WHY ARE NO FEDS ON 'MOST WANTED' LIST - ASKED LIBERTARIANS

Why are no government murderers, robbers, or perverts on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list?

WASHINGTON, DC Date line: June 13th 1999. Geocities 7006

I ask you this…has this gotten WORSE in the last 25 years or has it gotten BETTER? Sometime I post old news that is really new news to many. This is one of those posts. C.L.

The most shocking thing about the FBI's new "10 Most Wanted" list  is all the dangerous criminals who are not on it: The criminals who just  happen to work for the federal government, the Libertarian Party said  today (6/13/1999).        

"From murder to  kidnapping to sexual assault -- many government employees have committed what  would be considered heinous crimes if perpetrated by ordinary citizens,"  said Steve Dasbach, the party's national director. "But curiously, none  of those government desperados made it onto the FBI's  list."        

On Monday, the FBI  released the latest edition of its famous 10 Most Wanted list, which included  a frightful line-up of murderers, international terrorists, robbers, and  bombers.  And that's good, said  Dasbach: "Every person on that list who committed a crime of violence  should be punished; justice demands it. But justice also demands that  everyone who commits a crime of violence be treated equally -- even if they  happen to be a politician, the head of a federal agency, or a government  bureaucrat."

With that in  mind, Dasbach offered a Libertarian version of the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list:  Government criminals who weren't on the list, but should  be.         1.

1. U.S. Customs  Commissioner Raymond Kelly. Crime: Accessory to sexual assault. "Last  year, U.S. Customs employees under Kelly's command ordered 2,797  international airline passengers to strip off their clothes at gunpoint,  intimately groped them, and conducted humiliating body cavity searches,"  said Dasbach. "Ordinary Americans who behave this way are called sex  criminals, but Customs inspectors who behave like perverts are given  promotions."        

2. Justice  Department Asset Forfeiture Division Chief Jerry McDowell. Crime: Grand  larceny. "Last year, the Justice Department confiscated 42,454 cars,  boats, houses, and other belongings -- valued at over $604 million -- from  Americans who were never convicted of any crime," said Dasbach.  "That's theft on a mind-boggling scale, and makes Jerry McDowell one of  the criminal masterminds of the  century."        

3. Marine  Corporal Clemente Banuelos. Crime: Murder. "In 1997, Banuelos and three  fellow Marines on an anti-drug patrol in Redford, Texas, gunned down  18-year-old Ezequiel Hernandez as he was herding goats near the Mexican  border," noted Dasbach. "Why is cold-blooded murder not considered  murder when committed by someone wearing a Marine Corps  insignia?"        

4. President  Bill Clinton. Crime: International terrorism. "Osama bin Laden made the  FBI's list for killing 224 people in embassy bombings -- yet Clinton has  killed literally thousands of innocent civilians during his undeclared and  unconstitutional war in Yugoslavia," said Dasbach. "That kind of  mass murder of innocents should not go unpunished by a civilized  nation."        

5. Former NHTSA  director Joan Claybrook. Crime: Accessory to murder. "As head of the  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in the 1970s, Claybrook forced  automakers to install air bags, many of which have malfunctioned and  exploded, killing 115 people," said Dasbach. "If  Death-by-Regulation isn't a crime, it should be -- and Claybrook should be  the first person  prosecuted."        

6. Social  Security Commissioner Kenneth S. Apfel. Crime: Investment fraud. "If an  ordinary American did what Apfel and his Social Security co-conspirators do  -- run a retirement program where the only assets are billions of dollars of  IOUs -- they would be in jail faster than you can yell 'AARP!' " said  Dasbach. "Why is the government's Ponzi Scheme, where new investors are  paid with money from old investors, not shut down like any other criminal  pyramid scheme would  be?"        

7. Attorney General  Janet Reno. Crime: Conspiracy to commit murder. "Not even the Mafia  would do what Janet Reno ordered done on April 19, 1993: Assault a religious  compound with tanks, military helicopters, and poison gas," said  Dasbach. "Yet that's what happened in Waco, Texas -- killing 69 men,  women, and children. Son of Sam is in jail for committing serial murder: Why  isn't Janet Reno?"        

8. FBI  sniper Lon Horiuchi. Crime: Murder. "In 1992, Horiuchi used a  high-powered rifle to assassinate Vicki Weaver in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, as she  stood in her kitchen holding her 11-month-old infant daughter," said  Dasbach. "You may not like the political views of her husband, white  separatist Randy Weaver, but that shouldn't have given government employees  the right to declare open season on his  family."

 9. Drug czar  Barry McCaffrey. Crime: Kidnapping, false imprisonment. "Under  McCaffrey's direction, 695,200 people were arrested in 1997 for marijuana  offenses, 87% of whom were accused of mere possession," noted Dasbach.  "For this victimless crime, these people were arrested at gunpoint,  dumped into jail cells, and deprived of their liberty -- while millions of  violent criminals were allowed to run free. That's the real  crime."        

10. U.S. Rep.  Bill McCollum (R-FL). Crime: Illegal telephone tapping. "Last year,  McCollum inserted a roving wiretap provision into the Intelligence  Authorization Act of 1998 -- giving federal agents the power to eavesdrop on  anyone's phone calls without a court order," said Dasbach.  "Unauthorized eavesdropping is a crime: Let's prosecute Rep. McCollum  for it."         So, do  Libertarians think any of these government "criminals" will ever  end up behind bars?          "Perhaps not," admitted Dasbach. "But it's nice to dream  about an America where equal justice under the law is a reality. And  if nothing else, if would be nice if some of these most wanted  criminals became some of America's least wanted  politicians."

It has now been 25 years this this was released. What do you suppose the number total NOW for all of those 25 year of these same crimes or similar ones being committed by Federal government employees? 10x or 25x more? Lavoy Finicum comes to mind where he was murdered up in Oregon. What ever happened to HIS murderer? Did he get a promotion? Or did he, as Lon Horiuchi, or Herb Byerly or Michael Springer get to retire with a nice big fat pension and live in a nice house for the rest of their days for being GOOD psychopathic control freak PARASITES? Good questions aren’t they? I wonder at what time the founding fathers would have put a stop to this insanity. What do you think? Is this old news? Or is it the same news TODAY with a different year on it and a few different names?