- Jan 12, 2012
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My observation is that members of specialized law enforcement organizations are a far greater threat to our rights and freedom than local departments. I would probably die of shock if Denny or Frank appeared at my door or anyonecelse's trick-or-treating for guns. By contrast, I could see the David Chipmans of the world doing so with maniacal glee.
One might wonder why this is. I have entertained some possible explanations.
1. The love of power. I do not see Chipman as someone who would run toward danger. I see him as someone who glories in being one of the "special ones" who deem themselves worthy of arbitrary authority and access to instruments that should not be available to mere plebeians, Constitution be damned.
2. The specialized LE agencies seem to have each developed its own philosophically inbred agency culture. In some cases, they look upon those who are the recipients of their enforcing the same way the members of our local PDs look at common criminals. I feel this with motor carrier enforcement. They are there to find and bill for violations rather than to facilitate proper operation of an industry. Similarly, ATF is there to nail people, not to facilitate legal operation of the 2A. Darker yet, we turn to the FBI and ask how in the universe people like Strzok and Page dare presume to take it upon themselves to presume to attempt to throw an election. In the end, a corrupt agency culture begets a corrupt pattern of behavior by people who think themselves above the law.
3. They are too far removed from the people and too close to the grossly corrupt centers of political power at both the state and federal levels. In a manner reminiscent of the viable argument that most people in the Chicago machine are so acclimated to corruption that they don't recognize anything wrong with it, many of these people are clingers on in these dens of corruption such that they don't see anything wrong with usurping arbitrary and capricious power or abusing their authority to effect impacts squarely outside the realm of their rightful places.
One might wonder why this is. I have entertained some possible explanations.
1. The love of power. I do not see Chipman as someone who would run toward danger. I see him as someone who glories in being one of the "special ones" who deem themselves worthy of arbitrary authority and access to instruments that should not be available to mere plebeians, Constitution be damned.
2. The specialized LE agencies seem to have each developed its own philosophically inbred agency culture. In some cases, they look upon those who are the recipients of their enforcing the same way the members of our local PDs look at common criminals. I feel this with motor carrier enforcement. They are there to find and bill for violations rather than to facilitate proper operation of an industry. Similarly, ATF is there to nail people, not to facilitate legal operation of the 2A. Darker yet, we turn to the FBI and ask how in the universe people like Strzok and Page dare presume to take it upon themselves to presume to attempt to throw an election. In the end, a corrupt agency culture begets a corrupt pattern of behavior by people who think themselves above the law.
3. They are too far removed from the people and too close to the grossly corrupt centers of political power at both the state and federal levels. In a manner reminiscent of the viable argument that most people in the Chicago machine are so acclimated to corruption that they don't recognize anything wrong with it, many of these people are clingers on in these dens of corruption such that they don't see anything wrong with usurping arbitrary and capricious power or abusing their authority to effect impacts squarely outside the realm of their rightful places.
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