Trump Declares National Emergency for Information and Communication Technology: Report Big Tech Censorship! ~ May 15, 2019


We’re going after big, bad Tech! The Goog monster et al. This needs to be done BEFORE the 2020 election to make it fair.

Due to restricted Internet resources (and time) I have not yet looked into this fully, but please visit the American Intelligence Media website for this update. Calling all information warriors to hit their keyboards!

The Trump Administration is fighting for free speech online.

No matter your views, if you suspect political bias has caused you to be censored or silenced online, we want to hear about it! https://t.co/9lc0cqUhuf pic.twitter.com/J8ICbx42dz

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) May 15, 2019

Trump Declares National Emergency For Information and Communication Technology

And, watch this video update from Kip Simpson…

Breaking: Trump White House Rolls Out Website to Report Big Tech Censorship

Late Headlines and Updates for March 15, 2019: Beware the Ides of March T[-4] [videos] ~ March 16, 2019


Yesterday the Ides of March broke with a mass shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand, as you’ve no doubt heard. Q also warns other countries to be extremely vigilant and pay attention to the (fake) news.

Some are saying the massacre was about gun control however these false flag attacks usually address multiple objectives for the cabal. They will no doubt attempt to control the narrative in the news cycle as they don’t like some of the information bandied about currently exposing the demonrats.

Be Vigilant for a News Cycle Changing False Flag Attack in US, UK, France or Italy

3077Q!!mG7VJxZNCI 14 Mar 2019 – 7:39:01 PM Be vigilant at all times.
(US, UK, FR, IT)
See Something.
Say Something.
Narrative change needed.
FAKE NEWS attempting to REBRAND HARMFUL TESTIMONY and instead provide MISLEADING info to their readers.
[Example]
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ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE.
Q QAnon left a  number of interesting crumbs today. Read them here.

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The real ‘fun’ starts soon.
Q Indeed. How does Q know this stuff?


‘Restrictive’ Gun Control Did Not Prevent Christchurch Massacre

RT reports that explosive devices were also defused in New Zealand. Are these truly the suspects, or patsies?

Dozens of victims in shootings at 2 New Zealand mosques, 4 suspects in custody

And in Spain, live-streamed torture and murder. Unbelievable. And this is why we must eradicate the scourge of satanist lunatics from our planet. They want constant chaos, pain and suffering at our expense, by weaponizing people.

These are the same kind of migrants Trump knows the deep state has sicced on America and why he is adamant about the border protection and keeping unvetted migrants out. If they don’t pass the sniff test, they don’t get in.

Underage Migrants Arrested After Livestreaming Torture and Murder

Trump will do whatever is necessary to protect the American people. The border situation IS a national emergency as Barr determined because if we don’t keep those programmed killers out, we will see events like Christchurch and

Trump Issues First Veto

I think we can already see the beginnings of the renewed, vicious attacks on the President and why we will have to launch into action and counter the lies with memes about his extraordinary accomplishments to date in his short time in office. En garde!

CNN’s Dana Bash falsely claimed President Trump and Breitbart News are to blame for the New Zealand mosque massacre.


The amazing world of secret societies. Read SerialBrain2 decodes here.

SerialBrain2: Fast Train and Wacky Nut Job decoded


It was another great show Thursday night with Thomas Williams and exciting news of the coming next installment of, “From Russia With Love”. The previous two portions in the series were, well, I think my words in a post the next day were, “Wow, Thomas. Just wow.” Thomas tells us part 3 will bowl us over, too. This history was never taught in school.

If you’ve not listened to the first and second ones, you can do that here. You’ll need the background to appreciate part 3 which may be coming on Tues. March 19. TBA.

March 14h  Truth, Honor & Integrity Show where Thomas outs Steve Mnuchin.


Many questions remain unanswered about the SCOTUS death from years ago.

John Podesta sent an assassination email 3 days before suspicious death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia


Rothschilds To Take Swiss Bank Private In 100 Million Francs Bid 


This is more of the kind of news the lying, treasonous media doesn’t want out there for discussion so we can expect more false flag attacks to divert attention to violence and fear. As a former law enforcement officer Douglas Ducote is outraged by the release of this information sans arrests.

