OFFICE OF COUNTER-POLITICAL INVESTIGATIONS

After several years of Democrats griping about Bush stealing the 2000 election, it came out that Al Gore had been demanding sexual favors from non-sexual massage therapists. One was reportedly cautioned by a friend to keep quiet about it to save the world. The friend reasoned if she went public and got Al Gore in trouble, then we would all die from global warming.

Rick Swearingen announced yesterday that he was retiring as Commissioner of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. He said “the time has come for FDLE to move in a new direction”. The best guess is he simply thinks “new commissioner” equals “new direction”. But it did offer me a blank canvas to fantasize about a utopian investigative body.

Back in 2019 I came up with the idea for an independent institution in the executive branch at the state level called the “Police and Prosecution Commission”. It would compel reporting like the SEC, and proactively investigate police and prosecutors. The idea is the local majority faction that elects the mayor and sheriff, will also overlook police lying to frame members of the minority faction for murder.

James Madison explained the abstract concept in Federalist 51. He basically said there need to be competing factions of government, with overlapping jurisdictions. The FBI needs to be able to come in and arrest the mayor for corruption. Jewish people favor resettlement of Africans in Minnesota, to dilute the white majority from becoming nazis.

Local corruption is not a simple mechanical problem that when the local police drive drunk, there is nobody to call. It is not simply a power problem where the elected tax collector is friends with the local police and political party, who will look the other way when he puts hookers on the payroll. It is not just a man who is so rich, that the local prosecutor will not be able to get reelected if he charges that man with rape.

True corruption needs a moral, or almost a religious element. The people engaging in the corruption, need to be convinced of their own moral superiority, and united against some perceived threat. Any mayor can embezzle a million dollars. For the corruption to involve numerous elected officials and survive for decades, requires an ideological element.

People are moral, and even thieves will often have a moral explanation for what they are doing. A Cuban police chief might shut down a Cuban-owned business over minor violations on the request of a competitor, bolstered by the belief they are doing a good thing because the target business owner is not anti-Castro enough.

An outside investigator needs to come in, when the law has been hacked or corrupted to serve some collective moral framework, almost like a popular delusion. I recently had a cop lie about me in an arrest affidavit, when I had committed no crime. But all the political figures involved, do not doubt for a second that I committed a crime and the deputy who broke Florida Statute 837.02 did not.

So an outside investigator is not just a competing jurisdiction or an adversarial actor or a check or balance or whatever, with different constituents. Such an investigator is specifically a counterbalance to a local political ideology that overpowers the law. The outside investigator doesn’t just have different constituents, the outside investigator is not captive to the local cult beliefs.

So I came up with the name “Office of Counter-Political Investigations”. This is to make clear that its job would be to investigate and prosecute crime which arises and is protected by the dominant political beliefs of the local majority faction. They are not just a second group of people investigating crime. They investigate crimes which the locals are politically and psychologically blinded to even realizing are crimes.