I admire PJ Media’s Stephen Kruiser. While I may not agree with him on everything, I always appreciate his forthright style, articulate even at its most pungent. This morning he presents us with a sterling sample:
Rampant lawlessness was the hallmark of the four years that the nation just suffered under Joe Biden and the idiot commies who ran his brain. One of the most — if not the most — galling aspects of it all was that federal law enforcement wasn’t very available to enforce the law. The officers of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement were hamstrung and not allowed to clean up the criminal trash that the open borders loons were letting into the country.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation was turned into Joe Biden’s personal goon squad and focused much of its effort on going after Americans whose only crime was being the administration’s political opposites. Oh, the FBI was also energetic about perpetuating the Democrats’ sick J6 fetish.
Please read it all. Kruiser’s point, of course, is the dramatic turnaround in the focus and efficacy of federal law enforcement since the inauguration of President Trump. He notes the “rat infestation at the top” of the FBI and DoJ, and that once it had been removed, the FBI “got back on task rather quickly.” But a troubling question looms large here.
Were rank-and-file FBI agents during the Biden years submissive to the Left’s wishes because it agreed with those wishes, or because disagreement would have impeded their careers? Conversely, are those agents now complying with Pam Bondi and Kash Patel because they agree with the currently dominant Trump / MAGA agenda, or because disagreement would impede their careers? Is it possible to distinguish career protection from whatever other motivations men bring to their jobs?
Remember Littlefinger’s Axiom:
Considering that among the most frequently cited reasons for seeking federal employment is job security, I’d be slow to dismiss it as an explanation for FBI subservience to the desires of its paymasters – especially with DoGE so visibly “on the job.”
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Paychecks, promotions, and pensions are all more important to officer friendly than your rights.
There’s a book on how the local PD was tasked by the nazis to eliminate jews in poland. These were ordinary people, who, under orders from above them, murdered hundreds of jews.
Then they went home to a nice dinner and their families. SOrry, it’s e]early niw, not getting the link, but it’s on Amazon.
It pays to have a friendly relationship with your local cops, but never forget they are just one radio call away from arresting you, or worse.
If the events of the last four years juxtaposed with today don’t hammer that home, I don’t know what will.
I’ve lost track how frequently I repeat the surest way to identify who motivates actions: He who pays the piper calls the tune.
In recent years I say it trying to persuade consumers of the CAGW scam how compliant are scientists who want grants and access to Establishment platforms.
Only this week I was directed to this video which provides us with a fine example:
https://youtu.be/BmdjUYYNeSI
and here is the pertinent portion of its transcript.
Forty-some years ago, I started working for the first time at a company that had the federal government as customers. I met a few. The phrase co-workers used at the time for why someone worked for the feds was, “it takes an act of congress to fire them.” Another thing I heard was that when Reagan was elected, the only difference was they changed the portrait on the wall. There was some talk about “hunkering down” while he was in office.
You know that saying, SSDD? Same Shtuff Different Day?