Hillary Clinton Email Server Shocking Truth Exposed


Placeholders Ready To Be Filled, Narrative Change Needed, Be Vigilant – Episode 1816b

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Headlines and Updates for February 14, 2019: Being Human with Heart [videos] ~ February 14, 2019


Happy Valentine’s Day, possums. We’re still here for another day to pump out the love and light while exposing the darkness. Dark to Light.

It’s another crazy day in the asylum. Q left an interesting sequence of drops. Talk of “targets” and lots of photos. The boards are insane, too. Stuff happening in China, by the looks of it.


Oddly enough, global warming is managing to manifest as record cold, snow, and ice. Oooops! Recalculating. I can’t wait for my hot, hot summer.

Hawaii Telescopes Freeze Solid. Global Warming?

The Watchers keeps us up to date on the global situation.


For those interested, we have more information from LA about the activity there, and more confirmation from the Trump family about QAnon.

Did you see the image of Ivanka and the circular flower arrangement folks said was a Q? I guess it’s possible. Don Jr. certainly appears to do an air Q in the video below. I don’t believe there is any question at all at this point that the President and QAnon are aligned and working closely together. Far too many confirmations for it to be coincidence.

Don Jr Hand Sign, Clock Decode, LA Witness Testimony

Dave tells us there have been military ops in multiple cities, not only LA. Prepping?

Military Exercises In Multiple Cities, Arrests, We Have The Watch – Episode 1790b


Bizarre things continue to happen. Yesterday it was explosions out in the desert, and just now, at 12:50 pm, while listening to DirecTV satellite radio on the television, suddenly I’m seeing otters on their backs bathing themselves, and then a Spanish commercial, Happy Valentines Day in Spanish, then it turned off and the music station came back on. What the heck is going on up there with those satellites?

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, we get headlines like this.

Pervert for President

No, that ain’t gonna happen. How many Americans want the POTUS fondling their children? I can’t see Creepy Joe Biden running—but if he did, it would only make the race that much easier.

Exclusive: Biden almost certain to enter 2020 race


Senate confirms Trump pick William Barr as new attorney general

AND breaking now… a national emergency to be declared…

It’s not one or the other—it’s both! Leave it to Trump to bring a Valentine surprise. You can bet this was the plan all along.

McConnell: Trump to sign border deal, declare national emergency

Trump will declare national emergency as he signs watered-down wall funding bill


As for RGB, apparently there has been material submitted claiming, “Heeeeeeeeere’s Ruthie!” Not all are buying it, however. American Intelligence Media did the research.

Is Ruth Ginsberg Dead?

And if that isn’t intriguing enough… folks are also asking, “Where’s Whoopi?” She appears to be “off sick” from ABC.

Sometimes I scroll through the boards looking at memes.

As for HRC, she’s still getting zombie infusions, I guess. Whatcha got under that tent, Hillary? We know what you did last summer, but is that really living, or are you cheating the devil?


With respect to the Venezuela fireball/ICBM, someone correlated the touchdown there to the Superb Owl. Planned satanic sacrifice foiled? And what was up with those hooded figures photographed behind the fires? Fascinating.

I’m full of Valentine chocolates and ready for my next vat of tea so I’ll sign off here.

Have fun spreading love today, possums. BE love.  ~ BP

Headlines and Updates for February 11, 2019: What a World We Live In [videos] ~ posted February 11, 2019


Editor’s Note: Wow! What a post! Starship Earth has become the new evening news for truthers, spiritually minded folk, and others who just don’t quite believe MSM. Whatever your reason, please read this post of what’s really going on, and be…

InJoy!

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Be sure to see the “meteor” update on the fireball in Venezuela at the end of this post.

This just in from RT, as the cabal is desperate to keep the US in the middle east and to begin more wars.

16 civilians, including 7 children, killed in US-led coalition air raid in Syria – SANA


Q’s on a tear and asking why anyone would believe the attacks against a mere “conspiracy”. Honestly, folks, it’s so transparent. QAnon exploded and spread the intel, wisdom and logic worldwide, and the controllers don’t like it.

