The FISA memo will be released by the White House today. The fight to keep this memo out of the public eye has been intense. And since it’s existence was made known it has clarified our domestic politics in a way that few objects ever have.
With Russia-gate failing, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation stalling, this memo will make it clear that the only thing that matters in Washington D.C. is winning. Political victories, not serving the people who elected you, are more important than any other consideration.
From Rep. Adam Schiff’s increasingly desperate attempts to stonewall the truth to the FBI’s predictable appeals to secrecy from law enforcement to cover corruption, this memo is lifting the scales from the eyes of voters all over the country.
It’s telling them the cockroaches have run out of corners to hide in.
Time to put on our pointy shoes and start kickin’.
The reaction to this memo puts paid the classic libertarian critique that an organization’s highest priority is self-preservation. Doing what you formed the organization to do comes a distant second.
Government creates organizations that are not directly accountable to the people who fund them and therefore can dig moats around themselves to ensure their survival no matter what.
This is the essence of corruption. It is the essence of why the Swamp needs to be drained.
The FBI is a corrupt and venal organization of power-hungry, self-righteous arbiters of arbitrary justice. Even the good agents are tainted by the organizational rot. The same is true in every government department.
No one sees corruption like a government employee with half a conscience.
The pressure to not release this memo comes from formerly very powerful people – Obama and his staff, the Clintons, the DNC, etc. The fallout will be an overhaul from the ground up of multiple powerful agencies within the Federal Government.
This is what Donald Trump was elected to do.
It will destroy the credibility of the Democratic Party. It will further weaken the credibility of their enablers at the top of the Republican Party. Make no mistake, no one important in Washington wants this memo released.
They know it will destroy careers and upset the normal way of doing things.
Good.
The normal way of doing things is awful. It leads to abuse, waste, fraud and enables the worst kind of criminal behavior. But, it also allows a system of corruption to throw dirt on everyone, making everyone, including the good people, choose between staying and fighting within that system or walking away knowing someone worse will come behind them.
That is the means by which these organizations preserve their survival.
And this memo is a direct threat to that. We may watch shows like House of Cards or even Game of Thrones and see the corruption play out in front of us.
But by dramatizing it we lose our fear of it.
Now we’ll get to see first-hand just how bad the corruption is and for those that still believe Trump is the anti-Christ or at least a repulsive boor, they will have to admit that the campaign against him was wrong.
That winning at all costs is not winning. It’s just another day at the Swamp.
That mobilizing the resources of multiple intelligence agencies to stop his election, or overturn it, is anathema to what our government exists for in the first place.
If the memo shows that this is true. Then it’s time to end the childish tantrums, ask for some hip waders and get busy cleaning things up.
Curated for #informationwar (by @openparadigm)
Relevance:Drain the Swamp
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Well, I reckon that depends on how you define who elected you, the voters, mere pawns, or the wholly owned media and big money that enables candidates to bamboozle voters.
At this point I have come to see the struggle between Trump and the deep state as between two would be rulers. It is currently necessary for Trump to court the hoi polloi, as it is our outrage at corruption and criminal thuggery that most strongly opposes his enemies.
Some takeaways from the SOTU I noted were his incessant statism, and an apparent focus on maintaining, even increasing, the power of bureaucracies over civilians.
Nothing is a greater threat to our freedom, and as long as Trump perpetuates that power - which I expect he will, as it's now his power - we will be subject to it. Even if he clears out every extant corrupt bureaucrat, it will not take long before all new slimeballs slither into office to extract our essence, colluding with one another and the banksters.
His Goldman Sachs appointees perhaps best exemplify that promise of continued subjection of Americans to the bankster controlled state.
While the temporary purge of corrupt thugs will be a boon, unless the mechanism that potentiates that thuggery is destroyed and replaced with something that enables people to be free of oppression, it will prove to be nothing but a trick that enables those seeking actual freedom to be sucked in.
I watched Infowars voice approval for the very things they were born to oppose: the abuse of intelligence agencies for political purposes, secret and unlawful rendition and indefinite detention, and the growth of federal power over Americans.
That, more than anything else I saw, greatly disheartened me during the SOTU.
It is imperative we not mistake being used to counter Trump's enemies with being set free from abusive government, as Trump appears intent on not only maintaining the bureaucratic structure that has imperiled us, but increasing it.
Thanks!
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Yes, the SOTU was a pile of steaming statism. No question about that. But, Trump's job in this is to tear down the current iteration of statism and allow the next generation to define its terms. I don't think it will be as over-the-top Marxist as the current system.
Marxism is the dominant political ideology of the age and as it dies it will try to take the voluntary society down with it. That's why they keep on polluting the word 'capitalism' to mean corporatism. It's why they won't 'go gently into that good night.'
So, all I'm saying with all of my work is that there is an order of operations here that has to be respected. First, expose the system's true corruption for what it is. Then make the case that it was the system itself that was corrupt not the people who made it corrupt.
The system allows corrupt people a path to exercise their corruption and their lust to rule. That's what we're fighting ultimately and that's what we need to stay focused on in our discussions with people as this moves forward.
Trump is just a blunt instrument, a tool to bludgeon the forces of Marxism into submission. He's not a rebuilder.
This won't result in a flourishing anarchic society on the other side, but the pendulum will swing closer than it was during this cycle. This is a process not a state function.
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that's pretty cool to know....
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Hopefully Monday they announce the indictments.
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