Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

Sometimes citizens of the U.S. working for the U.S. become separated from the rest of the citizenry at everyone’s loss.

Recently, heads of agencies of the U.S. Intelligence Community met to discuss the types of things they discuss in public. Several of them lamented the protests of many citizens against their efforts to protect the country. They didn’t understand the resistance. They also didn’t understand the outcries from their lack of understanding.

They are simply sitting in another world that is far distant from where everyone else sits.

There are too many recent cases of American law enforcement officials using terminal force against Americans during cases that don’t warrant that.

The law enforcement officials are sitting…well, you know.

It is a terrible tragedy when some U.S. citizens separate from all other U.S. citizens. They stop serving those other citizens and start serving government agencies. Government agencies are not real things—they are merely names given to organizations of U.S. citizens. When service to something that is not real becomes paramount, we see what we have been seeing too often.

If you are employed by the U.S. government, by the citizens of the U.S., please stop and consider that you serve all the citizens. Please.