“Seek Yahweh while He may be found. Call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts and let him return to Yahweh, and He will have compassion on him. Turn to our Elohim, for He will abundantly pardon.”
Isaiah 55: 6-7
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Our Nation is in Great Danger if Ordinary Citizens Believe they Can’t Trust Law Enforcement in the United States
The FBI seized the cell phone of Mike Lindell, founder and CEO of My Pillow, in the parking lot at a Hardee’s in Minnesota. This is the gist of the story:
In a phone interview with ABC News Tuesday night, Lindell, a fierce supporter of former President Donald Trump who has continued to try and overturn the 2020 election while pushing baseless conspiracy theories, said three cars with FBI agents pulled in front of his vehicle in the fast-food parking lot and issued the pillow maven a search warrant for his cellphone.
See “My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell says FBI seized his phone at a Hardee’s”.
As a law-abiding American citizen, I would love to think that the FBI agents involved were just doing their job in an honest way, but candidly, I’ve seen too much dishonest activity by the FBI and the DOJ since Donald Trump was nominated for president in 2016. I suspect that there were political motivations involved in Lindell’s case, because it fits the pattern.
See “The United States Department of Justice is making a Mockery of Justice in the United States”.
A Little Biographical Information About Me
I worked for President Jimmy Carter in 1980 when he ran for reelection against Ronald Reagan. Carter was defeated, but my short career in politics was just getting started. Within a few months, Chuck Robb was elected Governor of Virginia, and I was appointed his Policy Advisor for Regulatory Reform. In that role, I had a hand in all regulatory activities in the Commonwealth of Virginia except the regulatory activities associated with the State Corporation Commission.
During my tenure with the Robb administration, I learned that I did not want to be too heavily involved in politics. It’s a dirty game at every level, and the higher the level, the dirtier it gets. I needed to know the truth about politics, so I needed to be immersed in it for a while, but I didn’t need to wallow in it until I became dirty, too.
During the time I worked for Carter and the early days of the Robb administration, I was a regional finalist for a White House Fellowship. One hundred regional finalists were selected. We gathered together in Washington, D.C. for interviews with higher-ups in the Reagan administration. Eventually, 10 of us became White House Fellows.
The White House Fellows program was created to prepare military officers for service with the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In essence, it’s the political training program for the military’s best and brightest, but it morphed into a program for training anyone for high-level political appointments. Saying that politics is involved in the selection process is an understatement.
Before I left for Washington for my interviews, I talked with Larry Sabato at the University of Virginia. He and I were on the UVA faculty together, and we also worked together with the Democrat Party in Charlottesville and Albemarle Country, Virginia.
Larry had been a Rhodes Scholar. In 1981, the selection process used to choose White House Fellows was identical to the process used for choosing Rhodes Scholars. By that time, I was working in the Robb administration. Larry told me pointblank that the probability of me getting a White House Fellowship was practically zero, because the selection process was so political. He told me that the selection committee would be appointed by President Reagan and that most members of the committee would not look favorably on anyone working for a Democrat governor.
As they say, “To the victors go the spoils.” In Washington, that’s the way it is.
Larry was right. The selection committee was political to the nth degree. That was painfully obvious. Even so, the person selected as a White House Fellow from my region was an army major. I got to know him well during the interview process, and he was very talented. I will be the first to admit that he was well-qualified to be a White House Fellow. Some of the other regional finalists that I met were not qualified. As far as I know, none of them were selected.
In Washington, everything is political, and everything is viewed through a political lens. Either you are viewed as a part of the administration in power, or you are not. If you are viewed as a part of the administration in power, your path is greased. If you are not viewed as a part of the administration in power, forget about it. You will have to wait for a change in administrations.
That’s true in the FBI, the DOJ, the IRS, and the military, too. People want to advance. The best way, some might even say “the only way,” to accomplish that is to get onboard with the views of the administration in power.
That was not the case during Donald Trump’s presidency. Most Democrats and many Republicans did not want Trump to succeed. They did everything they could do to make it difficult for him to accomplish anything, but he succeeded marvelously despite their interference. More than anything else, Trump threatened the status quo in Washington. Thus, he was perceived as a threat by most career elected officials and by political appointees whose careers were tied to playing the game the old-fashioned way.
Paraphrasing Ed Sullivan, protecting and preserving the status quo is a really big deal in Washington.
Back to Mike Lindell
Mike Lindell was a very strong Trump supporter, and he did it enthusiastically. He worked tirelessly for Trump’s reelection, and because of his national visibility as the founder and CEO of My Pillow, he became a target for Democrats who were committed to protecting the status quo in Washington, especially Democrats in the DOJ and FBI personnel with Democrat leanings.
No one with an ounce of brains can deny that the 2020 presidential election was very peculiar. It was so strange that thinking people easily concluded that something sinister happened during the overly-long national pause in vote counting. That has never happened before. When the pause started, Trump had huge leads in most states. When it ended, Joe Biden had the lead in most states.
That’s not normal, and it begs this question: Was the 2020 presidential election stolen by Democrats and Republicans who were threatened by Donald Trump?
Mike Lindell pursued that question. I don’t know if he did anything illegal in the process, but I do know this: Politics drives decision-making in Washington and in every state and locality in the nation. It could very well be true that Lindell’s cell phone was confiscated by the FBI for political reasons, but we won’t know the truth for a long time. By the time we learn the truth, it is very likely that Lindell’s case will be long-forgotten history.
That’s the way the world works. If it’s not a burning news item with current relevance, it gets practically no attention.
Today, I don’t associate with either political party. I only want what is best for my country. I try to uncover the facts and find the truth. The fact that someone supported Donald Trump or he didn’t is irrelevant where truth is concerned.
In Mike Lindell’s case, I am suspicious about what happened. If he was hot on the trail of voting irregularities, he was doing a good thing, but that made him a threat to Democrats and Republicans who want to protect and preserve the status quo. Since Democrats are running the DOJ and the FBI, I am doubly suspicious.
Our nation is in great danger if ordinary citizens believe they can’t trust law enforcement in the United States. I am one of those ordinary citizens, and I don’t trust the DOJ or the FBI or the IRS. I am beginning to wonder about the U.S. military, too. Candidly, I am beginning to wonder about my country.
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“I am the good shepherd. I know My sheep and My sheep know Me — just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father — and I lay down My life for the sheep. I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also. They too will listen to My voice, and there shall be one flock and one Shepherd. The reason My Father loves Me is that I lay down My life — only to take it up again. No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of My own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from My Father.”
John 10: 14-18
