Tea at Trianon: Government Gangsters: The Deep State, the Truth, and the Battle for Our Democracy

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Sunday, February 9, 2025

Government Gangsters: The Deep State, the Truth, and the Battle for Our Democracy

I thought that reading Kash Patel's 2023 book Government Gangsters, about Deep State corruption, would be like peering under a rock and seeing worms, grubs and centipedes, but I was wrong. Reading Kash's book is like lifting a rock and instead of finding the expected dirt and grubs there is a bottomless pit full of poisonous worms, snakes, gas and fire, reminiscent of St. Teresa of Avila's vision of Hell. If you want to understand one reason why American society is in a free fall, why there is chaos in our cities, in our schools and in anything connected to the government, then read Kash's book. No country, no nation can function when mired in lies and treachery, when politicians become billionaires, not through their own business acumen, but through selling the influence which comes with an elected office. That we have any country left is due to the grace of God, as well as to the hard work and basic integrity of the American people. Government Gangsters is a timely read as daily there are revelations about the government abuse of USAID, and as we wait for Kash to be confirmed as Director of the FBI.

From the Amazon page:

A sinister cabal of corrupt law enforcement personnel, intelligence agents, and military officials at the highest levels of government plotted to overthrow a president. Even after they failed, they continue to secretly pull the levers of power without any accountability to the American people. This isn’t the synopsis of a fictional spy thriller. This is what is actually happening in the United States government.

In Government Gangsters, Kash Patel—a former top official in the White House, the Department of Defense, the Intelligence Community, and the Department of Justice—pulls back the curtain on the Deep State, revealing the major players and tactics within the permanent government bureaucracy, which has spent decades stripping power away from the American people and their elected leaders. Based on his firsthand knowledge, Patel reveals how we can defeat the Deep State, reassert self-government, and restore our democracy. (Read more.)

Kash's book has many stories about Trump's first term as President and what it was like to work for him and become part of his inner circle. It seems that Melania Trump was more involved in helping the President in his work than was thought by many at the time, and that he trusts her judgment in matters of state as well as her unerring taste and grace in running the White House. But the main strength of the book is the chronicle of how Trump was continually betrayed and lied about by Deep State operatives, persons planted to engineer his destruction. The book is exhaustively documented and can be checked and double-checked for accuracy, since Kash is a master at gathering evidence to build a case. Those who made an enemy of him, who underestimated him and sought to make him go away, will regret it forever. By the way, some of the ethnic slurs aimed at Kash by Democrats are those which I never heard in all my life growing up south of the Mason-Dixon line. Absolutely vile.