Written by a former colleague of mine:
“The term ‘tip of the spear’ has come to represent those individuals, companies or organizations who popular opinion has deemed the first to face whatever unknown danger is hurled at them.
The FBI is such an organization and many of its people have lived at the tip of the spear previously, before migrating to the FBI. They are, generally, solid unassuming men and women who do the job without seeking public praise nor fearing public scorn.
As this LA Times column makes perfectly clear, the nation must have confidence in its institutions, particularly in the FBI.
The FBI is most often in the vortex of having the sole responsibility for investigating politicians accused of criminal violations and conducting those investigations with consistent standards no matter whom the target might be.
Under the law, a former president is no different from any other citizen.
Hand-wringing over ‘optics’ or fearing the unprecedented nature of an investigation is not and should not be a factor when conducting an investigation. It falls to the FBI director and the Attorney General to underscore that point publicly and early in such cases. Even during congressional hearings.
Now is not the time to be timid. Now, more than ever, it is time to reinforce that the rule of law applies equally to everyone.
As stated in this piece, ‘The chilling effect from their harping is obvious in the crazy caution Justice and the FBI displayed toward Trump.’
When you're the tip of the spear, there is room for caution, but not crazy caution.”
The following article was shared with the text written above:
From the opening of the article:
Republicans keep gunning for Justice Dept. and FBI, but it’s Democrats who should have a beef with the feds
If Democrats are weaponizing the federal government against their political opponents, as Republicans charge, they’re doing a really bad job of it.
My reply to my colleague and the article:
Will we ever get people under the exclusive control of one of the two major Political Parties to remove their blinders long enough to see and face reality? How on earth has this corrupted form of democracy we have, a duopoly where less than 60% of voters exercise 100% control of government power, survived for 247 years.
And 100% of those registered to one of the two Parties hates the 28% (give or take) of registered voters that are in the other Party. It’s no wonder the country that is supposed to be controlled by 100% of #WtP has become so dysfunctional. It’s time to give control to the 40% that think for themselves!!!
Another former colleague then responded:
“It’s not a ‘Democracy’, it’s a ‘Republic.’ Many dismiss that statement by trying to equate the two, but the difference is significant. A Democracy is majority rule and infringes on liberties. A Republic provides for representation of all citizens, including the minority. The genesis of the duopoly is the reduction and now often outright elimination of the teaching of Civics. A majority of youth, fellow citizens, and even elected representatives I’ve encountered fail at demonstrating the genius of our founding fathers to put forth our Constitutional Republic which embodies power in the people. We do not elect ‘leaders’, we elect ‘representatives’. The word leader does not appear in the Constitution, but representative does. Most don’t understand the power they as individual citizens have and thus fail to exercise it. Most don’t understand the Article I branch is the most powerful as our representatives over the other two ‘co-equal’ branches. The Article I branch can overrule the Article II branch veto. The Article I branch can also overturn the Article III branch rulings via legislation passed into Law by the Article II branch signing it or having the veto overruled. It will take a generation of teaching to correct.”
To which I replied:
“It will take a generation of teaching to correct.” Except our Article I duopoly will continue to ensure that education is never allowed to happen in order to maintain self-preservation of the duopoly.
Shortly after the online conversation above, I came across the following article that is, coincidentally, completely independent of the conversation I had been having, but it has some striking similarities and so much more that should be read by every U.S. citizen before November 2024:
A couple excerpts from that one:
The ideal of national unity celebrated on July Fourth has almost always been overstated: the country from its founding has been riven by sectional, racial, class and gender conflicts. Large groups of people living within our borders have always felt excluded from any proclaimed national consensus: American Indians who were brutally displaced for decades, Black people who faced generations of legal slavery and then decades of state-sponsored segregation, women denied the vote until the 20th century.
To Wolfe, the US is now trapped in a “vicious cycle” of rising partisan and ideological hostility in which political leaders, particularly on the right, see a “benefit in fueling the rage even more.” While President Joe Biden, Wolfe says, has struck traditional presidential notes of emphasizing the value of national unity, Trump – currently the front-runner for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination – has built his political strategy on widening the nation’s divides in ways that may be difficult to reverse any time soon. “I don’t know if [Trump’s] a political genius or just instinctively knows something, but he sure has exacerbated the shocks, and I don’t know how we are going to recover from him,” Wolfe says.
I’d say more from my own perspective and experience, but there isn’t anything I could say that wasn’t said above. I know it’s been a long while since I’ve had the desire to post here, so thank you for checking in today.
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