This is not the face or proper demeanor of conservatism
- It is past time to find their tongue, not just among themselves on Facebook
- When one’s honor and integrity is being impacted (general contempt for the DOJ impacting conservatives as well), for crying out loud can’t you form your own group and put together your own statements and release them to the press?
Kurt Schlichter excoriates the current DOJ in a column yesterday at Townhall. Burn Down the DOJ and Start Over It is another trenchant and insightful offering that we highly recommend (excerpt below).
Our own dlh has for several years wearied (and commented accordingly) of the “obligatory” praise handed out by conservative pundits for rank and file federal law-enforcement whenever those pundits comment about the lawless and protected swamp dwellers entrenched in leadership positions. Growing more weary over the lack of organized public response by at least “rank and file” retirees in response to obvious lawlessness of the current DOJ apparat, dlh wrote several weeks ago:
“One cannot make any statement regarding the shocking abuse of law enforcement and judicial power which has been revealed, without first disclaiming any possible lack of virtue on the part of any of the ‘hardworking, fully committed,, ‘life on the line’, rank and file current and former members of the FBI !
“Really?! How many were ‘just following orders’? How did only the “rotten exceptions” among the bureau’s ‘long serving’ , hardworking, committed to their ‘high calling’ members, rise to the key leadership positions in the FBI?
“And…where are all those “Efrem Zimbalists” now, when all the institutional rot has been disclosed? Where are the letters signed by hundreds…thousands of current and former agents decrying and condemning the actions of their current and former bosses?
“The Left seems to have no shortage of ‘letter-signers’ condemning anything and everything Trump and his choices for leadership attempt to do, as example following”
Here are some of Schlichter’s comments in response to reports about decisions by the Bill Barr DOJ not to prosecute lack of candor lying Andrew McCabe, with some recommendations for rank and file citizens:
. . . I like Bill Barr. I think he wants to do the right thing. But he needs to spare us the clichés about the hard-working and honest DOJ staff because that’s not what we see. I trust Barr, but I trust my eyes more, and all I see issuing from his Department is a flow of raw sewage. And don’t tell me “But they convicted Avenatti!” because Avenatti was not a friend to the establishment. He was a threat, an uppity outsider who smarmed his way into position to potentially cut in the line for power. Yeah, the Democrats were totally broken up for him to be taken out.
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It was absolute Schiff when rapists, thugs, and other Democrat constituents regularly coast out of court with much less time. Wait, I thought we had a non-violent convict incarceration crisis, but I guess that doesn’t apply to political crimes, the most serious crimes of all apparently. No, they won’t get fired. They will keep on ruining lives.
They have failed to meet the minimum standards for integrity. You owe them nothing, not obedience, respect, or assistance. Don’t give them any.
You have no reason to cooperate with any of them if they come asking you questions. You’re a fool to do so – they seek to harm you, so you should protect yourself. Stone is where he is because he foolishly chose to testify.
When a federal law enforcement asks you anything, repeat after me:
“I invoke my right to remain silent. Please stop asking me questions. I want my lawyer.”
“Uh, I was just asking you if there’s a coffee shop around here.”
“I invoke my right to remain silent. Please stop asking me questions. I want my lawyer.”
And when you are in court on a jury, and the prosecutor attempts to stand in the golden glow of the United States of America, remember what the prosecutors did to innocent people for daring to dissent and give that lawyer no credit or benefit of the doubt. Listen closely and carefully to the accused. There was a time when an accused claiming he was framed by the feds could be laughed off; now, you should consider it. Ask Ted Stevens – oh wait, he died after a corrupt conviction. Do not hesitate to acquit, because the Department of Justice has proven itself corrupt and dishonest.
“But, but, but, many hard-working, honest blah blah blah blah….”
Save it.
Who was the guy who went to jail for scores of wrongful convictions thanks to the FBI crime lab scandal?
Who is the guy who went to jail for lying about leaking stuff to hurt the Trump administration?
Who is the guy (or Chardonnay-swilling, cankle-having gal) who went to jail for using classified materials for his/her own personal agendas?
Nobody.
Nobody did because the law is not a neutral set of rules equally applicable to all but a weapon used by politicized bureaucrats to neutralize opponents.
You took your reputation and you used it as Charmin because you wanted your pals to win an election. And now we all know the truth and we know what you are.
You are not the enforcers of justice. You are the enforcers of a two-track system that excuses your pals and jams up your opponents.
So, what do we do? I mean, besides refuse to pretend any longer that the feds are Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., instead of seedy little crustaceans like Andrew McCabe or the hard-five sext twins?
Let Barr do his thing. Let Durham do his. I’m not going to Lucy and the football myself into believing that either one is definitely going to serve up the justice upon the Deep State derps that is the minimal requirement for beginning to rebuild the trust in federal law enforcement these hacks flushed away, but who knows? They might do something. In the meantime, we simply need to treat federal law enforcement as what it is: deeply corrupt and utterly untrustworthy. . . .
DLH further responds:
There should be alarm at today’s disastrous state of the federal law enforcement apparatus and the probability that it will only worsen.
I would reiterate my fear that, due to a deliberate faithlessness or simply resistance at every level to any meaningful investigation, the much anticipated legal destruction of the “deep state”, if it happens at all (unlikely in my view), will be too late and too easily discarded by the leftist media and radical establishment opposition to save Trump’s reelection and the preservation of the Republic.
Is Barr “faithless”…or, incompetent? I hope not! But so far, all the other ‘honorable’, ‘widely respected’, “stunningly bi-partisan”, “unblemished record”, ‘incredibly qualified and competent’, etc, etc people have turned out to be ‘wildly overrated’ when not totally misrepresented: Robert Mueller, James Comey, Rex Tillerson, Jeff Sessions, Christopher Wray, Gina Haspell, John Kelly, “Mad Dog”, H R McMaster……
We will see. dlh
