Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania 

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On this day, May 10, 1924, J. Edgar Hoover was appointed the first Director of the Bureau of Investigation, later the FBI, a role he held until his death in 1972. At 29, he took a small agency and turned it into a sprawling powerhouse, amassing files on politicians, activists, and ordinary citizens—often through illegal wiretaps and blackmail. From targeting Martin Luther King Jr. to COINTELPRO’s sabotage of dissenters, Hoover’s FBI became a shadow government, unaccountable and feared.

This wasn’t law enforcement; it was tyranny dressed in a badge. Hoover’s unchecked reign shows what happens when power festers in one person—or one agency—too long. The Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania sees the FBI’s scarred legacy as a warning: centralized power invites abuse. The agency’s still a threat—spying, overreaching, picking winners. Abolish it, and let local law handle crime. Freedom thrives when no one looms above the law.

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