Revolt Of The Elites: FBI, The Tip Of The Spear

Several days ago I ranted a bit about the enabling role of the legal profession in the war that the American Ruling Class is waging against normal Americans. The United States is notoriously a nation of laws and, by and large, a law abiding country. Several commenters directed my attention to Alexis de Tocqueville’s discussion of the leading role of the legal profession in America (cf. THE TEMPER OF THE LEGAL PROFESSION IN THE UNITED STATES, and analysis here and here). We see this influence everywhere in a modern America in which, unlike de Tocqueville’s vision of a conservative legal profession, the profession has been largely co-opted by radical ideologues bent on fundamentally transforming the American Republic. And great strides toward that transformation have been made since the 1960s, especially through the medium of educational indoctrination and the Cultural Marxist long march through the leading institutions of society.

Nevertheless, it remains even in such a law abiding country as America that there are recalcitrant elements—one thinks of concerned parents of school age children and other “bitter clingers,” mRNA and mask resisters, but above all MAGA Americans and J6 “insurrectionists.” For dealing with such elements sterner measures are required. That task has been entrusted by the Power Elite to the FBI acting, of course, in concert with the legal establishment. This role of the FBI first came to public attention with the 2016 Russia Hoax, followed by the Mueller Witchhunt and the 2020 election hoax. Since then it has been extended with the J6 Insurrection Hoax.

The 2022 midterm elections brought a GOP majority in the House. The Senate is more or less up for grabs, depending on the issue. However, the GOP in both chambers have shown an appetite for oversight of the FBI. It’s difficult to say at this point how serious this will end up being—will the GOP take tough measures, or is this just window dressing to satisfy the party’s base? The other question, of course, is: Will the news of systemic corruption at the national level get out to the general public, through the filter of government media self censorship. Polling on trust of the media, as well as of trust for the FBI, offers some hope in that regard.

Lately these oversight efforts have brought matters to a head. Sam Faddis has written that The FBI Has Crossed The Rubicon (h/t to a commenter whose name I forget). Faddis summarizes the history of the past decade or so and its culmination:

The FBI … has signaled in the clearest possible manner it does not care what the people or their elected representatives think. It will do what it pleases, and the consequences be damned.

The recently released Durham report paints a graphic picture of an agency out of control. The FBI did not blunder into an investigation of Donald Trump, his campaign, and his associates. The FBI undertook to deliberately destroy Trump and those around him including General Flynn. The FBI took unto itself the power to decide who could be President.

Well, to be more accurate, the FBI hasn’t done any of the above. What it has done, as an institution co-opted by the Power Elite at its highest levels, is to throw its hand in with the Power Elite in its war on America. The actions the FBI has undertaken were done so at the behest of the Power Elite and in the knowledge that the Power Elite would protect its servants. So far that bet by the FBI leadership has worked out. It has gotten to the point that the FBI is openly thumbing it’s nose at Congress—the elected representatives of We the People:

The Assistant Director of the FBI for Counterintelligence, Suzanne Turner, just testified before Congress. Asked about the Durham report, the one that said her agency had run amok and tried to stage what amounted to a coup, she responded by saying she had not bothered to read the report nor had she been briefed on it.

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The House Oversight Committee is investigating the possibility that the current President of the United States took money from foreign interests, including Communist China, in exchange for policy decisions. In other words, the House is pursuing evidence that suggests pretty strongly that Joe Biden works for Beijing. As part of that investigation, the House has demanded from the FBI copies of reports that apparently show the FBI knew about this some time ago.

The FBI has refused to provide the documents. ...

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) has blasted the FBI for impeding the investigation into the Biden family’s business dealings, calling the federal agency “very patronizing.” He has also said that the FBI does not “respect anyone.” All of that is crystal clear. The days when the FBI would scurry to take action and avoid Congressional disfavor are long gone. The Bureau is above all that now.

Meanwhile, the FBI has announced that it destroyed all of the evidence it gathered into the actions of Hillary Clinton, the Clinton Foundation, and the mountains of foreign money that flowed to the Clintons when Hillary was Secretary of State.  This comes after revelations that the FBI shut down four separate investigations into the Clinton campaign in the runup to the 2016 election.  While the FBI was manufacturing evidence of a non-existent Trump-Putin connection it was actively covering for Hillary – and it is continuing to do so.

Three years ago, the FBI was handed Hunter Biden’s laptop which literally drips with evidence not just of corruption but of Chinese intelligence connections to Joe Biden and his associates. As far as anyone can tell, the FBI continues to sit on that computer and intends to take no action of any kind to investigate its contents.

Who can deny Faddis’ conclusion that all this amounts to a direct threat to the continued existence of an American Republic, to be replaced in all but name by an open oligarchy of the Power Elite?

Overnight the news that came out is that, in the latest example of FBI hoax operations, the FBI is attempting to stiff the House committee that’s looking into the J6 Pipebomb hoax. There is a growing suspicion—even among usually credulous House Reps—that the supposed pipebomb plot was, in fact, just another part of the FBI J6 hoax that was intended to create an atmosphere of fear surrounding the peaceful protest on J6. To raise fears of a violent insurrection. To justify the months long military occupation of the Imperial City on the Potomac. To justify the disgraceful show trials and abusive pre-trial incarcerations.

There are numerous references to this story, but I’ll confine myself to quoting directly from the House letter to the FBI. The investigative details cited in the letter are, to say the least, highly suggestive of, of, … hanky panky. And that’s putting it mildly.

