When I was a child, ordinary folks thought of the professionals, the doctors, lawyers, accoountants, etc as having high moral standards and expected them to behave accordign to such standards. Now it appears that many professionals seem to think that the reason they have to know what the law says in regard to their professional work so that they can work right up to the line. It does not matter whether you have lawyers in court terrifying victims of child sex abuse to the extent that they take their own life after testifying, accountants working out the most creaticve and least likely to be discovered tax avoidance mechanisms that verge into tax evasion, or doctors whose practice is the killing of human life reather than the preservation of it.

I have been in a similar situation and I prepared the return but refused to sign it. I made clear to my boss’s boss, who required that I prepare it that I would resign and report the error to the tax authorities if he tried to insist I signed it, using the words “I will not put my name to that return I know to be false, which leaves you with the choice of whether it is signed by someone else while I remain in emplyment here or or not.” That was when I resolved to leave that company.

Regarding what became known as the “29 Palms Survey”, I learned an interesting angle on that from a relative who was a Navy officer at that time. That survey was actually intended as a way to raise a flag and alert the public (and elements within the military) to this very dangerous and growing trend. The author of the survey pretty much knew (as is the case in many such surveys) what the probable outcome would be. He wanted to find a way to prove and quantify this trend so that perhaps some would be awakened and take steps to stop it. History has shown that, aside from the Oathkeepers movement, that has continued to grow. The 29 Palms Survey was one of the first steps taken to really expose this neohitlerian trend among the armed forces and a growing list of government agencies with paramilitary units.

We have all seen it, especially in government – and the smaller the government the more obvious the failings of those put into “authority.” In many instances, people are voted into office for reasons quite apart from their abilities OR their character. Usually, some external such as ideology, party or race result in governments of, for and by the incompetent and the corrupt. My grandfather – a brilliant man – used to say about those folks, “Put a beggar on horseback and he’ll ride it to death.” Of course, by that he meant that people raised ABOVE their abilities tend to make use of their position to achieve goals that have nothing whatsoever to do with public (or any other) service. Nothing exhibits this situation with more clarity than the personal lives of America’s “First Family.” Not since Versailles has a ruler and his wife showed less concern with the public good and more personal greed and lack of rationality than Barack and Michelle Obama. During a period of economic distress, their countless vacations, shopping trips and personal expenditures cannot help but remind us of the French aristocracy just before that country’s revolution. They not only seem oblivious to the suffering of others, but in fact, have the same spirit of “entitlement” (in this case admittedly based upon race!) that surrounded the French ruling class.

On the other hand, America does have what must be considered the premiere example of a hero “in authority.” That man was George Washington. Hamilton wanted to make him a king – and he refused. He spent his time as President working diligently to craft this new office in such a way as to insure that those who came after him would either live up to their office or, at worst, not be able to destroy it. He was reasonably successful until the rise of a true “dark horse,” Abraham Lincoln. I once heard a (supposed) constitutional authority who loved Lincoln say that Washington created the presidency and Lincoln “changed” it. I opined at the time that the word should have been “destroyed” rather than “changed” and I believe that to this day. When Washington – a Virginian after all! – left the office, none other than King George declared him “a great man” because the King understood that Washington could have remained in office for life had he so wished. The King wondered at a man who willingly lay down the reins of power and all that that meant.

Sadly, even the best of our present “statesmen” seem unable or unwilling to understand just what “authority” means except in the crass relationship between it and political power. I tend to believe that this is the result of the fact that the whole culture has been deteriorating for the last one hundred and fifty years and it is no more possible to relate authority to its best definition today than to find a clean cup of water in a cesspool.

It took the government years to lower the state of society to where such repugnant acts can occur. It all started when the lines broke at Petersburg.

A decade or so ago I recall that the military was asking soldiers whether or not they would fire on American citizens. I have no statistics to prove it, but there can be only one reason for this question; that is to advance the careers of those who were willing, to be slaves, and to enslave their fellow citizens, while holding down those who would stand on principle.

We now have a spineless military hierarchy, that will gladly do the bidding of their masters no matter how much it infringes the citizens freedoms. This same mentality has corrupted all branches of Federal law enforcement and many localized authorities as well.

Years ago I routinely asked service members if they would fire on their countrymen in order to confiscate arms. Almost universally the answer was an adamant NO, however I could tell a few were merely bowing to peer pressure and in reality they could not wait for the opportunity to be petty tyrants. They were the minority, but no more.

More recently I asked a career FBI agent the same question and without missing a beat, in a chillingly cold deadpan, his reply was “whatever they tell me to do”

We now have in this country all the makings of an AmeriKan SS. The callous disregard of WWII vets and rights of landowners, business owners and vacationers are the undeniable proof. Twenty years ago their would have been a flat rejection of those tactics by the vast majority of law enforcement; now the few who don’t have a sadistic bent, are so characterless as to be void of human dignity.