Higher Loyalty, by James Comey: on Families & Children


James Comey: Learned the lessons of peer pressure and herd mentality

I was a living example of something I knew then and have come to know even better decades later. We all have a tendency to surrender our moral authority to " the group," ˙to still our own voices and assume that the group will handle whatever difficult issue we face. We imagine that the group is making thoughtful decisions, and if the crowd is moving in a certain direction, we follow, as if the group is some moral entity larger than ourselves. In the face of the herd, our tendency is to go quiet and let the group's brain and soul handle things. Of course, the group has no brain or soul separate from each of ours. But by imagining that the group has these centers, we abdicate responsibility, which allows all groups to be hijacked by the loudest voice, the person who knows how brainless groups really are and uses that to his advantage.
Source: A Higher Loyalty, p. 39, by James Comey Apr 17, 2018

Mike Pence: 2003: Pushed for anti-porn Truth in Domain Names Act

[During the Trump transition, I met] Vice President-elect Mike Pence. I don't think we ever had met, although I recall our speaking on the phone once 14 years earlier, in 2003, when I was US attorney in Manhattan and we were investigating a guy who registered common misspellings of children's websites so that when a child mistyped Disneyland.com, or BobTheBuilder.com, they were directed to a pornographic website. My reaction was, "that should be a crime." When I found it had become a federal crime only months earlier, I asked for the contact information of the member of congress responsible for the "Truth in Domain Names Act" so I could thank that person. It turned out to be Indiana Congressman Mike Pence, who told me over the phone that he had pushed for the law after one of his own children was redirected in that sick way.
Source: A Higher Loyalty, by James Comey, p.218 Apr 17, 2018

  • The above quotations are from Higher Loyalty
    Truth, Lies, and Leadership
    by James Comey    .
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