These days, you can’t broach a subject without hearing someone say, “I have a right to…” Whether the subjects are mainstream, like healthcare, education, or abortion, or more axillary, like employment or access to exclusive venues and groups. But the fact of the matter is this: Our rights are enumerated, and we do not have rights that extend to everything within our purview.
We have the right to freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and the petitioning of government, although some would argue that was infringed upon during and after the events of January 6th.
We have the right to keep and bear arms, to be protected against unreasonable searches and seizures, and the right to due process, as well as protection against self-incrimination and double jeopardy.
We have the right to a speedy and public trial, an impartial jury, the right to confront witnesses, and the right to counsel, although, again, some would argue those rights were usurped during and after the events of January 6th.
We have the right to exist outside the bonds of slavery and are guaranteed equal protection and due process under the law regardless of race, gender, or religion.
Over the years, these enumerated rights have been extended to axillary but related issues in rulings by the US Supreme Court. Nevertheless, these core rights belong to all men and women who are created equal in the eyes of our Creator.
The 9th and 10th Amendments reserve to the states what is not specifically mentioned in the Bill of Rights and the amendments to the US Constitution.
One right not included in these enumerated rights is the right to a job in the federal government. This brings me to my point: the recent purging of Department of Justice federal prosecutors and the review of the employment of FBI agents who participated in the political persecution of the nonviolent January 6th protesters.
As Victor Nava of The New York Post reported:
“The Justice Department fired dozens of federal prosecutors involved in January 6th cases on Friday and informed the FBI that it would initiate a ‘review process’ to determine if thousands of agents that worked Capitol riot investigations should also be terminated…
“Interim DC US Attorney Ed Martin told the 30 or so fired federal prosecutors that they were being removed as a direct result of their role in the prosecution of some of the more than 1,500 individuals who [took part in the events at ] the US Capitol on January 6th, 2021…
“The Supreme Court ruled last June that the charge of “obstructing an official proceeding of Congress”–-used on more than 300 riot defendants—was too broadly applied.”
Now, we can have a frank discussion about January 6th: the constitutionality of the prosecution against nonviolent attendees and the tactics used to hunt these people down and hold them. I, personally, believe several constitutional rights were blatantly violated, including the right to redress government, the right against unreasonable searches and seizures, the right to due process, the right to a speedy and public trial, to an impartial jury, the right to confront witnesses, and the right to counsel.
But that is not the point I want to highlight today. Today, I want to spotlight the pure, entitled narcissism of the federal employees affected by the Trump administration’s move to terminate them for actions they should have refused to execute, actions that were—and there is no other way to couch this—actions that were unlawfully orders.
In responding to the announced investigations toward the terminations of the offending FBI agents , the labor union representing over 1,400 FBI agents responded with indignant outrage.
Again, from The New York Post:
“‘If true, these outrageous actions by acting officials are fundamentally at odds with the law enforcement objectives outlined by President Trump and his support for FBI Agents,’ the FBI Agents Association said in a statement.
“‘Dismissing potentially hundreds of Agents would severely weaken the Bureau’s ability to protect the country from national security and criminal threats and will ultimately risk setting up the Bureau and its new leadership for failure,’ the union added. ‘These actions also contradict the commitments that Attorney General-nominee Pam Bondi and Director-nominee Kash Patel made during their nomination hearings before the United States Senate.’
“‘They also run counter to the commitment that Director-nominee Patel made to the FBI Agents Association, where during our meeting he said that Agents would be afforded appropriate process and review and not face retribution based solely on the cases to which they were assigned.’”
No federal employee has a right to their job. Each federal employee operating under the Executive Branch—as FBI agents and administrative staff do—serves at the pleasure of the President and can be dispatched from their station to any assignment commanded, even if that station and mission is to watch ice melt at the South Pole. This was evidenced in President Reagan’s termination of unionized air traffic controllers in 1981.
Further—and this is in direct response to the labor union spokesman’s inference that the agents in question would be denied “process and review.” The agents in question are going through the process of review. If any agent is determined to have acted within the boundaries of the law, their jobs are safe. However, if any agent was found to have been fueled by politics or ideology in the execution of their duties, they should be—deservedly—terminated and restricted from federal employment going forward.
An FBI agent's oath, like that of other federal law enforcement officers in the United States, is part of the oath required by law for all federal employees to support and defend the Constitution. Here's the oath that FBI agents take:
“I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.”
This oath underscores the commitment of FBI agents to uphold the law, serve the nation, and protect its citizens while adhering to the constitutional principles of the United States.