Sane people who knew there was a big problem on our planet started researching and learning the true depth of the depravity; the web of control and deceit, why the mainstream media is the way it is, and how the deception began hundreds of years ago to create a debt-based monetary slavery system we can never escape from unless the People rise up and take control.

That is exactly what President Trump and his trusted circle is doing for us in concert with various groups in the legal and financial communities who know what has happened and are fixin’ to fix it.

Significant effort has gone into attempting to discredit the QAnon Phenomenon; a waste of time, energy, money, and resources because the threat is real. QAnon weaponized Humanity and created a peaceful revolution against the deep state cabal/New World Order. They woke up, and now they are watching everything the controllers do, calling them out, and alerting others to the corruption and lawlessness; the murder and plans to eradicate Humanity.

The satanic predators in Washington are toast, and all that remains is for them to decide how they want to go out; suicide, prison, or the Great Central Sun. Surrender… or die.

ThanQ.

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Why does the FAKE NEWS media continue to attack a so-called ‘conspiracy’?
Did you know there’s been 1,000+ articles written about this movement by the FAKE NEWS media machine?
Google: “Qanon” select: ‘News’ past 30 days (example)
What are they afraid of?
People coming together and thinking for themselves?
Q



Intel is everywhere, going deeper and deeper. Discretion always advised. Most of us have a suitable base to determine whether what we hear is possible or not and “possible” may have to do for now.

Facts can often not be confirmed at this point because the enemy controls the lamestream media and runs a propaganda machine 24/7.

All we can do is connect dots and use our intuition, understanding that disinformation is necessary, and that we are not going to agree with all views of all our insiders and whistleblowers. A difference of opinion doesn’t mean they are playing for the other side, as some seem to believe.

There are shady activities on Themtube with folks stealing content of those who have been prevented from monetizing their information, and profiting from it on a new channel they create with YouTube’s blessing. Whose side are they on? Hopefully the deep state’s side. I’d hate to think otherwise.

Bernie at Truth & Art TV lost his PayPal account this past weekend for bogus reasons. Pure BS.

I was on an intel call last night for the first time and they did a good job of summarizing what we have learned so far. There is good information in far more places than before and it’s good to hear how different people connect the dots.

I know SerialBrain2 doesn’t feel the President’s crimson tie clearly leaning to the Left was a message, but I do. Ties don’t hang like that unless they’re hung up on something, do they? How often do we see a tie that skewed?

It looks intentional to me, particularly after the treatment of Nancy Pelosi’s necklace. I agree the President was in a position to give Nancy Pelosi one more opportunity to work with him. That would have broadcast that message to every deep state agent watching—and we know they were.

Trump is willing to be a target in every way, whether for bullets, missiles or poison, but also including ridicule for a blazing red crooked tie at the State of the Union address. He is no stranger to ridicule and it’s water off a duck’s back. He has a job to do and is sacrificing everything.

Those in charge of this takedown want to avoid chaos and bloodshed and will give the deep state every opportunity to reconsider. Another government shutdown, state of emergency, martial law and the ensuing violence from the sleeper cells is something we would like to avoid, but when the bulk of the arrests go down, it could get ugly. We understand and appreciate they would like to mitigate that upset and danger to Americans as much as possible.

Nancy’s ugly red and blue necklace was clearly skewed to the Right and I believe that was her response. It doesn’t mean they’ll honour the deal. There’s an art to the deal, as we know—and so does Trump. We’ll see how much they are willing to do.

One bit of theory that stood out in the intel call that I hadn’t heard elsewhere was that the white suits of the Dem women was seen as a white flag of surrender. If you’re new you may not know that some time ago President Trump pardoned Congress members who had been blackmailed by the deep state and were therefore compromised. They were free, and free to work with the White Hats.

The fact that rookie dem Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona (elected in a stolen election, we understand) did NOT wear white and behaved out of character with her counterparts was blatant.

There are plenty of theories. The whole idea of fighting a war without tipping off the public is a gobsmacker but they’re doing it.


Benjamin Fulford’s update for today is here. We will post the full update later this week, per Ben’s request.

