Dakota Beacon

I don’t always agree with him, but Sebastian Gorka just said something we should all take to heart.  Gorka, former military/intelligence consultant to President Trump, took the FBI rank and file to task.  I totally agree.

In his comments regarding the recent raid on Trump’s Mar-a-lago home in Palm Beach, he noted Sean Hannity’s mantra that “it’s not the rank and file”, not the faithful foot soldiers who just take orders, who are to blame, but the higher-ups.  Gorka said he would have - and they should have - turned in their badges and walked away from orders which were, in fact, not lawful.  He’s right.  No one should hide behind “just following orders”.  We put that to rest after World War II, when we hunted down prison guards - and doctors - who abused and killed innocents in Germany and elsewhere.  We said then, and it is true now, that it is immoral to follow immoral orders.

Who are we left with to blame here?  And without blame we have given our blessing to the criminals.  Is it the top guy?  The “Big Guy”?  Joe Biden?  Well, we have let him off the hook for even knowing where the restroom is.  We know he’s not responsible for anything, right?  Except he and his wife have allowed him to be exploited as the front man for a really corrupted and evil organization, the Obama Democrat Party.  And we aren’t supposed to hold the guys at the bottom rung responsible.  So they trot out unelected Merrick Garland to be the fall guy for this when the public doesn’t react positively to a pre-dawn Gestapo raid on a former president’s home.  Garland played his part, of course.  He has no sense or he wouldn’t even be Merrick Garland.  

We are all too desperate to try to get the “little guys” off the hook for their betrayals.  We just saw where the IRS, armed to the teeth, like the pirates from the Black Pearl, are  “now hiring”.  Well, just about everyone needs a job or two these days, so they will probably have little to no trouble filling the 87,000 new positions that just opened up.  They will find people who are willing to rationalize the betrayal of their countrymen and their country for the government’s filthy lucre.  And we are all supposed to give them dispensation because, after all, it’s not they who make the policy - they just carry it out.  They just follow orders.  

None of this evil could exist unless ordinary people were willing to carry out lawless and immoral orders.  Don’t tell us that they are innocent and don’t know or have responsibility for this.  If Merrick Garland, the acting chief of state at the moment, issued an order such as this raid on Trump - or a raid on maybe you - and no one accepted the assignment, would he strap on his gun and have a go at it himself?  Of course not.  Look at the “man”.  None of these dictators would get to first base without their minions.  It is the minions, not the evil geniuses in the towers and underground caves who are destroying our civilization.  

Look at the past two years’ worth of the performance of our medical establishment.  We’ve had a couple of whistleblowers here and there, but for the most part, our highly esteemed doctors and nurses as well as our less esteemed pharmacists’ clerks, have been complicit in the murder of hundreds of thousands of people.  If they did not know the harm they were doing they should have.  They have expensive educations that we all pay for when we need medical advice or treatment.  If you doubt this, check your last statement for services.  Go ahead.  Even if your insurance covered it.  Who covers your insurance?  You do.  Either directly or by taking an obscene pay cut from an employer who sends it along to them.  So it matters.  And where is their loyalty?  Oh, yes.  They must comply with their hospital’s directive, or the corporate team that manages their practice for them.  They would get fired if they didn’t assist in murdering innocent people.  Imagine that.  Losing a job.  Costing a life?  Meh.  Small price to pay.  After all, they reason, if not they, then someone else will just do it and pick up the check on payday.  They rationalize that they can’t stop the inevitable so they might as well take a ride on it and cash in like the other team members. 

Teamwork is another problem.  This is supposed to be a “virtue”.  It is only a virtue in the service of something that is actually good.  We have come to see “teamwork” as a sort of shield against our own consciences.  Someone else decides so we don’t have to.  Then we are absolved from the guilt of a bad or evil decision, right?  Wrong.  We are all responsible for what we do.  If what we do causes harm and it is possible for us to see that it causes harm - in other words, if we have reason to suspect that the toxic cocktail we are injecting into some innocent person’s arm will harm or possibly kill him and persist - even without warning the victim of the chance he is taking - we share every bit of the guilt of the madman who invented it and the lunatic who is promoting it.  Trump is guilty of these vaccine injuries because he should know by now the harm they are doing.  He shouldn’t get off the hook for that.  By the same token, the FBI agents, the so-called “little guys”, the ones who actually show up and flash the warrant and draw the guns and turn on the lights and sirens and push their way into someone’s home and violate our most sacred rights, are guilty.  They know, or should know, that they are the front line of either destroying our Constitution or upholding it.

