Will there be accountability for what happened?
That should be the only question on the table right now and Jeff Sessions better move in along with Ryan Zinke at Interior to clean house at the US Attorney's Office, the FBI and the Bureau of Land Management over this matter and how it was handled.
They are both just business as usual Republicans IMHO and are not going to upset the criminal justice-law enforcement bureaucracy that the Republican Party depends on for support and promotes each election cycle with its "law and order" mantras.
"Big Government" salaries and pensions aren't just about education and list goes on departments which need to be dealt with, its also about the expensive law enforcement salaries and pensions, too.
Trimming at the edges like Nikki Haley is being touted for at the UN is such a joke.
The permanent dismantling of institutions from the EPA to the UN to the Bureau of Land Management with no replacement bureaucracies is what we really need in this world.
There is still hope for Zinke.
For statist Rip van Sessions? Not so much...
Rip? Hey Rip, its not 1776 anymore. The Liberty Tree needs some pruning, watering and fertilizing. Rip?
“How far our representative government has gone?” Our representative government has “gone” nowhere. Certain individuals have attained power and have abused it. They and not the government need to be held accountable. Our government is filled with these creatures, Look at the FBI. Don’t sue the taxpayer. Sue the individuals who have abused their power.
I believe that there is a transcription error here with 'err' being misused for 'air'. English and its homophones, a headache for many.
As for the actual topic, there has been, and still is, an 'air' of government power that has pervaded the 'big state' for the past several Presidential Administrations. It may have been WACO or the Ruby Ridge that showed to me that the concept of Public Servant has morphed into Public Master, a very bad thing indeed! Yes, we have the horror of Terrorism like we have seldom seen before but these attacks have the odor of prejudicial malice against exercise of Constitutional Rights.
Robert A Heinlein (1907-88) "Time Enough for Love" (1973) ""In a mature society, 'civil servant' is semantically equal to 'civil master.'" [Notebooks of Lazarus Long]
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