Secret treaties signal massive world changes as early as March


There has been substantial talk of “martial law after Christmas”, and there’s been an uptick again. Would you be surprised if it happened? Do you still think it would be the US Military coming after you? Do you still think they will confiscate your guns? Do you still think the sealed indictments are rumours and that arrests will never take place?

There’s no place for fear in America. That’s reserved for the cabal/New World Order. The fear is theirs and I think we can be reasonably certain at this point that the bar was set with McCain and Bush Sr. We’ve had multiple confirmations that the military tribunals began on January 2, 2019 when the new laws around that came into effect.

IF the border funding talks fail; IF the President declares a national state of emergency, IF martial law is in effect temporarily while mass arrests take place, and IF the cabal’s sleeper cells go sideways… are you ready?

Mick Mulvaney on chances of border deal, Democrats ramping up investigation of Trump admin

Epoch Times: Whitaker Makes Major Announcement on Robert Mueller


It’s working. People are listening, they’re thinking, and they’re getting it. This was the goal. Educate the masses, use the mockingbird media to show the real situation and help people figure it out for themselves—and they are.

Liberal Lunacy: Grocery Store Sparks Outrage With Weekly Advert “Heaven Has A Wall… Hell Has Open Borders”


President Trump is holding a rally in El Paso, Texas today just feet from the border with Mexico. Judicial Watch shared the following research about El Paso and those running it. It’s horrific what goes on as a result of the flow of people, gangs, arms and drugs through Mexico. It has to stop.


El Paso a Major Smuggling Route for Mexican Drugs, Illegal Aliens, Islamic Terrorists

President Donald Trump’s El Paso visit is a great opportunity to point out that the west Texas city is a rats’ nest of law enforcement corruption, a major smuggling route into the U.S for Mexican drugs, illegal immigrants and Islamic terrorists and the headquarters of a sophisticated narco-terror ring operated by two of the FBI’s most wanted.

While local officials promote it as one of America’s safest cities, Judicial Watch has exposed in a years-long investigation the disturbing reality gripping the municipality that sits along the Rio Grande across famously violent Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) says El Paso is a major hub for Mexican opioids and methamphetamine enroute to the rest of the United States. Just a few days ago U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released figures showing that the El Paso sector had an astounding 1,588% increase in illegal immigrant apprehensions during the first month of 2019 compared to the first month of 2018. Most are coming from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador.

Drugs and Central Americans aren’t the only things being smuggled in through El Paso. Islamic terrorists are also making it into the U.S. with the help of Mexican drug cartels. Judicial Watch exposed an operation in which Mexican drug cartels smuggle foreigners from countries with terrorist links into a small rural town near El Paso by using remote farm roads—rather than interstates—to elude the Border Patrol and other law enforcement barriers.

The foreigners are classified as Special Interest Aliens (SIA) and are transported to stash areas in Acala, a rural crossroads located around 54 miles from El Paso on a state road – Highway 20. Once in the U.S., the SIAs wait for pick-up in the area’s sand hills just across Highway 20.

Judicial Watch also broke a story about an ISIS training cell just a few miles from El Paso in an area known as “Anapra” situated just west of Ciudad Juárez in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Law enforcement and intelligence sources on both sides of the border confirm that cartel-backed “coyotes” help smuggle ISIS terrorists through the desert and into the U.S. between Acala and Fort Hancock, Texas.

The areas are targeted for exploitation by ISIS because of their understaffed municipal and county police forces and the relative safe-havens the terrain provides for the unchecked large-scale drug smuggling. In the aftermath of Judicial Watch’s story about Islamic terrorists operating in Juárez, Beto O’Rourke, the former congressman that’s holding an anti-Trump rally during the president’s event at the El Paso County Coliseum, tried to silence federal law enforcement sources.

O’Rourke, who represented El Paso in the House before a failed Senate bid, has long declared that Juárez is safe even as the notoriously violent region adjacent to his district is renowned for beheadings, gunfights, kidnappings and drug trafficking. Juárez is among the world’s most dangerous cities and the most dangerous place in the western hemisphere.

