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The already infamous raid on Mar-A-Lago that took place the other day by the FBI has drawn strong opinions from both sides. The raid has already drawn the ire of such prominent Conservatives as Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, and Paul Gosar.
Quite a strong ire, actually, given that all three of them subsequently called for the FBI to be either destroyed or defunded. Given the bleatings we have heard from the left regarding the prospect of defunding the police, it would seem that the old idea of politics being redundant is all but proven. Well, now another Republican wants to get his shots in.
It was just recently reported by TruthTent that:
Famed neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who served as former President Trump’s secretary of Housing and Urban Development, blasted the FBI raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home on Monday, comparing the action to those of infamous communist tyrants Mao Zedong and Fidel Castro.
Prior to serving under Trump, Carson had become famous for leading surgeons in the first known separation of conjoined twins who were joined at the back of the head and performing the first successful neurosurgical procedure on a fetus inside the womb.
He subsequently skewered the raid in a tweet:
Never in my lifetime did I think I would see an American law enforcement agency be run and weaponized like the FBI this evening. This is a frightening development in our modern political arena. This is the way of Mao and Castro, not Washington and Lincoln.
— Ben & Candy Carson (@RealBenCarson) August 9, 2022
“Never in my lifetime did I think I would see an American law enforcement agency be run and weaponized like the FBI this evening,” Carson tweeted. “This is a frightening development in our modern political arena. This is the way of Mao and Castro, not Washington and Lincoln.”
It was further reported:
Mao Zedong, who ruled communist China with an iron fist, murdered roughly 45 million people between 1958 to 1962 with his “Great Leap Forward” policy, The Washington Post has noted. His “Anti-Rightist Campaign” between 1957 and 1959 featured the persecution of people who favored capitalism or opposed one-party rule and state-run collectivization.
In contrast, Abraham Lincoln exhorted in his timeless first Inaugural Address: “We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.
The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”
“Our Republic is one where we have the freedom to think, say, and believe what we want without fear of government intimidation, that includes the President.
If we lose those basic freedoms, we lose it all,” Carson stated. “I am praying for our country right now because I’m not sure anything else can fix what is transgressing.”
The reactions to the raid have certainly been varied. It has ranged from a cacophony of praise, from people you can probably guess at. Journalist Dan Rather, for instance, was quoted as saying that the raid was a “spotlight of justice”.
Professional whiner and sometime direct /actor Rob Reiner tweeted out “Game On!!!” in response to the news. Finally, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough tweeted that “Fascists hate the rule of law”.
But then of course, on the other end you the likes of Carson, Boebert expressing the polar opposite view. This is where we are at in terms of scaling the infamous “middle ground”.
