“There are good people in those agencies.” I’m not sure how to respond to this, anymore. Good people wouldn’t cower and hide, to protect their paycheck, when it is the bureaucracy that is causing a lot of the harm that ends up applying to those who just may be hiding, to protect their paycheck, or would they? I can see that, up to a point in time, when those good people are not yet corrupted to the acts of their leaders, but eventually, their lack of inaction to correct what their leaders are doing becomes as wrong as their leaders have become. Good people need to step up.
It’s not a very powerful statement that might say one would do what is wrong, in order to protect their paycheck. At some point, those good people need to stand up against this. When should that point be? When they finally have nothing left to lose? After all, these government agencies have the protection of the Civil Service System so they can keep their jobs, and on top of that, many of those same good people have joined unions to further protect their jobs, all the same, while we have no protection against the wrath of that same bureaucracy that they work for. And for all practical purposes, we can’t sue them or the agency they work for.
When given the choice to do what is right and good for yourself and others, and Jesus asks why you didn’t answer when He called upon you for help, and I know it is not right for me to judge, but there is a good reason to ask it as if Jesus was asking that, because a country founded in Christianity, and having the Ten Commandments as the ultimate rule of law, those who are affected the most are those who can’t reach out and ask for help, when those who could remain silent. I am a sinner. Don’t forget that.
At Nuremburg, after WWII, those German prisoners charged with atrocities some of who answered the charges by saying “I was just following orders”, were hanged. Following orders is not an excuse, if the order is unjust to begin with. Does that not apply to those who are not stepping up now, at a time when their country is at risk, by their own inaction? Their other excuse was that a state can only be charged with those crimes, not individuals. That didn’t end well, also.
In order to understand why it is dangerous to give those who will not stand up and challenge those leaders who order sinful acts against the people they are charged to protect, one should understand where authority comes from. Moral authority, from within. Moral authority from outside. Moral authority from God.
If your morals are from within, which are made up to suit your own selfish needs, you essentially have no morals, because they can change any time you wish. You can still know deep down inside that something is just plain wrong, yet still you still use your own morals to justify your own behavior, or actions.
If your morals are from the laws of the land in which you reside, they can still be wrong, because the state has justified a set of behaviors that still can be wrong, as in Germany during the period leading up to and including WWII.
If your moral authority is from God, which are based on the Ten Commandments, you know, without a doubt, that what you may do is either right or wrong. Our laws are based on those Ten Commandments. Look in almost every court house in our nation. The evidence is all around you.
Now, some will make the argument that many don’t believe in God. Okay, but that is a poor argument if one knows that the laws are based on that, way before those same people were born. You can’t sidestep a law because you don’t believe in God.
Now, it is not for me to pass judgement on anyone who does not step up to right a wrong, but, at the same time, I refuse to say that they are merely “good” because they could be. Good people might not be around when you need them, but when they are around they will come to your aid, sometimes when don’t we might not realize they are doing anything. If that is the case, and all these good people are actually doing something, I am just wrong. I realize that I didn’t put them in the position they are in, but it is the burden of the individual to decide what is right or wrong, based on the law, the Ten Commandments and those morals that are derived from them.
Back to my being a sinner. I have done things that, if I had known better, I would have handled very differently. Other times I knew better and still did whatever it was that I did, because I was lazy, or not able to do enough to make a difference, but I still could have done something, like seek out help. And a few times, I stood up for right, and acted accordingly, which is probably when I was called some pretty vile names for standing up for right. When I look back at all I have or have not done, it terrifies me, and I might cry out in my sleep, and often, like right now, awake, because I remember it and try to repent in any way I can. Those sins are my fault, no one else’s. Am I good or bad? All I can say is that I confess my sins, and ask for forgiveness from Jesus, because He will judge me.
So, all those good people in those bad agencies of our federal, state, or local government, it is not for me to judge, but in the meanwhile, how about you looking inward and asking yourselves if you are really as good as some of us might think. Someone is asking for help.
I’m sure there are good people in those agencies. Be known for your goodness. Stand up against evil.
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Frankly, from the “Civil Service” folks I have met, most don’t see the bureaucracy in which they are entangled. They believe they are working towards a higher purpose and don’t notice that they are part of the problem not part of the solution. They mix and match their benefits and training to their own advantage not the tax payers, and do not even see the corruption of the “civil service” system.
From the large sampling I have been around, and that has been over time, and it can depend on a lot of things, most just appear to have jobs, and I wouldn’t class any of them as either good or bad, just people with jobs. Where I might be seen as judging anyone, it is more in the respect that I have to consider my actions, continuously, and I think they should do the same.
At the same time, I have had good and bad experiences from the class of government employee, and that, too, can break along many lines.
I am referring to those who keep saying that there are good people in the FBI, and maybe elsewhere. Of course there are, but I wonder when the time comes that they, too, decide that enough is enough.
I’m confident that there are many of those like you describe.
One question I have, however, is do we allow a serious problem to fester, for the sake of those good ones, to keep their jobs, when the core of an agency is rotten, from the top down? Goes back to the old saying when compromising good with evil, evil always wins, because it remains.
Fighting from the “inside” can be tough-there is often a fine line or distinction between the dislike of policy or procedure and things that are absolutely illegal. In my experience far more of the problems I saw involved the promotion or elevation of dumb asses who lacked the skills, knowledge and ability to do the job they were elevated to-so a matter of incompetence and poor judgement rather than illegalities: those are the far more common instances by a factor of 30-40X. Over some four decades I lodged IG complaints on 6 separate occasions-including 2 when I was in the military over inane policy that was a detriment to soldiers (involving travel policy reimbursement.) I witnessed a half dozen or so complaints during command, another 6 or 7 while leading business units, advised ~8 or 9 people to pursue them when Ombudsman or other options were exhausted, and was the source of a handful over the years from people who do not understand how the remedial action process works within the civil service evaluation program. You can fire civilians-but you have to follow the process-even when they absolutely suck.
Nobody I personally know who pursued an IG complaint remained with that agency after it was conducted. One friend was inadvertently (winky) leaked to the subject of the complaint and did not receive protection from the senior’s retaliation and was eventually moved to get clear of the “blast zone.”
In one clear cut case where there was both illegal and idjiotic stuff going on-one executive had the courage to take it to the next level when our Director ignored it-jumping the chain to go to a higher level IG. Much like the real problem in government-mirroring society-nobody was fired, nobody was fined, nobody even got a decent ass chewing over it when the IG report was done. The senior who took it outside channels was ostracized and retired within a year, while the senior responsible for the violations was later promoted-and later fired when he “diddled” with the help. But fired means he was allowed to retire with nothing approximating punishment for his actions.
This is different-in that it is documented and clear fraud and illegal activity. . I can’t speak for these folks-it is cut and dry to me-and should be to anyone who took an oath to serve-but leadership in the FBI and DOJ are not only doing illegal stuff-they are being touted by the lamestream for it and nobody is calling it out. Under such conditions it is very easy to keep your head down and stay in your lane. And there are scores of stories of people who turned in officials-and went through hell thereafter.
I know what I did-and would do-and that is part of the reason I’m retired…