The problems in El Paso aren’t limited to the immediate border region. In 2014 Judicial Watch exposed a sophisticated narco-terror ring, operated by two of the FBI’s most wanted, with roots and financing in El Paso. Its ringleader is an ISIS operative named Emad Karakrah, who was recently released on parole in Illinois.

Karakrah smuggled drugs and weapons for the renowned Juárez drug cartel in Mexico and was a logistics and transportation operative for militant Islamists in the United States. He moved people, weapons, explosives, drugs, money, and other materiel to terrorist cells operating in Chicago, Brooklyn, New York and Saddle Brook, New Jersey, among other locations across the U.S. Karakrah and his cohorts— including two of the FBI’s most wanted terrorists (Jaber A. Elbaneh and Adnan Gulshair el Shukrijumah)—operated from El Paso. Judicial Watch also produced an investigative documentary about the narco-terrorist cell.

El Paso is also known for corruption within the law enforcement ranks. The former deputy chief of the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office (EPCSO), Jesus “Eddie” Campa, got criminally indicted for embezzling millions of dollars in Homeland Security funds.

Campa served in the department as a jailer and officer for two decades. He left the agency following the indictment allegations, supposedly for embezzling $5.6 million in Homeland Security Investigation (HSI) funds, sources told Judicial Watch. His boss, Sheriff Richard Wiles, has also been embroiled in several scandals.

Besides looking the other way as one of his trusted deputy chiefs embezzled millions of dollars, Wiles, serving his third term as sheriff, attended a fundraising event at the home of a convicted felon with connections to the illegal drug trade. El Paso County sheriff’s deputies have reported, in detail, to Judicial Watch how the sheriff’s office manipulates and phonies-up crime reporting statistics to minimize the true crime rate in the county.

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And this…

Later today, President Donald Trump is journeying to El Paso, Texas, to help promote his efforts to secure America’s border against the illegal alien invasion.

In their efforts to undermine the President, the left is spreading the myth that El Paso has never had a problem with illegal aliens and the crime they spawn.

But, as is so often the case, Judicial Watch was well ahead of the game in setting the record straight.

And this riveting video – featuring JW’s highly esteemed Director of Investigations, Chris Farrell — is a must watch for all who want to know – and spread – the truth about the illegal alien threat to America’s security:  Source

This lady is watching what’s going on at the border, too.


The conspiracy was not a “theory”, unfortunately. Humans have been targeted, experimented on and murdered for centuries at the hands of these degenerates. Terrorism is nothing new.

Nazi Human Medical Experiments in America

American Intelligence Media
Published on Feb 11, 2019

Christopher Strunk joins Douglas Gabriel explain to our truth community what is really going on with New York state’s infanticide law. Turns out the state is running Nazi-type human experimentation and as a young man Christopher assisted his architect father in building many of these psych hospitals. Now Christopher goes on the record what he saw happening behind the public’s eye.


I just picked this up off Jim Stone’s site regarding the “meteor”  in Venezuela. It would explain why “they” sent MrMBB the video of the Mexico City fireball again, wouldn’t  it? As I suspected. Coverup.

Meteor in Venezuela

This is just to repeat and clarify a very important story.

On Saturday, a “meteor” hit Venezuela, was seen by the entire country and sparked a large fire in the middle of a populated area. It stayed bright all the way to the ground and flashed when it hit. Very suspiciously, this meteor did not make the news anywhere except briefly on Sputnik news and the Venezuelan media, which both posted video that was not from the meteor strike. Sputnik posted the recent Mexican meteor which went dark before it hit, and the Venezuelan media posted aerial pyrotechnic footage. Very odd.

However, people posted the actual footage of the meteor on Twitter (which I have linked below here, ) and it perfectly matched what an incoming ballistic missile looks like. Ballistic missiles have re-entry like any other space launch and the warheads look like meteors coming in. What sets them apart from normal meteors is the angle of approach, their color, plus they stay bright until they hit and they flash when they hit, from the ordnance going off.

I expected the news to be dominated with a meteor that was enough to be seen for hundreds of miles and spark fires where it came down (when has that ever happened?) to dominate the news cycle, yet nothing happened. WHY? Why were fakes of the event used instead of the real footage, posted by witnesses, including of the fire where it hit? Short answer: Because if it was a missile, which it sure looked like, and a warning shot to Maduro, someone gave an order of silence and this will NOT be news. It will be interesting to see where Venezuela turns in the next few days.

