My dad worked for the deep state, here’s what I learned.
Often when I talk about the deep state it’s kind of difficult. Because on one hand, I get why someone might dismiss that as conspiracy theories. Pundits and media personalities will often use baseless and alarmist claims about shadowy organisations as allegories for Jews, Communists, Immigrants, The National Lawyer’s Guild and basically anything they don’t like. It’s an unfalsifiable hypothesis.
But I’m not talking about that when I talk about the deep state. I would define the deep state as the government institutions that are, through some legislative or administrative means, immune or shielded from legal or democratic recourse.
In other words, people and agencies that exist above the law. Both defacto and dejure. Up to and including constitutional law. As such, most countries have a deep state.
And the reason why I know that is because my dad worked for the deep state. He was an officer within the secret police. And I know conspiracy theories are true because I was raised by a man who conducted them.
In English, his rank was lieutenant. I don’t want to spread too much personal info, but there’s actually wikipedia articles about some of the operations he was involved in during the cold war.
And his workplace was a restricted underground complex located beneath what I would term “the normal police.” We’d get into a lift, press a button, and then we’d find ourselves in a large complex with wide concrete tunnels.
This was euphemistically referred to as “the basement level.” But it had big and expensive facilities. Including an armoury and what I’m pretty sure was a motor pool. As well as certain amenities such as changing rooms, locker rooms and storage areas.
I only ever explored a small part of it in my childhood. But what caught my eye was how the tunnels were designed to fit utility vehicles in them, such as the ones used in airports. And it was clearly designed to withstand a nuclear blast. It had the designs of a really big fallout shelter for the government’s VIPs.
The storage areas had all kind of crazy stuff. From Kevlar Vests and EOD robots to strange confiscated evidence such as improvised anti-personnel mines and medieval flails.
And the first thing to know about the deep state is that not everything they do is bad. They stop terrorists, government coups, arms syndicates and foreign spies. A lot of stuff they do is good and important to protect democracy.
But then there’s the other side…
Because their definition of democracy is not all that democratic. The ideological doctrine of deep state workers is generally that state interests are ultimately democratic interests.
Which is false. The ideas the public is taught about democracy are generally propaganda. For instance, did you know the DPRK has an elected president? It’s true. Kim Jong Un is not their leader, he is kind of like the DPRK’s equivalent of the speaker of the house. Like Nancy Pelosi. But because of how he appears at a lot of public events, the western media find him to be a useful villain character of their fictions.
In fact, most places with a population higher than a million people generally have the same system of delegation. Whether it’s North Korea or North Dakota. It’s just very logistically feasible.
So if you ask me whether or not DPRK is democratic, then I’d probably say maybe. I don’t know. But by liberal standards it’s democratic. There’s dozens of liberal countries who have principally speaking the same exact organising of their state mechanism at the higher echelons.
The one big distinction between, say, Great Britain and DPRK, is that in Great Britain you vote for a whole party, whereas in the DPRK you vote for individual party members.
Which is why the term “one party state” is very misleading. It makes it sound like there’s only one option to vote for. That’s just a lie made up by military lobbyists.
And moreover, when you compare Nancy Pelosi to Kim Jong Un, then truth is, Kim Jong Un comes out looking a lot more favourable. During the Trump administration, Pelosi would very willfully collaborate with the republicans and shirk her duties in keeping the executive powers in check.
In fact, you often hear about DPRK politicians getting executed, and often those stories are made up and the politicians in question turn up in news footage or something a few months following. BUT, truth is, executing politicians is generally a good thing. It’s how you keep democracy running. Because when you’re dealing with corruption, then you’re dealing with people who are motivated purely by self interest, so the death penalty actually work as a deterrent.
The reason it doesn’t work with psychopaths is because psychopaths don’t act rationally. A crooked politician does. So if you give them a risk that outweighs the reward, they’re generally going to behave themselves.
Moreover, Kim Jong Un is always out being an active member of his community. He visits farms and factories and talks to people and gets to know everyone. He doesn’t actually have that much government authority. Instead his role in the Korean government is one of cultural and symbolic significance because of how his family represents the founders of the country and the revolution. It’s a ceremonial position. That’s why he shows up to cut ribbons and speak to the press.
This of course in turn comes from older Korean traditions about family honour. The Kim family is seen as an honourable family that is trusted by the country, and so they want someone who is from that family to be the spokesperson of the country.
From the Korean point of view, a lot of westerners must seem pretty stupid. It’s a bit like if someone assumed that if a person was rewarded the key to the city, then they got an actual key that allowed them to open any lock in the city and just hang around in people’s living rooms.
Obviously without the correct context and understanding of Korea’s historical and cultural depth, the country will seem irrational or strange. But thanks to books and critical thinking skills, it’s easy to understand why the DPRK is a normal and functional place where most people live ordinary lives. They work, they visit concerts, they play football, they tell jokes and go to the store, they’re just normal people.
