by Quan Parker
You're Fired!
We strongly suspect there are entities more corrupt than at least nine of the last thirteen presidents, meaning such spooks have the ultimate power, not the elected chief executive puppet at that moment. It has certainly appears that way since mid-1963 when JFK fired CIA Director Allen Dulles, who legend says kept showing up at Langley anyway. Six months later "they" apparently fired back.
In the same breath as the "power corrupts" gem, Lord Acton added: "There is no worse heresy than the fact that the office sanctifies the holder of it." Indeed, many of them have unresolved inferiority complexes. Subconsciously they realize they do not deserve nor are mentally equipped to handle a cushy government office job running a mini-empire and wasting tax/inflation dollars, and they are quite correct.
They start out incompetent and over time, too lazy or "busy" to learn how to effectively manage people, they turn to ruthless authoritarianism, because they can't be fired no matter how bad they screw up, no matter how much injustice they facilitate or how many innocents suffer. They become arbitrary, cynical, defensive, eventually cruel.
They come to hate the people they "serve" and the people they command, because they secretly hate themselves and the monster they work for. And they hate that the general public is so stupid and easily corrupted by bones thrown their way. So they laugh anyway. And if they don't hate what they are, they are missing the sublime joy of contemplating Truth.
We see shocking suicides among those who return from the sand wars at a rate exceeding combat deaths. What were they made to do that they cannot come home again and face their loved ones, their country, or their own memories? Talk about a dead elephant in the room no one wants to discuss.
Who besides practical, anti-violence libertarians would do everyone a huge favor and peacefully dismantle the Leviathan? We would fire (rather than fire at) the sanctimonious, hubris-encrusted powersuckers, bootlickers, crotchgropers and buttsniffers at the abusive, extraordinarily overrated and overfunded NSA, CIA, FBI, DEA, TSA, EPA, FDA, CDC, DHS, BATF, IRS, DoJ, Pentagram, etc., etc. It's probably the best deal they could get should anything approaching impartial, equal justice ever be reestablished in this century.
The Surveillance State evidently has uncovered plenty of blackmail-bait leverage over key members of both houses of Congress, forcing them to fund these abominable, lying jerks with unlimited ebucks and blind oversight. Few reps can afford to have their constituency discover their own peccadilloes or off-the-record beliefs. Do you suppose known child molesters have been encouraged and helped to run for office for many years, because they are so easily controlled?
Thick as a Damned Brick
Do the few good, ethical, well-intentioned people left in these departments outweigh the dead tonnage and metaphysical inertia of hordes of overpaid mini-tyrants and arrogant, half-educated 'facilitators' in expensive suits, megatons of federal regs, scores of overlapping federal police and armed regulators, a city of lawyers to churn it daily, built upon a hundred years and 20 trillions of dollars of FED-expanded debt? This is a continent-sized brick of lead with a goopy center of altruistic b.s. and manufactured fear. It takes an irresistible force to budge an immovable object.
Ladies, is this what you envision for your ambitious sons and daughters? Leadership of a lockstep parade of hyper-conformist politically-correct "public service" androids? Reinvent America down to a collectivist gulag? Kim Jong Un will swoon in envy and/or laugh last.
"Oh dear, we can't just stop the train to Hell! It must be slowed step by step, and only by experts!" Ummhmm. I personally believe that if the neocons hadn't probably threatened Trump's family (and Ron Paul's?) like they did Perot's, we would have already seen lots more results.
"Gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice." — William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879), Abolitionist.