So, last night when we were, depending on our locations, mixing the dinner salad or driving the kids to soccer, James Comey, who was at work in Los Angeles meeting with agents there, was summarily fired by Donald Trump who did not have the grace to learn that Comey was not at the location (FBI HQ) where the letter firing him was sent and leaked the letter to news media so that Comey found out via TV while working. This is the shoddiest, shabbiest way I have ever seen anyone fired. It was worse than doing it by post it. Worse than a text or Facebook PM. It was a WTF kind of firing.The Crisis
by Thomas Paine
December 23, 1776
THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value.
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No love is lost between Team Hillary Clinton and the guy obsessed with her emails. He probably had a lot to do with some of her election results. If she had prevailed, none of this would have happened because no matter how inimical he was to her candidacy, she would never have fired him.
Before we arise in a standing ovation that Comey is gone, let's assess the fact that the guy who fired him remains, and he is POTUS. He will be meeting today with Sergei Lavrov and apparently his own Secretary of State, Tillerson, will not be in on the meeting. How weird is that?
Do you see any kind of agenda here? Consolidation of influence at the top - not a good thing. President Obama always trusted Secretary of State Clinton to meet effectively with FM Lavrov. Why does Trump not trust Tillerson similarly? Despots consolidate influence at the top.
Still laughing about how Comey was terminated? He was getting close to Trump's Russian relations. Trump fired him in a way that was supposed to humiliate him - and probably did.
But that is nothing to celebrate. Comey was wrong-headed in some ways and deservedly should feel sick about how he wrong-headedly affected the election. Nevertheless he served - honorably as far as we know. He did not deserve to be treated like a used mophead.
Think before you laugh or celebrate. You never know. The next head on the chopping block could be your own. See The Tudors, The Borgias, The White Queen, The White Princess. Yes, we codified treason in our Consitution so those things would not happen, but look at James Comey!
We should be very careful about the firing of the head of the FBI.
Don't celebrate. Cerebrate! (Think!)
