Soros-funded group advises federal bureaucrats on resistance from 'within'

Spero ^ | 2/1/17 | Martin Barillas

[markomalley]

According to a report by the Washington Post, some 180 federal employees have registered for training on the February 4-5 weekend in both the rights of workers and in civil disobedience. The report said that dozens of federal bureaucrats attended a support group that foments opposition to the Trump administration, less than two weeks after the inauguration President Donald Trump. 

 

While the Post report pointed out the obvious public protests that have emerged since the beginning of the Trump administration, “there’s another level of resistance to the new president that is less visible and potentially more troublesome,” it said. This “growing wave of opposition,” the report said, is from within the federal government and federal employees who are supposed to implement the new president’s policies to the administration: a growing wave of opposition from the federal workers charged with implementing any new president’s agenda.

 

Anonymous dissident Twitter accounts

 

Dissidence was already evident last week when tweets appeared on the official accounts of the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Park Service that appeared to flout the administration’s position on global climate change. While the administration soon took control of government social media accounts, the Post reports that federal bureaucrats are regularly consulting their former bosses who had served during the Obama administration. According to the post, bureaucrats have started anonymous social media accounts in order to leak policy changes and directives emitted by the Trump administration.

For example, there is a Twitter account at the Defense Department that protests against Trump. Using the handle @Rogue_DoD, the tweeter has, for example, distributed Defense Department documents warning about the effects of climate change. There are some within the national security apparatus who contend that Trump is actually a threat to national security. Elsewhere, there are Twitter feeds that have garnered more than 200,000 followers who are part of the so-called “Resistance” to Trump: @altUSEPA and @ActualEPAFacts. 

Dissent channel

 

This week, 800 American diplomats out of 8,000 used the so-called “dissent channel” in order to convey their opposition to Trump’s executive order that temporarily suspends immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries, as well as the admission of all refugees. These career diplomats contend that the order unnecessarily emboldens anti-American sentiments among Muslims in foreign countries. In this case, the White House has been blunt. On January 31, the American Foreign Service Association issued an advisory entitled, “What You Need To Know When You Disagree With U.S. Policy.” It provided information on legal protections for federal employees, but also warned that “walking out in protest of a U.S. government policy, even just temporarily, would be considered a strike” and can result in dismissal. On January 30, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said that dissident diplomats “should either get with the program, or they can go.”

 

Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich is one of the early critics of the development, and he has called on the Trump administration to clean house at the departments of Justice and State and remove “left-wingers.” He called it the “opposition in waiting.” A page on the Patheos website calling itself Convention of States criticized the dissident bureaucrats and says that “The alligators in the DC swam[p] will never give up. That’s why the people — acting through their state legislatures — must call and convene a Convention of States to limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government.” Article Five of the Constitution calls for either two-thirds of the Congress or a convention of states to propose and ratify an amendment to the Constitution.

 

How to dissent and keep your federal job

 

At Just Security -- a program of the New York University School of Law that is supported by George Soros’ Open Society Foundation -- offers tips to federal employees who are at odds with government policy. Before Trump was inaugurated, the website offered a catalog of methods of resistance:

 

(1) working from within; (2) reaching out to allies in other parts of the government; (3) whistleblowing; and (4) last resort measures.

As for “last resort measures,” Just Security suggested that dissident federal employees should align themselves with outside groups such as Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility,  Government Accountability Project, and the Project on Government Oversight. These organizations have formulated a plan for federal employees to take action when they believe that policies are either illegal or against their principles. These groups have produced a white paper, which was linked at the Just Security website, that discusses how dissidents and whistleblowers within the government can the internet to thwart regulations and administration policy.

The Internet has become a popular tool for public employees, particularly when an employee wants to leak a “smoking gun” document that speaks for itself. Scanned versions of photos or internal memos can set the record straight in a powerful way. Advocacy groups’ web sites double as bulletin boards for public employees to post these documents. The documents are supplemented with outreach to relevant agency staff, decision makers and media outlets, with links back to the scanned documents and a brief description of their significance. As with white papers, these web links force agency leaders to address a well-documented message, while keeping the messenger safe.

Helpfully, the Just Security website provided an email address for whistleblowers and dissidents to contact: dissentingfromwithin@gmail.com 

[laplata]

Yes, it would take a SEAL team.

Oh, yeah, the Russians would know how to deal with him. We are too nice.

[laplata]

Hopefully something is already in the works.

[timestax]

p i n g

[MayflowerMadam]

“This really is the key to stopping this. STOPPING SOROS.”

Yes; cut off the snake’s head by stopping Soros. And his progeny. Secret Service? CIA? Are you listening? You must have something in your bags of tricks to take care of this problem.

[KC_Lion]

[laplata]

Good thinking.

[Unrepentant VN Vet]

Sounds like we have a new batch of janitors for national parks.

...where they would be working for the Park Service which is under the Dept of Interior which has as brand-new Secretary of Interior a gentleman named Zinke, who was known in a previous career path as Commander of Seal Team Six.

That would be almost as much fun as having that @Rogue_DoD person have an encounter with "Mad Dog" Mattis.

[Freedom56v2]

RICO??

_____________________________

Exactly! Is this even legal?

[publius911]

...groups such as Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, Government Accountability Project, and the Project on Government Oversight. These organizations have formulated a plan for federal employees to take action when they believe that policies are either illegal or against their principles...

RICO
RICO

And the #1 Rico criminal has to be the financer of treason and sedition, riots and mayhem.

Most of Europe, Eastern Europe and Russia consider Soros a wanted criminal.
Why is the U.S. Sheltering him?

RICO!
RICO!
RICO!
RICO!

As an obvious opposing army are American patriots.

Undercover warriors can just as easily infiltrate all the treasonous Soros groups he cares to create and fund.

Rotsa Ruck!

[WildHighlander57]

President Trump’s filing of that paperwork has a “yuuuuge” bearing on this.

That paperwork checkmates nonprofits.

$0r0$ has a spiderweb of nonprofits that he uses as weapons...

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

If some federal intelligence or police agency can find out the names of these individuals, and forward them to a selected few of the House leadership, they would be a great first application of The Holman Rule, slashing their pay to $1.

Couldn’t really fire them too easily, but if they stop paying them, that will pretty much be an end to their mischief.

And, in exchange, the intelligence and police agency would gain a little credit with the House and President Trump. Something that right now they should prize like gold.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

FIRE ‘EM, BABY!!!

PING!

[King Moonracer]

Start revoking pensions. These effers have to learn.

[grey_whiskers]

I suppose you *do* realize that those remarks could be interpreted in an ironic fashion given your screen name.

[grey_whiskers]

They don't embrace our way of life; their loyalty is to a twisted idea they have of a "greater good." And they can't let go of the fact that we defeated them in Europe.

Are you saying it means something like "Hail Hydra?"

[2CAVTrooper]

Well first we have to seize every penny of his assets

[Fedora]

Freezing Soros’ assets and those of these subversive groups should do that.

[Windflier]

"...180 federal employees have registered for training on the February 4-5 weekend in both the rights of workers and in civil disobedience."

The firings will continue until the morale improves!

[Candor7]

Soros-funded group advises federal bureaucrats on resistance from ‘within’>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Sedition

RICO

AG Sessions is going to be very busy.

[Candor7]

A CIA “finding” on Soros is likley in the pipe.

Whitefeather will pay Soros a last visit.