What an excellent catch, Just mythoughts! I didn't notice that -- til now. Thank you!
So do you suppose that sedition and treason might serve as appropriate/just causes for their removal, provided of course the charges can be proved in court, and validated by a jury in each instance?
I alluded to Clintons' mafioso-like tendencies in an earlier post. Since then, I feel like I owe Vito Corleone an apology. At least Vito was (arguably) a man of honor.
So, I take back the "mafioso" allusion, and cite instead Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince. Clinton is Machiavelli's classic "fox," in the flesh. And he/she's doing what the classical "fox" ever does: He/she's going after the classical "lions," seeking their utter destruction as unacceptable competitors to him/herself and impediments to the fulfillment of his/her most deeply-cherished dreams/plans.
If you haven't read The Prince yet, you might want to put it on your list. It's a fascinating work, an early exploration into the nuts and bolts of how people who manage to insinuate themselves into power, and retain it by ruthless means, can theoretically feed off all the rest of us "forever."
Of course, the work has an abject literary history: Machiavelli composed it for, and dedicated it to, the Grand Duke Ludovico di Medici. It is an act of grovelling for His Majesty's patronage, for a position at His Majesty's Court, in the most abject and grotesquely, vacuously unflattering ways -- to himself, Machiavelli, I mean.
In the end, Ludovico did not give Machiavelli the gig.
There is justice in that, somehow, under the circumstances. For Ludovico was not exactly "lily-white" himself....
Thank you so very much for sharing your thoughts, Just mythoughts!
Good observation. This is also one of the ways that civil service "reforms" have helped cripple the intelligence community over the past 20-30 years. It's much easier to get a troublemaker in place than it is to get them out.
That is fascinating. I didn't know all that about Machiavelli. Thank you!