But they’re normal people who have been at war with the US for what is now almost a century.
…oh, you didn’t know that? Yeah the Korean war never actually ended. No one has issued a peace declaration. It is one of the longest wars in recorded history.
Moreover, you may notice I use DPRK and Korea interchangeably. That’s because there’s no such thing as North Koreans and South Koreans outside of western newspapers. They all see themselves as Koreans, and the majority of the Korean population wants to reunify.
What prevents this reunification however is NATO. Because when Germany wanted to reunify, NATO quickly broke their word and started sending tanks into Berlin, rounding up school teachers, doing mass imprisonments, and destroyed millions of books that were considered seditious because of how they criticised capitalism or the US.
And if Korea were to reunify at this very moment, then there’s few guarantees made to assure that NATO won’t just send in the tanks again.
Hence, a bit of a stalemate on that issue.
But I bet no one ever told you this. These are opinions one develops from reading books instead of tweets and news articles. Especially the kind of books that are destroyed by men who roll in tanks and round up school teachers.
Which is another example of the deep state. NATO and similar organisations are also above the law. Since they’re comprised of many nations, no one law actually applies. It’s like the name suggests, it’s a treaty. That can make things very awkward. Same is said about the UN’s blue helmets. In fact, the blue helmets is a very explicit example of this since they’re granted formal immunity from the law.
Which is kind of like putting a hat on a hat. Since if you send an armed western soldier into a destabilised third world country, he’s already immune from the law. They can basically do anything they want.
And what really puts a hat on a hat on a hat is that even if, by some miracle, the destitute third world villagers that the blue helmets kill or rape manage to deliver a legally coherent appeal to the The Hague, then guess who’s going to be prosecuting the case?
That’s right, the UN. So the prosecution and the defense would in effect be the same thing. So it’s no wonder that they have just issued a blanket immunity on all war crimes that they themselves commit.
And in a way they are living up to their mission that way, since the easiest way to completely eliminate any and all war crimes is by making war crimes legal. That really puts a spit polish to the statistics of things.
Which of course brings us to an interesting question, which is, what exactly does the deep state do?
And the answer is kind of boring. Because for the most part it’s just organised crime. No big plot to run the world, no shadowy councils with robes and ancient texts. No spooky UFOs or Annunaki. It’s just gangsters in uniforms.
That’s why, for instance, J. Edgar Hoover had so many friends within the New York crime families. Why he directed more FBI resources towards protecting his corrupt business friends from labour disputes than he did to prosecute other gangsters.
That’s why the blue helmets are frequently involved in scandals about human trafficking.
That’s why the CIA sells ungodly amounts of drugs and guns to terrorists.
That’s why NATO “misplaces” all those arms shipments to local mafia in Eastern Europe.
That’s why the Mogilevich syndicate ended up owning a state owned arms factory in Digep in spite of being Europe’s most notorious weapon smugglers following the mass privatisation schemes after the dissolution of the USSR.
And that’s why the government always charges you such high taxes in spite of always having such low budgets.
The Deep State is for the most part just organised crime that became organised to the point of being able to commit crime legally. Whether it’s turning tax funds into bogus contracts and work orders, or trading slaves out of shipping containers, most deep state activities barring the ones wherein public interests coincide with state interests, is just crime being done legally.
And that’s why they announce that they’re waterboarding people in blacksites and hooking people up to car batteries. It’s why they “leak” and “expose” their atrocities to the press.
Because that’s how gangland executions work. If you kill one guy in public in the most brutal manner possible, then you’ll save yourself the trouble of killing the dozens of people who might get ideas about following his footsteps. The secret torture facilities aren’t actually meant to be secret.
And you may have noticed that I’ve made some pretty outrageous claims throughout this article, and for people who don’t know what google is, I suppose I should offer some sources.
But I’m not an academic, and as such I won’t talk down to you. If you truly want to understand this issue, and how governments operate, then you’ll have to read a whole bunch of books about it. So here’s a list of books that cover a lot of these issues:
- Inventing Reality by Michael Parenti
- Dark Alliance by Gary Webb
- Propaganda by Edward Bernays
- Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano
- Deal With The Devil by Peter Lance
These would be good introductory materials into the government business which is not under democratic scrutiny, and which should rightfully be referred to as the deep state.
Even my own father, in spite of his biased position within this system, was deeply disturbed by the unethical, undemocratic and unprincipled behaviors conducted by his colleagues, and that civic minded sense of integrity actually resulted in an attempt on his life that left both the assailants dead in the armed confrontation during a time of his career which my mother describes as the most dangerous case he ever worked on.
He took on arms dealers, terrorists, foreign spies, armed mental patients, crime syndicates and god knows what else.
But the most dangerous case which not only put him in danger, but also that of me and my mother was an anti-corruption case. Because the most dangerous kind of gangster is a gangster in a uniform.