Dear Director Wray:

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Your failure to comply with our request is particularly concerning given recent media reports regarding the pipe bomb investigation. According to at least one report from a former FBI agent who worked on the investigation, the FBI linked the suspected pipe bomber to a MetroRail SmarTrip Card that the subject used to travel through the Washington Metro system to a stop in Northern Virginia. The FBI used security camera footage from the Northern Virginia Metro stop to identify the license plate of a car that the individual entered.5 Still, the FBI has not identified the subject. One former FBI assistant director observed, “[i]t just doesn’t add up ... [t]here’s just too much to work with to not know who this guy is.”6

5) Kerry Picket, Jan. 6 pipe bombs at RNC, DNC were inoperable, says ex-agent who contradicts FBI’s official story, WASH. TIMES (May 12, 2023), https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/may/12/jan-6-pipe-bombs-rnc-dncwere-inoperable-says-ex-a/.

6) Id.

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Jim Jordan, Chairman, Committee on the Judiciary

Andy Biggs, Chairman, Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance, Committee on the Judiciary

One thing is certain. The full weight of the Zhou regime, its MSM proxies, and much of the Power Elite in the Imperial City is behind the FBI. That’s the only way that Merrick Garland could be getting away with this disgraceful demolition of our republic.

Many readers will recognize that my title is taken from Christopher Lasch’s 1995 book, The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy. The idea of a revolt of the Power Elite against the constraints of democratic governance and moral standards on their power captures perfectly the tenor of life in America. Let me offer a few publicity quotes in support of my oft repeated contention that, It’s about the culture, stupid.

From the Amazon page:

Controversy has raged around Lasch's targeted attack on the elites, their loss of moral values, and their abandonment of the middle class and poor, for he sets up the media and educational institutions as a large source of the problem. In this spirited work, Lasch calls out for a return to community, schools that teach history not self-esteem, and a return to morality and even the teachings of religion. He does this in a nonpartisan manner, looking to the lessons of American history, and castigating those in power for the ever-widening gap between the economic classes, which has created a crisis in American society. The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy is riveting social commentary.

From the Google Books page—if you recognize in the reference to “the professional and managerial elites” people like the legal profession or the managerial elites who outsourced America’s productive capacity and ground down the middle class, well … If you recognize in the reference to escaping “mortal limits” the Covid Regime and the Eugenics preoccupations of the Power Elite, well …

In this challenging work, Christopher Lasch makes his most accessible critique yet of what is wrong with the values and beliefs of America's professional and managerial elites. The distinguished historian argues that democracy today is threatened not by the masses, as Jose Ortega y Gasset (The Revolt of the Masses) had said, but by the elites. These elites - mobile and increasingly global in outlook - refuse to accept limits or ties to nation and place. Lasch contends that, as they isolate themselves in their networks and enclaves, they abandon the middle class, divide the nation, and betray the idea of a democracy for all America's citizens. The book is historical writing at its best, using the past to reveal the roots of our current dilemma. The author traces how meritocracy - selective elevation into the elite - gradually replaced the original American democratic ideal of competence and respect for every man. Among other cultural trends, he trenchantly criticizes the vogue for self-esteem over achievement as a false remedy for deeper social problems, and attacks the superior pseudoradicalism of the academic left. Brilliantly he reveals why it is no wonder that Americans are apathetic about their common culture and see no point in arguing politics or voting. In a powerful final section Lasch traces the spiritual crisis of democracy. The elites, having jettisoned the moral and ethical guidelines provided by religion, cling to the belief that through science they can master their fates and escape mortal limits. In pursuit of this illusion they have become infatuated with the global economy. Their revolt, the author warns, is diminishing what is worthwhile about American life. This volume, completed just before the author's death, continues in his tradition of vigorous and original thought and should stir soul-searching among readers concerned about the future of America and its democracy.

And this brief review from Kirkus Review:

A sure sign that Lasch's latest (and, sadly, last) book deserves wide acclaim is that it will infuriate those who cling to conventional notions of left and right. Lasch remains as relentless a critic of liberal progressivism as he is of unfettered capitalism. In many ways, this sharp and penetrating study culminates his career as a social critic of the highest order. It's an articulate challenge to the anti-democratic notions of both market and statist liberals: Both, in Lasch's view, share an exalted sense of the professional and managerial class, thereby diminishing a vital middle class in this country. Throughout his many books, Lasch (The True and Only Heaven, 1991) notes, from his early work on liberals and the Russian Revolution through his biting analysis of self- styled radical intellectuals, he has always concerned himself with one overarching question: Does democracy have a future? More so than his earlier, often naysaying books, this wonderfully vigorous and urgent set of essays makes explicit Lasch's hope for a renewal of our best democratic values: the civil arts of public discourse and debate; an educational system that stresses commonality, not difference; and, quite simply, religion—one of the best disciplines against professional arrogance. For Lasch, to accept our inability to master a God-given world is the first step to a more realistic vision for humanity. The course of our century, as he argues with great historical nuance, has steered us from a sense of the ``common good.'' Our public spaces continue to dwindle, and the language of politics, journalism, and the academy no longer invites the average person into the argument, as democracy once promised. The ``democratic habits'' of ``self-reliance, responsibility, and initiative'' have degraded into a mad rush for social mobility. The common wellsprings for a civil society- -families, neighborhoods, traditions—are now seen as impediments to financial success or as oppressive representatives of sexism and racism. This brave piece of social criticism answers Lasch's critics with a message so simple and obvious, it's sublime.

Amazingly prescient.