You're absolutely correct, Flaglady. I knew an agent very well in my former state of residence, he was a quiet, serious, youngish, clean-cut customer at our business and lived five minutes away in a modest home with a lovely wife and a couple of kiddies to support.
I posted this personal-acquaintance narrative a week ago when I perceived way too many freepers here castigating the WHOLE FBI personnel for the sins of the agency's higher-ups and the sins of the Clinton/Obama thug cartel....and, in particular, they were castigating the lower-level agents for not ratting and resigning en masse.
Wow! I got roundly jumped on in the thread for not denigrating these men and women along with my critical comments on the upper-level perps.
I'm sorry, "mass guilt" is an Alinsky tactic designed to bring down the ENTIRETY of all our fine organizations because of some bad apples.
Bringing down ALL Police Forces nationwide by the Left because of a trigger-happy few is a beautiful case-in-point of subversive propaganda tactics!
I remember decades ago in church, the Sunday after MLK was assassinated, when a fresh-out-of-seminary substitute for our ailing pastor leaned over the pulpit, and, pointed his moving finger, repeated the phrase, "and YOU pulled the trigger"...and "YOU pulled the trigger".
He was never invited back, I'm happy to say...but I'll never forget his use of clever liberal "mass guilt" tactics to make us all feel at fault for the murder.
(I stood up and walked out of the sermon immediately, along with one usher and the Township Assessor, a heavy-hitter donor to the church, LOL).
Leni
BRAVA...as usual, a GREAT post!
Couldn’t agree with your point of view more. There are always hot head hystericals who tend to line up the whole raft against the wall.
These FBI agents are paid to take periodic lie detector tests on a regular basis, live a life of financial security, but always suspect, sometimes under live fire with some degree of life threatening risk every day.
Now comes an idiot on top of the FBI who has managed to pizz off both sides and the hot heads wants a mass resignation.
Well, perhaps the threat of that happening is behind this big blow this afternoon against Hillary’s case— we do not know.
However, throwing away pensions and salaries and financials is very hard to do today when the dollar is around your ankles, you may be in debt and have kids by now perhaps in college and have house payments to make in expensive cities whose prices don’t reflect the value of the dollar. It is a tragic position to be in, to find yourself whizzing away your retirement and sitting on a curb to make a point, in a time when, institutionally, America is under Alinsky.