Many years ago, at a teaparty event, a friend was urging that the group get behind promotion of the office of the county sheriff.  The sheriff is the only elected law enforcement officer in the whole structure of our system.  As such, this officer is in a position to determine whether our Constitution will survive as our governing document.  He alone can prevent abuse by the federal agencies, be they ATF, FBI, IRS or any of the rest of the alphabet.  Yet how do we elect them?  Mostly on the basis of name recognition, or they are a poker buddy of a friend of a friend, etc.  Or we don’t know anything bad about them so why not?  I would say that it is long past time that we should not only pay attention, but focus on this position.  We should have vigorous debates among candidates for the office, with knowledgeable and courageous moderators, in every county.  We should have the opportunity to ask them our own questions.  Will he support the rights of parents to question their school boards or will he stand by while they are arrested?  Will he stand in the breach and stop a home invasion by IRS, ATF or FBI goons or will he stay safely at home with his feet up while they commit these acts?  Will he, where it applies, enforce our borders?  Our Second Amendment?  Our First Amendment?  Or will he fall in line with the federal government?  

An effective sheriff could have prevented the tragedy at Waco, Texas, or that of Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge.  A good sheriff might have prevented loss of life in various shooting incidents such as that of Uvalde.  Where were they?  And more to the point - just who elected them?  We did.  Or we just passed on the opportunity.  Either way, maybe the buck stops right there.  Instead of looking for others to blame, we should take responsibility at the grassroots.  Hold the “little guy” - without whom the “Big Guy” would be powerless - accountable.  If every upstanding FBI agent called upon to go, SWAT-team style, to kick in the door of Mar-a-lago had simply declined, took off his badge and walked away, who would have done the dirty work?  The fact is that the dirty work is always done at the bottom level.  The world is configured that way.  Those are exactly the people we need to hold responsible.  They actually do hold all the power.  If all of the agents were honest and moral, there could be no effective evil at the top.  It is as simple as that.  

It is, then, you, who decide whether evil prevails or is defeated.  You.  If you are asked to enforce some harmful mask or vaccine mandate, it is up to you.  You can say no.  You can walk away. You can refuse to fire someone because he did not submit to medical experimentation on his body.  Or you could just say someone else made the policy and you are just carrying it out.  Who is it who actually does the firing?  

Interestingly, I stumbled across a Tom Selleck movie - Broken Trust - which is about a judge who becomes compromised through no fault of his own, but to protect others is called upon to do something he finds repugnant to his conscience.  Whether we judge him to be right or wrong in his decision, it is he, not some other person, who must make the decision.  As with any decent thriller, he finds his way out as we knew he would, by finding that the agent imposing on his will is also compromised and the plot is resolved, although without answering the question.  That is probably right - the answer continues to hang in the air above us.  When the time comes to act, will we allow our own conscience to move us, or will we rely on someone else to make the decisions and thus let us off the hook?  The answer will determine whether the America of our Founding Fathers will survive. 

We know the path they took.  We need not question every minute of their private lives, but rather examine what decisions they took when the chips were down.  John Adams, for example, sailed to the Netherlands to seek backing for our fight for freedom.  He knew full well that if the British intercepted the ship on which he sailed that he would be hanged and that they were looking for him.  This knowledge did not deter him - he didn’t send someone else.  He didn’t push off the responsibility to an underling.  He accepted the mission, as it were.  Of course, the “underlings” did the same.   Every farmer who picked up a musket in defense of his homeland took that risk.  Nathan Hale did, as did George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and John Hancock.  This coming together of leaders willing to lead with people willing to take personal responsibility will save the American idea of freedom.  Nothing else can.

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