As you all no doubt know, you’re a demented ‘conspiracy theorist’ if you even so much as suspect that there’s a ‘Deep State’ – an unelected, unaccountable “Professional-Managerial Class”, as Good Oil’s Chris Trotter calls them – who endeavour to control the strings of the state from the shadows of democracy.
Never mind that they’re not only outright telling us they indeed exist, but openly admitting that they’re doing everything in their power to overthrow elected governments they don’t like.
First, it was Time magazine, crowing that “Trump was right” that there was “an orchestrated effort to anoint the winner” even before counting was finished. “There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes,” Time boasted, “a vast, cross-partisan campaign”. They’re certainly not short of chutzpah: not since the Praetorian Guard has such a powerful, unelected, unaccountable clique controlled the strings of imperial power.
They’re trying it on and still openly bragging about it.
Current and former USAID and State Department officials are using their expertise in undermining authoritarian regimes abroad against President Donald Trump and his agenda at home, according to a new report Monday.
Which is an oddly refreshing way of admitting that, not only do they interfere in the governance of other nations, but they’re trying to overthrow the democratically elected government of the United States.
Let’s not hear another word about ‘Russian election interference’ again, then.
NOTUS reporter Jose Pagliery reported, however, that “Some of the democracy-building experts President Donald Trump fired this year from the US Agency for International Development and the State Department are now reapplying the skills and knowledge they built up over decades to undermine Trump’s power.”
You’ve almost got to admire the barefaced cheek of a cabal of unelected bureaucrats trying to overthrow an elected government calling themselves “democracy-building experts”. Clearly this is some new, far-left, definition of ‘democracy’ that escapes the rest of us. Perhaps more in line with the Democratic Peoples’ Republic of Korea.
“Former officials” reportedly told the news outlet that they are “holding workshops on a tactic called ‘noncooperation.’ They’re building a network of government workers willing to engage in even minor acts of rebellion in the office. And they’re planting the seeds of what they hope could become a nationwide general strike.
“Some in the informal network of Trump opponents are sharing an old CIA pamphlet with allies who still work in the government: It’s called ‘Simple Sabotage,’” the reporter added.
To the rest of us, it sounds more like ‘seditious conspiracy’. Something of which the US criminal code takes a very dim view:
If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.
One group that NOTUS cited was “DemocracyAID,” which has no formal website or legal entity so far, but is “already hosting invite-only workshops with federal employees who hear about them from friends, vetting each person before they’re allowed into a trusted circle.”
A conspiracy, in other words.
No doubt the FBI is reading all this, and taking notes.
Deputy White House press secretary Anna Kelly condemned such efforts in a statement to NOTUS, saying, “It is inherently undemocratic for unelected bureaucrats to undermine the duly elected President of the United States and the agenda he was given a mandate to implement” […]
A senior State Department official told Fox News Digital, “The State Department is not aware of these reports but always takes our national security seriously. We will continue to take every precaution to protect the State Department from internal and external threats.”
It’s one thing to be called a ‘conspiracy theorist’ by the legacy media – quite another for them, in the next breath, to confirm that you were absolutely right all along.
