Case study: An outrageous government trumps its own outrageousness

Installment 18 of The New Bossism of the American Left

Approximately 50 federal and state agents—every bit as armed as the SWAT team pictured above—took on a 78-year-old potato farmer and his family in the early morning.

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As always, a reminder to new subscribers that this is the latest installment from my 2015 book The New Bossism of the American Left. I am serializing it because my forthcoming book, Globacracy: How a massive globalist bureaucracy is shaping a one-world state, builds upon this book.

Today’s installment concerns the increasing weaponization of state and federal bureaucracies, and how these can and have been used by the government to target Americans, especially those with anti-government sympathies. It also is relevant to a needed conversation about the power of government. There are these days those who contend that giant corporations—Big Pharma, Big Tech—actually run the world rather than their erstwhile partners in government. The whole premise of the bureaucratic collectivist state is just the opposite. Or, to say it another way, there is no such thing as regulatory capture; it’s the other way around.

After all, who prints the money? Who will control digital currency? Who writes and enforces corporate regulations? Who creates corporate subsidies and protections and, more important, who can take them away? And who has the firepower to back all that up? It’s the government, and it’s not just in the military but in the increasing weaponization of federal agencies, as they arm bureaucracies to the teeth. In a showdown between armed bureaucrats and snowflake employees at Google, my money is with the armed bureaucrats.

That’s not likely to happen, of course. But, in the meantime, these agencies are not hesitating to use actual firepower against citizens they don’t like. We think of Waco. We think of Ruby Ridge. We think of northern Wisconsin. Wait! Northern Wisconsin? Yes, northern Wisconsin. This is a horrifying tale of an abusive government, printed first in The Lakeland Times, and then I have reprinted it earlier on this Substack. I included this abridged version in the book as a very relevant case study. If you have already read it, move on; but, if not, it’s eye-opening what your government can do to you, and the lengths to which they will engage in illegal behavior to do it.

Let’s take a look.