LETTER: The republic is under assault

The refusal of the FBI to bring charges against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is just the latest evidence that the hostile takeover of our republican form of government by the progressive administrative state is nearing completion.

We have replaced a mostly accountable government (of, by, and for the people), with an omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, and wholly unaccountable administrative state (of, by, and for itself). With at least the partial absorption of the FBI as one of the last remaining holdouts, the administrative state has all but extinguished any hope of returning to a nation governed by the consent of the people.

What we are witnessing is the institutionalization of corruption in government — a government, which by all rights, should charge wide swaths of itself under the criminal statutes of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970, also known as the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO. This is just another reason why, for me, the Fourth of July, is one of the saddest days of the year.

—Chris Amyes, Kalispell