Those principles and that service—empowered by the US Constitution as it pertains to the Executive Branch, have no exceptions for stepping outside their boundaries because a corrupt and politicized administrator or Executive Branch swamp creature wants to exact political persecution against perceived enemies. Regardless of any order, an FBI agent has a personal allegiance to his oath and doing what is right, legally and constitutionally.
The American people voted a mandate to Donald Trump to effect radical change in the Washington DC swamp. We are tired of the status quo bureaucratic bullshit that has morphed into a political apparatus that exerts complete centralized governmental control over our lives. There are too many “authorities,” too many “regulatory agencies,” and too many dictatorial bureaucratic powers that lord over our daily lives. This is the change we voted for. This is the change we expect.
Make no mistake. The Deep State will not go quietly. We are seeing that in the confirmation hearings where Deep Staters attempt to smear, discredit, and talk over the nominees even as they insisted during the Obama era that an elected president deserves the cabinet of his or her choosing.
We see it in BigPharma campaign finance beneficiaries like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren attacking Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose goal is to remove chemicals from our food and reduce our population’s dependence on pharmaceuticals.
We see it in how viciously they stand to protect the corrupted status quo in the face of the nominations of Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard, two individuals who have not only proved their devotion to the Constitution and our nation but who have taken a stand against the continuance of the Deep State grift.
We see it in how, almost immediately after recovering from the shock of getting their asses handed to them in a sweep of the 2024 General Election, the far-Left and caustic Deep Staters began their attacks on President Trump and started their quest to reclaim the narrative in the mainstream media.
This is why I beg you to keep the pressure on. We cannot let up. We must continue with the same energy that delivered the 2024 election cycle to us, and that means hounding our elected officials to heed the mandate. Heed the mandate! They need to know there will be career-ending consequences should they continue to ignore the will of the people.
We’re at a unique moment in American history. We must embrace it. And if that means taking time away from watching the latest episode of “Bubblegum for the Mind” on Showtime to maintain engagement in the governmental process, so be it. Sometimes, doing what’s essential isn’t doing what’s most fun. Then, fun should be a perk of success, not apathy.
Then, when we return, our segment on America’s Third Watch, broadcast nationally from our flagship station WGUL AM930 & FM93.7 in Tampa, Florida..
Fat, Illiterate & Stupid Is No Way To Go Through Life
Before we go, a few words on the dismal report on the state of our K through 12 education performance, especially where literacy and specifically reading are concerned.
Tommy Schultz of The New York Post reported:
"The latest scores from National Assessment of Educational Progress are unsurprisingly catastrophic. A generation of painfully slow progress was swiftly wiped out...and reading scores for our lowest-performing students fell to the lowest levels in the NAEP assessment’s 30-year history — despite an additional $190 billion from the federal government for K-12 in the last few years, on top of its usual massive outlays..."
In 2023, the total spending on K-12 education in the United States was reported to be approximately $857 billion from all sources—federal, state, and local. So, only a fool would continue to believe that funding is the problem where the decline of the quality of American education is concerned.
K-12 education expenditures breakdown thusly:
Administrative Salaries: 7.5%
Teacher Salaries: 42.4%
Employee Benefits: 37.6%
The average K-12 teacher (and I am not saying they don't earn it; they do, especially with the intellectual handcuffs they are made to wear by administrative and labor union edict) makes approximately $66,397 in salary and $19,919 in benefits annually, totaling $86,316.
The average K-12 administrator makes approximately $116,474 in salary and $101,186 in benefits, totaling $217,660 per year.
As an aside—and as an example, the annual budget for the Chicago Public School System for the fiscal year 2025 is approximately 9.9 billion dollars. For the 2023-2024 school year, the portion of the budget allocated to administrative costs was approximately $495 million. The Chicago Public School administrative offices employ approximately 4,200 employees. This is where to start if we are looking at where to make budgetary cuts based on eliminating bureaucracy and inefficiency.
So compensation is not the problem...at all.
The problem is with the quality of the curriculum. Our society has abandoned critical thinking skills, which teach children how to think and make decisions for themselves. Instead, our schools have become the playground for neo-Marxist indoctrinators, and our children are their lab monkeys.
If we are going to survive as a society, as a culture, and as a country, we must cleave the teacher's unions from any and all decision-making processes where curriculum is concerned. Further, we must cleanse the colleges of education of the far-Left transformative neo-Bolshevik ideologies so pervasive in those institutions.
Education has to be about the core subjects -- reading, writing, math, science, and core civics and history --devoid of socio-political ideology. Critical thinking skills must be the order of the day. Social engineering indoctrination through our education system should be considered a criminal act of child abuse.
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