Secret police are characteristic of dictatorships, or so goes the conventional thinking on the subject. Police in democracies operate for the most part transparently and within a set of rules and guidelines that limits their ability to gratuitously punish citizens who have done nothing wrong. If a policeman operating under rule-of-law steps out of line, he can be held accountable. That is also conventional thinking.
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But what happens when an ostensibly “democratic” police force becomes corrupted and starts doing things that are outside its zone of responsibility, and does so to benefit a political relationship that will in turn protect those who have broken the law under cover of carrying out their official duties? That is the characteristic of what we have been calling a “deep state,” where forces drawn generally from the political class and security services conspire together to control what the public is allowed to know while also manipulating nuisances like elections to make sure that the “correct” outcome emerges.
Indeed, deep state operating in a democracy or republic is far more dangerous that the secret police in a dictatorship. That is because in a system where the forces of the state are all-powerful, nearly everyone expects that what they read and what the government says is all a lie. In a democratic system there is what intelligence officers would refer to as plausible denial, which means that even when the government is behaving very badly much of the public will believe that it is acting honorably because they want to trust that the system works. And when the deep state includes management of the media, many citizens will likewise believe what they are reading or hearing is honest reporting, even when it is not.
Due to the events of the past year in particular, many Americans have become convinced that there now exists something like a secret police operating in the United States that is a fusion of some political dealmakers with certain politicized elements in the intelligence and security services. However one regards President Donald Trump and his former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, there is nevertheless something odd in terms of how they have been investigated and, in the case of Flynn, legally entrapped to convict him of lying to the FBI to force him to cut a deal with the Special Counsel inquiry headed by Robert Mueller.
Consider how, even though meeting with Russians is not illegal, Trump and his associates have been subjected to secret investigation of their Russian ties for nearly two years without any revelations apart from the fact that it was Israel, not Russia, that colluded to undermine White House policy. FBI Director James Comey’s antics during the primaries and electoral campaign, in which he first exonerated and then complained about Hillary Clinton while at the same time validating a dossier full of largely questionable information about Donald Trump’s dealings with Russia provides clear evidence of an organization that has lost its bearings and has become a politicized agent of an incumbency that has itself become corrupted and believes itself to be above the law. And then there is the Central Intelligence Agency’s own John Brennan working with the FBI to undermine the Trumps, illegally digging up dirt from the liaison intelligence partners in Europe and the Middle East.
America’s law enforcement empire has all the characteristics of secret police in a dictatorship. It is not transparent in its actions, has a history of bending the rules to obtain convictions, and its officers are rarely held accountable. It has also been politicized. And to be sure, one should recognize that there are two additional factors driving the growth and transformation of the national security state in the U.S. First is the intense dislike that the top levels of the American intelligence and police agencies have for Donald Trump personally, a contempt that Trump himself has largely earned by his scorn for much of the government that he inherited. Second is the “trust the authorities” culture that has grown up since 9/11, reinforced by fearmongering on the part of the government to justify executive overreach and enabled through anti-terror legislation that has unleashed the CIA, FBI and National Security Agency (NSA) to act with impunity while suffering no consequences whatsoever.
Reprinted with permission from Strategic Culture Foundation.
To my understanding this country started out using natural law. Using this law the Nation and States governed under this law the human affairs of all by ethical principles that are part of the very nature of things and that can be understood by human reason.
Then in the early second part of the 20th century Administrative Law came about which was accepted by all the States by the Administrative Procedures Act and the courts of the land were converted to Administrative Courts. Since then all the laws that have been created are administrative laws, rules and regulations that have circumscribed our Constitutional laws.
Mind you, Administrative Law has no foundation in Natural and Moral Law. This law is written strictly out of the human mind with no input from the higher mind of God or nature. It is a human invention based on humanistic values; some of which are very questionable.
Administrative Law today has degraded to the point that due process of law in the courts have been abused and valuable information the public needs to be informed is withheld.
Administrative law is peddled as the “rule of law” but having no moral or ethical foundation why should one follow it? There is no recourse to challenge this law. Going to the administrative courts is like asking the tiger not to eat you when you are in it’s grip.
Administrative Law, rules and regulations is the perfect rule of law for the police state to operate in.
Now you know the rest of the story.
I may have disagreement with some of Trump’s policies and with some of his items he promised to get done, BUT, if the Media and Establishment is against him, then I am
For Trump.
Kokoda – Exactly. I have said many times that the only logical conclusion that must be reached in regards to Trumps policies is that he is doing the right thing. Why? Because of the continuous, 24 hours a day, 7 day a week squawking from the organizations that are the most corrupt. And, you have to admit that seeing CNN, ABC, CBS, and many of these once “respected” talking mouth pieces of the elites, being knocked off the pedestal is fun to watch.
I personally am not a fanboi of ANY elected figure, for obvious reasons, however compared to the alternatives we had to choose from this last cycle, he was the best of the worst. As long as the squawking continues from the media, libtards, globalists, corrupt asses like Pelosi, Schumer, that jacked up Mormon Flake, and my personal favorite (/sarc) McCane, I will be cheering on The Donald. If nothing else, the time they spend keeping an eye on him, is less time these corrupt wastes of air and space will be thinking of new and creative ways to screw the average citizen.
Resembles?? That is EXACTLY WHAT IT IS!!
Think of the murder by those 2 cops of that poor man begging for his life in that hotel hallway last week. The telling part of that travesty of justice is how the judge cherry picked the information the jury would and would not see especially the body cam video showing what is clearly an execution. Without seeing all the pertinent facts and having only the testimony of the 2 assassins to rely upon, the jury had no choice but to acquit. Bad enough 2 rogue cops who should be in jail go free, the state as the final arbiter, turned it into a political assassination from which there is no appeal despite the obvious mockery of the outcome.
Much of the insanity we tolerate today can be traced back to the “Model Penal Code” of 1962.
Our society has a great unwritten motto: “If it ain’t working, do more of it”.
This is based on human unwillingness to admit “I made a mistake”, particularly when the human involved is a public figure.
Upvote if gifting 1033 Program military hardware to millennial cops, 2/3 of whom never served in uniform, seems homicidally insane.
Downvote if you feel the steroids are an “isolated incident” and not the tip of the iceberg.
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/12/hundreds_of_nj_police_firefigh.html