The Deep State took Mike Flynn down — how can that be a good thing?

© 2017 Peter Free

 

19 February 2017

 

 

 

Muscular moles popped up

 

Notice that America's mostly submerged national security apparatus poked its paws up to take former National Security Advisor Mike Flynn down.

 

 

Deep State defined

 

The Deep State guards us from allegedly blood-sucking Islamists, Russians and Chinese — and whomever else it finds temporarily convenient to point the diverting finger of hate at.

 

This is not to say that Deep State's national security inhabitants are bad people. But it is to say that they wield way too much power to do Democracy any good.

 

 

The Mike Flynn firing

 

Mike Flynn — a reported kook by virtually anybody's estimation — made some calls to the Russian Federation before Boss Trump took office.

 

Former general Flynn's actions were almost certainly illegal, given the probable nature of what he had to tell the Russians.

 

The American intelligence apparatus monitored Flynn's calls. Then it leaked those calls' nature to both press and political leadership.

 

In other words, our Deep State violated its own rules of secrecy, so as to manipulate American politics. The Deep State pulls the strings of governance to keep itself well-funded and headed in the direction that our Plutocracy wishes. Instead of We the People calling the main shots, a mass of autocratically inclined bureaucrats are.

 

What was unusual about the Mike Flynn firing was the Deep State's temporary visibility in making it happen. See, for example:

 

 

Marc Ambinder, Trump is showing how the Deep State really works, Foreign Policy (republished in Chicago Tribune) (15 February 2017)

 

Justin Raimondo, A Win for the Deep State, Anti-War (15 February 2017)

 

 

 

The manner of Mike's Flynn's take-down should concern us

 

The Deep State released information that — had anyone else done the same — would have put the leaker in jail.

 

Evidently, the law is what the Deep State says it is. How can that be good America's supposedly constitutional system of laws?

 

 

Is President Trump next?

 

This Deep State activity is almost certainly aimed at taking President Trump down. America's intelligence apparatus apparently does not want a chaotically inclined, free-associating Commander in Chief.

 

 

While we might approve of the Deep State's criticism of President Trump's stability-rattling ways

 

Is it really the Deep State's role to un-elect a legitimately elected American president?

 

Democrats have seized upon the Deep State maneuverings against the Trump Administration, as if those represent a legitimate expression of the American democratic process. Yet the Deep State's cabal-like manipulations are worse than anything President Trump's erratically upsetting and autocratic administration has done (so far).

 

At least the President operates in reasonably plain sight.

 

In fact, one could credit Donald Trump with being more publicly forthright about the means of his democracy-overturning shenanigans than any of his predecessors. Our Commander in Chief may be wildly impulsive and monarchical, but there is nothing much hidden about his thinking. He is Liberty's obvious enemy and proud to be so.

 

Not so the Deep State, which camouflages itself beneath impenetrable secrecy. This concealed bureaucracy deviously pulls the hidden strings of American governance.

 

We are the puppets who jerk at the end of those strings.

 

 

Which is worse for Americans' liberty?

 

What you can see?

 

Or what you cannot?

 

 

The moral? — the Deep State is freedom's deadliest adversary

 

Our secretive national security apparatus is a democracy-eating cancer.

 

With regard to anti-terrorism and national security — must we kill Liberty to save it?

 

The paradoxical conceptual impossibility of this question answers it.