Lavrentiy Beria is a historical reminder of the false security and inevitable fate of an enmeshed bureaucrat. Beria reminds those who are working “behind the scenes,” pursuing their own agendas, that their safety is never secure; their security is tenuous at best; and, their inevitable exposure, fall and execution by justice will not be evaded!
Undergirding all governance is a large minion of faceless workers. These are the “Chiefs” who actually run government operations. Those elected are the “Faces” to the public. This critical identification in governmental affairs is never apparent. The following analyzes this factor in our government.
The reality of governing is the Faces respond only to the degree the Chiefs allow. There exists an almost impenetrable wall surrounding the elected officials. This wall is guarded by the Chiefs. This is not for the protection of the elected officials but for the security of the Chiefs and their agenda.
The elected officials (Faces) may well have an agenda that is publicized to the public and constituents BUT the Chiefs control all matters. Legislation may pass the vote and its title sounds wonderful, but the integral working details are contrary to the title—the Chiefs have the ultimate control as they parse the legislation (Just look at the hideous “Inflation Reduction Act”). This legislation was celebrated as “the American People have won, and special interests lost.” The absurdity and fantasy of these words were penned by the Chiefs and announced by the Faces!
Go to the grocery, pharmacy, gas pump and understand how ridiculous the pronouncement that inflation has been reduced is applied to daily living. Those who pay their own utility bills and repair their own vehicles looked with incredulity at the Faces read the Chiefs’ inane verbiage!
The tragic truth in today’s governing is that the Chiefs run operations and the Faces are the images presented. The Faces are ensconced in elitism and “protected” from unnecessary people.
The Faces surrender all authority to the Chiefs who “know better how to manage things” and “because the elected Faces do not want to “take away time from constituents to review legislation.” The DC Beltway becomes a shield that isolates the Faces from the reality of life in the nation it has sworn to represent. The ideals, morality, philosophy and legislation emanating from the governing Body do not reflect the electoral populace but the philosophies of the miscreants who deem themselves as “knowing better how the government should spend the people’s money.”
Thus, it is generally believed that the government knows better than the people how to command and control all aspects of every individual’s life. There is a belief that the citizens’ individuality is the greatest threat to the Chiefs. So, individual rights are primary acquisition targets to insure the Chiefs’ positions.
Bureaucracy is the greatest threat to individualism and is strangling our Republic!
Some enthroned in Chiefs’ positions never face termination—some have been ensconced for THIRTY YEARS!! These are “snug as a bug in a rug”! (The idiom’s origin coming from the moth larva happily feeding inside a rolled up carpet is apropos to the parasitic proclivity of such people.). Blue Wave or Red Wave it matters little as these simply go from one position to the other and remain a permanent influence in the governing structure. The elected POLS come and go. As the Faces rotate, the Chiefs remain. The unelected Chiefs can be either a “balm for the heart or a boil on your butt.”
And, as time passes these Chiefs assume they have served in the shadows long enough and have collected sufficient political IOUs to step forward and become one of the Faces in the political spotlight. And, they foolishly think they can remain a Chief but be a Face.
Now this is where Lavrenti Beria enters the historic stage.
Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria was a Marxist revolutionary from his teens. By his twenties he had ascended in the bureaucracy to the head of the secret police in Georgia. He craftily navigated the bureaucracy under Stalin. He supervised the ruthless 1930s purges in the region and arrived in Moscow in 1938. He soon became the head of the Soviet secret police. He ran the Soviet network of slave-labor camps. This bureaucratic servant of the State was notorious for his sadistic enjoyment of torture and his taste for beating and raping women and violating young girls. By the time of Stalin’s death in 1953, even though he was a fixed senior bureaucrat, he was one of the most hated men in the country. But his amazing arrogance envisioned himself as the ideal candidate to control the USSR.
With Stalin’s removal, Beria thought it was his time to step out of the shadows and become not only the “Chief” bureaucrat manipulating political intrigue but also the “Face” of the nation. He was given the combined ministries of State Security and Internal Affairs, placing him in control of both the secret and the regular police as well as a small private army of infantry divisions. It is instructive for present day readers to observe the historical precedent of bureaucrats assuming control and manipulating the law enforcement divisions in order to achieve their devilish objectives. His evil led to many fearing him almost as much as they had feared Stalin.
Although the details are shrouded in the USSR’s cloistered past, it seems Beria’s downfall was engineered by Nikita Khrushchev. On June 26th at a hastily convened meeting of the Presidium, Khrushchev launched a blistering attack on Beria, accusing him of being a cynical careerist and no true Communist believer.
Khrushchev motioned for his instant dismissal. Before a vote could be taken, Malenkov pressed a button on his desk and Marshal Zhukov and a group of armed officers burst in, seized Beria and led him away. Beria was taken to the Lefortovo Prison and then to the headquarters of General Moskalenko, commander of Moscow District Air Defense, where he was imprisoned in an underground bunker. His arrest was kept as quiet as possible while his principal cohorts were rounded up – some were immediately shot.
The Central Committee spent five days convincing itself of Beria’s guilt. An experienced prosecutor was appointed to make certain that the Chief was tried, condemned and executed with the maximum appearance of legality. Pravda announced Beria’s fall on July 10th, crediting it to the initiative of “Comrade Malenkov” and referring to Beria’s ‘criminal activities against the Party and the State.’ On December 17 the Prosecutor announced that Beria and six accomplices had been conspiring for many years to seize power in the Soviet Union. Beria fell to the floor and begged on his knees for mercy. It was not a quality he had shown to others, and it was not now shown to him. He and his confederates were taken away and promptly shot. His wife and son were sent to a Siberian labor camp.
