Failure Demands Retribution

as does our Constitution

The only senior ranking American leaders to answer with their lives for their perceived failures of leadership have been US presidents who were assassinated. Everyone else Generals, bureaucrats, agents, department heads, admirals, CDC heads... They're all widely perceived as impervious. Because they are. And there's no way to reverse it...

-Kulak

There are countless bureaucrats operating in America under they auspices that they serve the public trust. The vast majority don’t. In a word, they are failures. If they failed in the process of risking their own property or sacrificing their own labor, failure itself is retribution enough. For those who wield the unprecedented power of the United States Federal Government, retribution requires more. There are bureaucrats who make decisions every day that kill and harm Americans. When they make such decisions in accordance with lawful authority granted by the Constitution, that is bad enough, the very thought of losing being hateful to Americans.¹ If, however, a bureaucrat usurps the authority of duly elected representatives of the American people, well, there is no hatred sufficient for such an individual. In such circumstances, it is not only legal to seek retribution, it is the duty of every American to seek it if we’re to be a distinct people worthy of self-governance.

A Dangerous Precedent

Regardless of your feelings about the man, the recent trial of DJT was a sham. The leading political opponent of the current chief executive was convicted on the most contrived grounds imaginable by partial judge and jury in violation of his Constitutional rights. For many, it is tempting to see this as the start of something dangerous. The truth is, it is much worse than that. In reality, we’re in the late stages of suffering under the yoke of a constellation of perverse incentives that can be reliably expected to produce such outcomes. One of the most damaging of these incentives was established over 200 years ago by then President James Madison.

The President who Doomed America

As

Kulak

explains, by staying the order to execute General William Hull after a Court Martial sentenced him to be shot for extreme cowardice and neglect of duty, Madison marked the death of something much more important than this coward’s life: accountability.

From Betrayal Unpunished to Betrayal Rewarded

While Madison entrenched this perverse incentive by eliminating the prospect of true retributive justice in American government, there is another development perhaps even more damning to the spirit of the nation. I speak of course of the 1913 resurrection of the American central bank. Without a central bank there is a functional limit on how much coercion government can get away with. Taxation has costs, and beyond a certain point these costs exceed net receipts. While individuals and firms will always be incentivized to use the power of government to enrich themselves, this capacity is limited by the government’s capacity to fund such coercion. The true impact and function of a central bank is to remove this limit, thereby placing ultimate power in the hands of an unelected elite who service the debt government has come to rely upon at their pleasure. This unelected elite derives 100% of their power from coercive capacity, and as such they are diametrically opposed to all Americans who would prefer to make a living in proportion to what they can produce and provide for others. These Americans, the only true Americans in a spiritual sense, have been functionally enslaved by this combination of perverse incentives ever since. Now the most competent and capable Americans are faced with a near limitless capacity to incentivize betrayal of this noble spirit.

Success beyond a certain point is met with exponential increases in regulatory burden. Continued growth beyond this point becomes essentially impossible in any established industry. For the extraordinarily competent, lucrative offers will roll in to buy any such business with the enormous pools of transnational capital flowing from the central bank owners and their minions. Enterprising individuals might even find themselves offered comfortable sinecures in some non-profit government cut-out. If that doesn’t get the true American to abandon his principles and take the easy money, legal challenges threatening ruin have become the stick to accompany the aforementioned carrots. Where does all this money come from? What are the consequences if the government sues you in violation of your Constitutional rights and loses? What are the consequences if some bureaucrat denies them in the first place, or even unjustly takes a life in the process of executing their “duties?” There are none.

The professional class apparatchiks aren’t privy to some master plan of control and domination, they simply act as proxies for the unelected elite behind the curtain who they serve out of class loyalty. Funded by unlimited debt and shielded from retribution for what would have been dueling offenses in Madison’s day, they crack the whips provided by their masters upon the backs of their spiritual betters. Let us examine a couple modern examples before reflecting on potential solutions for this sorry state of affairs.

Mark Milley

In the centuries since Madison’s day, general officers have come to make Hull look like a paragon by comparison. Today, these senior officials fully embody the professional-managerial class spirit corroding the heart of the American body politic. There is no better example of this than Mark Milley. With a career marked by everything from complete teleological failure to outright mutiny, Milley seemed to fear he’d miss out on lucrative post-retirement sinecures more than he feared accountability from the American people. While he reportedly said “If they want to court-martial me or put me in prison, have at it,” we all know how unlikely this was given the status quo. Whereas Hull was an incompetent coward, he did face the potential of a brutal death for himself and his men. This modern day equivalent totally insulated from mortal risk abrogated the oath merely to satisfy his own hubris, delusional ideology, and desire for material comfort.

The Silent Insurrection: General Milley’s Hand on January 6

Deborah Birx

While you wouldn’t know it from reading her Wikipedia page, there are few bureaucrats in world history who can match the combination of hubris, incompetence, and perfidy of Deborah Birx. While Fauci certainly shares some of the blame for the predictably disastrous lockdowns initiated in 2020, the individual actually writing and distributing the guidance was Birx. She also did so in contravention of the explicit guidance of the chief executive, the duly elected representative of the American people and basis for any Constitutional authority she wielded. For a detailed accounting of her role in 2020, this short video is excellent.

It can be assumed that all of her other “contributions” as a career bureaucrat, including her time as an Army officer were equally disastrous, with the damage only being limited by the scope of her actual or usurped responsibilities as she ascended the hierarchy. Brix’s legacy is trillions in wealth and millions of lives destroyed. For her career of “service” she will enjoy a lucrative and peaceful retirement with her family.

Restoring Retribution

The scale and scope of the damage caused by such bureaucrats makes true retribution essentially impossible. There is no punishment grand enough to balance the scales of justice. Rather than focusing on balancing the scales, which I should note is also the focus of the social justice oriented allies of the ruling class, we must understand the incentives that led us here so that we can try to reverse the corrupting process destroying America. To reverse the incentive imposed by Madison, radical accountability is needed. Those who have violated our nation’s laws and caused untold pain, suffering, and hardship for the American people must answer for their actions to the fullest extent of what is legally, morally, and ethically possible. Power must be balanced by risk. The more power in a given position in the bureaucracy, the greater the consequences for failing to wield it appropriately must be.

As challenging as that sounds, that will be the easy part. Once that perverse incentive is reversed, we must contend with the great metaphysical evil unleashed by a relatively small group of elite criminals who provide the debt our government needs to systematically violate the social contract. While unlimited money can be thrown at any who dare challenge this arrangement, the American people will not be free. Moreover, the longer this arrangement continues the more painful the inevitable collapse of this system will become. This is a long term goal. In the meantime, consider what matters most to you, and who you want to be aligned with in this spiritual struggle. If there isn’t anything more important to you than money, some combination of carrots and sticks funded out of your own pocket will have you kneeling at the feet of your former enemy. Don’t make the mistake of thinking you’re better than Milley and Birx because of what you believe now. It is what you do when tested that will reveal your character, so be ready.

“The line between good and evil runs not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either — but right through every human heart.”

-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

1. As Patton said in his famous speech