Like NH’s HB1002 (a tax on valid Right To Know / RSA 91-A demands passed by Republicans in the NH House and Senate that greatly hinders citizens from going after otherwise hidden Government records and malfeasance), the Federal Secret Service is now hiding from our Federal Legislators who are trying to get answers about that agency’s failures to protect President Trump.
All too often, I (and many others) are seeing Govt turning against its Citizens and the latters’ best interests. Take various School Boards around the nation as another example and the reports that those members stick their noses into the air when Parents start asking a lot of questions. The latter are completely stymied as School Boards have put policies into place that state they don’t have answer such questions – they’ve made themselves, these elected Representatives, totally unaccountable to their voters trying to hold them accountable.
We are in deep trouble, both as a Society and governmentally, when when such actions show the totalitarian side of our “Betters”.
Back to the Secret Service example. Normally I would have skipped over this post at the Daily Mail that the SecServ had rejected multiple requests over two years for more protection for Trump. However, it also referenced that the Secret Service Secret Service Director, Kimberly Cheatle, visited the Republican National Committee and some Repub US Senators found out and started to hunt her down.
Reformatted, emphasis mine on this Profile in Courage Fear Accountability:
In fact, furious US senators took it upon themselves to confront Cheatle as she herself hid behind her own security agents. She was shielded by her officers after the senators pursued her down the corridors of the RNC and demanded she explain how a gunman was able to get a clear shot at Trump.
…The chase continued down a corridor and up a flight of stairs before finally ending when Cheatle darted into a bathroom and her security service detail barred her pursuers from entering.
Her “pursuers were US Senators demanding answers for questions that she avoided answering on her recently completed call with other Senators. Govt refusing to be held accountable. Again.
I can understand loyalty by subordinates to their boss. However, EVERY boss has those to whom they are held accountable as well and the Executive Branch’s actions are subject to Congressional oversight. Even more important, Congress controls their budget, so why be so stupid as to tick those folks off?
Again, more and more, those in Government are refusing to understand and obey the spirit of the nature of Govt being held accountable every which way. Instead, like a recalcitrant Oppositional Defiance Disorder child, they are smiling and sticking their tongues out at their virtual Parents.
So who is going to hold School Boards accountable? It’s hard as the teachers unions WANT it this way – they wish to be the Power behind the thrones like a mob of Rasputins. Cheatle gave those Senators the finger knowing, because of the Bidens (especially Jill), don’t fire incompetents. Our NH Republican legislators, mostly via the “where else are they gonna go” mentality and no small measure of spitefulness, know that they won’t be replaced at the voting box over this – implementing this tax affects so few people (I being one of them), they know they will get away with it.
And our US Senators have so devolved from their actual Constitutional Powers and Responsibilities, why are they surprised that the Executive Branch no longer fears them? After all, when’s the last time when they REALLY used their SuperPower and started decreasing the budgets of out of control agencies?
So the agencies just laugh at them.