The ignominy that awaited this bureaucratic Chief and Face was a “whirlwind born of a wind”! Stalin’s security chief was executed on December 23, 1953.
Of the many bureaucrats I have known and struggled with to accomplish various actions, I have known a FEW, unlike Beria, who were serving not for self-interest but for the ideals of our Founding fathers. But it has been just a few.
To those in today’s stations of bureaucracy, look closely at the allure of entitlements that the position offers. Know well that each will ultimately face personal accountability.
There are many who sit comfortably in protective tenure and fail to be courageous heroes. There are only a few who boldly step up and courageously stand out exposing the swamp of bureaucratic elitism that seeks to destroy individualism and pursue an arrogant, elitist statism agenda. The prophet announces the judgment upon such as, “For they sow the wind and they reap a whirlwind (storm)” (Hosea 8:7).
Where are the heroic “whistleblowers” whose patriotic courage and inner fortitude propel them to challenge the evil that is dominant? Some brave hearts have already stepped forward. A trickle of whistleblowers has begun. More are standing up and speaking out. There are others who need to join in the exposure now before they are destroyed in the whirlwind that will soon come. Where are the heroes?
Who are the tenured bureaucrats who will come forth and expose the corruption destroying our nation? Are you willing to remain complacent in your silence and be responsible for our national demise? Are you willing to be as Beria and chronicled in history’s records as “a cynical careerist”?
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We need many more patriots in key positions to stanch the socialist/communist illegal coup against the United States government. The many FBI Whistleblowers that Sen. Grassley has been working with (and whom are cited in your article) are an important vanguard.
Meanwhile we need whistleblowers and Patriots to come forward in the other agencies.
“A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.”—James Madison
The IRS has stockpiled 4,500 guns and five million rounds of ammunition in recent years, including 621 shotguns, 539 long-barrel rifles and 15 submachine guns.
The Veterans Administration (VA) purchased 11 million rounds of ammunition (equivalent to 2,800 rounds for each of their officers), along with camouflage uniforms, riot helmets and shields, specialized image enhancement devices and tactical lighting.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) acquired 4 million rounds of ammunition, in addition to 1,300 guns, including five submachine guns and 189 automatic firearms for its Office of Inspector General.
According to an in-depth report on “The Militarization of the U.S. Executive Agencies,” the Social Security Administration secured 800,000 rounds of ammunition for their special agents, as well as armor and guns.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) owns 600 guns. And the Smithsonian now employs 620-armed “special agents.”
This is how it begins.
We have what the founders feared most: a “standing” or permanent army on American soil.
This de facto standing army is made up of weaponized, militarized, civilian forces which look like, dress like, and act like the military; are armed with guns, ammunition and military-style equipment; are authorized to make arrests; and are trained in military tactics.
Mind you, this de facto standing army of bureaucratic, administrative, non-military, paper-pushing, non-traditional law enforcement agencies may look and act like the military, but they are not the military.
Rather, they are foot soldiers of the police state’s standing army, and they are growing in number at an alarming rate.
https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/weaponizing_the_bureaucracy_who_will_protect_us_from_the_governments_standing_army
We will have to see how all that “Bureaucrat Army” stands against its own families. Who will the military be sided with? I don’t know, but the military has families, too. I may be a Pollyanna, but I don’t see it.
As a balance to their accumulation of those firearms quoted, consider that in one county in one state, civilians own a similar amount. Those government agencies will be so overwhelmed if they take their fight past being a well orchestrated bluff.
We are the subdued voices. The government doesn’t have the slightest approximation of the battle they would lose, if they continue down this road. I’m not saying they will eventually cower, but I am saying that if we have to fight the foe, the foe will lose. All the foe can do is destroy everything in the process. I don’t know how anyone can call that a win, if the left does that. I don’t even believe the left realizes that, also.
In the end, all these tyrants, who have never brought arms against anyone, will run like the cowards they are. They are faceless, spineless people who rely on the darkness of evil to fight their fight.
Our main cause for concern is if we never engage, and let their bluff run us over. Time will tell which is the case.
That’ll be the game, Mark, like Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia they’ll be sent to do their thing far from where they live, both to mitigate fear of retaliation and to combat divided loyalties.
J., not to belittle any of your other points but 2800 rounds isn’t really that much–a typical defensive firearms class (not an amateur-hour NRA or local-PD program, a big-name institution like Thunder Ranch or Gunsite or Mas Ayoob) will burn an entire thousand-round case in a few days to a week.
This is the same game the Left plays when they foam at the mouth about a guy having an “arsenal” when he has 2-3 .22’s, a 9mm pistol and three or four 500-round bricks of .22 ammo that combined with all his 9mm stash barely fills a shoebox.
You might find this a relevant read about “scare numbers” on ammo stashes… https://fullmagnews.com/2022/07/07/mass-media-lies-about-massive-ammo-stockpiles/
Personally I prefer to keep a sealed case of duty ammo for each serious-work gun in the household at all times on top of whatever’s opened up to stock one duty load of loaded mags kept ready, one more ready to rotate in and replace those and two more in a Grab-n-Go bag. (For each Ready Rack AR, that’s four sets of seven mags containing 840 rounds.) And then 2-3 cases per of cheap stuff for the range… so you can see how numbers add up fast.
Beria & crowd (State Security and Internal Affairs) were worse than SS & NAZI’s in many ways…mainly because they latest much longer; but were Keystone Cops in style to SS & Gestapo. Amazing the USSR, Stalin in particular, latest as long as they did. Since Uncle Joe was from Georgia, as Beria, it sure helped Beria to make it as far as he did & even become a Marshal of the Soviet Union in ’45!