Posted on 02/18/2018 10:23:32 AM PST by Rummyfan
American government is supposed to look and sound like George Washington. What it actually looks and sounds like is Henry Hill from Goodfellas: bad suit, hand out, intoning the eternal mantra: “F*** you, pay me.”
American government mostly works by interposition, standing between us, the free people at whose sufferance it exists, and the things we want to do. Want to drive a car? “F*** you, pay me.” Own a home? “F*** you, pay me.” Want to build an extension on that home? “F*** you, pay me.” Got a job? “F*** you, pay me.” Business good? “F*** you, pay me.” Business bad? “F*** you, pay me.”
The guiding principle of American law enforcement is that it is easiest to enforce the law on law-abiding people, while enforcing the law on outlaws is something that looks terrifyingly close to hard work. That’s why gun control so ensorcels the bureaucratic mind. (Which is to say, the progressive mind: The essence of progressivism is replacing organic institutions with permanent bureaucracies.) If you are a federal law-enforcement agent with a comfy desk chair, you probably cannot imagine a more attractive anticrime program than gun control. Gun dealers have federal licenses, and they have to apply for them: You don’t have to go tracking them down — they come to you. They fill out paperwork. They generally operate from fixed addresses with regular business hours. Convenient! What you have is the power of political interposition, which is a mild form of terrorism. Want to operate a sporting-goods store? “F*** you, pay me.” And — mirabile dictu! — they pay. Sometimes, they even evince gratitude that you’ve done them the great favor of taking their money and allowing them, generous fellow that you are, to dispose of their own property as they see fit.
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A williamson article i can gree with
At a minumim, Wray should be firing everyone that dropped the ball. Unfortunately, the first reaction is never correct the wrong. It always seem to be cover and protect the team. Eventually the team becomes as dirty as the ones they are trying to cover.
I couldn’t believe that he actually said that he sees no political bias in the FBI. He is either stupid, which means he does not deserve the job, or he is lying to protect the FBI, when the majority of the FBI needs no protecting, so he should be fired as the liar he is. He only hurt the agency, not helped them. The people want truth and apparently he can’t see what is obvious or he doesn’t care about truth. Either way it proves he is not the right person for the job.
That look on his face tells everything....”Hmmm, this job is harder than I thought; what have I gotten myself into? Will I have to fall on my sword to save a traitor above me? Will I get set up and indicted and go to jail when others should? What country is this? The Soviet Union?” It was for the previous eight years, that’s for sure.
We got along perfectly fine without a federal secret police for the first 135 years of our Republic. . Time to
defund the FBI.
drain
the
swamp
Wray still hasn't fired Strzok, Page, Ohr, Baker and others.
Whipping high level DC bureaucrats?
That’s an idea I can support.
There are at least 6 people who absolutely should be fired but no one ever is. Could the blowback from firing Comey made Trump gun shy? Hard to imagine.
We could replace these guys with trained monkeys, if we could train monkeys to be self-important.
I doubt we could successfully train Monkee’s to groom, condition, and assist in implementing their political agenda of gun control and have them actually pull off a sleeper school shooting like they did here.
YES, I believe it is absolutely possible and likely the FBI starting with the first tip in September 2016, under Obama and Lynch took this as their case to put forward their Gun Control Agenda, and Conditioned, Groomed, and put this kid into action.
Mirabile dictu! Bravura and bons mots from a never-trumper. He be ensorcelled by something other than that NR gaggle.
Better to simply dissolve the entire FBI.
There will never be a more opportune time to clean house of the corrupt and incompetent swamp dwellers at DOJ and FBI. Bring in replacements who have no stench of DC on them. Fire Sessions, Wray and Rosenstein and anyone else involved in the anti Trump coup. The buck has long slid past both Wray’s and Session’s desk and is now on DJT’s lap. Do what’s necessary Mr. President. The Rats and MSM stooges have boxed themselves in on this and are in no position to fight you.
Firing Wray would accomplish nothing.
If there are widespread problems at the FBI, they are most likely due to his predecessors. Wray simply hasn’t been in the job long enough to be held responsible for this kind of problem.
Also, Trump needs to focus on more important things than getting another FBI Director confirmed by the Senate.
I have read that Mueller changed certain promotion practices within the Bureau, that favored agents who had worked at HQ. That practice may very well have contributed to the politicization of the upper levels of management in the organization, at the expense of old fashioned field work like following up on leads at the local level.
So does Wray have a plan to do anything about it?
If not, he’s part of the problem.
Scrap the whole thing, it’s totally corrupted.
“A williamson article i can gree with”
Yeah, me too. I am shocked. He must have bumped his head or something.
I only read it because of the surprising headline.
Exactly what the remainder of my comment pointed out. Their first reaction is to protect the team not do the correct thing. Wray demonstrates this every day.
I give praise to those law enforcement officers who have done the hard work it takes to put murderers on death row, and who have put rapists and other violent or career criminals in prison for decades. That being said, it has been my opinion for many years that much of law enforcement, and much of the Federal Government operates on the parking ticket mentality. The bank is being robbed, the pizza delivery driver has been shot, cars are being stolen, burglars are running loose, but here are the "stats" officers, patting themselves on the back over the number of parking tickets they have written.
Maybe for a specified period of time, the Government needs to concentrate on hiring retired law enforcement officers who have a proven history of being pro-active in pursuing dangerous criminals. Maybe more combat veterans need to be recruited, trained and hired, and promoted to give some of these agencies some backbone.
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