You don’t give a mentally ill person a gun. And you certainly don’t put her & her gun in charge of the safety of a vice president. But, that is exactly what Secret Service management did in the name of “diversity, equity & inclusion.” They had to ignore merit, temperament & skills because they “needed” more women in order to reach their asinine 30% women DEI goals. Long before Michelle Herczeg joined the Secret Service she had a history of mental illness.
Herczeg was permanently removed from her duties on April 24th after displaying erratic behavior and assaulting a superior officer while awaiting VP Harris’ departure from Joint Base Andrews two days earlier. Herczeg arrived for duty that day and began deleting apps from a male agent’s personal cellphone before becoming more irate. When the special agent in charge relieved her of the assignment, Herczeg shoved, tackled and punched him. A witness said she “snapped entirely.”
Herczeg then began mumbling to herself, hiding behind curtains and throwing menstrual pads and other items at another agent, telling her colleagues they were “going to burn in hell and needed to listen to God.”
Secret Service Spokesman Anthony Guglielmi admitted that the agency is one of numerous federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies that have signed onto the 30×30 initiative, an effort to increase the representation of women in all ranks of policing across the country to 30 percent of the workforce by 2030. Currently, women in law enforcement are 12 percent. To meet the 30% goal, they must lower standards SUBSTANTIALLY.
DISPLAYED MENTAL ILLNESS AS DALLAS POLICE OFFICER
“I wouldn’t have allowed this person to supervise my dog, much less the vice president … Somebody dropped the ball on this one,” the former colleague said. “I would say this person and how she got in the military, how she got into the police department, how she got in the Secret Services, I don’t have a clue. I was at a loss for words when I heard she was an agent much less on a detail with somebody that high up,” an ex-colleague said.
The Secret Service officer assigned to Vice President Kamala Harris’ security detail is described by a former co-worker from the Dallas Police Department as mentally unwell and having “screws loose.” He said they were beyond flabbergasted that Herczeg was picked for the vice president’s detail as she is not the type of person suited to law enforcement. That means Herczeg should never be given a gun.
Herczeg’s mental health issues are deep-rooted. A former Dallas officer who served alongside Herczeg said she first “became a little off” after a 2014 shooting incident in which she and another officer responding to an incident at the Grand Hotel Dallas. “That was the impetus that kind of made people go ‘She ain’t right,'” the former colleague said.
DEI HIRE
It is likely that no one “dropped the ball” when hiring Herczeg. Under pressure to hire ever more agents that fit certain DEI quotas, the Secret Service intentionally overlooked her documented history of mental illness. This writer wonders if she checked more than just the “female” box. Is she a Lesbian? Is she a “racial minority?” Since the 1990s applicants and employees have been pushed to the head of the line for hirings and promotions in the federal government if they could prove they had at least one-eight non-white blood. Can the Deep State spell R-A-C-I-S-M?
Following the incident, Secret Service agents and officers are privately questioning the hiring process and whether the agency had adequately screened Herczeg’s background. They know her hiring was part of a diversity, equity, and inclusion push in response to years of staff shortages that “required” the agency to lower its once-strict employment standards and physical performance to reach the 30×30 initiative quotas for female agents and officers.
Ronald Kessler, a former investigative reporter for the Washington Post who has written several books on the Secret Service said the agency would have traditionally viewed the dismissed discrimination lawsuit as disqualifying.
“Yes, that should have been enough to exclude her, because you really have to have a pristine record,” Kessler said shortly after the incident. “Certainly, this has been true in the past. There’s tremendous competition, and she never should have been hired.”
HERCZEG’S LAWSUIT DISMISSED
Herczeg sued the City of Dallas in 2016 for $1 million, saying she “was targeted for being a female officer and treated less favorably” for reporting sexual harassment and other instances of wrongdoing by cops. Herczeg’s lawsuit against Dallas was dismissed by a Texas court, and her subsequent appeal and request for a new hearing were both denied. Herczeg further charged that DPD “tolerates unprofessional behavior such as fraternization and unprofessional male and female working relationships based on an atmosphere which finds the male officer in charge, regardless of rank or ability.”
Herczeg’s former colleague said she was reassigned to a small unit at the Dallas Police Department and at the time other officers were warning “Watch your back, watch yourself” when working with her because she was so “litigious.” They couldn’t wait for the “oddball” Herczeg to leave the force. “Everybody, including myself, just knew she wasn’t right.”
HOW MANY DEI DEATHS SO FAR?
I have no doubt that DEI hires and DEI promotions, which require that merit & skills either be completely ignored or pushed to the bottom of the priorities list, have already gotten someone killed. We The People will never know if and when there is a death or two. After 30 plus years of this “identity” nonsense, there have probably been hundreds of victims.
My question is: When a DEI pilot crashes a commercial airplane and the insurance company has to pay out millions to the families, will DEI finally be discredited as a failed experiment and terminated? My advice to travelers: fly now while there are still pilots who were NOT DEI hires. They are a dwindling breed.
Remember this….according to the polls, there still some 30+ % of the people who think this is all just great. Until it bites them personally in the ass that, unfortunately, won’t change.
Well done Diane.
Perfect demonstration of what we get when DEI rules hiring.
We don't have "enough" male pedophiles working at preschools either. Or "enough" convicted drug addicts working in pharmacies.
We proved 60 years ago in the desegregation mess that QUOTAS do not improve anything.