The Morning Report 9/23/22

Good morning kids. The weekend is here and further to yesterday’s editorial vis a vis the hounding and persecution of former FBI Agent and agency whistleblower Steve Friend, I give you this exchange from yesterday’s comments: 

I’m best buds with an FBI field agent. He’s a Trump supporter and is sick to death of what is happening. At the same time he’s scared to death of saying anything or getting above the skyline. Bad things have happened to agents who have spoken up…worse than what has happened to Agent Friend here. He’s got a new baby and another on the way. He’s not worried about pension or money…his wife is a doctor… he’s worried about something much worse. 

Posted by: Defenestratus at September 22, 2022 09:12 AM 

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My response:

At some point – and we may be there right now – he’s going to have to take a stand. If he and everyone he knows in the agency that feels like him all stood up together in unison, it might make the difference. 

Lives, fortunes and sacred honor? Something? All of those things one fears losing are worth fighting for. Because if you don’t, eventually you lose them all anyway. And your soul.

Believe me, I totally understand the position Defenstratus’ friend is in. But at what point do you stop, look around and declare that enough is enough? At what point do you declare that your own personal safety and security, and the life you built up are worth risking, figuratively and perhaps literally to preserve/restore the society and order that allowed you to attain them in the first place? Our economy, our borders, our national security, law and order, and our society and culture are being intentionally destroyed, now at a faster and faster pace. Institutions that we thought we could rely on as impartial guardians of all of the above have been corrupted to such an extent that they are now to greater and greater extent the very instruments of our destruction. 

Human nature dictates that the more we are stripped of our security and our identity, the more we will be forced to rely on the law of the jungle. Talk to anyone who survived a death camp, or listen to their testimonies and you will be shocked at the things that someone will do just to stay alive for one more day, or even one more minute. God help us but we are on that path right now. It’s not a question of can we or will we reverse course. The question is when? When do we stick our neck out and openly protest?

That’s what Steve Friend did and you can see what happened to him. I said to Defenestratus that “obviously, his friend is going to have to take a stand,” but now that I think on it, that is not necessarily the case. Even if the majority of FBI agents, and indeed those working in every governmental bureaucracy, was a card-carrying Democrat-Leftist, there is still a sizable percentage that are not. They go along to get along. In normal times, they just do their jobs while looking the other way or just shrugging their shoulders at, say, mere sloth, incompetence or even graft. It’s not your concern. The vaccine mandates suddenly changed that calculus. In a way, it was kind of a loyalty test, as has been demonstrated with those in the armed forces who refused on religious or other grounds. 

And now, we have a man of integrity who sees that what the FBI is doing to ordinary Americans is nothing short of political persecution and the sharp end of the spear of tyranny. Where are all the other Steve Friends we are assured populate that agency? If they are not willing to stand up with him and refuse to go along with what are nothing short of Gestapo-like tactics, then at some point in the future, they will at best sit on their hands when things get a lot uglier than merely railroading innocent people into jail. At worst, they’ll be the ones eagerly participating in the Garland version of Nacht und Nebel actions.

The pessimist in me sees Steve Friend as an outlier, a one-off. The optimist in me wants to see this as perhaps the moment when the dam starts to break. Maybe we’re somewhere in the middle. But is the dam going to break or will the rotten center hold and we continue on our merry way to the moral or even literal equivalent of the ramp at Birkenau? 

As Bob Dylan sang, “When you ain’t got nothin’, you got nothin’ to lose.” At that point, it’s perhaps easy to do things that in your worst nightmare you never thought you’d do. But it’s when you’ve got everything to lose that standing up, doing the right thing and calling out evil for what it is, really counts. 

Have a good weekend.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

  • “The Mullahs must be prepared.” We Will Neither Forgive Nor Forget the Murder of Mahsa Amini
  • Richard Fernandez: “The lights are going out all over Europe, and they won’t be coming on again for a while, at least not on Green power. The hope in world capitals that the crisis which began with the [Chinese] Covid 2019 pandemic and deepened with Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine would soon blow over was rudely dashed . . . For the moment the visionaries will have their hands full just keeping the war from spreading; ensuring the lights stay on, keeping the supply chain connected and making it possible to put food on the table. The generation of politicians that promised us the end of history would do well to just get us to another tomorrow.” Shifting From Utopia to Survival Mode

CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG “RIOT” & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION 

  • Julie Kelly: “Joe Biden, Merrick Garland, and congressional Democrats fuel a false narrative intended to stoke outrage in an already deeply divided country.” Democrats Continue to Lie About Police Deaths on January 6
  • “Lindell listed U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray as defendants in the lawsuit. According to The Hill, as a result of Lindell’s lawsuit filing in the U.S. District Court in Minnesota, it was revealed in the warrant used to seize his phone that Lindell is currently under federal investigation for ‘identity theft, intentional damage to a protected computer and conspiracy to commit identity theft or intentionally damage a protected computer.’” Court Filing Reveals Mike Lindell Is Target Of DOJ Investigation
  • “Here’s how we get from New York’s persecution of Donald Trump to many thousands of new IRS agents coming for you.” Connecting the 87,000 Dots between Trump and You

AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

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RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM

THE ECONOMY, STUPID

  • “Seeking to debunk free-market ideas, a new book instead demonstrates its author’s prejudice in favor of government control.” Bad-Faith Economic History
  • “What will Joe Biden do when inflation exceeds 10 percent? Perhaps another garden party with a more relevant musician, some elephants, and clowns.” The Inflation Garden Party

AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS

CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

  • [Psycho carpet-muncher Dana] Nessel continues, saying “You know what’s not a problem for kids who are seeking a good education? Drag queens. Okay? Let me say this, drag queens, not only are drag queens not hurting our kids, drag queens make everything better.” (bend over and let them show you how! – jjs) WATCH: Michigan Attorney General Calls for “Drag Queen in Every School”
  • “Jeffrey Pierce, a former teacher and coach at Seaman High School in Topeka, Kansas, convinced children to send him sexually explicit photos by pretending to be a female teenager on social media, according to a Department of Justice press release.” (What High School? – jjs) Pedophile Ex-Teacher Who Abused Over 80 Kids Gets 30 Years In Prison
  • “It’s beyond time to get the government out of education.” Nowhere Mann

ABORTION

THE 2020 ELECTION HEIST AND AFTERMATH

SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION

BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS

DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY 

POLITICS 

THE UKRAINIAN “FRONT”

FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM 

HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY 

  • “The hurricane-force storms — each the size of the continental United States — have remained inexplicably stable in their strange configurations since they were first discovered by the Juno spacecraft in 2017.” (Chris Christie is a gas giant – jjs) Scientists Stumped by Strange Polygon-Shaped Cyclones on Jupiter

FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY

CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

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