“Seems like various career managers at IRS could be arrested and imprisoned on the afternoon of January 21 at the latest.”
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There will always be quislings who will cooperate with despots and participate in lawless actions. Many of these “career” officials would be members of the Senior Executive Service (SES) and while their lawless actions likely cannot be punished by imprisonment they can BE DEALT WITH. Those careerists who participated in the oppression of the American people can be offered mandatory reassignment to Guam. They can take the reassignment or retire/resign. In any case, it would be good riddance to them.
Many other despicable members of the oppressive federal career civil service would be able to escape justice of just about any kind. America is in dire need of massive reductions in the size of federal agencies, indefinite pay freezes and the phase out of “locality pay” (essentially used to give higher pay in the headquarters levels in places such as DC, San Francisco and New York.
Most federal employees long ago lost a sense of being public servants and now see themselves more as overlords and rulers. Those that don’t see themselves as “entitled” to constant high pay (regardless of amount or even existence of work), extravagant benefits and early, generous retirement.
Very well-stated, House Atreides
The Law Defends Plunder
But it does not always do this. Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Thus the beneficiaries are spared the shame, danger, and scruple which their acts would otherwise involve. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons, and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim — when he defends himself — as a criminal.
See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.
Then abolish this law without delay, for it is not only an evil itself, but also it is a fertile source for further evils because it invites reprisals. If such a law — which may be an isolated case — is not abolished immediately, it will spread, multiply, and develop into a system.
In fact, this has already occurred. The present-day delusion is an attempt to enrich everyone at the expense of everyone else; to make plunder universal under the pretense of organizing it.
Frederic Bastiat 1801-1850
DEFUND it. DEPOPULATE them.
NO YOU DON'T