“We must no longer be subdued by false notions of playing by the rules as those in power flout them at every turn. Our phony principles and moral scruples mean nothing as our enemies use them against us. The rules of the game are arbitrary, so we are free to make our own”.~ 50 Years Later, We’re All Living In Chinatown-Gage Klipper, for The Daily Caller.
Nothing illustrates our two-tiered system of justice better than James Comey, the former Director of the FBI, and me, a former FBI Intelligence Analyst. In the end, one of us got clobbered while the other got a book deal with movie rights. Plus a university teaching gig, numerous television appearances, favorable media coverage, and for the uninitiated, a level of redemption necessary for the Deep State’s continuity of operations, despicable as they are.
Which is why I fight now and why I have been fighting ever since the day I realized I lived in a country where the will of the people means nothing to the bureaucracy, and an unelected government official i.e., a fired FBI Director is held in higher regard by the aforementioned bureaucracy than a duly elected president.
Did you know that? I didn’t until I sent a journalist my two cents describing James Comey’s failed leadership, exercising my First Amendment rights to free speech at the same time. Oddly enough it looked exactly like this:
Yep, I sent it to Politico reporter Josh Meyer with attribution May 10, 2017 but only after Comey was fired, however Meyer just used a tiny portion of it in his very next “Comey the Martyr” puff piece*. https://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/10/comey-firing-fbi-trump-238247
Barely five minutes later DOJ and DOD heads exploded in Washington DC and Kansas City, Missouri. Life as I knew it would never be the same.
*In the days and weeks that followed I had several interesting email exchanges with Thomas O’Connor who at the time of publication was an active FBI Special Agent and President of the FBI Agent’s Association aka “The James Comey Fan Club”. It was my first indication of a total “FBI makeover” evidently well underway and spreading fast.
Then we found out Comey was breaking laws left and right that made my “sin” laughable by comparison:
I put myself out there by supporting the president’s constitutional right in terminating a presidential appointee within the executive branch and got creamed, much of which I’ve already written about and posted on my Substack account.
Comey on the other hand undermined the president at every opportunity, mishandled classified documents, and leaked sensitive information to the media knowing full well the damage it would cause for an administration still trying to get its feet wet. No big deal, at least not for James Comey who walked away from all of it, without so much as a scratch.
“Forget it, Roman. It’s Chinatown.”
Not if I can help it.
Author’s Note: I highly recommend reading Gage Klipper’s piece he recently wrote for The Daily Caller which motivated me to finally write again after a nearly three week hiatus. All credit goes to him. I think you’ll enjoy reading it as much as I did.
https://dailycaller.com/2024/06/20/50-years-later-living-chinatown-jack-nicholson/