{"id":570,"date":"2019-10-31T13:43:22","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T17:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conservativeproletariat.com\/?p=570"},"modified":"2019-10-31T13:54:36","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T17:54:36","slug":"the-deep-state-whistleblowers-high-crimes-and-impeachment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conservativeproletariat.com\/?p=570","title":{"rendered":"The \u201cDeep State,\u201d Whistleblowers, High Crimes, and Impeachment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The \u201cDeep State\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

20 plus years ago I was elected the local President of a NY\nState public employees union representing professional, scientific, and\ntechnical workers, a somewhat curious occurrence considering I am\/was a\nconservative and generally anti-union. Nevertheless, I won by a 2:1 vote margin\nand was fairly popular, if I may say so; it proved to be a revealing\nexperience. One of the members was a middle-aged guy with whom I had a friendly\nacquaintance. He was always affable and seemed perfectly competent and\ndedicated, but there was always a vague stain on his reputation- he was barely\ntolerated by management and never seemed to be going anywhere in his career. At\ntimes he suggested there was an ill-defined conspiracy against him, which he\nattributed to his declining to be part of the old-boys network from years past,\nthe kind of claim to which one responds, \u201cIs that right?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One day, as an office building was being shuffled about, another employee came across a file with his name and, assuming it was his, handed it to him. As he looked through it he came to quite a realization- the folder contained all sorts of management documents and communications ridiculing and demeaning him, going back years. In essence he was accidentally given a \u201csecret\u201d file that proved he was indeed a target of an administrative conspiracy, in violation of numerous contractual and policy rules. Keep in mind we were not a nerve center of NY State government, but a rather remote outpost, so to speak. From the union standpoint we had a field day, with one of the few administrative people with integrity admitting, \u201cWe have no excuse or defense.\u201d I learned during my union time his case was not altogether unique, and that there are always plenty of petty people lining up to curry favor with bosses by disparaging others and bosses who bask in their own petty power and who live to have their boots licked. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Prior to my union role I thought people who expressed\nfeelings of being targeted by management were a little overly sensitive, maybe\na little in a conspiracy mode. That I was wrong was eye opening and has led me\nto this conclusion: certainly<\/em> is a \u201cDeep State.\u201d This doesn\u2019t imply\nshadowy cabals meeting in back hallways of government buildings or anonymous\nhotels and communicating in code. Rather it simply adds an additional\ningredients to the usual mix of personal ambition, greed, a willingness to stab\ncolleagues in the back, and yearning for pats on the back from the higher ups:\na sense of self-righteousness, intrigue, and feeling of being part of something\n\u201cBIG.\u201d When there is a figure such as Trump who inspires such hatred from so\nmany players- the elite media, celebrities, and politicians, and especially\nthose who desperately cling to the comfortable and profitable status quo- it\nwould be surprising to not have a \u201cDeep State.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Whistleblower<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whistleblowing can be an honorable thing. The road that led\nto my above mentioned union activities, and indeed to much of my subsequent\nlife, began with \u201cwhistleblowing\u201d about significant and chronic medical\nmalpractice I discovered. My mistake was \u201cblowing\u201d to a corrupt management\nperson, but without anonymity or other protections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anonymity is understandable, especially in what may be the\nmost common form of \u201cwhistleblowing-\u201c reporting child abuse. When a you\nwitnesses some form of abuse, you want to be able to report it to the\nauthorities without worrying that Bubba is going to show up at your house to\naccost you in his rusty pick-up truck adorned with Confederate\nflags(stereotypes can be fun!). Of course, however, anonymity can be wielded as\na tool of revenge and other bad things, as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A very honorable person I well know was an elected member of\na small local government board, and at times was in opposition to the appointed\nsupervisor of the department, which apparently annoyed the supervisor. She\ndecided that the best course of action was to make an anonymous call to accuse\nthe board member of sexually abusing his son. Ultimately, of course, everything\nwas totally discredited, but not before he and his family were investigated\n(the pre-teen son had to appear at the state police barracks to be interviewed\nas part of the process) and almost devastated. Pretty much everyone knew the\nidentity of the \u201cwhistleblower\u201d but because of laws protecting anonymity\nnothing could be done. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are a \u201cdeep state operative,\u201d in other words an\noverpaid government employee who wants to curry favor with his boss, who wants\nto screw over the big boss, what better way to start the investigative ball\nrolling and accusations flying than being an anonymous \u201cwhistleblower.\u201d And\nonce the investigative foot is in the door, there are no limits. One of the\nbest parts is the \u201cwhistleblower\u201d will be called by some a hero and even a\nmartyr, and only fellow-travelers (and House Democrats) will know who he (or\nshe) is.