Update to the meteor report:

ALL media sources are now calling it an “alleged” meteor with some speculating it was a ballistic missile, as I have. IMPORTANT: There are many false videos of this and even the MSM is using them. The two most notable are one where it turns before hitting, (this was an airshow with an airplane that had sparklers) and the other is where it looks orange and vanishes before it actually hits (this was the Mexican meteor.) The real videos have it bright bluish green all the way to the ground without it slowing down, and it flashes when it hits. Many others are, as I initially speculated, suspicious this was a ballistic missile re-entry, even the ones Yemen launches look like this, they all burn bright on re-entry. If that is what this was, we probably won’t get any daytime video of where the impact was because it will all get expunged (the night time videos of the flaming aftermath did get posted) but there’s no way to see what actually happened in them, other than that the area was burning afterward.

I’m A Senior Trump Official, And I Hope A Long Shutdown Smokes Out The Resistance | Op-Ed from Daily Caller ~ January 15, 2019


Here! Here! Perhaps some will have a more positive view of the partial government shutdown after hearing the perspective and facts below from an insider. We know by the undercover camera work from Project Veritas that the smug attitudes of agency people are exactly as claimed.

There are far more benefits to a partial government shutdown than negative aspects, and I said from the beginning my view was from the positive side because it would show Americans just how much toxic fat there is in the current government structure that works to serve itself.

Boo-hoo for the employees who didn’t get paid. I’ve worked for free, usually 7 days a week, for nearly 7 years on this blog and the other inconsequential, part-time work I was able to get since legally immigrating to the US 14 years ago was next to working for free.

Many have and are making personal and financial sacrifices for this planetary cause; ultimate freedom from tyranny. America has been drowning in alphabet soup but the deep state government’s picnic is over.

The unconscionable salaries these dead weights get for producing nothing and obstructing positive change are needed for important Humanitarian projects.

When kids are going to school without breakfast, millions of families are on food stamps, can’t afford health care, and veterans are living and dying on the street there is no excuse for this wanton wastefulness from spoiled adolescents drunk on entitlement.

Get rid of those unnecessary jobs, restructure, and create a government that works FOR the People. Employ citizens who actually care and will strive to create a better world. Service to self is a passing motivator that will soon fade from society.

Kudos to President Trump for this strategy. It’s long past time to eject the old guard and their minions.

Change it up! Mix the metaphors! Get the controlled burn going. Then we can cauterize the festering wound that is Washington and let the healing begin.  ~ BP

 


I’m A Senior Trump Official, And I Hope A Long Shutdown Smokes Out The Resistance

January 14, 2019

The Daily Caller is taking the rare step of publishing this anonymous op-ed at the request of the author, a senior official in the Trump administration whose identity is known to us and whose career would be jeopardized by its disclosure. We believe publishing this essay anonymously is the only way to deliver an important perspective to our readers. We invite you to submit a question about the essay or our vetting process here.


As one of the senior officials working without a paycheck, a few words of advice for the president’s next move at shuttered government agencies: lock the doors, sell the furniture, and cut them down.

Federal employees are starting to feel the strain of the shutdown. I am one of them. But for the sake of our nation, I hope it lasts a very long time, till the government is changed and can never return to its previous form.

The lapse in appropriations is more than a battle over a wall. It is an opportunity to strip wasteful government agencies for good.

On an average day, roughly 15 percent of the employees around me are exceptional patriots serving their country. I wish I could give competitive salaries to them and no one else. But 80 percent feel no pressure to produce results. If they don’t feel like doing what they are told, they don’t.

Why would they? We can’t fire them. They avoid attention, plan their weekend, schedule vacation, their second job, their next position — some do this in the same position for more than a decade.

They do nothing that warrants punishment and nothing of external value. That is their workday: errands for the sake of errands — administering, refining, following and collaborating on process. “Process is your friend” is what delusional civil servants tell themselves. Even senior officials must gain approval from every rank across their department, other agencies and work units for basic administrative chores.

