The professional military bureaucracy has also become the standing army the founding fathers warned against. The Camp Lejeune water poisoning of over two million Marines, dependents, and civilian base workers is a prime example.
At Lejeune the water was contaminated with a a stew of poisonous chemicals for over 30 years. Base commanders and other senior officers, with knowledge did nothing to address the situation, choosing silence, I.e. career management, over the safety of their troops and families. Once the problem became too obvious in the 1980’s it took years to fix the water supply, during which known decommissioned contaminated wells were put back in service from time to time.
During the 1990’s and 2000 ‘s Marine Corps, Department of the Navy, Veterand Affairs, and DOD bureaucracies stonewalled efforts of Veterans to receive treatment for the cancers and other diseases disproportionately plaguing people who bathed in and drank the poison. Former dependents living on the base, and civilian workers were completely blocked. It took years of hearings before Congress recognized the issue and acted with legislation requiring the VA to provide treatment to military personnel, dependents, and civilian workers for 15 medical conditions studies proved were linked to Lejeune water. Congress though failed to appropriate additional funds to pay for the treatment so the VA bureaucracy continued to stonewall and deny claims for two more decades. Many victims perceived the federal government bureaucrats were simply stalling to wait out the clock while the victims died off.
Finally Congress acted in recent years with legislation allowing victims to sue the federal government and win monetary damages. This legislation was primarily a boondoggle for big donor tort law firms who flooded the airways with advertising designed to find and sign up people who lived and worked at Lejeune during the three decades of contamination for group lawsuits. Attorneys take 40% of each judgement and the amounts the victims ultimately receive in no way compensate them for medical costs, lost work, as well as pain and suffering experienced over the decades of denial, stonewalling, and deceit. Congress, the military, and the federal bureaucracy have now put the Lejeune victims behind them and at the same time handed over millions of dollars to tort lawyers who will recycle some of the cash back into the campaign coffers of politicians.
The founding fathers knew big centralized governments always become self serving, corrupt and tyrannical. Every department and agency of the federal government is bloated and corrupt including the professional military. Congress, the judiciary and the executive branch are also corrupt, tyrannical and often incompetent as the Lejeune example demonstrates.
It is beyond repair.
“The professional military bureaucracy has also become the standing army the founding fathers warned against.”
Absolutely right on the money. I was going to mention the very same thing. The DoD is all in with the subversion of our Republic. They are no longer loyal to our nation, they are loyal to the MIC corporations who are owned and loyal to the globalists. Ironically so is the DHS.
What we are seeing right now is a joint CIA, FBI, DHS and DoD military operation against the citizens of this country just like they have done many times in other countries. We now have a military that would indeed fire on American citizens if ordered to do so. They already are with DoD digital intelligence assets.
The main actor and coordinator behind this joint operation against our Republic is the Atlantic Council. They are behind the election steal, the Trump impeachments, and the current irrational illogical chaos in this country.
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/
He is another one who thinks that the government is just waiting for him to die.