That lovely quote from the movie Tombstone came to mind when I read that Kash Patel was confirmed as FBI Director by the Senate.
I hope, nay even expect that there’s going to be some kind of Mass Resignation Event among the Fibbie senior management — and there fucking well should be.
There has been a lot wrong with the various alphabet agencies who are nominally charged with looking after the American people, in that they seem to have misinterpreted their remit as “looking at” the American people, much in the way that an owl looks at a mouse.
The FBI has proven itself to be particularly at fault because they’ve gone after concerned parents, Catholics and who knows who else in a totally misdirected — and I use the word advisedly — identification of harmless folks like these as “enemies of the nation”.
How they might regard gun owners like myself we will not speak, because the actions of their vaunted SWAT teams speak for themselves.
So Kash, ol’ buddy, get in there and start rooting out the assholes — I’m pretty sure you know who they are — and don’t content yourself with just firing them; prosecute all those worth prosecuting, just as they have unjustly done to otherwise-innocent people in the past. (Ask the President how it feels.)
And while you’re there, shut down the stupid departments like Human Rights, not because the motives behind their creation were incorrect, but because the people managing them ended up using those motives as a pretext for harassing and indicting people in the most aggressive and venal manner.
It’s called “turning the tables”, and I can think of no worthier targets than the people who initiated and carried out those actions. They have, in short, betrayed their public trust and caused the public to fear, loathe and despise them, and they deserve to be severely punished in consequence.
