<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 3:55 PM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><span class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> </span></p></span><p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">OK then, they establish that they have absolute power, outranking the legislature, the courts and the executive branch. We are likely to see a big swing in power in the next few years. It looks like a disaster waiting to happen, with all these guys looking for revenge and being handed power from their predecessors.</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>### They are one of the most hated branches of a widely distrusted organization and they don't have direct control over the apparatus of coercion (army, police). In a shakeup, every one of them can be swept away in a week, if they piss off enough people with more direct access to the sources and levers of power. And, filth as they are, they are cunning weasels with decades of experience in bureaucratic institutional warfare. I predict a continued, uneasy truce between the various branches of the state, with nobody's heads rolling and nobody really grabbing a much bigger chunk of the power pie. </div><div><br></div><div>Rafal</div></div>
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