Posted on 07/05/2016 9:33:36 PM PDT by Kaslin
There is a classic Latin epigram about double standards that resounds in the aftermath of the FBI's surrender this week to the corruptocracy:
"Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi."
Translation: "What is permissible for Jove is not permissible for an ox."
Jove is the Roman god Jupiter, untouchable ruler of the skies, wielder of the lightning bolt. The ox is a servile beast, sacrificial animal for elites in power, bearer of the heavy yoke.
FBI Director James Comey told us Monday what many of us have already known and long suspected: Hillary Clinton serially lied about her homeland security-jeopardizing homebrew email server, and the Obama administration is letting her get away with it.
After Comey hammered the final nail in the classified-information coffin, the enabler in chief promptly whisked Clinton out of D.C. on his taxpayer-subsidized winged chariot for a joint campaign event in North Carolina and plopped her in front of a lectern carrying the presidential seal -- where she stood and hurled her invective against GOP presidential rival Donald Trump, whom she called "unqualified and temperamentally unfit" to occupy the White House.
Unqualified pot, meet unfit kettle.
This is the smug sociopath who led a treacherous State Department team that lied to the public about the deadly Benghazi, Libya, terror attacks, who lied and continues to lie about her Clinton Foundation favor-trading money machine, and who lied repeatedly about compromising U.S. secrets.
Clinton's campaign audaciously calls the systemic circumvention of transparency and security a "mistake" -- like when Grandma butt-dials you accidentally or your toddler tweets out his "Fruit Ninja" high score on your work phone.
But this is what a bona fide mistake looks like: "Oops."
A one-off. A slip-up. A goof.
And this is what serial subversion of the law looks like:
"Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops."
That's 110 oopsy-daisies -- the same number of Hillary "I Did Not Email Any Classified Material To Anyone On My Email" Clinton's emails the FBI tallied that contained classified information, ranging from "confidential" (the lowest level) to "secret" to "top secret," at the time they were sent or received on her unsecured personal servers. The same wide-open servers the FBI told us Monday were possibly hacked by "hostile actors."
Speaking of hostile actors: Last week, as Clinton's slimy husband was yukking it up with Attorney General Loretta Lynch in advance of the Teflon prima donna's absolution, the Obama Pentagon announced that nine Navy officers had been punished after the humiliating "capture" of American sailors in Iranian waters in January.
One commodore was relieved for cause; the others face disciplinary measures that could effectively end their careers. Extreme carelessness and gross negligence, to borrow the euphemisms du jour, led to a ridiculous chain of events culminating in lost sailors giving up sensitive ship data, laptop passwords, cellphone access and even their military IDs to armed Iranian forces.
For demonstrating "poor leadership and judgment," failing to maintain "proper communication with higher authority" and failing to show "appreciation of the threat environment," the Navy screw-ups may well and should lose their jobs.
For her shoddy leadership and dangerous lack of judgment, along with her utter indifference to the threat environment her evasive actions pose to America, Hillary Clinton has the backing of Barack Obama to take his place at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
One standard for Jove, another for the ox. So it was in the fallen civilization of ancient Rome. So it is in corrupted America in 2016.
The Rule of Law is replaced by the Rule of Force.
Yep, that's the felonious pig HRC!
Same government corruption that gives the mayor’s drunken son a ride home where anyone elses kid gets a ride to jail. Justice is not equally applied.
Remember, Hillary was not found innocent. In fact the FBI says she is guilty. But they just aren’t going to prosecute her. Maybe they have better things to do this summer. Possibly its a busy vacation season or something. Or maybe its just bad for their jobs. But remember they said she was guilty and that others would be punished for the same thing. But she will not be punished because nobody has the will to do it.
And they don’t even attempt to hide this crap anymore. They do their deal making and butt kissing in public, in utter defiance and arrogance, and dare anyone to challenge them. The Justice department is a farce. Completely sold out to the liberal agenda. That was Comey’s message. There is no hope in the rule of law. Anyone thinking the courts can help salvage the country has been sent the message.
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After today’s naked display of the double-standard that exists, why should we oxen obey any of the Jovian laws - regarding taxes, speeding, guns, buying, selling or consuming drugs, dumping garbage, etc., etc.? Why, other than sheer fear of being caught and punished?
No reason at all that I can determine, other than for the fundamentally moral laws that protect life, liberty and property, that we should support and continue to be subservient to corrupt Jove. Screw Jove and his laws!
Some of the commenters at this Slashdot thread remarked that there is one set of rules for the lowly analysts and another set of rules for the higher-up people.
Not a Trump-friendly site, to be sure, but there is amazement, cynicism, and despair in these comments (from IT geeks and professionals).
“Defying Clinton is probably as lethal as defying the mob.”
Funny thing to speak of Jove as the space probe Juno (as in “did you know”) is now orbiting Jupiter (another term for that mythic being).
There has to be a providentially arranged pun in there somehow.
Anyhow, Lady Jove is all “stercum bovi.”
A fine rant. Sarah Palin’s got a few choice words also, on her facebook page. I have to run, hope someone here will thread it.
From the long distant past: What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
What about the investigation into the Clinton Foundation? Yeah, they punted on the e-mail case, but there may be a much bigger case against the foundation.
The Clinton Foundation investigation is toast if she wins.
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