however there is still a large number of fear-terrorized citizenry of Fauci followers who are blindly abiding to the tyrannical whims of their fear-masters. This psychopath-induced response extends along their political leanings as well, where they defend the very people who are using and abusing them. Stalin referred to these folks as 'useful idiots'
So sad that so few have the eyes that can see.