By Matthew Reardon | We The People News
When the Department of Justice becomes complicit in silence, it ceases to be a guardian of justice and becomes an architect of oppression.
Over the past year alone, I have submitted multiple formal complaints to the DOJ Office of the Inspector General, each one detailing glaring civil rights violations, due process breaches, and retaliatory actions by law enforcement at both the local and federal level. These aren’t abstract allegations. They are concrete, timestamped, documented episodes of unconstitutional behavior—backed by records, court filings, audio recordings, and first-hand testimony.
Yet the DOJ has responded with the most telling reaction of all: nothing.
The February Complaint That Vanished Into the Void
On February 29, 2025, I submitted a formal Inspector General complaint detailing how Mississippi law enforcement—including deputies from Lafayette County—abused the legal system to retaliate against me for my constitutionally protected journalism. The centerpiece of that complaint was my 2022 arrest and imprisonment for simply notifying authorities of a planned visit to the FBI office to report corruption—something I had every legal and ethical right to do. That visit was used as a pretext to revoke my probation. I served a full year behind bars for it. The FBI, who was informed of this in real time, said nothing.
That complaint included notarized affidavits, case numbers, and direct references to court misconduct and misuse of process. I requested a response, a case number, and an investigation. Months later—there has been no acknowledgment, no case number, no follow-up.
The April 2025 Complaint: History Repeats Itself
Then came April 9, 2025. Another IG complaint—this time spotlighting a second wave of misconduct, including Oxford Police Department’s covert sharing of my private Utah address with Layton Police mere hours after I relocated across the country. The DOJ received this, along with documents showing a clear trail of unlawful surveillance, data misuse, and an orchestrated campaign to discredit, dox, and intimidate me across state lines.
Again—radio silence.
This Isn’t Negligence. It’s Policy.
The refusal to act isn’t bureaucratic backlog. It’s institutional pattern. It is part of a broader practice at the highest levels of the Department of Justice to avoid confronting internal rot—especially when that rot involves retaliatory misconduct by federal partners, state prosecutors, or police departments operating under color of law.
Let me be clear: I am not the only one this has happened to. But I may be one of the few who has documented every step, every filing, every denial.
From Lafayette County to Galveston, Texas, to Layton, Utah—I have now traced a continuum of misconduct across jurisdictions. Every time I escalate it, the DOJ’s response is predictably absent. When a journalist is jailed for reporting, silenced through commitment schemes, doxxed after moving states, and retaliated against through federal silence—that is not an oversight. It is collusion by inaction.
A Dangerous Precedent for the Republic
When the DOJ’s Inspector General can receive a complaint with overwhelming evidence—when that office can verify serious misconduct and choose to do nothing—we are no longer dealing with a flawed system. We are confronting a weaponized silence designed to protect power, not the people.
The Fourteenth Amendment guarantees equal protection under the law. But where is the equal protection when the DOJ selectively shields corruption? When the Constitution is treated as a technicality instead of a foundation?
Time for Accountability, Not Apologies
This article is more than a warning. It is a line in the sand. I am calling for:
• A formal Congressional inquiry into the DOJ OIG’s failure to respond to public complaints.
• Immediate release of all case files, response logs, and internal communications regarding complaints submitted under my name from 2022 to 2025.
• Public transparency into how and why DOJ complaints are routinely dismissed or ignored when involving law enforcement misconduct.
The people deserve answers. The Constitution demands action. And history will not be kind to those who looked the other way while civil liberties were crushed under the weight of bureaucratic indifference.
Contact:
Matthew Reardon
Investigative Journalist | We The People News
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Website: www.wtpnews.org
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