Process is what we serve, process keeps us safe, process is our core value. It takes a lot of people to maintain the process. Process provides jobs. In fact, there are process experts and certified process managers who protect the process. Then there are the 5 percent with moxie (career managers). At any given time they can change, clarify or add to the process — even to distort or block policy counsel for the president.

Saboteurs peddling opinion as research, tasking their staff on pet projects or pitching wasteful grants to their friends. Most of my career colleagues actively work against the president’s agenda. This means I typically spend about 15 percent of my time on the president’s agenda and 85 percent of my time trying to stop sabotage, and we have no power to get rid of them. Until the shutdown.

Due to the lack of funding, many federal agencies are now operating more effectively from the top down on a fraction of their workforce, with only select essential personnel serving national security tasks. One might think this is how government should function, but bureaucracies operate from the bottom up — a collective of self-generated ideas. Ideas become initiatives, formalize into offices, they seek funds from Congress and become bureaus or sub-agencies, and maybe one day grow to be their own independent agency, like ours. The nature of a big administrative bureaucracy is to grow to serve itself. I watch it and fight it daily.

When the agency is full, employees held liable for poor performance respond with threats, lawsuits, complaints and process in at least a dozen offices, taking years of mounting paperwork with no fear of accountability, extending their careers, while no real work is done. Do we succumb to such extortion? Yes. We pay them settlements, we waive bad reviews, and we promote them.

Many government agencies have adopted the position that more complaints are good because it shows inclusion in, you guessed it, the process. When complaints come, it is cheaper to pay them off than to hold public servants accountable. The result: People accused of serious offenses are not charged, and self-proclaimed victims are paid by you, the American taxpayer.

The message to federal supervisors is clear. Maintain the status quo, or face allegations. Many federal employees truly believe that doing tasks more efficiently and cutting out waste, by closing troubled programs instead of expanding them, “is morally wrong,” as one cried to me.

I get it. These are their pets. It is tough to put them down and let go, and many resist. This phenomenon was best summed up by a colleague who said, “The goal in government is to do nothing. If you try to get things done, that’s when you will run into trouble.”

But President Trump can end this abuse. Senior officials can reprioritize during an extended shutdown, focus on valuable results and weed out the saboteurs. We do not want most employees to return, because we are working better without them. Sure, we empathize with families making tough financial decisions, like mine, and just like private citizens who have to find other work and bring competitive value every day, while paying more than a third of their salary in federal taxes.

President Trump has created more jobs in the private sector than the furloughed federal workforce. Now that we are shut down, not only are we identifying and eliminating much of the sabotage and waste, but we are finally working on the president’s agenda.

President Trump does not need Congress to address the border emergency, and yes, it is an emergency. Billions upon billions of hard-earned tax dollars are still being dumped into foreign aid programs every year that do nothing for America’s interest or national security. The president does not need congressional funding to deconstruct abusive agencies who work against his agenda. This is a chance to effect real change, and his leverage grows stronger every day the shutdown lasts.

The president should add to his demands, including a vote on all of his political nominees in the Senate. Send the career appointees back. Many are in the 5 percent of saboteurs and resistance leaders.

A word of caution: To be a victory, this shutdown must be different than those of the past and should achieve lasting disruption with two major changes, or it will hurt the president.

The first thing we need out of this is better security, particularly at the southern border. Our founders envisioned a free market night watchman state, not the bungled bloated bureaucracy our government has become. But we have to keep the uniformed officers paid, which is an emergency. Ideally, continue a resolution to pay the essential employees only, if they are truly working on national security. Furloughed employees should find other work, never return and not be paid.

Secondly, we need savings for taxpayers. If this fight is merely rhetorical bickering with Nancy Pelosi, we all lose, especially the president. But if it proves that government is better when smaller, focusing only on essential functions that serve Americans, then President Trump will achieve something great that Reagan was only bold enough to dream.

The president’s instincts are right. Most Americans will not miss non-essential government functions. A referendum to end government plunder must happen. Wasteful government agencies are fighting for relevance but they will lose. Now is the time to deliver historic change by cutting them down forever.

The author is a senior official in the Trump administration.


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