Sipsey Street Irregulars: "There has to be a directive.” Of course. It's a BUREAUCRACY. Everything must come from the top.

Sunday, May 19, 2013

"There has to be a directive.” Of course. It's a BUREAUCRACY. Everything must come from the top.

Anonymous Cincinnati IRS official: “Everything comes from the top.”

“We’re not political,’’ said one determinations staffer in khakis as he left work late Tuesday afternoon. “We people on the local level are doing what we are supposed to do. . . . That’s why there are so many people here who are flustered. Everything comes from the top. We don’t have any authority to make those decisions without someone signing off on them. There has to be a directive.”

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: These Cubicle Dwellers Really Enter their Ideal Element when Given Decision-Power over Mental Patients. All Puffed Up Chest Like Fat Salary Gorilla Monkey but, In the End, With the Ruin and Death of the Patient, they Flee, Babbling Inanities and Denying All Culpability.
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An Offense to Fire at Them.; May 19, 2013 at 4:56 PM
Anonymous said...: I remember a saying as a child the "You cant corrupt an honest man except by making his legal actions illegal with corrupt laws"
Evidently the IRS has made it a practi9ce to hire corruptible individuals on purpose.
Honorable people would acknowledge that those acts are illegal and refuse those kind of "Illegal Orders" hence the comparison between govt employees and nazis claiming to only be "following orders" is dead on.

Yank lll; May 19, 2013 at 4:59 PM
Mr Galt said...: Ah, see it's all OK. They were just "following orders."; May 19, 2013 at 6:41 PM
William Flatt said...: The gallows at Nuremberg were at capacity with the dangling of those who claimed that they were just following orders.

Whether it is "Everything comes from the top...there has to be a directive", or "Befehl ist befehl" ("Orders are orders"); insufficient excuses are the plea of the guilty!

Speedy Trials and Prompt Punishment - the only cure for tyranny!; May 19, 2013 at 9:57 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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Sunday, May 19, 2013

"There has to be a directive.” Of course. It's a BUREAUCRACY. Everything must come from the top.

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