I have no doubt that the rank and file gov’t employees reflect all of of the prejudice/fairness, desires/hatreds, goodness/evil, and industriousness/fecklessness of the population at large. But I do not believe that is true about upper level management of almost any gov’t agency you care to name. They are a breed apart, who believe that they are above accountability to the law, that the law is for the little people but not them, and who are as corrupt as the day is long.equin wrote:Oh, don't get me wrong. It sounds like a very interesting book, and I probably will put it on my list to read. I also didn't mean to lessen or dispute that wrongs have been committed by government. We're all imperfect beings and improvements can always be made. I just wanted to dispel any portrayal that all of us government employees are uncaring evil-doers out to do harm, to the extent that book makes such a portrayal. But you're right. I should read it first before I even attempt to make such an assumption.
Examples that come to mind: I’m willing to concede that the average Security Branch of the DNC (AKA “FBI”) agent is a hard working LEO just tying to do the job right. And then there’s James Comey and Robert Mueller. I’m willing to concede that the average federal prosecutor is probably a hard-nosed defender of The People’s interests. And then there’s Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch ..... or Jeff Sessions and John Mitchell. There’s the average IRS investigator just trying to do an unpopular job, and then there’s Lois Lerner.....the kind of person who makes people in that job unpopular.
Anytime a gov’t employee uses, or allows someone else to use his/her position to act politically instead of as an employee of The People; any time a gov’t employee forgets who is master and who is servant; that is a gov’t employee that gives everyone else working for gov’t a black eye.
When SCOTUS ruled that fedgov’t could not be sued, no matter how egregious the gov’t’s actions, THAT was a huge mistake and miscarriage of justice. The gov’t that even thought to seek that outcome in court is a gov’t that had already lost sight of who is master, and who is servant.....and it hasn’t gotten any better.