(National Review) Today is the day on which the petulant kids staffing the Biden White House and various Biden administration agencies have planned to strike, protesting on behalf of the rampaging rapists of Hamas’s jihad against Jews — which the staffers somehow regard as Israeli “genocide” against Palestinians.
This is mind-boggling. Any of us who’ve worked in government for any length of time (as I did for a quarter-century) are certain to have experienced any number of policies with which he or she intensely disagreed. Striking, however, is not a lawful or ethical option. For the Party of (Our Tapped Out) Government, which shrieks at the very whisper of a threatened government shutdown, to endorse a staffer strike, tacitly or otherwise, is shameful. But of course, this is a radical left-wing tantrum so, as with the stifling Covid restrictions progressive officials imposed on everyone else, we’re supposed to just accept that the rules don’t apply.
Well, as it happens they do — and the next Republican administration can make sure they do.
I can’t improve upon Dominic’s excellent post from last Friday, in which he explained that it is not merely illegal but also a violation of federal criminal law for government employees to strike: Section 7311 (of Title 5) carries a disqualification from holding any government position (a disqualification which far more clearly attaches to a striking federal worker than does the 14th Amendment Section 3 disqualification apply to Donald Trump); and Section 1918 (of the penal code — Title 18) carries a sentence of imprisonment.
I would simply add two things.
First, the general statute of limitations on federal crimes is five years. This means that even if President Biden is too impotent to confront the Muslim-Brotherhood lovin’ lunatic fringe of his party’s base, the next administration would be able — from January 2025 into January 2029 — to indict any staffer who strikes.