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The High Crime<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is a trick as old as time in which something is\ndescribed in a manner so as to minimize or maximize an act, event, or\nstatement.  We pretty much all do this\nto some extent, but often for selfish reasons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the early 1980\u2019s I was on the medical staff of a Federal\nprison, comprised of one physician and six PA\u2019s.  Also on the staff was a pharmacist, who could be really funny but\nhis main goal was not doing his job, per se, but advancement in the\nbureaucracy, and he was more than happy to lick the boots of the bosses and\nstab his fellow workers in the back. One day at the end of the regular shift a\nconvict needed a cast. I happened to have the most casting experience and was\nhappy to stay late- with no request for overtime- to do the job. We had the old\nstyle plaster material and it can make a bit of a mess, mostly plaster that\nfalls and dries on the floor, and I made an average, trivial mess. I assumed\none of the many convicts assigned as janitor to the clinic would clean it up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next morning I was greeted by the pharmacist, yelling-\n\u201cyou should be ASHAMED of yourself, it\u2019s almost like you threw plaster on the\nwalls and even the ceiling. You should have cleaned it up. SHAME on you!!\u201d  His reaction would have been appropriate if\nhe discovered me having drug-fueled orgy with multiple convicts. No doubt he\nreported my egregious behavior to the boss, who himself enjoyed having his\nbuttocks kissed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Impeachment<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On July 25, 2019 Trump made a phone call to the new\nPresident of the Ukraine that apparently had any number of witnesses. One of\nthem mentioned it, perhaps with malice (a \u201cDeep Stater?\u201d) to an employee of the\nCIA who apparently was taken aback by what he or she heard. This person, after\nconsulting with Democrat staffers in Congress, decided anonymous\n\u201cwhistleblowing\u201d was in order. And thus began the current push for impeachment,\nor something that gives the appearance of impeachment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though I\u2019m speculating, it\u2019s easy to imagine the political\nstrategy was to hope and assume Trump would stonewall, leading to outraged\naccusations of obstruction and other high crimes and misdemeanors (the American\npeople have a right to know!).  Perhaps\nunexpectedly, Trump quickly released the transcript, thereby thwarting plan A.\nThe 59 words worthy of overturning the election of 2016 were as follows: \u201cThe\nother thing, there\u2019s a lot of talk about Biden\u2019s son, that Biden stopped the prosecution\nand a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the\nAttorney General would be great. Biden went around bragging that he stopped the\nprosecution so if you can look into that\u2026it sounds horrible to me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The son in reference, Hunter, is<\/em> the stereotypical\nprivileged, born with a silver spoon in his mouth (Yale law school, of course)\ndegenerate. The issue at hand was that he was given a seat on the board of a\nUkrainian natural gas concern. Needless to say, young (middle-aged) Hunter was\nqualified for the position about as much as I\u2019m qualified to dance with the\nBolshoi Ballet. Could it be that he was only put on the board because of his\nconnections, especially his Vice President father? There is no other possible\nconclusion. So why did his father, as Vice President, brag that he successfully\nstrong-armed the government of the Ukraine at the time with threats of\nwithholding aid if a prosecutor investigating his son\u2019s company wasn\u2019t fired?\nBTW, seats on boards aren\u2019t particularly taxing or time consuming. And Hunter\nwas making a month what requires a year for many families to earn, at least\n$50,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plan B of the Democrats is\/was kind of a fusion that 1st,\nthe aforementioned 59 words suggested in and of themselves something so\nhorrendous as to qualify for an impeachable High Crime. And 2nd<\/sup>,\nthey were somehow linked to foreign aid, in other words, \u201cIf you, the Ukrainian\ngovernment, don\u2019t investigate Biden you ain\u2019t gettin no money.\u201d To me, a\nlukewarm Trump supporter, his 59 words alone sound somewhere between tortured\nsyntax and goofy, but certainly no reasonable person could conclude they\nconstitute a crime.  As far as the \u201cquid\npro quo\u201d idea that so enamors the Democrats, I\u2019m fairly certain that most, if\nnot essentially all, foreign aid is contingent on something: \u201cwe\u2019ll give you\nthis if you ramp up your drug interdiction,\u201d \u201cwe\u2019ll give you that if you take a\ntougher line on terrorism,\u201d etc. Or, as in the case of Obama and some African\ncountries, we\u2019ll give you money if you promise to embrace and celebrate\nhomosexuality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hunter Biden, a well established degenerate, was given lots\nof money to do something for which he had no qualifications whatsoever other\nthan being well connected. A reasonable person could conclude there is a prima\nfacie argument to be made that this was an attempt to buy influence, one of the\nmost basic forms of corruption. The question I\u2019ve never seen asked is this<\/strong>:\nshould Hunter Biden be exempt from investigation because<\/em> he is well\nconnected? If a sleazy lobbyist or underworld figure were suspected of fraud\nthat involved another country, would anyone care that a President said, \u201cI\u2019ll\nauthorize aid to your country if you promise to investigate this guy from your\nend.\u201d The reasonable conclusion is that no one would bat an eye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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